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Microscopy & Imaging by Heather Hobbs
Elmi 2024 – 4th-7th June Liverpool
IMC21 coming to Liverpool in 2026
The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is to providing full administrative and organisational support and services, in its appointed role of Professional Congress Organiser (PCO) for the 21st International Microscopy Congress, taking place in Liverpool in 2026.
The event, held every four years since 1954 is overseen by the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM) and has become known as the ‘Olympics of Microscopy’.
The RMS has announced that details of all elmi2024 sessions including times of talks and abstracts have now been released and are available to view online.
Six sessions are being held over the three days of the meeting:
• The AI Revolution: from Image Analysis, to Intelligent Acquisition, to Chatbots Designing your Experiments and Writing your Papers
• Early Career Researchers Session: the Science of Tomorrow Today • Imaging Across Scales • Multimodal Imaging including Correlative • New Technologies: Recent advances from Acquisition to Analysis • Super-resolution and Nanoscale Imaging
There is also the core facility day, a poster session and numerous company workshops to attend.
Take a look now, and make a note of which sessions and talks interest you the most, to ensure the best possible elmi2024 experience.
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Attracting hundreds of delegates from across the globe, the Congress, set to take place in Liverpool, UK, from 28th August - 5th September, features world-renowned plenary speakers alongside an extensive trade exhibition with leading companies launching groundbreaking new instruments.
As planning takes shape over the coming two years, the RMS will be working closely with the scientifi c organising committee, the University of Liverpool and other partners - including the event venue, ACC Liverpool, based in Kings Dock.
RMS Chief Executive Sali Davis said: “This is wonderful news, and we are very honoured - and of course, excited - to be providing the organisational support for IMC21. The RMS has a wealth of experience in staging events for the global microscopy community and we are really looking forward to working with all our partners as planning takes shape over the next couple of years. We can’t wait to see you in Liverpool in 2026!”
The successful bid to hold IMC21 was made by the Scientifi c Programme Committee, the University of Liverpool, Liverpool City Region and the RMS.
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Funding calls for UK space mission open
Two funding calls of up to £15 million linked to the potential UK space mission with Axiom Space have opened in preparation for an agreement being reached, to fl y a team of four British astronauts on a commercially-sponsored mission, potentially to the International Space Station.
Image Analysis Workshop –
applications open
Applications are open for a workshop taking place at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin from 24 - 25 April, particularly suitable for those engaged in the acquisition of signifi cant amounts of microscopy image data.
The Introduction to Image Analysis workshop, being delivered by experienced core facility staff from the Francis Crick Institute and King’s College London, in partnership with the RMS and the Company of Biologists, has been designed to equip microscopists and researchers with the necessary skills and tools to confi dently analyse their data.
Participants will be introduced to open-source tools such as FIJI and napari as well as methodologies for automating their image analyses, thus enhancing research precision, effi ciency and reproducibility.
No prior experience in image analysis or coding is required, although a basic understanding of microscopy and image acquisition will be benefi cial.
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Announced by the UK Space Agency, these early calls are intended to give scientists, innovators and businesses the opportunity to submit proposals now to maximise the benefi ts of a mission in the near term.
Andrew Griffi th MP, Minister for Space at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, said:
“There is huge potential for UK businesses to play an increasingly important role in space exploration and the development of new technologies. The £15 million funding calls mark a signifi cant stride in our collaborative mission with Axiom Space and I urge the UK science and technology community to use this opportunity to drive forwards discovery and unleash innovation in critical technologies.”
The announcement follows the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the UK Space Agency and Axiom Space in October 2023, outlining plans for a commercially-sponsored UK astronaut mission and an initial request for ideas for science and technology.
Funding for the Science and Technology demonstrator calls is dependent on the mission going ahead.
Dr Lucie Low, Chief Scientist for Microgravity Research at Axiom Space, said: “Axiom Space is delighted to support the UK Space Agency in its efforts to solicit impactful scientifi c and technological development projects that can advance the goals of human exploration of space, as well as bring benefi t to citizens on Earth. Our Axiom Space missions to date have enabled researchers from across the globe to utilise the microgravity environment for national research and technology development priorities and we continue to work together to secure sponsorships for this exciting mission.”
The aim of the science call is to support UK-based researchers to design and execute scientifi c research which uses microgravity and the space environment.
The technology demonstrator call will support the UK’s exploration sector to test innovative technologies within a space environment. The UK Space Agency is particularly interested in technologies that support the National Space Capability Goals, the UK Science and
(Credit: UK Space Agency)
Technology Framework and its fi ve critical technologies: Artifi cial Intelligence; Engineering Biology;
Future Telecommunications;
Semiconductors; and Quantum Technologies, or that fall under the Agency’s Space Exploration Technology Roadmap categories, which include Advanced Manufacturing, In-Situ Resource Utilisation, Life Support and Crew Performance. More detailed information for the calls can be found by using the link below.
UK astronaut Tim Peake, who spent 6 months on board the International Space Station in 2015/16 and, in his ambassadorial role for Space, has been supporting the development of the potential mission with Axiom Space, said:
“The recent Ax-3 mission set a new bar for what commercial human spacefl ight can achieve, with important science carried out by the four European astronauts over the course of the more than two- week fl ight, from research into cancer prevention to studies of plasma physics and botany.
“It’s fantastic to see the UK Space Agency taking advantage of this new era of commercial human spacefl ight and working with Axiom Space and the European Space Agency to put a real focus on high-quality science and innovative technology for the potential UK mission.”
The UK Space Agency is working with Axiom Space on plans for a commercial mission with the full support of the European Space Agency.
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