The EMS newsletter #91
Dear colleagues, The EMS newsletter #91 is now available. Enjoy reading!! Dr. Vladislav KRZYZANEKEMS President Dr. Catherine VENIEN-BRYANEMS General Secretary Download the PDF
The EMS newsletter #89
Dear colleagues, The EMS newsletter #89 is now available. Enjoy reading!! Dr. Vladislav KRZYZANEKEMS President Dr. Catherine VENIEN-BRYANEMS General Secretary Download the PDF
ECMA – Welcome to our latest members: Point Electronic GmbH
The EMS would like to welcome its latest ECMA member: Point Electronic GmbH Electronics and software for electron microscopes Point Electronic GmbH is an expert in scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes and micro analyzers. We develop, manufacture, and distribute turnkey technologies and instruments for electron microscopy. You can consult the whole list of our Corporate Members here. More info
EMS OPA 2024 results
The winners of the European Microscopy Outstanding Paper Awards for papers published in 2024 are: 1. Instrumentation and Technique Development.*J. C. Thiele, *E. Pfitzner and P. Kukura. Single-protein optical holography. Nature Photonics 18, 388–395 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01405-2 2. Materials Sciences.L. Zhang, M. H. Raza, R. Wu, K. Gruel, C. Dubourdieu, M. Hÿtch and C. Gatel. Quantification of interfacial charges in multilayered nanocapacitors by operando electron holography. Advanced Materials 37(4), 2413691 (2025)#. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202413691#(first published online: November 25, 2024) 3. Life Sciences.*P. B. Klar, *D. G. Waterman, *T. Gruene, D. Mullick, Y. Song, J. B. Gilchrist, C. D. Owen, W. Wen, I. Biran, L. Houben, N. Regev-Rudzki, R. Dzikowski, N. Marom, L. Palatinus, P. Zhang, L. Leiserowitz and M. Elbaum. Cryo-tomography and 3D electron diffraction reveal the polar habit and chiral structure of the malaria pigment crystal hemozoin. ACS Central Science 10(8), 1504–1514 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.4c00162 *equal contribution More about OPA
EMC 2024 Report
Dear Members, Following the 17th European Microscopy Congress (EMC2024) held at the Bella Center in the Danish capital Copenhagen, August 26-30, 2024, you will find the exiting report from the EMC Chair Klaus Qvortrup. The 17th European Microscopy Congress (EMC2024) took place at the Bella Center in the Danish capital Copenhagen, August 26-30, 2024, with an attendance of 2,500 registrants from at least 51 countries, who had the opportunity to hear from researchers at various career levels from both academia and industry. Eight years have passed since the latest EMC (Lyon, 2016); in the meantime, the Covid pandemic most regrettably caused a last-minute cancellation of the attempted organized EMC2020 in Copenhagen. Accordingly, EMC2024 was planned in the wake of the pandemic at a time where we did not know whether physical conferences would ever happen again – at least to the same extent we have grown used to in the past. Fortunately, in Copenhagen 2024 it seemed as if all the unpleasant memories of the past pandemic were almost forgotten, even though most of the world was in lock-down less than 3 years before. Some prayers must have been taken into consideration, because even the late August weather was perfect for outdoor social activities. The 1,310 submitted abstracts for the three main symposia complemented the impressive number of registrants and paved the road for an extensive and dynamic conference programme spanning advances in Life Science, Physical Science, and Instrumentation & Methodology. Accordingly, EMC2024 featured six parallel tracks with 35 scientific sessions giving room for 422 oral presentations, 50 invited speakers, and 5 plenary and 775 poster presentations. Approximately 250 registrants decided to arrive early and attend one of the seven preconference workshops offered on the Sunday before conference kick-off. However, not only pre-conference workshop students had decided to arrive in good time, because the welcome reception Sunday evening welcomed more than 1,300 conference delegates for a truly memorable event. The spacious conference hall – shaped to host all EMC2024 scientific activities for the five full days − consisted of a plenary lecture theater seating 1,500 delegates, five breakaway theaters with a capacity of 350 pax each, and a generous poster area with a capacity of 400 posters. The trade exhibition was the centerpiece of the hall, featuring many of the world’s leading companies in the field. More than 500 registrants from the attending companies were on hand to show-case their latest cutting-edge instrumentation and accessories, and EMC2024 warmly welcomed a total of 105 exhibitors including 10 Open Science contributions and the two EMC2028 bidders, Brno and Barcelona. During the lunch breaks the five breakaway theatres were generously booked by the vendors for introduction and presentations of new technologies. Thursday evening, the Conference dinner at the Bella Center was jam-packed to capacity with 800 seated guests, who enjoyed a 3-course dinner accompanied by a full jazz big band in Sinatra style. The dance floor was quickly fully packed with happy conference delegates. Numerous feedbacks indicate that all attendants – academia and vendors − had a great, busy, and productive time at EMC2024. Taken into consideration that the pandemic with lock-down precautions had just been left behind us, my personal outstanding memory would probably the great pleasure of seeing the buzzing activity in the conference hall. Colleagues finally catching up in person, the impressive activity with all the vendors’ booths, and four days of truly amazing activity in the poster-sessions – handshakes and even hugs – who would have believed this possible again just three years ago. The 18th European Microscopical Congress (EMC2028) will be organized by the Spanish Microscopy Society in Barcelona, September 18-22, 2028 – we are all looking forward for the continuation of this important cornerstone in the microscopy scientific world. Klaus Qvortrup EMC2024, Conference Chair
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Welcome to our latest members: RaySpec, SenseAI, AdvaScope, Renishaw
The EMC would like to welcome its latest ECMA members: RaySpec SenseAI AdvaScope Renishaw More info RaySpec is a specialist manufacturer of energy dispersive x-ray detectors based on Silicon Drift Detector technology. Our products are found worldwide in scanning electron microscopy systems, x-ray fluorescence analysers and on specific beamlines at synchrotrons and other accelerator based laboratories. Our innovative products have helped drive technology, enabled detailed materials analysis for quality assurance or regulatory compliance and facilitated advances in x-ray analytical techniques. We deliver high quality, high performance products, underpinned by excellent application support and customer service. RaySpec has formerly traded as Gresham Scientific Instruments Ltd, e2v scientific instruments Ltd and SGX Sensortech (MA) Ltd. More info SenseAI dramatically changes the image sensing landscape. Using proprietary sub-sampling methodologies, it can generate the same high-quality images and video feeds with up to 100x less data (1% of the original data). Applications include Analytical Equipment, Biological Materials Imaging & Medical Imaging. More info We are a team dedicated to developing the most advanced hybrid pixelated detectors for electron microscopy. We combine decades of experience in cutting edge detector design with a deep understanding of customer requirements. We focus on long term partnerships across the industry, optimizing our detectors for each application. Our team covers all aspects of detector design and manufacture, high speed readout electronics and bespoke software developments. We provide the most flexible detector design, long term support and the most advanced detectors on the market. More info We are a global company with core skills in measurement, motion control, healthcare, spectroscopy and manufacturing
3rd Edition of Unbiased Stereology
by C.V. Howard & M.G. Reed This book is a simple and practical guide to making unbiased 3-D measurements of microstructure via the microscope. It is not full of complex mathematics and is of use to biologists, toxicologists, pathologists, geologists and materials scientists. The techniques presented, which are statistical in nature, are tried and tested, and presented in a clear didactic style. Exercises, together with detailed worked answers are provided. The second edition, published in 2005, had three new chapters covering single object stereology, ‘Petrimetrics’, or the application of survey sampling techniques to in vitro experiments, and second order stereology for local measures of spatial organisation. Unbiased stereology has been requested for nerve cell counts in neurotoxicology by the United States Food & Drug Administration, and is now being required by many journals as a condition of acceptance for research articles. This book has been continuously in print since 1998 and has more than 2,000 citations. We published a 20th Anniversary reprint of the second edition in 2018. Available as a free download! More info
EMS NEWSLETTER 9
EMS Secretariat, May 19, 2004 Dear EMS member, With the approaching EMC 2004 congress it is important to annouce several activities of EMS in this Newsletter. You cabn also find EMS News in the journal Imaging & Microscopy, website at: http://www.imaging-git.com In this newsletter we will try to summarize several subjects such as: EMC 2004 Antwerpen Agenda’s of the EMS General Assembly and General Council FEI-EMA Awards EMS Yearbook and membership address list EMC 2008, candidates for hosting this congress are asked to send a letter of intent Electronic voting Many of these subjects in this newsletter can be found in greater detail on the EMS website: http://www.eurmicsoc.org. 1. EMC 2004 Antwerpen, August 22-27, 2004 Website: http://www.EMC2004.be In a few months, from August 22 till August 27, the 13th European Microscopy Congress EMC 2004 will be held in Antwerp. The new EMC construction aims to further improve the interaction between different advanced microscopy techniques, following the change in name of the organising society itself. Nevertheless, judging from the final scientific programme and submitted abstracts, electron microscopy in all its forms remains the primary technique. At the time of writing of this report (mid April) over 900 delegates from nearly 50 different countries have already registered and submitted over 850 abstracts. At the same time the commercial exhibition (which was expanded with 16 booths in January) is booked for over 95% (present list of companies is available on the website). Since Antwerp is connected extremely well to a large part of Europe, we expect many on-site and day registrations so that the originally estimated number of 1.000 scientific delegates will easily be reached and probably even surpassed. Scientific Programme The entire programme is divided into three categories: Instrumentation & Methodology, Materials Sciences and Life Sciences. From the onset the aim of the Scientific Programme Committee was to have as little competing oral sessions in the classic set-up of parallel sessions. In principle, 6 sessions will run in parallel, 2 from each category. Except for the opening session on Monday, the morning sessions will start with a plenary lecture focusing on some promising topics in microscopy for the years to come. Although the items for these plenary lectures are chosen in view of the three main categories, the speakers are selected for their ability to present their material for a wide and diverse audience from different disciplines. After the morning oral sessions, at lunch time, so-called Special Interest Lectures will be given on topics that fall outside the microscopy mainstream but that can still be expected to be of interest to a broad spectrum of researchers. After lunch a long time-slot of two hours is dedicated to the poster session which will enable the delegates to visit the posters and discuss the presented science in detail. After these poster sessions, again some oral sessions will be arranged. In principle, both morning and afternoon oral sessions consist of two invited speakers and six oral contributions. As expected in view of recent international microscopic meetings, the Materials Sciences category received most of the abstracts, with the Instrumentation & Methodology and Life Sciences categories being close to equal. Although care had been taken, by including the suggestions of an extensive International Scientific Advisory Board, to arrange a balanced list of sessions within each category, the evolution of science again proves hard to predict. Indeed, several sessions have received a considerable amount of contributions, which lead to the splitting of some sessions into two parts. On the other hand, some sessions received very little contributions and were, wherever scientifically relevant, combined with other sessions leading to some new or adapted session titles. The final scientific programme, at least with respect to the session titles, chairs and invited speakers, is given below. This way, the Scientific Programme Committee attempts to follow the interests of the delegates as much as possible. A detailed programme is available on the EMC 2004 website. On Sunday, a small but carefully chosen selection of courses can be followed at very low cost. Judging from the present status of registration, these choices are very successful, but registration for all courses can still be made. Proceedings In parallel with the organisation of the scientific programme the Abstract Handling team and Editorial Board of the proceedings is working hard to ensure that the printed proceedings as well as the CD-ROM will be available at the meeting. Please remember that, in order to ensure publication of your abstract in the proceedings, your registration fee has to be paid at the latest on June 1, 2004, the same deadline as for Intermediate registration. Commercial Exhibition As already mentioned, the originally reserved commercial exhibition space soon proved to be too small and an additional space for 16 more booths was added. Most of these booths were soon rented as well and only a little space is left at this time. The main part of the exhibition will be on the ground floor with the poster session and cafeteria space on the first floor directly above the exhibition hall. In the same hall also the lecture room for the Technical Lectures by selected companies will be organised. Below is the present list of exhibiting companies. A detailed floor plan will soon be available on the website. Historic Exhibition One of the highlights of EMC 2004 will certainly be the historic exhibition. Historic optical microscopes as well as several accessories, some dating back to early 18th century and once belonging to the personal collection of Christian Van Heurck, a friend of Roderick Zeiss and Ernst Abbe, will be on display. Travel and accommodation arrangements Although Antwerp is a very active and touristic city, not very many large hotels have been built downtown. For this reason, First Class, the company arranging all matters concerning registration, travel, transport, accommodation, social programme, etc. has reserved a large number of rooms at special rates in different hotels. In order to take advantage of these rates, rooms have to be booked through First Class by
EMS NEWSLETTER 8
EMS Secretariat, January 26, 2004 Dear EMS member, The FEI-EMA Awards The prize will be awarded on the basis of the quality and originality of scientific achievements in any field of microscopy, obtained during the five years preceding the application. All modes of microscopy are included. Two awards are offered by the FEI Company, one for the life sciences, the other for the physical/materials sciences and optics. The value of each prize is € 5,000. The winners of the award will be announced at the European Microscopy Congress (EMC). Candidates for the prize can be proposed by a Microscopy Society in Europe, a group of scientists, or an individual scientist. Proposers should indicate in their written appraisal and justification the extent to which the award would help to support the professional opportunities of the applicant. Candidates must be i) European, or ii) of European origin, or iii) non-European scientists who work or have worked in Europe for more than one year. A candidate needs to be a member of a Microscopy Society in Europe.Applications should contain seven identical hard copies of: i) a resume’ (CV), ii) a list of publications, iii) reprints of five publications that best support the candidature; the candidate should be the leading author of these publications, iv) an appraisal and justification written by the proposer. Proposals should be received by normal mail before April 1st 2004 by the President of EMS Prof. Jose L. CarrascosaDepartment of Structure of MacromoleculesCentro Nacional de Biotecnologia, CSIC.Campus Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco28049 MadridSpain Please note that this is a change of the originally announced address. Email applications will not be processed. Candidates will be evaluated by a jury of six members, selected by the Executive Board of EMS. The Executive Board of EMS is responsible for the scientific competence of the jury and the jury is responsible for a balanced evaluation of the applications, based on their scientific quality. The physical/optics/materials sciences and the life sciences will be represented in equal numbers in the jury. The President of EMS is the non-voting chairman of the jury. It is left to the discretion of the chairman of the jury to balance and process the evaluations of the individual jury members in the light of their different fields of expertise. The names of the members of the jury will be made public at the EMC. The successful candidates and all proposers will be informed about the decision of the jury by June 1st of the same year. Each successful candidate is required to register as a participant of the EMC and to deliver a keynote lecture during a plenary session. The full texts of these presentations will be printed in the EMS Yearbook. Microscopy Societies in Europe are requested to make every effort to inform their membership about the prize. Information on the European Microscopy Society: http://www.eurmicsoc.org Information on the European Microscopy Congress: http://www.emc2004.be Prof. em. dr. E. WisseIrisweg 16B-3140 KeerbergenBelgiumTel: (+32)-(0)15-234.247Email: secr@eurmicsoc.org eddie@wisse.beEMS web site: http://www.eurmicsoc.org