Organisers: Rik Brydson, Clare Steele-King and Paul Verkade

This meeting will be an open forum and points for discussion will include:

  • How to best operate a lab and keep users safe, how to operate a core facility where social distancing is required.
  • The use of remote training for users in confined spaces. What aspects need to be considered, have been tried and worked and what has not worked!
  • What else can be done to benefit users and add value to their research whilst not in the lab?
  • How can vendors help?

Organisers

  • Rik Brydson

    Professor Rik Brydson

    RMS Honorary Secretary Physical Science

    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.

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    Dr Clare Steele-King

    University of York

    Clare did her PhD with the late Professor Chris Hawes at Oxford Brookes University where she was also publicity officer for the RMS-affiliated Oxford and Reading Microscopy Group. She has since worked at the Universities of Reading, Leeds and York, and has gained considerable experience as a laboratory manager and microscopy consultant, working with a variety of LM and EM techniques, particularly immunocytochemistry in both plant and animal systems. Clare contributes to the annual Gatsby Plant Science Summer School to deliver a hands-on experience of SEM and confocal microscopy to undergraduate students. In February this year Clare took up the position of EM lead in the Imaging and Cytometry Labs within the Technology Facility at the University of York, working with Dr Peter O’Toole.

  • Paul Verkade

    Professor Paul Verkade

    University of Bristol
    Paul has been involved in electron microscopy since the start of his career and during that time he has developed a particular interest in the development and application of new imaging technologies, mainly in the field of Correlative Light Electron Microscopy (CLEM). He is very engaged in the imaging community such as BioimagingUK, being a founder of EM-UK with Pippa Hawes, and Work Group leader CLEM within the EU COST action COMULIS. He loves organising training events and as such has been involved in many (RMS and EMBO) courses. 
     

 

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