The Great Irish Fossil Hunt is a new campaign to encourage the Irish public to find fossils and to send in photographs of their fossil finds. The campaign is led by scientists at University College Cork, as part of the Ireland’s Fossil Heritage programme. This will create a fossil map of Ireland that will capture…
The Electron Microscopy UK & Ireland 2025 meeting hosted by the Royal Microscopical Society featured a national spotlight on electron microscopy on the island of Ireland, presented by Jonathan Peters as a representative from MSI (standing in for MSI President Kerry Thompson who unfortunately couldn’t make it). This was a great way to demonstrate the…
The MSI is delighted to announce Dr Kerry Thompson as its new President. Kerry was elected to her new role at the MSI’s recent annual symposium and will serve in the post for the next two years. She said: “I am honoured to have been nominated to lead the MSI over the coming term and…
The abstract submission deadline for the MSI2025 symposium in University College Dublin has been extended to December 20th 2024! To submit your abstract, visit the conference website below.
The RMS is running their Introduction to Image Analysis workshop in Galway on the 8th-9th of April 2025. This follows up on last years fully subscribed course in RCSI and will be delivered by members of the RMS DAIM section (David Barry, Martin Jones and Stefania Marcotti). For more information and to secure your place,…
As a PostDoc coming towards the end of my contract, August was the perfect opportunity to travel to Denmark for EMC 2024, and present some of my project’s scientific results and technical findings to international peers. I gave an oral presentation titled: ‘CoCID: Compact Cell Imaging Device for Correlative Investigation of Hepatitis E Infection’ in…
UCD will be hosting a technical cry workshop with Zeiss on the 11th December 2024. For more information and registration, follow the link below.
We are delighted to announce that the MSI2025 symposium will be hosted on the 14th-16th of January 2025 in University College Dublin, Dublin. For more details, visit the conference website below. We can’t wait to see you there!
Firstly, I wish to thank the Microscopy Society of Ireland for supporting my travel to the 17th European Microscopy Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference was a fantastic experience on all accounts, including both amazing presentations, exciting networking events, and fascinating vendor demos. For me personally, attending this conference was important to keep my motivation…
First and foremost, I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to the Microscopy Society of Ireland (MSI) for the generous support, which allowed me to attend the 17th European Microscopy Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark. There was a wonderful range of presentations, ranging from material science, to ptychography, to cryo-EM advances. Held between August 25th…