Cross-disciplinary EM and LM Meeting
Adventures at the Biology-Materials Interface
Monday 30 June at Manchester Central
Organised by Lucy Collinson, Ed Boyes and Jason Swedlow
This Cross-Disciplinary Imaging and BioImagingUK Meeting will take place at Manchester Central on Monday 30th June (just before mmc2014 starts) to bring a wide variety of imaging scientists together, enabling them to meet to agree joint initiatives. The goal of the meeting is to report on advances across a broad range of imaging domains and applications and identify opportunities for strategic collaboration between the biological and material imaging communities.
Confirmed speakers include:
Andy Brown (Leeds)
Andy Bushby (QMUL)
Roland Kroger (York)
Luis Pizarro (UCL)
Alex Porter (Imperial)
If you have registered for the meeting, details of how to get to the venue can be found at http://www.manchestercentral.co.uk/getting-here . The Meeting will be taking place in Central Rooms 5 – 7, which are located in the Central Foyer main entrance – please just register at the main registration desk on arrival.
Registration
Registration will take place from 10.30 – 11.00 am on Monday 30th June, and you will be given a badge and a programme and abstract booklet. Please can you wear your name badge at all times whilst you are at Manchester Central. You will receive an additional email from the RMS next week which will have a bar code on it, please can you bring that email with you to the registration desk at the meeting to collect your badge.
Lunch and Refreshments
Tea and coffee will be available in the meeting room from 10.30 – 11.00 and at 15.00 – 15.30. A buffet lunch will also be a served in Central Rooms 5 – 7 from 13.00 – 13.55. You are very welcome to go to the mmc2014 Plenary Lectures at 17.30 – 18.30 (to be given by Professor Ondrej Krivanek and Professor M Sheetz), and join the drinks reception in the Central Foyer from 18.30 – 19.30.
mmc2014
If you have also registered to attend the mmc2014 Conference, you will be able to collect your Congress bag from the Bag Collection Point after the Cross Disciplinary meeting has taken place. Full details of the mmc2014 Conference, Exhibition, Company Workshops, Social Events and Hotels can be found at www.mmc2014.org.uk.
It is not too late to register for the Congress (Conference or Exhibition) if you haven’t yet done so!
Queries
If you have any queries concerning administrative matters prior to the meeting, or on the day, please do not hesitate to contact me via email or directly on .
Provisional programme
Imaging Communities Strategy Meeting
11.00 – 11.30 BioImagingUK Update, Jason Swedlow (University of Dundee)
11.30 – 11.45 EPSRC EM Working Group Update, Pete Nellist (University of Oxford)
11.45 – 12.00 Plant Imaging Community Update, Chris Hawes (Oxford Brookes)
12.00 – 13.00 Discussion (Jason Swedlow, Pete Nellist, Chris Hawes) Aligning Imaging Community Efforts: Imaging UK?
13.00 – 13.55 Lunch
Cross Disciplinary Imaging Meeting Introduction
13.55 – 14.00 Welcome - Ed Boyes (University of York) & Lucy Collinson (CRUK London Research Institute)
14.00 – 14.20 Andy Bushby (Nanovision Centre, QMUL)
14.20 – 14.40 Jennifer Le Blond (Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London)
14.40 – 15.00 Andy Brown (Institute for Materials Science, Leeds University)
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee
15.30 – 15.50 Alex Porter (Dept of Materials and LCN, Imperial College London)
15.50 – 16.10 Roland Kröger (Dept of Physics, University of York)
16.10 – 16.30 Luis Pizarro (Dept of Computer Science, University College London)
16.30 – 16.40 Summary
Registration is free, and you can now register online .