Registration is now open for the inaugural vEM Technology Forum: 

https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/240ba165-424b-412d-b7ca-904f17793c74/summary

It will be hosted by the Rosalind Franklin Institute at the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, UK from October 21-24, 2024.

The focus of the Forum will be on sharing and discussing technical issues and fostering the vEM community. There will be technical presentations, posters, and panel discussions, as well as hardware and software demo lounges and social activities. The annual vEM Town Hall will also take place during this meeting (with in-person and remote access available for this session). 

Session Topics will include:

  • Multimodal and/or Correlative Imaging
  • AI & Volume EM
  • Future Technologies – What’s on the Horizon?
  • Big picture challenges – Calls to Action
  • Microscopy Software or Hardware Technology Developments
  • New Workflows for Microscopy or Data Analysis
  • Sample Preparation Improvements
  • Data Analysis/Data Processing
  • Hardware and Software Automation & Scalability 
  • Translational vEM (medical, biomedical, models of disease)

With Challenge Panel Sessions on the following topics:

  • vEM Facility Management
  • Data Struggles
  • Sample Preparation Challenges

A limited number of travel bursaries will be available for early career researchers, especially those with longer journeys.  Last, but not least, we are extraordinarily grateful to those who have helped with organising and also our sponsors who have made this possible: Thermo Fisher Scientific, JEOL, Zeiss, Leica, Oxford Instruments, ConnectomX, Delmic, WEBKNOSSOS, Microscopy Innovations and SiriusXT

When the EMF helps to visualize the microbiome of bees…

We are proud to have contributed to the this study published in « Nature Microbiology ». Jean Daraspe has received the bee guts and prepare them for EM and NanoSIMs. Then he took TEM images of fields of view where the bacteriae are visible in gut before giving the samples to the group of A Meibom that has performed NanoSIMS on them… Many thanks to the group of Pr Engel to recognize the contribution of the EMF to this study and Congratulations for this pioneered work!

here the UNIL article

It made it to CQFD on the RTS radio for the francophones!