Microscopy: Advances, Innovation, Impact 2022 - incorporating the RMS AGM & Section AGMs

Registration

11:00 – 11:30 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Registration

2022 Annual General Meeting of the Royal Microscopical Society

11:30 – 12:20 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 50 mins

2022 Annual General Meeting of the Royal Microscopical Society, including the RMS President and RMS Vice President Awards

Presentation of RMS President and RMS Vice President Awards

12:20 – 12:25 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 5 mins

RMS President and RMS Vice President Awards

The RMS President's Award 2021

Derek Davies

Derek is based at the Francis Crick Institute and has worked in Cytometry for more than 35 years. He has been instrumental in promoting Cytometry on a local, national and international level.

He was one of the founding members of the London Cytometry Club and the founder of flowcytometryUK.  Through the latter, Derek has clocked up 15 years of organising highly successful national conferences, and he also runs the active flowcytometryUK mailing list. He is a former RMS Council Member and recently completed his second term as Chair of the Society’s Cytometry Section.  

For more than 10 years, Derek has worked closely with Peter O’Toole and Stephen Couzens to run the RMS Flow Cytometry practical courses, held annually at the University of York for both UK and international attendees. He is well known for the help and advice he gives to delegates, and for his willingness to offer ongoing assistance remotely, after they have returned to the lab. He also finds time to offer informal coaching to junior members of the RMS to help with their communication and presentation skills.

On an International Level, Derek has been very involved with ISAC (RMS is an ISAC Associated society) over the years, including sitting on Council.   He is also an Associate Editor for Cytometry Part A, and has helped with the establishment of SRL (Shared Resource Laboratory)  publications within the journal.

Derek's own SRL lab at the Francis Crick Institute has an excellent reputation. It is no coincidence that at least eight of his staff have gone on to become highly successful core managers elsewhere within Europe and the USA (plus one in Australia), taking with them Derek's guidance, expertise and knowledge. Recently he has changed roles within the Francis Crick Institute to become its National Science Technology Platform Training leader

RMS President Grace Burke said: “It is my great pleasure to announce Derek Davies as this year’s winner of the RMS President’s Award. Derek has been a key lynchpin at the RMS for many years and has shown remarkable dedication to the promotion of Cytometry at all levels. His passion for his subject and willingness to devote his time and expertise for the benefit of others, are precisely the qualities for which the President’s Award was established to honour. My warmest congratulations go to Derek.”

The RMS President's Award 2022

Steve Couzens

Principal Clinical Scientist, Immunophenotyping Laboratory, Haematology Department, University Hospital of Wales

Steve is an outstanding Principal Clinical Scientist, who heads up the Immunophenotyping Laboratory at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. The laboratory provides a clinical flow cytometry service to most Health Boards in Wales.

He has participated in, and later organised, the Clinical Module of the Annual RMS Flow Cytometry Course for more than two decades, and in recent years, has also run the Virtual RMS Clinical Flow course. Both have been hugely successful and of benefit to thousands of delegates over the years.

Steve has regularly chaired many other educational sessions and best practice workshops. He is a founding member of UK multicolour immunophenotyping (MIG) group and co-authored national guidelines for the use of multicolour flow cytometry in the diagnosis of haematological neoplasms. He is also a founding member of PNH diagnostics interest group, which established and validated a consensus protocol for PNH flow cytometry.

Steve has also been actively involved in working groups to improve diagnosis of myeloma, leukaemia and lymphoma – as well as working to improve standardisation of flow cytometry within Europe through the Harmonemia initiative.

Throughout his career Steve has remained at the forefront of clinical flow cytometry by consistently reviewing and evolving the needs of his service and patients. He has had an active role in clinical trials and is seen as an expert in several fields including lymph node flow cytometry, where Cardiff has a reputation as a reference centre.

The RMS Vice-President's Award 2021

Judith Mantell

Judith is a well-known and respected figure in the UK EM community. She has been the senior electron microscopist of the Wolfson Bioimaging Facility at the University of Bristol since the establishment of the facility.

Having initially spent time with microscopy suppliers such as Philips and Oxford Instruments, she joined the facility in 2007 and was instrumental in the set-up of the new EM unit, together with Paul Verkade.

Colleagues have praised Judith for her patience and dedication in keeping the EM unit afloat, and for her expert knowledge as a teacher – qualities she has also deployed to great effect on RMS courses, and as a member of the organising committee of the Cryo Microscopy Group. 

During her time at Bristol, she has helped establish the EM unit as a highly regarded facility,
introducing new techniques such as STEM tomography and cryo SEM. She has been an author on more than 50 research papers, for which the EM provided by Judith has often been the critical piece of evidence lifting the impact of the research.

In 2016, Bristol was awarded a Wellcome grant to set up a new dedicated cryo EM facility.
Selflessly, Judith was instrumental in the design, installation, and initial running of the facility – despite the fact she would not be directly involved going forward.

RMS Vice Presidents Dr Peter O’Toole and Professor Susan Anderson said: “It is our great pleasure to announce Judith Mantell as winner of this award, which celebrates the achievements of the ‘unsung heroes’ of microscopy. Judith is quite evidently a major asset to her facility and all those that she has helped and taught both internally and external to Bristol.

Her expertise has not only elevated the quality of research being carried out, but also continues to earn the respect of colleagues across the EM community. We are delighted to be able to take this opportunity to acknowledge these often unseen efforts.” 

Launch of EDI&A Policy and plans

12:25 – 12:30 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 5 mins

Launch of EDI&A policy and plans

AFM & SPM Annual General Meeting

12:30 – 12:40 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 10 mins

AFM & SPM Annual General Meeting

Data Analysis in Imaging Annual General Meeting

12:40 – 12:50 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 10 mins

DAIM Annual General Meeting

Early Career Committee Annual General Meeting

12:50 – 13:00 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 10 mins

Early Career Committee Annual General Meeting

Outreach and Education Committee Annual General Meeting

13:00 – 13:10 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 10 mins

Outreach and Education Committee Annual General Meeting

Electron Microscopy Section Annual General Meeting

13:10 – 13:20 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 10 mins

Electron Microscopy Section Annual General Meeting

Engineering and Physical Sciences Section Annual General Meeting

13:20 – 13:30 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 10 mins

Engineering and Physical Sciences Section Annual General Meeting

Lunch and Registration

13:30 – 14:00 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Lunch and Registration

Welcome

14:00 – 14:05 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 5 mins

Grace Burke, RMS President

Nanoscale Electromechanical Characterisation of Functional Polymers for Applications in Energy Harvesting and Sensing

14:05 – 14:25 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 20 mins

Sohini Kar-Narayan, University of Cambridge

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Sohini Kar-Narayan

University of Cambridge, UK

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Honorary Fellow Presentation

14:25 – 14:30 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 5 mins

Barry Carter Hon FRMS

Barry was the 2019 recipient of the RMS Honorary Fellow, and we are pleased to be able to finally award this to him in-person. 

In a research career spanning the last 50 years, Barry has made a huge impact in materials science - especially in advancing our understanding of the role and nature of defects in metals, semiconductors and ceramics.

Using various techniques including transmission electron microscopy, high resolution TEM, and electron diffraction, Barry has established himself as an internationally distinguished researcher who has made critical contributions to both the science and application of microscopy.

Barry, who remains an active Emeritus Professor at the University of Connecticut, and as a Distinguished Affliliate Scientist at the Sandia National Laboratory, has also made vital contributions to microscopy education at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels.

Honorary Fellow Presentation

14:30 – 14:35 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 5 mins

David B. Williams Hon FRMS

Professor Williams was a 2019 recipient of the RMS Honorary Fellowship and we are pleased to finally be able to award him this in-person.

Professor Williams is synonymous with Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy (ATEM) having pioneered its development and applications to a broad range of materials.

Over the past 45 years his work has led to a new understanding of materials and microstructural evolution, including segregation, precipitation phenomena, phase diagrams and phase transformations in metals and alloys.

Among his achievements, Professor Williams is widely recognized for his prolific research in Al alloy metallurgy – particularly in his pioneering research into Al-Li alloys, as well as fundamental research in EELS and STEM-EDX microanalysis.

Professor Williams is currently Executive Dean of the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University.

Honorary Fellow Presentation

14:35 – 14:40 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 5 mins

Ed Boyes Hon FRMS

Professor Boyes is the 2021 recipient of the RMS Honorary Fellowship. 

During a career spanning more than 50 years, Ed’s work in materials research has focused on detailed microstructural analysis to generate fundamental understanding of materials’ behaviour at the nanoscale.

From his PhD research using field-ion microscopy of non-refractory metals including aluminium and thin films at Cambridge and high resolution transmission electron microscopy. Through his impressive career at the University of Oxford and DuPont Research Laboratory in the US, Ed worked with Dame Pratibha Gai Hon FRMS to pioneer the development of the atomic resolution environmental TEM/STEM for in situ materials research, as well as the first low voltage SEM with chemical analysis.

In 2007, Ed co-founded the York JEOL Nanocentre alongside Dame Pratibha Gai Hon FRMS, where they jointly continue to expand ETEM in situ research activities in nanoparticles, fuel cells and catalysis research, and develop the aberration-corrected ESTEM.

Ed has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and numerous conference papers dealing with in situ TEM studies, particularly for catalysis and nanoparticle behaviour.  He has presented many invited keynote scientific conference presentations in 20 countries and taken on the role of organiser and chair of nearly two dozen international electron microscopy symposia.

Ed served as UK representative on the European Union committee on future microscopies from 1987-9. Later, he was appointed to Technical Advisory Group for the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) policy and performance review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), as one of three mainstream US industry representatives (2003) and reappointed to nTAG (2007) for ongoing oversight advice and periodic program review. He has served both on the RMS Council and as Chair of the Materials Committee (now known as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Committee).

RMS President Professor Grace Burke said: “Throughout his career, Ed has made substantial, sustained and world-leading contributions in our field, and continues to push boundaries with his materials research activities at the University of York. In addition to his work as a scientist, Ed has made outstanding and exemplary service contributions as an educator, scientific advisor and communicator on the international stage. It is my very great pleasure to welcome him as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society.”

Maverick Microscopy: Past, Present and Future

14:40 – 15:05 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 25 mins

Ed Boyes Hon FRMS

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Ed Boyes Hon FRMS

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Early Career Award Presentation

15:05 – 15:10 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 5 mins

Katherine Paine

Using microscopy to understand molecular trafficking of cell surface proteins

15:10 – 15:30 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 20 mins

Katherine Paine, University of York

Speakers

Katherine Paine

University of York

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Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:00 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Coffee Break

Synthetic design of membrane organizers to reconstitute cell polarity

16:00 – 16:20 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 20 mins

Emmanuel Derivery, MRC - LMB

Speakers

Emmanuel Derivery

MRC - LMB

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X-ray Vision: What you can see even if you weren’t born a Superhero

16:20 – 16:40 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 20 mins

Liz Duke, EMBL Hamburg

Speakers

Liz Duke

EMBL Hamburg

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Chris Hawes Award for Outreach and Education Presentation

16:40 – 16:45 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 5 mins

Siân Culley

Alongside her outstanding research activities, Dr Culley has made many contributions of national and international significance in the education of optical microscopy and outreach, particularly with under-represented and minority groups.

Her most prolific outreach achievement is her conception and realisation of an international database of female researchers. She created the database to showcase and highlight female microscopists around the world and the specific areas of microscopy in which they specialise, to assist scientific and conference organisers in selecting excellent speakers for microscopy events while maintaining a positive gender balance.

This resource, supported by the RMS, gives the details of more than 360 female researchers working in all areas of microscopy and at all career stages. It has rapidly become the go-to resource for microscopy conference organisers worldwide, viewed over 10,000 times and notably used to excellent effect in identifying speakers for the RMS Frontiers in Bioimaging conference and annual ELMI workshops.

Less public but equally important is Dr Culley’s engagement in local and national outreach and educational activities. Notably, this includes her role as Ambassador for the ‘In2Science’ charity, which provides research opportunities to A-level students from disadvantaged backgrounds. She has supported several students participating in this programme, hosting microscopy-based projects at UCL, and has been directly involved in fundraising for the charity to widen access.

She has also given career talks at local schools to GCSE and A-level students, and has volunteered at activities including The Big Bang Fair at the Birmingham NEC in 2019 and at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology. Despite the relatively short time since her PhD award in 2015, Dr Culley has made a disproportionately large contribution to outreach and education in microscopy that benefits the whole community.

From inspiring the next generation of microscopists, through to providing resources for established academics, companies and learned societies, Dr Culley helps to promote a positive and inclusive learning environment, including the provision of open learning material via Figshare, where she has uploaded more than 100 slides that can be freely used for educational purposes.

Dr Culley has also been involved in the supervision of five PhD students, and has been invited to teach at several practical courses in optical microscopy. Such experience is not common in early career researchers, and it is testament to Dr Culley’s commitment to education and training that she is engaging in these activities at the earliest opportunity.

RMS President Professor Grace Burke said: “Dr Culley has made a tremendous impact within the microscopy and wider science community, and her wide-ranging contributions in promoting inclusivity through outreach and education have made a real difference to microscopists at all career stages. It is a real privilege to announce her as the first recipient of this important RMS award.”

Outreach and Education in Microscopy (By Someone Who Thought They Didn’t Know Anything About Outreach or Education)

16:45 – 17:05 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 20 mins

Siân Culley, King's College London

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Siân Culley

King's College London, UK

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Closing Remarks

17:05 – 17:15 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 10 mins

Grace Burke, RMS President

Drinks Reception

17:15 – 18:00 BST, 29 September 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Drinks Reception