Georgina Fletcher

I am the Project Officer at the community network, BioImagingUK. I am also the UK Node Manager for Euro-BioImaging, comprising of seven sites; ESRIC, York, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes, Octopus, King's and The Crick offering advanced biological imaging techniques including correlative, multi-modal, high-content and super-resolution.

Microscopy Training Needs Survey

Posted by Georgina Fletcher, on 20 June 2024

The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) are currently running a Training Needs Survey, which will be live until 30th July, 2024. Fill in the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/66TLZQW In a recent review exercise the RMS established that in 2014 over 30 training courses for different microscopy modalities and techniques were running in the UK. By 2024 this

Image.sc LIVE! around the world - a live bioimage analysis helpdesk is coming to a time zone near you!

Posted by Georgina Fletcher, on 13 December 2023

Community surveys often point to the biggest bottleneck in excellent bioimaging science being image analysis. That’s why the RMS DAIM committee and their friends across the world are putting the fantastic image.sc forum “on the road” and staging a first of its kind event which we’re calling “Image.sc LIVE! around the world”. All the info you need is here: Image.sc LIVE

Insights into the leaky Blood Brain Barrier by vEM

Posted by Georgina Fletcher, on 4 August 2023

by Martina Schifferer, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology SyNergy, Germany DOI: 10.1242/focalplane.15936 Challenge The Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) controls the exchange between blood and the brain parenchyme. Its structural determinants comprise tight junctions and endothelial vesicles which require resolution at the nanometer scale. In disease like stroke or traumatic brain