From very humble beginnings, we have grown to a much more significant and influential community of facility managers. Numbers of attendees have grown 10 fold since the first meeting in 2006 as more and more facilities have opened. We now represent one of the best organised facility groupings in the UK if not indeed the world.
Following on from previous years, you can expect to find out more on the latest developments in UK Bioimaging and how we can feed in to wider international groups that are starting up. We will also discuss some of the basic elements (funding, impact measures) of running a core facility as well as the latest technological and application developments that affect ourselves and our users. Once again we will include Crib talks from attendees.
Scientific Organisers
Alex Sossick
Alex is Head of Science Innovation Platforms at the Natural History Museum. He has a strong background in light microscopy, previously leading the Advanced Imaging Facility at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, which includes a variety of microscopy techniques including confocal, high throughput and deconvolution. He is keen to raise skills and access to technology and runs various courses.
Ben Sutcliffe
Ben has a background in Drosophila neurobiology and since 2017 has worked in the Light Microscopy Facility at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge training scientists to independently use any of the 21 microscopes that the facility manages. He also builds custom light sheet microscopes and is an avid member of the LMB Technician Commitment Committee.
Jon Howe
Jon works within the Light Microscopy Facility at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, which includes a diverse range of instruments for wide field, confocal, super resolution and high throughput imaging. In addition to training research scientists in data acquisition and analysis techniques Jon also runs Microscope4Schools, which is the LMB’s microscope-orientated science outreach initiative aimed at primary school children.
Peter O'Toole
Peter heads the Imaging and Cytometry Labs within the Technology Facility at the University of York which includes an array of confocal microscopes, flow cytometers and electron microscopes. Peter gained his PhD in the Cell Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Essex and has been involved in many aspects of fluorescence imaging. Research is currently focused on both technology and method development of novel probes and imaging modalities.
Peter has ongoing collaborations with many leading microscopy and cytometry companies and his group also provides research support to many academics and commercial organisations. Peter is also heavily involved with teaching microscopy and flow cytometry which includes organising and teaching on both the RMS Light Microscopy Summer School and the RMS Practical Flow Cytometry courses.
We would like to thank the MRC for their generous support of this meeting.
RMS Organisers
Dawn Hopkins
dawn@rms.org.uk
01865 254774
Contact Dawn for corporate opportunities and RMS Corporate Advisory Board (CAB) enquiries.
Nick Cameron
nick@rms.org.uk
01865 254772
Contact Nick for exhibition and sponsorship event queries and RMS Corporate Membership.