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Alex Payne-Dwyer
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Super-res, single molecule tracking & optical tweezer microscopist | biological condensates & physics of phase separation | +ve research culture | senior research technical specialist @ York, UK 🧪🌱🧫🫧 🔬
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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
Members of the RMS Early Career Committee smiling at their 2025 symposium!
July 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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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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Niamh Burke (centre) receives the RMS Early Career Award from Lisa Maria Needham (left) and Michelle Peckham (right)
June 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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A buzzing atmosphere in a grand setting: the exhibition hall at #mmc2025 over lunch 😃🍽️😋

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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.
July 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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
June 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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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Attendees at the Early Career Symposium chat during a coffee break.
June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Congratulations and best of luck to all of our Early Career Award Finalists! 👏👏👏
June 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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!
June 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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! 🔬❤️
June 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Niamh Burke joins us from University College Dublin to tell us about a fantastic community-driven open-source endoscope project! ⭐️🔬
June 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Next up we have Emily Woodcock, an expert in melanoma cell mechanics with SICM (scanning ion conductance microscopy).
June 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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...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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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.
June 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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
June 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Kicking the meeting off is our amazing ECR Committee Chair Katherine Paine who is an alumna of the Award!
June 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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We’re gearing up at #mmc2025uk Manchester for the RMS Early Career Symposium and Award …
June 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Been a real privilege to organise this satellite meeting, standing on the shoulders of giants! #mmc2025uk
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Exciting to see the @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Symposium get underway at #mmc2025. Some great talks coming up - including the finalists in this year's Early Career Award competition! Good luck to them all 😀👏

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Three of the scientific organisers of the early career Syposium at mmc2025 stand by the podium at the front of a lecture theatre, addressing a seated audience which is out of shot.
June 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Super excited for the arrival of our brand new Lumicks C-Trap in Biology at York @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social, funded by @ukri.org BBSRC. This state-of-the-art optical tweezers / confocal microscope will enable us to probe the dynamics of structured viral RNAs, one molecule at a time 🔆🧬🔆
April 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Congratulations to Dr Sarah Graham @york.ac.uk #Physicsoflife group for successfully defending her thesis!
Thanks also to Dr Tara Sabir & @agnesnoy.bsky.social for doing the honours as examiners, @bpsiyork.bsky.social for co-supervising & @chillzaa.bsky.social for all the help along the way!
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June 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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It's here. The lumicks C-Trap is up and running with real samples from Durham, Hull, Newcastle and York consortium. Thanks @ukri.org #BBSRC for funding.
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April 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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...And we're off! All packed and ready for #mmc2025 in Manchester next week 😀🔬🚛

We'll see you there - and if you haven't booked your ticket yet, there's still time! (Exhibition tickets are *FREE*) 👇

www.mmc-series.org.uk/general-info...

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RMS staff stand next to a van packed with items to take to mmc2025
June 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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‼️Programme finalised ‼️Check out the Early Career Symposium programme below 👇 🔬 #mmc2025UK
May 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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A great day of thinking about teaching bioimage analysis and designing courses at the #TrainTheTrainerBIA2025
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A well deserved fresh drink!
June 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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May 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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May 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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The second Review, from Wei Min and colleagues, introduces probes for Raman microscopy and describes how probes can extend the benefits of technology that has traditionally been considered “label-free”.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Illuminating life processes by vibrational probes - Nature Methods
This Review introduces sensitive and multiplexable chemical probes that have transformed vibrational imaging methods such as Raman microscopy beyond label-free imaging.
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May 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A huge thank-you to everyone who submitted their work for this year's Open Research Awards. Our judging panel look forward to reading about the variety of projects and initiatives that have been taking place across our depts and schools 👍

Watch this space for the awardee announcement next month 🏆
April 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM