We are pleased to welcome you to the Microscopy Conference MC 2025, which will take place from August 31st to September 4th, 2025, in the charming city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Whether you’re a student just starting out in the fascinating world of microscopy, a technician on the hunt for the latest gear and scientific techniques, or an experienced scientist or renowned expert, this will be your European microscopy conference in 2025. Our goal is to create an inspiring atmosphere where ideas can flourish, and new collaborations can bloom.
Maastricht Microscopy Meeting
More information will follow soon
17-18 June 2025: 3D Cell Biology Conference
Dear colleague,
We’re thrilled to announce the international conference Innovative Imaging for 3D Cell Biology Conference, a unique event bringing together Dutch and international researchers exploring ground-breaking advancements in microscopy for studying living systems.
When: Tuesday 17 June & Wednesday 18 June 2025
Where: Supernova/Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, the Netherlands
This exciting conference is jointly organized by:
- IMAGINE! – the Dutch Gravitation consortium
- NL-BioImaging – Dutch Light Microscopy Infrastructure
- 3DNI – 3D-Nanoscale Imaging Perspectief Program
- NVvM – the Netherlands Society for Microscopy
The program features keynote lectures from world-leading experts in microscopy and cell biology: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Jan Ellenberg, Scott Fraser, Mónica Bettencourt-Dias and Prisca Liberali. You’ll also have opportunities to present your work through short talks and poster presentations and connect with fellow researchers.
Key Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday 14 March
- Draft Programme on the website: Friday 4 April
- Early Registration Deadline: Friday 18 April
Don’t miss this opportunity to share knowledge, spark collaborations, and explore innovative imaging techniques.
Visit https://conference.imagine-microscopy.nl/ to learn more and register today!
We look forward to welcoming you!
Best regards,
Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University
Ben Giepmans, UMC Groningen
Lukas Kapitein, Utrecht University
Eric Reits, Amsterdam UMC
Sjoerd Stallinga, TU Delft
Symposium NL-BI + IMAGINE! + 3DNI
17th – 18th June 2025 @Jaarbeurs Supernova, Utrecht, NL we will be hosting a conference together with NL-BioImaging and 3D-NI.
Highlights include lectures by our esteemed Scientific Advisory Board: Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Jan Ellenberg, Scott Fraser, Prisca Liberali & Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz.
For more information please visit our conference website.
ELMI
The 2025 edition of the European Light Microscopy Initiative conference sees a return to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, for the first time since 2010. With EMBL’s tradition of excellence in light microscopy, this event promises to be a highly interactive and engaging experience making full use of the purpose-built Advanced Training Centre venue and the EMBL Imaging Centre.
Highlights of the 2025 conference will include traditional company workshops, an international line-up of speakers, a comprehensive exhibition, and a dedicated community workshop roomwhere participants can engage directly with experts and peers. These sessions are specifically designed to facilitate learning, collaboration, and innovation among attendees from across the microscopy community.
NWO Life
NWO Life is an annual scientific conference covering all disciplines in the Dutch Life Sciences at all scales. It is meant to connect researchers, to explore and push boundaries, to discuss new or desirable developments in the field, to get inspired by each other’s research and approaches and to start new interdisciplinary collaborations.
Expect world-leading invited speakers, inspiring parallel sessions, poster presentations for our promising scientific talents, and a broad scope of workshops. For members of the five research communities within the life sciences, NWO Life2025 is the hub to physically meet, connect and discuss major topics addressing the further development of the field.
Microspectroscopy: functional imaging of biological systems
Every other year, the Microspectroscopy Research Facility of Wageningen University & Research organises a FEBS advanced practical course on fluorescence microspectroscopy for young scientists and PhD students. We organise this course in collaboration with Dr. Koen van den Dries of Radboud Technology Center Microscopy and with Dr. Y. Stahl and Dr. S. Weidtkamp-Peters from Goethe University (Frankfurt) and Heinrich Heine University (Düsseldorf), Germany, respectively.
During this course, you will learn different microscopy techniques for studying biological processes in living cells. Microspectroscopic applications are the methods of choice because direct information on molecular interactions and dynamic events involving biomolecules is obtained with minimal perturbation of cellular integrity and function.
The course will cover the following functional imaging techniques:
Confocal microscopy, Multiphoton microscopy, Photo-activatable imaging, Single particle tracking, Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, Super-Resolution and Correlative Microscopy, Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), FRET imaging techniques, Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS), and Fluorescence recovery after Photobleaching (FRAP)
Huygens Virtual Workshop
Introduction to True Image Restoration, Deconvolution, and Analysis
Dutch Society Cell Biology Trippenhuis meeting
Thursday and Friday, May 8-9, 2025, the DSCB will organize
another NL Trippenhuis meeting on Cell Biology in the
Netherlands. This 2-day event will be a wonderful
opportunity for young investigators to show their work to the
cell biology community. We will include selected abstracts
and poster talks in the program.
Koen van den Dries (RadboudUMC), Elsa Neubert (LACDR,
LU), and Virginie Stevenin (LUMC) organize a round table
discussion on the first day and a Blitz session for all submitted
abstracts on the second day.
Attendance is €50.
For more information, registration and abstract submission,
see their website.
Focus on microscopy
FOM2025 continues a long-standing (since 1988), yearly conference series on the latest innovations and developments in (optical) microscopy and their application in biology, medicine, and the material sciences.
The conference will start on Sunday, April 13 with tutorials, followed by parallel sessions, Flash poster presentations and a plenary opening session with invited speakers at the end of the afternoon. The tentative program will be available later this year, and can be found under “Program” on this web site.
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