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Events occuring in, or with registration in: February 2026
February 2026
Virtual UK Light Microscopy Facility Meeting 2022
Following on from previous years, you can expect to find out more on the latest developments in UK Bioimaging. We will also discuss some of the basic elements of running a core facility and the latest technological and application developments.
FocalPlane features… CLEM
FocalPlane features returns in 2022 with a webinar on Correlative Light Electron Microscopy (CLEM). Speakers: Yannick Schwab, Ori Avinoam, and Alexandra Pacureanu.
The International Microscopy Lecture Series
This initiative is a organised by the Microscopical Society of Canada, the Israel Society for Microscopy, and the Royal Microscopical Society.
Professor Ricardo Henriques will be giving the lecture titled “Open technologies for Super-Resolution and Machine Learning in BioImaging”
The International Microscopy Lecture Series
This initiative is a organised by the Microscopical Society of Canada, the Israel Society for Microscopy, and the Royal Microscopical Society.
FocalPlane features… machine learning
Invited speakers: Ricardo Henriques, Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal, and Martin Weigert.
From 3D light to 3D electron microscopy
This meeting is centred on scientific sessions covering a broad range of correlative workflows, volume EM imaging, image processing techniques as well as segmentation and visualisation.
Abstract submission: 9 Jan 2022
Registration (On-site): 30 Jan 2022
Registration (Virtual): 6 Mar 2022
Euro-BioImaging User Forum: At the Forefront of Neuroscience
MSI – SMS Meeting
Joint Microscopy Society of Ireland and Scottish Microscopy Society meeting.
Focus on Microscopy 2022
FOM2022 online continues a long-standing (since 1988), yearly conference series on the latest innovations and developments in (optical) microscopy and their application in biology, medicine, and the material sciences.
Life Sciences in the 2020s: quantitation, integration and prediction
The LS2 Annual Meeting brings together scientists from all nationality and backgrounds to explore the large spectrum united under the umbrella of Life Sciences.
Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Conference and Workshop; May 9-14th at MBL
We are very proud to announce LSFM 2022 Conference/Workshop, held this year May 9-14, 2022, at the MBL in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Draft agenda https://www.mbl.edu/lsfm/schedule/
Workshop space is limited. First come!
Croatian Microscopy Congress soon in Poreč, Croatia (May 18-20 2022)
CMC 2022 will present methodological developments in microscopy in the Life Sciences and Materials. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the CMS as an independent society, a rich social program and a prestigious venue in Poreč were selected.
ELMI 2022
ELMI 2022 is for all researchers and staff working with light microscopy as a fundamental research tool for the life sciences. View the scientific programme.
Enter the ELMI/FocalPlane image contest
Technical challenges in realtime microscopy
This one-day workshop, supported by the IBIN network, is targeted both at people working on the technology side of imaging, and at technologically-literate biologists planning on conducting experiments that will require realtime image-based feedback etc.
Fens Forum 2022: Open Source Microscopy Symposium
The symposium covers all fields of neuroscience and comprises a range of symposia, technical workshops, plenary and special lectures and poster sessions as well as a number of social events.
Bruker Nano Surfaces AFM User Meeting
The Scottish Microscopy Society and Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology would like to invite you to our AFM User Meeting, covering Advanced AFM techniques.
Challenges in biological cryo electron microscopy: Faraday Discussion
Drive discovery through debate with the cryo-electron microscopy community as we discuss the latest developments, tackle new challenges, and shape future directions together. Oral abstract deadline 8 November 2021. Poster abstract deadline 3 May 2022.
flowcytometryUK 2022
The meeting will highlight advances in flow and image instrumentation, high content screening, cancer and stem cell biology, applications of clinical cytometry and the development of novel probes and approaches in many areas of biomedical research.
Super-Resolution Microscopy with Abbelight
To get the best results during our hand-on workshops from the 6-8 September, our experts will share with you some tips about buffer, mounting, and selling which could significantly influence the quality of your demo images.
Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) 2022
Online registration for M&M 2022 is now open. The last day to register is August 27, 2022. Early-Bird Rate ends 1 June 1 2022.
SMLMS 2022
The 2022 edition continues the successful SMLMS series.
The scope of the meeting is to bring together scientists working in the field of single-molecule localization microscopy.
Super-Resolution Microscopy with Abbelight
This online meeting will focus on sample preparation to optimise your Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy ( dSTORM, PAINT, PALM) images. There will be a zoom meeting on 27 July about how to process samples for the workshop.
27th International Workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy”
The focus lies on ultrasensitive optical detection down to the single molecule level as well as beyond the classical diffraction limit. The event provides an interdisciplinary platform for exchanging ideas and recent results.
RMS Abercrombie Meeting 2022
The series of Abercrombie meetings have been held since the death of Michael Abercrombie in 1979.
Abercrombie meetings offer an excellent opportunity to review the major advances in our understanding of cell motility and the emerging concepts in the field.
Micron Structural Illumination Microscopy course
This interactive course is aimed at microscopists interested in learning the nuts and bolts of Structural Illumination Microscopy and will cover the theoretical and practical aspects of SIM, including data reconstruction and quality control.
eRImote workshop on Remote training
This workshop will focus on remote training for RI users and staff, as well as exploring the impact of remote/digital service provision on user interaction and networking.
The 20th International Microscopy Congress
IMC is the Olympics of microscopy; held every four years and attracting delegates from across the
globe. The program will include world-renowned plenary speakers alongside an extensive trade
exhibition where leading suppliers launch ground-breaking new instruments.
Euro-BioImaging User Forum: “Fighting Infectious Diseases”
The Euro-BioImaging User Forum “Fighting Infectious Diseases” is taking place October 6, 2022 from 14:00-17:00 CEST. This event will highlight the importance of cutting-edge imaging technologies in support of pandemic preparedness, finding treatments and understanding the underlying biology of infectious agents.
eRImote workshop on Remote Instrument Control and Data Security
This workshop focusses on Remote Operations of core facility services (including quality management) and questions of Data and Access Security.
VAHEAT from Interherence: a tool for temperature sensitive microscopy in life sciences
Don’t miss our next webinar on November 16th, which will on temperature control in light microscopy with VAHEAT.
There will be three thought-provoking academic talks from the fields of archaeal cell biology, membrane biophysics and systems chemistry.
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2022
The Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium (CBIAS) aims to showcase image analysis techniques to biomedical researchers and to demonstrate how such approaches can help them advance their research.
Super-resolution systems focused on biological imaging
We will review the various types of super-resolution techniques and systems available on the market. We will cover the benefits and limitations of these systems as they relate to biological users with a particular focus on imaging live cells.
Microscopy Society of Southern Africa 57th Conference (MSSA 2022)
Please join the Microscopy Society of Southern Africa for the 57th Congress (MSSA 2022) hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Abstract submissions are already open and closes on the 30th of June 2022.
Seeing, measuring and analysing in the nanoworld with the multisignal STEM
Professor Christian Colliex will be giving a lecture entitled “Seeing, measuring and analysing in the nanoworld with the multisignal STEM” at 16:00 GMT/11:00 EST/18:00 IST. Registration to this lecture is free.
Winter School 2023 – Practical course in advanced microscopy
This advanced microscopy course is intended for PhD students and post-graduates with prior experience in microscopy. The goal of the course is to teach and train fundamental knowledge and skills in a specific microscopic technique.
TELIGHT Webinar: Quantitative Phase Imaging and cell migration
The webinar from TELIGHT will focus on different applications for which our technology of Quantitative Phase Imaging can be used. The application focus of this webinar is cell migration and all its aspects.
Image Analysis Basics
Image analysis basics including
- Basic concepts
- Image handling using Fiji
- Concepts and hands-on exercises for segmentation, filters and particle analysis
Dates: 24/02, 01/03, 03/03
Microscopy Conference 2023
As in previous conferences of the German Society for Electron Microscopy (DGE), the MC2023 brings together leading experts and emerging young researchers to share their expertise and to present and discuss current trends as well as newly discovered exciting findings.
Trends in Microscopy (TiM)
The biennial conference of GerBI-GMB is an intense microscopy training camp offering hands-on workshops and scientific talks from distinguished guest speakers. The program also covers fundamentals of optics and practical sessions on image analysis.
Euro-BioImaging User Forum: Cardiovascular Research
The Euro-BioImaging User Forum on“Cardiovascular Research”will highlight the importance of cutting-edge imaging technologies in support of cardiovascular health, disease, diagnostics and the development of therapies.
Focus on Microscopy 2023
FOM2023 continues a long-standing (since 1988), yearly conference series on the latest innovations and developments in (optical) microscopy and their application in biology, medicine, and the material sciences.
Botanical Microscopy Meeting 2023
The 12th Botanical Microscopy Meeting is the latest in a long running series of RMS sponsored meetings, dating back to the 1960s, encompassing all aspects of bioimaging relating to modern plant cell biology.
NOTICE Glasgow 2023
NOTICE Glasgow is a small-scale symposium on Novel Optical Technology in Cardiac Electrophysiology and aims to create a synergy between the strongest proponents of optical imaging, microscopy and manipulation technology applied to investigating the heart.
6th QUAREP general meeting, 2023
The first bi-annual QUAREP-LiMi consortium meeting is scheduled for April 26th 2023 (Wednesday) at 15:00 – 18:00 CEST (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 BST, 23:00 JST).
MBL- Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy
A comprehensive and intensive course in light microscopy for researchers in biology, medicine, and material sciences.
EMAS 2023 – 17th European Workshop on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis
The main topics of the Seventeenth Workshop (EMAS 2023) are: electron probe microanalysis (EPMA); electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD); software tools; focussed ion beam; Combined techniques in SEM; and materials applications of microbeam analysis.
EMBL Course – Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques
This practical course will cover advanced light microscopy techniques and participants will learn how to derive qualitative and quantitative insights on molecular mechanisms in cells and developing organisms.
The 5th NEUBIAS Conference 2023
The NEUBIAS conference is a forum to exchange the newest findings, applications, and cutting-edge developments in Bioimage Analysis, machine learning, data mining, and storage.
MBL Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Conference (LSFM)
Delegates will be offered the opportunity to learn about and try various LSFM systems. Prior knowledge is not required, and all interested are welcome to attend.
SuPer-Resolution time-resolved ImagiNg and speTroscopy (BBSRC SPRINT)
In this one-day conference jointly funded by BBSRC 20Alert and PicoQuant GmbH, we will invite several world-leading researchers to explain the need for rapid super-resolution fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) techniques for unveiling biomolecular interactions
Imaging Cell Dynamics
This Journal of Cell Science meeting brings together experts working at the interface between cell biology and imaging who use advanced light and electron microscopy approaches, as well as leading developers of imaging analysis approaches.
Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2023
This one-week intensive microscopy course will cover all aspects of the technology from the principles of fluorescence imaging to multidimensional imaging in living cells.
EMBL Course: Expansion microscopy
This course is intended for researchers ranging from PhD students to post-docs and senior scientists who wish to establish expansion microscopy in their respective laboratories.
EMBL-EBI Training: Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive
This virtual course will show how public bioimaging data resources, centred around the BioImage Archive, enable and enhance machine learning based image analysis.
Royal Society Theo Murphy scientific meeting on ‘Open, reproducible hardware for microscopy’
This meeting will bring together researchers, manufacturers, and others involved in open microscopy to discuss recent developments, best practice, and goals for the future.
ISM2023 (Israel Society for Microscopy)
The 56th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Microscopy will be held on Tuesday May 23rd, 2023. Our annual meeting will be preceded by a workshop on Monday May 22nd, 2023 – more details will be announced soon
22nd International European Light Microscopy Initiative Meeting (ELMI2023)
Session topics:
- Functional imaging
- New technologies
- Data management & analysis
- Intravital & light sheet
- CLEM
- High content imaging
Microscience Microscopy Congress 2023
A huge and varied scientific conference alongside Europe’s largest free microscopy and imaging exhibition filled with a huge number of free training workshops.
Course on “Time-resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy”
The course provides an in-depth introduction to the world of time-resolved fluorescence microscopy with a focus on life science applications. The program combines lectures by experts in the field with interactive practical sessions on systems from market-leading companies.
EMBL Course – Fluorescence imaging beyond intensity
As fluorescence lifetime-based readouts become more accessible, this course aims to provide a broad understanding of how the lifetime-based information can be leveraged to solve biological questions.
Gordon Research Conference- Volume Electron Microscopy
This very first GRC on Volume Electron Microscopy aims to bring together this fast-growing community to discuss the latest developments in the field, foster exchange of ideas, and stimulate new collaborations.
Gordon Research Conference – Tissue Microstructure Imaging
The Tissue Microstructure Imaging GRC is a unique forum for scientists whose primary area of research is the determination of cellular and sub-cellular biological tissue properties using magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, optical and electron microscopy, photoacoustics and other modalities.
ESRIC Super-Resolution Summer School
This course gives participants a thorough grounding in super-resolution microscopy in an informal and intimate setting. It brings together leading academics and microscope suppliers to provide expertise and guidance in the theory, practise and analysis of all major super-resolution techniques.
Microscopy & Microanalysis 2023
Don’t miss out on the premier microscopy education and networking event of the year – Microscopy and Microanalysis 2023 in Minneapolis, Minnesota!
Bridging the Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure Symposium (BNMI) 2023
The aim of the meeting is to bring together scientists who develop or utilize biological imaging methods, the Nordic imaging core facilities, and representatives of industry to discuss projects and present the latest imaging technologies and processing methods.
Summer Workshop on BioAFM Microscopy 2023
Our workshop will provide information and hands-on instruction – from the very basics of AFM technique to advanced applications of the technique on selected bio-samples, including practical demonstrations of measurements, even on samples that users bring in.
The 20th International Microscopy Congress (IMC20)
IMC is the Olympics of microscopy; held every four years and attracting delegates from across the
globe.
The program will include world-renowned plenary speakers alongside an extensive trade exhibition
where leading suppliers launch groundbreaking new instruments.
Confocal Microscopy Course
An intensive, hands-on, four-day training course in the rapidly developing techniques of confocal microscopy.
The course will initially cover basic confocal but then swiftly move on to the more advanced techniques such as FRAP, FRET and spectral unmixing.
Feel the force – Exploring the role of mechanics in biology
This summer school aims to teach young researchers to use microscopy-based methods to quantify cellular forces.
The summer school is spread over 3.5 days, with one afternoon of practical workshops and one morning with analysis tutorials.
Special Edition Virtual Pub: Open Hardware in Imaging
In this event we will feature presentations from scientists and companies from biological and biomedical imaging who are committed to making imaging hardware and software solutions openly available to a wide audience.
LABIxBINA2023: Bioimaging Across the Americas
LABI and BINA are collaborative network organizations that aim to improve and increase bioimaging capacities across the Americas and Caribbean region while promoting coordination and integration with the global bioimaging community.
Cryo-electron Tomography – a Technology Live Virtual Symposium
In this Technology Live event, we feature a broad range of speakers covering topics that have historically been bottlenecks in cellular cryoET, including sample prep, image acquisition, image processing and data analysis, and highlight both cutting-edge experimental and computational approaches.
Compact Light Source Grid – Life Science & Cultural Heritage Opportunities Workshop
This online workshop will discuss the life science and cultural heritage research opportunities that will be enabled by a UK grid of compact light sources.
BioImage Computing @ ICCV 2023
This workshop will bring the latest challenges in bio-image computing to the computer vision community.
EMBO | EMBL Symposium Seeing is believing: imaging the molecular processes of life
Session topics
- In situ structural imaging
- Super-resolution microscopy
- Probes & biosensors
- Organismal and intravital imaging
- Cross-scale imaging
- Image analysis & modelling
Single Molecule Microscopy and Manipulation
Hands-on training on selected single-molecule experimental techniques and data analysis, belonging to group of methods known as quantitative bioimaging.
- Optical tweezers
- TIRF
- Single particle tracking (1D and 2D)
- DNA-PAINT
- Point FCS (including its variants: FCCS and FLCS)
- STED-FCS
- Line-scanning FCS
Cell Physics 2023
Organized by the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ, DGZ International Meeting) and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1027 “Physical modeling of non-equilibrium processes in biological systems“.
Euro-BioImaging User Forum: Understanding Plant Biology
This event will highlight how cutting-edge imaging technologies can support research into the structure and function of plants, shed light on plant health, resilience and adaptability, and help answer agroecology-related research questions. It’s free and open to all!
HT Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis 2023
The goal of the course is to familiarise researchers working in life sciences with state-of-the-art deep learning techniques for microscopy image analysis, with a focus on image restoration and image segmentation.
Imaging life: the future
This 2.5-day international symposium aims to foresee how future developments in light/electron/soft X-ray microscopy and image analysis will further transform research into the biology of prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
“Imaging life : the future” international symposium
This symposium will explore how developments in light/electron microscopy and image analysis could transform research in animal/plant biology across scales. It includes 7 thematic sessions and 2 plenary talks, on computational modelling of biological processes and on lessons from astrophysics.
2023 ABIC Community Meeting
The ABIC Community Meeting is aimed at gathering Africa’s microscopists, biologists, data scientists, and science community developers for a 2.5-day event focused on empowering fundamental biology research in Africa.
Global BioImaging Exchange of Experience (EoE) meeting
The 8th Edition of the Exchange of Experience (EoE VIII) will have a focus on TRAINING: We believe that providing imaging scientists with the necessary knowledge, skills, and opportunities is vital in advancing the BioImaging and Biomedical Imaging fields.
GBI-SABI 2023 course – Facility management
Global BioImaging together with its partner in South Africa, South Africa BioImaging (SABI) as well as Africa Microscopy Initiative (AMI) and African BioImaging Consortium (ABIC) are organizing a 3-day in-person course focused on facility management.
telight webinar: Super-resolution techniques and focus on nuclear pore complex
This webinar will focus on discussing the assessment of resolution in super-resolution microscopy systems using the nuclear pore complex as a biological benchmark.
3D microscopy imaging with clearness
This workshop offers an in-depth presentation of the different clearing methods available, combined with hands-on sessions where participants will be able to perform tissue clearing and sample imaging using LSFM, and confocal microscopy for comparing technologies.
3D-CLEM Imaging function and ultrastructure
Practical hands-on training on 3D correlative light and electron microscopy combining confocal fluorescence imaging and electron microscopy imaging contain focused ion beam milling (FIB-SEM) and electron tomography (ET).
21st Annual Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop
The Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop is a 3-day event focused on new and emerging optical microscopy techniques and their applications.
Fluorescence markers for advanced microscopy – From photophysics to biology
This school aims at training students and researchers to master fluorescent markers used in advanced fluorescence bioimaging: their diversity, how they actually work and what are their current development.
European Microscopy Congress 2024
Incorporating a balanced conference programme of light and electron microscopy in both physical and life sciences – microscopists, manufacturers, and suppliers will come together to share new techniques, applications and technology.
Batch Feeder: high quality on-the-fly deconvolution for all your microscopy data
Texas Society for Microscopy
Ocean Sciences Meeting
Abstract submission deadline: 20th August 2025
Analytical Microscopy Meeting
Abstract submission deadline: 29th September 2025
Delmic vEM Webinars 2026: Nanoscale 3D Cellular Atlases
RMS Virtual Flow Cytometry Data Analysis Course Spring 2026
HILIGHT 2026: FLIM & Photonics
Introduction to CellProfiler for image analysis
BioImage Archive User Forum 2026
Bridging Scales: Unveiling the mechanical properties of biomaterials and organoids with AFM and Bulk Rheology. 4th Ed. Course
3D Spatial Biology Summit 2026
Abstract submission deadline: 16th February 2026
WE-Heraeus seminar : Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies 2026, Ecole de physique des Houches
EMBL-EBI: Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive
Abstract submission deadline: 7th December 2025
Early registration deadline: 7th December 2025
Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive
Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ
ITQB NOVA Microscopy Symposium
Abstract submission deadline: 15th February 2026
ITQB NOVA Microscopy Symposium
Abstract submission deadline: 15th February 2026
AMI Workshop on Multispectral Fluorescence Microscopy
8th European Symposium on Focused Ultrasound Therapy
Abstract submission deadline: 16th February 2026
Early registration deadline: 31st January 2026
Champalimaud Advanced Confocal Microscopy Course
Free online Workshop: “Getting Started with Huygens: Tools to Elevate Your Science”
XVIII CURSO INSTITUCIONAL DE MICROSCOPÍA ÓPTICA: PRINCIPIOS BÁSICOS, MICROSCOPÍA CONFOCAL, SÚPER RESOLUCIÓN Y ESTEREOLOGIA
OME 2026 Community Meeting
Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course
foundingGIDE Community Event 2026
Microtubule meeting UK 2026
Abstract submission deadline: 31st March 2026
Early registration deadline: 31st March 2026
Quantitative Superresolution Microscopy Workshop (QSW) 2026
Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy
Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques
Introduction to image analysis
Abstract submission deadline: 16th January 2026
MSC 2026 – Satellite Summer School
Abstract submission deadline: 1st March 2026
Early registration deadline: 1st April 2026
MSC 2026 – Annual Meeting of the Microscopy Society of Canada
Abstract submission deadline: 1st March 2026
Early registration deadline: 1st April 2026
Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy
FEBS Advanced Practical course “Functional imaging of cellular dynamics”
Abstract submission deadline: 15th March 2026
Early registration deadline: 1st January 2026
FEBS Advanced Course – Functional imaging of cellular dynamics
The 19th Edition of the Frontiers in Neurophotonics Summer School
Nordic Microcopy Society (Scandem) Meeting
Abstract submission deadline: 31st March 2026
Early registration deadline: 15th April 2026
23rd annual workshop on FRET, FLIM, and Metabolism Imaging Microscopy
Abstract submission deadline: 1st June 2026
Early registration deadline: 1st June 2026
EMBO workshop ‘RNA localization and local translation 2026’
Abstract submission deadline: 10th March 2026
Early registration deadline: 10th March 2026
2026 Boston Bioimage Analysis Course – BoBiAC
Time-resolved STED nanoscopy in life sciences
Optical Microscopy & Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences (OMIBS) Advanced Course
Electron microscopy of nanostructures ELMINA2026
Abstract submission deadline: 8th April 2026
Early registration deadline: 15th June 2026
Microscopy Characterization of Soft-Hard Interfaces
Abstract submission deadline: 31st January 2026
Early registration deadline: 1st June 2026
Materials Science and Engineering congress – Microscopy Characterization of Soft-Hard Interfaces symposium
Abstract submission deadline: 31st January 2026
9no Congreso Argentino de Microscopia (SAMIC2026)
Abstract submission deadline: 13th June 2026
Early registration deadline: 17th July 2026
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