Michele Darrow

If you're looking for a #volumeEM fix before 2026, there's also the 2025 vEM GRC and GRS in May, held in Barcelona. Apply to attend here: grc.org/volume-electro… @KedarNarayan2 @SchwabYannick

It has been a privilege to organise the #vEMTechForum2024. We truly have a wonderful, supportive community and I have enjoyed bringing it together. But now it's time to hand over the baton in preparation for the next #vEMTechForum2026

The inaugural #vEMTechForum2024 is in the books! What a whirlwind! Some numbers: -131 attendees -23 talks/7 sessions -24 posters/3 sessions -3 demo lounges/14 stands -3 challenge panels/12 panellists -5 travel awards -3 poster awards -2 birthdays -170 town hall attendees (hybrid)

@MDarrow7 and @basham_mark took part in a really interesting Data Struggles Challenge Panel Discussion at the #vEMTechForum2024. The panel discussed the importance of open data and consistent metadata in research. @VolumeEM1

Dear cryo-EM women scientists, We want to honor you and your contributions at BPS 2025. This year, the Cryo-EM subgroup will honor a mid/senior-career woman scientist as the inaugural June Almeida awardee. June Almeida is the virologist who first discovered the coronavirus in 1967 using negative stain electron microscopy. Her story, like many women we know, is remarkable. womenshistory.org/education-reso… It is in the spirit of June Almeida’s innovative research that this award is named. The awardee, in addition to receiving an honorarium, will present their research at the BPS CryoEM Subgroup Symposium. The deadline for nominations for the Almeida Award is November 1st, and details of the award and the application process can be found at (biophysics.org/Awards-Funding…). Nomination packets should be sent to bps.cryo.em.subgroup@gmail.com. Questions? Contact @OliBClarke, me, @MeghnaG27 @PilarCossio2 or @10feng ♥️We sincerely hope to see you at BPS 2025 in LA to celebrate achievements and advances in cryo-EM!

@jenheemstra How do we make this happen? How do we change the incentives?

Genuinely caring about students should be a non-negotiable qualification for a career in academia. Full stop. No amount of research achievement or creativity can substitute for caring about the professional development and well-being of those we teach and mentor.

We are #hiring! We are currently recruiting a Senior Research Software Engineer to join our team. Find out more and apply here: zurl.co/254b

Why do we need citizen science? Take #PlacentaProfiles for example: our #volunteers picked out 2.23M potential mitochondria in just 18 months – a number that would take a single researcher years to match. The #power of the #crowd indeed 💪

📢HOT OFF THE PRESS📢 Our new paper, in collaboration with the @EtchACell team at @TheCrick, @DiamondLightSou and @RosFrankInst shares our collective experience in using @the_zooniverse for #citizenscience projects using biological #volumeEM data: rdcu.be/dd0Mh

Out today from Collinson, Verkade, and colleagues, an exciting Comment describing the "quiet revolution" that has been taking shape in volume EM and the grassroots community effort to build and disseminate these technologies @EM_STP @PaulVerkade @volumeEM1 nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are delighted to have renewed core funding for the next three years from @EPSRC Find out more about our plans here - rfi.ac.uk/the-rosalind-f… @UKRI_News

We are #hiring! If you would like to develop new methods to advance the capabilities of current biological imaging using high-resolution time-resolved transmission electron microscopes, this may be a role for you! To find out more and apply, click here - zcu.io/RzGv

Want to learn about training in #cryoEM to help you get started or build your skills? Join @edward_eng and I tomorrow (8th Feb- 4pm GMT) to hear more 🤓 I'll be talking about opportunities through @iNEXT_Discovery, @instructhub and more Register here bit.ly/3YblCLS

Franklin researchers, working with @thermosciEMSpec used a prototype version of the recently announced "Arctis" microscope to obtain the structure of a human ribosome to 4.9Å – achieving the highest resolution structure within a mammalian cell.

#ICYMI: Exciting work ahead to build resources and expand the #volumeEM community, supported by @cziscience and @ChanZuckerberg ⬇️

Excited to work with such a great team of #volumeEM #scientists 🔥🔥🔥 chanzuckerberg.com/science/progra…

We're building a community of #researchers and #resources to enable #volumeEM - a group of techniques for #ImagingTheFuture 🔬that let us see inside of #Cells and #tissue to answer biomedical questions! Thank you for your support @cziscience @ChanZuckerberg 💜 @VolumeEM1

Looking forward to this week's #TechExchange! Find out more about lab-scale soft x-ray microscopy and exciting applications in #virology this Friday at 2pm CET with Kenneth Fahy from @SiriusXT_Ltd. Register here: bit.ly/3HoYsLY