Congratulations to all our mmc2025 Prize-Winners

With the dust now settled on mmc2025, here is a rundown of all our prize-winners for best posters and talks, covering all branches of microscopy and imaging across the sciences.

With nearly 400 abstracts submitted, this year's conference was one of the best ever in the history of the event, with some incredible science on show.

Our prize-winners were as follows:

Poster Winners

Prize sponsored by the Microbiology Society:

Poster Winner 1066. Connor MacDonald – University of Strathclyde. Revealing Previously Unseen Channel Structures in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms with Multi-scale Imaging.

Poster Session 1.

1^st Prize Poster Winner

1057. Andreas Rialas – University of Nottingham. 3-Dimensional Characterisation of Hydrated Bone ECM Hydrogels using High-Pressure Freezing, Cryo-FIB-SEM and Cryo-Negative Staining

2^nd Prize Poster Winner

1070. George Doherty – KCL. Elucidating Spatio-Temporal Nuclear Dynamics in 4D Using State-of-the-Art Imaging in Beating Hearts

Poster Session 2.

1^st Prize Poster Winner

2135. Helena Watson – Rosalind Franklin Institute. Advances in plasma FIB and multiscale cryo-ET imaging for structural cell biology

2^nd Prize Poster Winner

2119. Katie Beirns – Rosalind Franklin Institute. Watching through a graphene window: A novel view of mitochondria.

Frontiers in Bioimaging

1^st Prize Poster Winner

2093. Nachiket Pathak - Humboldt Center for Nano- and Biophotonics, University of Cologne. Sensing cell-level contractility deep inside cardiac organoids using microlasers

2^nd Prize Poster Winner

2077. Laura Copeland – University of Stratchclyde. Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy for Applications in Live Imaging of Plant and Algal Tissue

AFM & SPM

Best Poster sponsored by  IOP's Nanoscale Physics and Technology Group:

2060. Nishan Nathoo – University of Sheffield. Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals the Molecular Architecture of the Streptococcus pneumoniae Cell Wall during Division

Best Talk Biological AFM Sponsored by Bruker:

Itzel Garcia-Monge – University of Leeds. Revealing the unbinding mechanics of hyaluronan receptor interactions on live cells

Best Talk Physical Sciences AFM

Sam Harley – Lancaster University. Variational Autoencoders as Feature Extractors for Break-Junction Data Analysis

EMAG

Flash talk: 1002. Madelaine Badenhorst, Nelson Mandela University. Studying Recrystallisation Dynamics of Swift Heavy Ion Tracks in Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)

Talks:

1st - 173. Ella Greenaway, Oxford University. Investigating the time dependence of the reversible oxidation state in ceria using electron microscopy.

2nd - 62. Tom Stoops, EMAT. Atoms on the move: Quantifying intraframe dynamics in ADF-STEM

3rd - 302. Jack Fawcett Houghton, University of York. In-situ grain boundary formation in the electron microscope: the case of the Σ5[100](012) tilt boundary in anatase nanoparticles.

Best Posters:

1013. Aidan Horne, University of Warwick. Lorentz TEM Characterization of Magnetic Skyrmions above Room Temperature in a van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe3GaTe2

2033. Ben Muggleton, University of Leeds. Phase and Orientation Mapping of Topological Thin Film Heterostructure using 4D-STEM

2046. Francesca Wilcocks, University of Leicester. Quantification of Elements in Olivine; How Quant Optimised EDS and SEM-WDS compare to EPMA.