2024 RMS award nominations open


2024 President’s Award - recognises an exceptional voluntary contribution to the work of the RMS.


2024 Vice Presidents’ Award - recognises the ‘unsung heroes’ of microscopy by making an award to an engineer, technician or laboratory research support scientist.


2024 Chris Hawes Award for Outreach and Education - celebrates a substantial contribution to the fi eld of education, or to outreach and public engagement, over the course of someone’s career.


2024 Scientifi c Achievement Award - celebrates and marks outstanding scientifi c achievements in any area of microscopy or fl ow cytometry for established, mid-career researchers.


2025 Alan Agar Award for Electron Microscopy - celebrates outstanding contributions to electron microscopy in the fi eld of physical or life sciences


TV presenter, author and stage performer, Marty Jopson receiving the 2023 Chris Hawes Award for Outreach and Education from RMS Honorary Secretary for Education, Kerry Thompson at mmc2023 (Credit: RMS)


The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for a wide range of prestigious awards to be announced in 2024. Covering the full range of microscopy techniques and applications, as well as recognising achievements in outreach and education, technical support and services to the Society itself, applications for the awards (listed) must be received by the deadline of 29th February 2024.


2025 Award for Light Microscopy - for outstanding scientifi c achievements applying or developing new forms of light microscopy


2025 Award for Innovation in Applied Microscopy for Engineering, Physical and Material Sciences - for outstanding scientifi c achievements in applying microscopy in the fi elds of engineering, physical and material sciences


2025 Award for Atomic Force Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy - for outstanding progress made in the fi eld of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM)


2025 Award for Life Sciences - for outstanding scientifi c achievements applying microscopy in the fi eld of cell biology


Biologist Erin Tranfi eld receives the 2023 Alan Agar Award for Electron Microscopy at mmc2023, from RMS Electron Microscopy Section Chair, Asa Barber (Credit: RMS)


2025 Award for Data Analysis in Imaging - for outstanding scientifi c achievements applying microscopy in the fi eld of data analysis in imaging


2025 Award for Flow Cytometry - celebrating outstanding scientifi c achievements of scientists applying fl ow cytometry in the fi eld of immunology or cell biology


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Scottish Microscopy Society celebrate presentation of award for inspirational work


Congratulations go to RMS Early Career Section Chair, Dr Liam Rooney, who has been announced as the ‘Scottish Microscopist of the Year’.


The award, bestowed for the very fi rst time by the Scottish Microscopy


Society, celebrates inspirational and outstanding


contributions to the Scottish Microscopy community. Based at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (University of Strathclyde), Liam conducts research covering both microscopy and microbiology, using innovative optical imaging methods to study various microbial phenomena: how bacteria interact, form communities, contribute to disease and how to treat infections more effectively.


In addition to his own research, Liam has been actively engaged in RMS activities for several years. He joined the Society as a PhD student in 2016, going on to become a member of the Life Sciences Section Committee in 2018 and then Chair of the Early Career Committee in 2020. He is also involved with the Microbiology Society.


Liam said: “Winning this award came as a great surprise and an honour. I’m so grateful for the support I’ve had from mentors, colleagues, and learned societies. I’m really lucky to have such a supportive research environment and mentors who encourage me to explore my curiosities. Professor Gail McConnell and Professor Paul Hoskisson (University of Strathclyde) have been fantastic champions and mentors, and I’m really thankful for their support.


He added: “The RMS has also been overwhelmingly supportive of my journey and afforded me the freedom to work with great teams across the society. I’ve had the luxury of spanning two dynamic fi elds - microscopy and microbiology. Having involvement with both the RMS and the Microbiology Society has been a great way to straddle the boundary and connect communities.”


As part of the award, Liam received a £500 cash prize and he also gave a talk at the Scottish Microscopy Society’s 49th annual symposium which was hosted in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Dundee.


The Jeol-sponsored keynote lecture at the symposium, held on 7 November, was presented by Dr Laura Young from the University of Newcastle. Dr Young’s research combines optical instrumentation and psychophysical research, developing adaptive optics systems to study human vision – from imaging the light sensitive cells in the retina in vivo to studying the impact of refractive disorders on visual performance.


There were also invited talks from Dr Ramasubramanian Sundaramoorthy about CryoEM at Dundee, Dr Callum Graham about using microscopy for conservation, Prof Carlos Penedo about C-TRAP optical trapping at University of St Andrews and Dr Simon Plummer about using micromatricies for your research.


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AFM & SPM 2024


25-28 March - Durham Organisers: Kislon Voitchovsky (University of Durham, UK) and Mingdong Dong (Aarhus University, Demark)


Registration is now open for AFM & SPM, an international conference on scanning probe microscopies organised annually in conjunction with the Royal Microscopy Society.


To be held at Durham University, UK, the 2024 programme will include:


25 March – Graduate school A graduate school on AFM, FluidFM and SICM with theory, hands on sessions. The school will also include a lecture on statistics for SPM data analysis and a discussion on career development.


26 March – Conference: AFM & SPM in Life and Biological Sciences Invited, Expert and contributed talks and posters on the broad theme of life sciences, from molecular biosciences to viruses and


cellular processes and tissue.


27 March – Conference: AFM & SPM in Materials Sciences and Energy Invited, Expert and contributed talks and posters on recent developments in materials and engineering, including energy- related applications.


28 March – Conference: Developments in AFM & SPM hardware and software Invited, Expert and contributed talks and posters on technique developments including hardware, software and simulations and data analysis.


Graduate students, early career scientists as well as experts in the fi eld of SPM are welcome to the conference which aims to be an international event.


Further details on location and registration; the internationally renowned scientists and experts who will be joining the conference; and details of any late submission dates or breaking news can be found on the link below.


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