General Information
The event will encompass:
- an international scientific conference of six parallel streams, covering an enormous range of microscopy, cytometry and imaging topics.
- a huge FREE to ATTEND exhibition with companies both large and small showcasing their latest equipment and available to answer your questions.
- meetings & workshops covering the latest emerging topics
Please note - mmc2023 incorporating EMAG 2023 is an in-person meeting and there will not be the opportunity to attend online.
Conference Timings
Please note timings are subject to change and all times are BST
Monday 3 July
1100 Registration opens for Pre-Congress Workshops and Meetings
Tuesday 4 July
0800 Registration opens
0900 Formal welcome to mmc2023 incorporating EMAG 2023
0915 Exhibition opens
1030 Conference sessions begin
1830 Exhibition closes
Wednesday 5 July
0800 Registration opens
0915 Exhibition opens
1015 Conference sessions begin
1815 Exhibition closes
1930 onwards Networking and Social Events
Thursday 6 July
0800 Registration opens
0900 Exhibition opens
1015 Conference sessions begin
1500 Exhibition closes
1715 Conference finishes
Scientific Organising Committee
Our Scientific Organising Committee are invaluable in drawing up the busy conference programme
Co-chairs
Rik Brydson
RMS Vice President , University of Leeds
Rik Brydson
RMS Vice President , University of Leeds
Rik holds a chair in the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) in the School of Process Environmental and Materials Engineering at the University of Leeds. He heads the NanoCharacterisation group based around the Leeds Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy (LEMAS) centre which is shared between Materials and Earth Sciences and also acts as an EPSRC facility for external UK researchers. He has a general research interest in high spatial resolution chemical analysis in nanostructured materials, and has a current research h index of 32 with over 25 years research experience in nanomaterials characterisation. He has managed extensive national and international collaborations including being current consortium leader for the UK National Facility for Aberration corrected Electron Microscopy, SuperSTEM at Daresbury.
Rik is also on the Management Board of the European Microscopy Society. He has written an RMS Handbook on Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (Bios /Taylor and Francis 2001), has co-written a book on “Nanoscale Science and Technology" (Wiley 2005), edited a recent RMS book on Analytical Aberration-corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy with Wiley and has contributed a number of other chapters in specialist books on electron microscopy by other professional bodies covering Physics, Chemistry and Engineering. In recent years his research interests have focused on applying high spatial resolution characterisation methods (particularly TEM and EELS) to the nanochemical analysis of softer, more radiation sensitive materials.
Maddy Parsons
RMS Honorary Secretary Biological Science, King's College London
Maddy Parsons
RMS Honorary Secretary Biological Science, King's College London
Maddy is Professor of Cell Biology at King’s College London. Maddy completed her PhD in Biochemistry within the Department of Medicine at University College London in 2000. During her PhD she analysed the role of mechanical forces in dermal scarring. She then moved to Cancer Research UK laboratories in London for a 4-year postdoctoral position where she used advanced microscopy techniques including FRET/FLIM to dissect adhesion receptor signaling to the actin cytoskeleton and how this controlled directed cell invasion. Based on these achievements, Maddy was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2005 to establish her own group within the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics at King’s College London.
Following completion of her fellowship, Maddy was appointed Reader at King’s in 2013 and Professor of Cell Biology in 2015. Maddy has established collaborations with developmental biologists and clinical researchers to study adhesion receptor signalling in skin blistering, wound healing, inflammation and cancer. She works closely with physicists, biophysicists and other world-leading cell migration groups in the field to develop and apply new imaging technologies to dissect spatiotemporal cytoskeletal signalling events in live cells, tissues and whole organisms. As a result of her interest and applications of advanced microscopy, Maddy developed a strong working partnership with Nikon, which subsequently led to the establishment of the state-of-the-art, world-class Nikon Imaging Centre at King’s College London of which she is Director. Maddy also currently works alongside other biotech and pharmaceutical companies to develop and apply advanced imaging approaches to basic mechanisms that underpin drug discovery.
Co-organisers
Susan Anderson
Alex Ball
Asa Barber
Andy Brown
Grace Burke
Liz Duke
Karen Hogg
Martin Jones
Oleg Kolosov
Roland Kröger
Donald MacLaren
Gail McConnell
Greg McMahon
Francis Morrissey
Peter O'Toole
Michelle Peckham
Liam Rooney
Rod Shipley
Alex Sossick
Kerry Thompson
Theresa Ward
Charlie Wood
Jun Yuan
EMAG Organising Committee
Miryam Arredondo-Arechavala
Laura Clark
Shelly Conroy
Alexander Eggeman
Sarah Harper
Emanuela Liberti
Donald MacLaren
Catriona McGilvery
Jo Sharp
Thomas Slater
Jun Yuan