All Forthcoming Events

Suitable for all users of high pressure freezers or those who look at high pressure frozen material. The meeting will focus mainly on the technical aspetcs of HPF and freeze substitution in the life sciences.

Biomarkers identifying biological and physiological entities associated with disease are taking an increasingly important place at the tables of drug discovery and personalised medicine.

This event is discussion workshop, focused on the rapidly moving area of pluripotent cells.

The meeting will explore the diverse functions of heat shock proteins over and above their action as chaperones and stress indicators.

Symposium to discuss ongoing and future developments in the field of integrative structural biology.

Organised by the Society for Cutaneous Ultrastructure Research

Introduction to SEM and EDS for the New Operator, Scanning Electron Microscoscopy and X-ray Microanalysis, Quantitative X-ray Microanalysis and Focused Ion Beam.

ELMI is a unique blend of hands on workshops and lectures on the newest microscopy research and techniques aimed at a life sciences audience.

NUI Galway, Ireland

This practical advanced course will provide students the theoretical background and give hands-on experience of state-of-the-art (membrane) microscopy techniques.

63rd Annual Meeting of the Nordic Microscopy Society in Bergen

The aim of this course is to teach cutting-edge EM techniques for Cell Biologists on a high theoretical and practical level.

The purpose of this annual event is to look at the challenges facing therapeutic protein production and demystify some of the novel approaches and new technologies currently being developed.

Students interested in learning the basics of electron crystallography and new methods recently developed are encouraged to apply.

The workshop addresses all microscopists that want to learn EELS, or who have made the first steps in EELS or EFTEM as well as those who are experts.

This six-day course will cover the major aspects of specimen preparation, data acquisition, alignment and reconstruction, tomogram visualization and sub-tomogram averaging.

To create an environment in which students with interesting biological problems are brought together with advanced instrumentation in order to increase their understanding of the 3D Microscopy of Living Cells and to develop and disseminate solutions to the problems we find.

This EuroSciCon meeting will be a premier forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research on key mechanisms used by different classes of pathogens to evade host innate and acquired immunity.

There will be invited speakers for the topics of Electron Crystallography, Crystallographic Methods and Structural Biology.

EDS 2012 targets the overall vision of research activities of the scientific community, based on needs that stem from technological bottlenecks involving structural defects in present day and future poly-/nano- crystalline and nanostructured semiconductor material systems and their role in the functionality of innovative nanodevices.

The 7th Abercrombie Meeting is being organised by the Royal Microscopical Society with the support of the British Society for Cell Biology.

A practical course with supporting lectures

A practical course with supporting lectures detailing the use of immunohistochemistry in research focusing on the use of GMA resin embedded tissues.

This is either a 10 or 8 day course on Cryomethods, Ultracryotomy and Immunolabeleling.

Third annual meeting of the Wellcome Trust Conference focusing on the biology of sub-nuclear structures and their key roles in normal and diseased cells.

This inaugural networking event will gather together experts in DVI to discuss current legislation and techniques involved in DVI.

Organization: Italian Institute of Technology

This meeting will highlight current research aimed at inducing dendritic cells with tolerogenic function in order to treat inflammatory disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis) as well as work aimed at boosting the immunostimulatory function of dendritic cells in the context of cancer.

This event is discussion workshop. We have invited 6 experts to discuss their work in an informal lecture setting, discussion and demonstration groups, one2one sessions and panel discussions.

One of the most popular events the RMS organises, the LM Summer School is an annual, residential course covering the principles of light microscopy.

This is the tenth annual scientific conference focusing on nanostructure imaging, characterization, and modification using scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and related techniques.

63rd Annual Applied Microscopy Conference

Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nanomaterials 12th TEM UCA European Summer Workshop

Focused on electron microscopy

A one day course to develop an appreciation of selecting the correct method for the determination of grain size in engineering materials.

A 2 day hands-on Confocal Course allowing participants to develop their confocal microscopy background plus try FRAP, FRET & spectral unmixing.

A residential course in Flow Cytometry for both beginners and more advanced users, held at the University of York.

Symposium dedicated to Professor Mike Whelan in celebration of his 80th birthday

This intensive 5-day course is aimed at biology and biomedical research and technical staff who wish to learn a range of techniques for imaging cells.

The annual Microscopy & Microanalysis Meeting is for materials scientists, biological scientists, and nanotechnologists who use microscopy or microanalysis in their professional activities.

The conference addresses practicing surgical pathologists, trainees, and other scientists involved in pathological diagnosis and research.

Structure Solution of Minerals and Inorganics by Electron Crystallography

The ACS meeting in Philadelphia should attract approximately 15,000 attendees. For the COLL Division, it is expect around 600 plus presentations. (COLL12) Functional Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

An introduction to immunolabelling with lectures and hands-on workshops.

This course provides an introduction to state-of-the-art stereology with emphasis on its practical application in biomedicine.

Looking at different types of fluorescence microscopes, including confocal laser scanning microscopy and multi photon scanning microscope as well as image analysis in lectures and hand-on sessions.

The congress is to be held in Kyoto, Japan and boasts a fantastic line-up of international speakers

First European Mineralogical Conference

This course will cover several microscopic and spectroscopic techniques to study molecular (dynamic) processes in living cells.

The Symposium will be a forum for discussion where experts, young scientists and students working in the field of cell biology, developmental biology, experimental pathology and those involved in the development of high end technologies and methodologies are encouraged to exchange their knowledge.

This high level scientific meeting aims to present a broad range of current research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology as well as related policies or other kind of initiatives.

RSC Faraday Discussion

Ultrafast Non-linear Microscopy and Biophotonics User Group Meeting and Workshop

The talks and practicals of this school will cover the topics of aberration-correction optics, STEM imaging modes, analysis, simulation of images EELS spectra and advanced applications of AC-STEM and is presented by experts in the field. It is intended for all PhD students, post-docs, academic and technical staff who use aberration-corrected STEM as a significant part of their research.

emc2012 will be held in Manchester, UK on 16 - 21 September 2012

This meeting will review the progress of the field, highlight major technological advances and scan the horizon for future developments.

This meeting is being held at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

This conference is organized by the Belgian Society for Microscopy (one of the member societies of the EMS) together with academic and industrial representatives from Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany

This meeting is being held at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

NEURODIAB is a study group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes which focuses on clinical and experimental aspects of diabetic neuropathy.

NIBSC with JEOL (UK) Ltd and LEICA are holding a dedicated cryo-workshop based on new technologies installed at the NIBSC Imaging laboratory, Potters Bar, London, UK.

Flow cytometry has been used in Haemato-Oncology for the diagnosis of Leukaemia and Lymphoma for the last thirty years.

The meeting will have 3 tracks centred around key topic areas of Oncology Biomarker Clinical Strategy, Companion Diagnostics as well as a third track on Oncology Biomarker Case studies.

This discussion forum focuses on the technique of immunohistochemistry, from DAB to double staining.

Practical Applications of Flow Cytometry Course

The Society for Endocrinology's Clinical Update training programme provides essential training for trainees and recently appointed consultants in endocrinology and diabetes.

This meeting is a discussion workshop and will cover a variety of topics, including advances in instrumentation and techniques, intracellular antigen detection, advances in flow microbiology and advances in the measurement of cell death.

A Meeting exploring the recent advances in Cytometry.
Scientific Organiser: Derek Davies (Cancer Research UK)

This meeting is a discussion workshop and will cover a variety of topics, including advances in instrumentation and techniques, intracellular antigen detection, advances in flow microbiology and advances in the measurement of cell death.