We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2026 (SOMC26), taking place in Glasgow from 21st July – 30th July 2026!

Please find more details at shorturl.at/xmUiZ and apply at shorturl.at/MxTlI. Deadline 16 January 2026.

A coffee and a lecture from @superresolusian.bsky.social at the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course is one of my happy places #SOMC25

Improved contrast transmission stereomicroscopy using a low-cost 3D printed optical element! 🔬🧫🐟🧅 More details in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Are you fed up wasting time and photons in laser scanning microscopy? Our latest work, PerfectlyAverage, can help to determine optimal parameters for line and frame averaging while considering photobleaching. More information in our preprint! 🔬 bit.ly/PerfectlyAve...

After the excitement of #BIOS at #PhotonicsWest, a change of venue to visit Professor Jen Dionne at Stanford and present our latest work on mesoscale imaging of host-pathogen interactions 🦠🧫🔬

Showcasing the latest applications of the Mesolens and demonstrating our $0.08 3D printed optical-quality lenses manufactured using low-cost consumer grade printers! #PhotonicsWest @spie.org

🚨 Pre-print alert! 🚨
We have developed a robust protocol to reveal the ultrastructure of live Candida albicans using stimulated emission depletion microscopy, tracking organelles with high spatial precision for more than 12 hours.
Read more (and movies!) at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

At the home of Scottish football for the 50th annual Scottish Microscopy Symposium! Highlight so far is exceptional work by K Bondarenko from the Young lab in Edinburgh on ExM of Toxoplasma gondii cysts, more details at pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39189782/

We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025 (SOMC25), taking place in Glasgow from 23rd July – 1st August 2025. No previous experience in microscopy necessary! Please find more details at shorturl.at/98lXJ, deadline 17 January 2025.

A fully-funded PhD studentship (UK & International) is available in my group on Multi-Scale Imaging of Host-Pathogen Interactions to Characterise the Effects of Anti-Infective Therapeutics. More information at shorturl.at/TrrMD, apply at shorturl.at/LCaRX. Deadline 6th January, DM for more details.

If you can donate blood, in whole or in part, please do ❤️

Application deadline for the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course extended to 2 February 2024! More details, including how to apply, below and at centreforbiophotonics.com/somc24

We are delighted to announce the inaugural Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course (SOMC), taking place in Glasgow from 4-9 August 2024!

Please find more details at www.centreforbiophotonics.com/somc24. We're limited to 20 places, applications close on 19 January 2024.