Microscopy Conference 2025

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.

https://microscopy-conference.de

Sharper Insights: Automated Microscopy and AI-based Image Analysis

“Sharper Insights: Automated Microscopy and AI-based Image Analysis,” on June 24th from 14:00 to 17:30. This event will delve deeper into automation and AI in microscopy and provide opportunities for networking and exchanging expertise on this and other microscopy topics. Additionally we have a great speaker from the VUmc as Jens Seidel will present his work on “High-Resolution Time-Lapse Imaging Reveals Dynamic T Cell Behaviors in Patient-Derived Tumor-Immune Cocultures”. If you are interested in attending, please register in advance using the following  link””

Four Seasons of the Invisible

Participate in the Four Seasons of the Invisible, Euro-BioImaging’s first imaging contest!

Join us to celebrate the four seasons seen through the prism of imaging devices: electron micrographs of flu virus or changes in chloroplast structure in decaying leaves for autumn, ice crystal images or brown fat depletion during hibernation for winter, microscopic pollen tubes or CT images of lungs affected by hay fever for spring, and plankton blooms or heat shock proteins for summer, and much more!  Only your imagination is the limit.

Spring Session: 31 March – 20 June 2025
Summer Session: 21 June – 21 September 2025
Autumn Session: 22 September – 20 December 2025
Winter Session: 21 December 2025 – 20 March 2026

https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/the4seasons

Nikon Eclilpse JI demo

From June 20th to July 4th, Nikon’s newest inverted microscope—the Eclipse JI—will be available for hands-on testing and demonstrations at the VUmc (O2 building), guided by a Nikon Application Specialist. Take advantage of this opportunity to try the innovative Smart Experiment mode on your own samples. This feature enables you to image and analyze your samples in just a few clicks, helping you gather meaningful data in a reliable and automated manner. You can view the available assays via the following link. Please book a session with Nikon in advance to ensure your samples are compatible with the automated assays, using this link.

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

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.

 

Internship opportunity at ASML research

The ASML-HMI scanning electron microscopy (SEM) tools enable imaging of nm-sized features to measure and control chip processing performance. The drive of the semiconductor industry to continuously produce smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient chips requires constant innovation of products, including our SEM products, to match chipmaker’s needs. In this respect, ASML Research provides innovative technical solutions to the company’s development and engineering (D&E) teams that allow them to continue their product roadmap. As the ASML Research SEM competence, the SEM Hardware & Applications group provides such solutions to the SEM D&E groups in Delft (for multi-beam tools) and San Jose (for single-beam tools). 

Your Assignment

Our SEM tool design and operation relies on advanced simulations of the electron optics in the column. In this assignment you will be working on extending our electron optics simulation capabilities. You will use the existing simulation suite to build further understanding of the impact of electron optics components on the probe. This will entail an investigation into the impact of non-idealities in the column, e.g. offset electron-optics elements, on the probe. You will combine the simulation insights with probe characteristics obtained experimentally to draw conclusions on how to make our simulations resemble better our tools.

For more information and to apply, please visit this page

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)

Introduction to True Image Restoration, Deconvolution, and Analysis”

May 15th, 2025

A workshop for all that want to get the most out of their images!


Do you relate to any of the following?

  • I already use image processing software but feel uncertain about the results.
  • I struggle with object segmentation for analysis.
  • I want to achieve image quality with which I could win Imaging Contests.
  • I plan to use Huygens, or feel I could be using it more efficiently.
  • I’m simply curious what it takes to get good images.

If so, this free virtual workshop is the perfect opportunity to discover what good image acquisition and Huygens image restoration can do for you! In just three hours, you’ll reveal object details you’ve never seen before, significantly improve the quality of your live-cell imaging experiments, and enhance signal and resolution, making object segmentation much easier. All of this is aimed at helping you to achieve more scientifically honest and reliable results.

You will learn how to optimally acquire image data, the true meaning of deconvolution and why it matters, how experimental settings affect the microscope PSF, the best ways to correct for noise and blur, how to identify and fix common acquisition issues, and how to visualize and analyze your data. A workshop manual, demo images, and a temporary Huygens Everywhere trial will be provided for free. Join us and register now!

https://svi.nl/Huygens-Workshop-Program