LAST CALL! Please take the anonymous, 10-minute survey so we can learn more about the computational needs of the volumeEM community: forms.office.com/e/eMAJGCKUnc The survey will close on Friday 19th September, so make sure your voice is heard!

📣 The Awesome vEM Images Competition is back! Submit your images in one of two categories: 🖼️ The Power of vEM 🧠 Bringing Meaning to the Data (New!) 🏆 Prizes: $250 for 1st place, $100 for 2nd & 3rd in each category 📅 Deadline: Oct 2, 5PM CT 🔗 More details: www.volumeem.org/awesome-imag...

📣 Join Us for the 6th Annual Volume EM Community Initiative Town Hall Meeting on October 9th, 2025 from 3-6pm BST / 10am-1pm ET. A key theme of this year’s Town Hall is strengthening connections across the global community. 👉 Register now on our website: www.volumeem.org/2025-town-ha...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗚𝗕𝗜𝘅𝗕𝗜𝗡𝗔𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱? Two conferences. One global conversation. We bring together the 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 and the 𝗕𝗜𝗡𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 for a unique week of knowledge exchange.

Big news! volumeEM has been ranked the second most requested technology of 2024 in Biological Imaging in the latest Euro-Bioimaging Annual Report! 📖 Read the full report here: www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/euro-bi... #volumeEM

🎥 New Video: How to Do Flat Embedding We’re excited to share the latest video from the vEM Community! In this video, you'll learn the process of flat embedding samples for SBF-SEM, a crucial method for high-resolution imaging: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbS2... #volumeEM #SBFSEM #FlatEmbedding

✨ 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲! ✨ We’re excited to announce that the 𝐯𝐄𝐌 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 is now officially on the calendar! 📅 October 12-15, 2026 📍 Peking University, Beijing, China Stay tuned for more details!

Discover how SBF-SEM (Serial Block-Face Scanning Electron Microscopy), a vEM technique, is being used to unveil new perspectives on corneal development. Check out our new case study: tinyurl.com/54pxp6ku Authors: Rob Young, Kiranjit Bains, Phil Lewis and Andrew Quantock - Cardiff University, UK

Next Euro-Bioimaging Virtual Pub/volumeEM Series! Join Andreas Müller @andimicroscopy.bsky.social from Paul Langerhans Institute, TU Dresden, for a talk on "The Exploratory Potential of Volume Electron Microscopy"! 🗓️ June 20th, 2025 ⏰ 13:00 CEST 🔗 Register: www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/explo...

🎥 New #volumeEM Video Alert: AI Segmentation in Volume Electron Microscopy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoz... Segmentation is key to analyzing 3D volume EM data. Learn how semantic, instance, and panoptic methods isolate structures like mitochondria, nuclei, and cytoplasm in complex tissues.

empanada new version (v1.2) released!! empanada.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ You’ll see many goodies in this release: 1. Two new models: DropNet and NucleoNet 2. Several new modules includes tiling Enjoy and please let us know if this works for you, happy segmenting!

💡Check out this new proposal recently published where new strategies on Global sharing of image data/metadata, AI under a global federated model are discussed. A publication by @Antje Keppler et al. @eurobioimaging.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Excited to announce that "Enabling Global Image Data Sharing in the Life Sciences" was published in Nature Methods by an international working group including members of #EuroBioImaging ERIC. 🎉 Don't miss the checklist towards an image data sharing ecosystem ! 🔽 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us for the Virtual Pub/volumeEM series on Friday, April 25th at 13:00 CEST. We welcome Feng-Xia (Alice) Liang, from New York University, for a talk entitled, "Application Strategies on Volume Electron Microscopy" All are welcome to join! bit.ly/4c9J1Vw

🔎🌏🧭🔬 #volumeEM facility found in Electron Microscopy Unit NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine With #SBF-SEM #sAT #ssTEM Website bit.ly/3FbHnq7 #globalvEMmap ⬇ bit.ly/3xKN5bD Add your #volumeEM facility ⬇ bit.ly/3EogwUw

It's TODAY! Join the #VirtualPub/#VolumeEM Series with Aaran Vijayakumaran, University of Cambridge, for a talk entitled, "3D Nanoscale Architecture and Physiology of the Human Airway Epithelium." All are welcome to join! 🕐 Starting at 13:00 CET Register 🔽 buff.ly/3EP9R8S

📽️👀 Do you know that an eyelash can be of great help for vEM techniques? Check this "How-to" video featuring Dr Ian White with the title: "How to Enhance ribbon sticking while performing sample sectioning using an eyelash" 👉 youtu.be/tBh0bjkHxR8 💡Submit your video idea to [email protected]

🔎🌍#volumeEM facility spotted in Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences! with FIB-SEM, Automated tape sectioning and (sAT) Website ⬇ www.mpinat.mpg.de/em-moebius  ____________________________________ Global vEM map ⬇ bit.ly/3xKN5bD   Add your #volumeEM facility ⬇ bit.ly/3EogwUw

✨See upcoming conference! Deadline 28 February. Sessions on AFM, TEM, SEM, FIB, SIMS, microCT and EBSD. On Behalf of the RMS committee, Nathalie Gey and John Wheeler. www.mmc-series.org.uk

Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, Tessa Burch-Smith, PhD, and Kirk Czymmek, PhD, are setting out to develop imaging procedures that would allow scientists to view the intricate world of plant cells with more precision than ever before. Read more: loom.ly/V-3XXZQ

🎥🧫 We are looking for vEM YouTubers! Do you have a vEM technique in mind you'd like to share?🤔 A 2-5 minute video is perfectly ok! Larger workflows are also ok. Submit your idea: [email protected] Or fill up this form: bit.ly/41eyXWd Optional: We can send you a recording Kit free of charge!

🙌📽️🗣️The vEM Technology Forum is now on YouTube! We have made available online now the sessions and challenge panels held at the vEM Technology Forum last year! 📽️Youtube playlist👉 bit.ly/433ByVM Thanks to our sponsors and to all participants who made our vEM Technology Forum possible! ✨🤩

🧬🧫Invitation to Shape the Future of Ultrafast Biosciences at RUEDI! We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive event, “Shape the Future of Ultrafast Biosciences at RUEDI,” on Friday, April 25th, 2025, at The Royal Society, London. Hosted by Professor Roland Fleck. bit.ly/41hpKOh

🌍💡🔬 Very excited about the Euro-Bioimaging Virtual Pub Volume EM series!! Do not miss this insightful talk on 3D nanoscale architecture and Physiology of the Human Airway Epithelium by Aaran Vijayakumaran. Date: February 28, 2025, 13:00 CET Register: www.eurobioimaging.eu/our-events/v...

🔎Job opportunity here! King’s College London (KCL) are seeking a highly motivated cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) expert to manage its newly established Cryo-EM Structural Discovery Facility. Contact: Charles Curtis Closing Date: 04/03/2025 bit.ly/4gIJtuC

🤩🙌 vEM happening at the Royal Institution Theatre, London! ft Dr. Anwen Bullen, co-chair of the vEM community Outreach WG, senior research fellow and microscopy unit manager, UCL Ear Institute. "Seeing Our Hearing: How Microscopes Have Changed Our Lives" 08/03/25 www.rigb.org/whats-on/see...

🤔❓💻🧫🦠 Do you know that the ImageJ plugin DenoisEM can improve the quality of large-scale volumes of EM imaging? The authors used this plugin to analyse EM volumes obtained either by FIB-SEM and SBF-SEM using automated analysis. Paper courtesy of Joris Roels et al. bioimagingcore.be/DenoisEM

🔎🌏🧭🔬 #volumeEM facility found in Electron Microscopy Unit at City Campus Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences With #FIB-SEM #sAT #Automated tape sectioning Website bit.ly/4hl0fRW #globalvEMmap ⬇ bit.ly/3xKN5bD Add your #volumeEM facility ⬇ bit.ly/3EogwUw

Introducing the volumeEM Bluesky Starter Pack 🚀 featuring relevant accounts, feeds and resources To be included in the first edition of the volumeEM Bluesky starter pack, please either: Fill out our spreadsheet form (1 min to fill) forms.gle/dTnkUm7G2B2N... or Email us at [email protected]

🦠🔬😱⚛️ Do you know that FIB-SEM can access 3D resolutions of tens of nanometres or less allowing the study of virus-cell interactions? Here, Valentina Baena et al. showed that SARS-CoV-2 preferentially locate at certain cell areas using FIB-SEM. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.3390/v13040611

Job opportunity! Cryo-Electron Microscopy Support Specialist to join our Bioimaging Platform in a full-time, supporting the transmission electron microscope (TEM) to support other EMs and techniques. bit.ly/40GNmeN Closing 14/Feb/2025. On behalf of Jake Richardson

🔎🌏🧭🔬 #volumeEM facility found in Section of Electron Microscopy National Institute for Physiological Sciences With #SBF-SEM #FIB-SEM #sAT #gtTEM Website bit.ly/3PGjpFz #globalvEMmap ⬇ bit.ly/3xKN5bD Add your #volumeEM facility ⬇ bit.ly/3EogwUw

🦠Great opportunity here! Learn from leading experts as they share practical solutions for handling massive Volume EM datasets and improving collaborative workflows. Register for free: www.eventbrite.de/e/volume-em-...

🙌🔬🦠 Join our EMofCellsTissuesOrganisms Slack channel where lots of EM (including Volume EM) is happening! Join using this link: join.slack.com/t/emofcellti...

📸📸📸🏆🏅 Dear all vEM'ers, Please see this amazing £10,000 prize opportunity below. Deadline is Tues 14 Jan for the Wellcome Photography. bit.ly/3DQL1VI

🔎🌏🧭🔬 #volumeEM facility found in Advanced Bioimaging RTP University of Warwick With #ssET Website bit.ly/4gYua1K #globalvEMmap ⬇ bit.ly/3xKN5bD Add your #volumeEM facility ⬇ bit.ly/3EogwUw

We have free seats in the practical module 4: “3D Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy”. If you are interested, contact me directly with a brief project description or motivation letter. (Jan 20-24, 2025). www.zmb.uzh.ch/en/Teaching/... In behalf of Dr. Miriam Lucas

🏅🏆Congratulations to Dr Kedar Narayan as he was awarded the 2025 Alan Agar Award for Electron Microscopy for his research in cancer using vEM. We also thank Kedar for his strong commitment to our vEM community. Check Kedar's interview in Focal Plane related to this award. bit.ly/4gzBgt4

Join us on Friday, December 20, at 13:00 CET, for the Virtual Pub/VolumeEM Series with the VolumeEM Community. Featuring Marie Vancová et al: "Optimising Volume Electron Microscopy: Imaging and Analysis Strategies at the Laboratory for Electron Microscopy" Everyone is welcome! bit.ly/41erlF0

Hiya! 🙌 Check out our latest vEM newsletter: November 2024 - conta.cc/3Ze8YhY

Congratulations on this beautiful work! x.com/PaoloRonchi10/…

See below 👇👇👇 Wonderful #volumeEM in this paper on the blood nerve barrier! x.com/JemimaBurden/s…

So much excitement in the community this week around the excellent announcements of @cziscience funding and being one of Natures Top 7 Technologies. x.com/EuroBioImaging…

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Wonderful news! x.com/MDarrow7/statu…

The future's bright! t.co/IgwjDJC8DW

Thrilled to share that the VolumeEM community has been funded by @CZIScience to accelerate the adoption of vEM technology by building effective resources, expanding the global community, and emphasising outreach and dissemination.

Nice work @KedarNarayan2! x.com/KedarNarayan2/…

ICYMI... x.com/EuroBioImaging…

Here is a wonderful resource for all interested in #volumeEM x.com/EBIB_imaging/s…