Congratulations to Helen Marshall for winning our logo competition – Helen wins £350, sponsored by Nikon. Also congratulations to Dr Dionne Turnbull and Dr Ashley Dorning for their entires, which won 2nd and 3rd prize. To see their logos and some of our favourite entries, visit http://scottishmicroscopygroup.org.uk/competitions/logo-competition/logo-competition-winners
The Scottish Microscopy Society’s 47th Annual Symposium is on 3rd December at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh!
Abstracts for oral and poster presentations can now be submitted. There is also an image competition! More information can be found on our 2019 event page
To register for the symposium, visit our Eventbrite page!
Applications will be accepted from 2nd August until 20th September 2019. Apply online at https://esric.org/esric-access-fund
The Edinburgh Super-Resolution Imaging Consortium (ESRIC; www.esric.org), in partnership with the RS MacDonald Trust, have established a new seed corn fund to provide bursaries for early career researchers throughout Scotland to be able to access the state-of-the-art systems and expertise within ESRIC at no cost to the user at the point of contact.
Recognising that super-resolution optical imaging is technically complicated, expensive, limited in availability to centres of excellence, but very much in demand for cutting-edge biology questions, these bursaries could include:
Projects will be considered if they:
Applicants must be employed by a Scottish University at either Post-doctoral level or studying for their PhD.
It is recommended that prior to applying you discuss your research idea with our ESRIC manager at esric@hw.ac.uk
Successful applicants will be asked to submit a brief report on their progress by 20th December 2019 and a final report of their project outcomes after the project is complete. If substantial progress has not been made by the December 2019 deadline, we reserve the right to retract funding.
Applications will be accepted from 2nd August until 20th September 2019. Apply online at https://esric.org/esric-access-fund
Our logo competition is now live! Visit the Competitions page to learn more
SMS will be coming to MMC2019. We’re hosting a session on Tuesday 2nd July in Central 5,6,7 from 10:00 – 12:00 on Applications of super-resolution from the nano to the atomic scale’.
We have some absolutely fantastic invited talks from Illaria Testa and Michael Lherbette who are really pushing the boundaries of what we can resolve using nanoscopy. We’ve then got 4 submitted talks showing a spectrum of research projects applying a unique combination of techniques and topics.
Following on from this, the second session from 14:00 – 16:00 from hosted by MSI will cover the theme of beam induced radiation effects, introduced by keynote speaker Particia Abellan.
So come along and join us!
Great news from everyone here at the SMS – we have secured a £5k grant from SULSA/SUPA/SINAPSE to run our first facility open series in 2019. Watch this space for more information on which centres and microscopes will be involved in these exciting events, and how to apply. Well done everyone!
The Scottish Microscopy Group are coming to Photonex 2019, held at Strathclydes TIC building on 5th June, 2019. Registration is free and the call for poster abstracts is open. It’s a great way for anyone using photonics technologies to connect with leaders in the field, technology developers and top suppliers. We will have a stand, so come and say hi and ask us about the exciting things that we have planned for the next year.
This year we’re hosting a session at Microscience Microscopy Congress 2019 in Manchester, 1st – 4th July, joint with the MSI.
The session, entitled ‘Applications of super-resolution from the nano to the atomic scale‘ will be held 10:00-12:00 on Tuesday 2nd July
Invited speakers are Ilaria Testa from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and Michael Lherbette from Heriot-Watt, UK.
Come along!
SMG is now live on Instagram! Follow us at scottishmicroscopygroup to
See you there