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Microscopy Today - micrograph competition (March 15 2024 deadline) Contest

The goal of this international competition is to identify and showcase scientific micrographs and movie clips. While there must be scientific content in the images, winning entries will also exhibit exceptional composition and other esthetic qualities… more

Advanced microscopy bootcamp (July 2024) - Ashburn VA Course

The Janelia Advanced Imaging Center (AIC) will offer a 12-day intensive microscopy bootcamp– Optical Imaging Across Biological Length Scales–in 2024. This course will be held at Janelia Research Campus July 28-August 9, 2024. There is no application… more

TACMASR Relaunch & Symposium (March 27) Announcement, University of Arizona

Learn how existing and new services can advance your research. Overview and update on TACMASR services:
      - Histology and Immunohistochemistry
      - Organoid generation and culture
      -… more

UA Software Carpentry Workshop (Dec 9 & 10, 2023) University of Arizona, Workshop

DECEMBER 9 & 10, 2023 (Two full weekend days)
UArizona Campus | 9:00a.m.-5:00p.m.

WORKSHOP Software/Data Carpentry Workshop (in-person mode) 
WHAT Basic Computational Skills, incl. Unix, Python,… more

Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Conference (May 2024) - Woods Hole, MA Conference

Multi-dimensional live and fixed microscope data can be collected in many ways and with a wide range of imaging modalities to help advance cellular, animal and large sample/cleared sample imaging to the next level. Currently, many courses focus on… more

Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course (April 2024) - Woods Hole, MA Course

Registration is now open for the 2024 Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy, to be held at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA.

AQLM is a… more

Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy - May 2024 (Bar Harbor, MA) Course

Enrollment for Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2024 at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Maine is now open.

This is an intensive lab/lecture course, focusing on fluorescence microscopy in all its forms,… more

ISAMS-5 & UCI STEM School - Dec 2023 (Irvine, CA) Conference, Workshop

ISAMS-5 & UCI STEM SCHOOL, December 4-8, 2023, Calit2 Atrium & Auditorium, University of California, Irvine.

Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI)… more

S10 & HEI grant information (June 2024 deadline) Announcement, University of Arizona

ORIP's S10 Instrumentation Grant Programs support purchases of state-of-the-art commercially available instruments to enhance research of NIH-funded investigators. Instruments that are awarded are typically too expensive to be obtained by an individual… more

FRET, FLIM, and Metabolic Imaging Microscopy Workshop - March 4-8, 2024 (Charlottesville, VA) Workshop

The W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, a University of Virginia Imaging Center is sponsoring an advanced hands-on training course on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), and Metabolic Imaging (NADH/… more