Royal Microscopical Society Early Career Researchers

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Teamwork was the order of the day in this all-action, hands-on workshop on Open Source Hardware and Microscopy, which took place in the RMS Learning Zone earlier today at #mmc2025.

Thanks to everyone who took part 😃🔬

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The infocus magazine editorial team pose for a photo in an exhibition hall, next to a large pop-up poster advertising RMS Publications

Come and chat with our friendly infocus Magazine team at this afternoon's poster session #mmc2025!

We're keen to hear your ideas for future articles and other content 💡👍

Why not be a contributor? 😃🔬

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Members of the RMS Early Career Committee smiling at their 2025 symposium!

The Early Career Committee yesterday at our Early Career Symposium 2025! Thank you to all of our speakers and attendees for making it such a great afternoon @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

#mmc2025uk

A busy exhibition hall at mmc2025. Delegates enjoy their lunch, with the domed roof of Manchester Central featuring prominently in the top half of the image.

A buzzing atmosphere in a grand setting: the exhibition hall at #mmc2025 over lunch 😃🍽️😋

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Niamh Burke (centre) receives the RMS Early Career Award from Lisa Maria Needham (left) and Michelle Peckham (right)

Massive congratulations to Niamh Burke @niamh-deburca.bsky.social on winning the 2025 @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Early Career Award, with her talk on the enderscope community project, co-developing accessible imaging tools with the public. 😀🙌🔬👍

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Presented by Lisa-Maria Needham, Michelle Peckham and Katherine Paine, with thanks to the Journal of Microscopy for sponsorship and support!

Congratulations and much acclaim to our RMS Early Career Award Winner: Niamh Burke at UCD @niamh-deburca.bsky.social for her work on microscopy with astounding social impact! (Second from left) #mmc2025uk

Setting out the Director’s vision for the Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre - “keep applications in mind while innovating technology”

Our keynote is the amazing Lisa-Maria Needham from #CAIC, Cambridge, with a high powered international career journey alongside building a family, plus introducing her Fabry-Pérot technology for detecting unlabelled molecules down to single amino acid residues in solution! #singlemolecule #mmc2025uk

Attendees at the Early Career Symposium chat during a coffee break.

Lots of excellent conversations taking place during break-time at the @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Early Career Symposium 😀

A great way to kick things off at #mmc2025 👏🔬👍

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After a quick break to refuel ☕️ we’re back on with Kokila Wickramanayake from Plymouth for a tour de force on how oxidative stress in rice/barley chloroplasts interacts with fungal infection 🌾🌱🍄‍🟫 #mmc2025uk

Congratulations and best of luck to all of our Early Career Award Finalists! 👏👏👏

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Alessandro Zunino now describes contributions to the Image Scanning Microscope (s^2-ISM) for super-res 3D sectioning much like SIM, and FLIM-capable but with a small confocal photodiode array!

Anthoula Chatzimpinou has concerns about microglia with unusual morphology causing damage in neurodegenerative diseases, and tells us how they can be tracked label-free with X-Ray absorbance and multiplexed fluorescence techniques! 🔬❤️

Niamh Burke joins us from University College Dublin to tell us about a fantastic community-driven open-source endoscope project! ⭐️🔬

Now for our quick fire 🔥 Award ECR flash talks! 5 minutes no questions asked ⏳… #mmc2025uk

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Many of the awarded case studies have leveraged these awards to secure larger funding: e.g. fo advanced imaging of key molecular signatures in cardiomyopathy!

Emily is Head of the Imaging Resource Facility at City St George UoL, and also has a key role in encouraging and recognising ECR excellence in imaging outputs locally.

Next up we have Emily Woodcock, an expert in melanoma cell mechanics with SICM (scanning ion conductance microscopy).

Huge implications of AI pathology being discussed here for colorectal cancers, for which tools are yet to be progressed to clinical trials

The science talks at #mmc2025uk are go! 🏁our newly inaugurated Committee member, Ross Walsh from Galway, introduces exciting new work on #collagen remodelling in #cancer

Kicking the meeting off is our amazing ECR Committee Chair Katherine Paine who is an alumna of the Award!

We’re gearing up at #mmc2025uk Manchester for the RMS Early Career Symposium and Award …

A staff mmber in a yellow hi-vis vest sets up a microscope on a desk in the RMS Learning Zone

A timetable of talks scheduled to take place at the RMS Learning Zone seminar theatre

Staff set up some speakers in the seminar theatre. A number of large blue boxes are in the foreground.

A large sign reads 'Welcome to the Learning Zone' with the domed roof of Manchester Central in the background

Our ever-popular Learning Zone is starting to take shape in the #mmc2025 exhibition hall. Lots to see and do here over the next few days - including a programme of free talks in our dedicated seminar theatre!😀

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RMS mascot 'Ruggles the Bear' (a small teddy bear) held by Katie from the RMS events team. Ruggles is wearing a blue cape with the RMS snowflake logo on it. Katie is wearing a stripy top and hi-vis vest.

...New at #mmc2025:

Introducing our official mascot, Ruggles the Bear - pictured here with Katie from the events team. Ruggles will be busy 'volunteering' over the next few days, so keep an eye out for him! 😁🐻🔬

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...Behind the scenes with the RMS team as preparations for #mmc2025 gather pace. Our pre-Congress workshops and meetings will be kicking off tomorrow. It's almost time! 😃🔬💥

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Application Coaching & Personal Mentoring Schemes As part of the RMS Professional Development and Training Focussed Interest Group (PTD-FIG), the mentoring working group have spent the last two years discussing and formulating a mentoring scheme aime...

Looking for mentoring to forward your career or technique goals - please find out more on the link below to the RMS Mentoring Scheme!

A great opportunity for early career researchers!! 👇🔬

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