Meetings, courses, competitions for microscopists

Meetings

• Practicalities of Cellular Analysis using Flow Cytometry, Light & Electron Microscopy, 21 March 2012, Newcastle, UK
  
• Focus On Microscopy 2012, 1-4 April 2012, Singapure
• TOPIM 2012 (Hot Topics in Molecular Imaging - Processing Biomedical Images), 15-20 April 2012, Les Houche, France
• IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2-5 May 2012, Barcelona, Spain
• Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics (SOPO) 2012, 21-23 May 2012, Shanghai, China
• 12th European Light Microscopy Initiative (ELMI) meeting, 5-8 June 2012, Leuven, Belgium
• 3rd International Definiens Symposium, 14-16 June 2012, Munich, Germany
• Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS) 12, 4-6 July 2012, Genoa, Italy
• World Molecular Imaging Congress, 5-8 September 2012, Dublin, Ireland
• European Microscopy Congress, 16-21 September 2012, Manchester, UK

Courses 

Specific training courses

• EMBL Introductory Course Confocal Microscopy,  13-15 March 2012, Heidelberg, Germany
• EMBO Practical Course in Advanced Optical Microscopy, 21-31 March 2012, Plymouth, UK
• Confocal Microscopy, 17-20 April 2012, York, UK
• EMBL Introductory Course Light Microscopy, 10-13 July 2012, Heidelberg, Germany
• Light Microscopy Summer School, July 2012, York, UK
• Confocal Microscopy, 11-14 September 2012, York, UK
• EMBL Advanced Course Advanced Imaging Techniques, 1-5 October 2012, Heidelberg, Germany
• EMBO Practical Course High-Throughput Microscopy for Systems Biology, 15-21 October 2012, Heidelberg, Germany

Regular training courses

• MSc course in 'Imaging in Biomedical Research' (one-year course), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
• regularly: courses organised by the Royal Microscopical Society, UK 
• regularly: Zeiss  courses on Advanced Imaging Microscopy

Competitions

• Nikon Small World Award (annual, deadline in April)
• Olympus Bioscapes (annual, deadline in September)

>> See also ELMI website and Royal Microscopical Society for more events and also listings of microscopy jobs

>> For past events see Meeting Archive