Building on the success of the inaugural 2024 vEM Tech Forum at Harwell Campus, United Kingdom, the second vEM Tech Forum will be held October 11 – 15 at Peking University in Beijing, China. The Forum will bring together the global vEM community to explore advances in life and materials sciences and to showcase the latest innovations in microscope platforms, specimen preparation, correlative imaging, automation, and AI-driven software development. The program will feature technical talks, posters, panels, challenge sessions, and live demonstrations of cutting-edge hardware and software tools. The annual vEM Town Hall will also take place during this meeting (with in-person and remote access available for this session).
Attendance is limited to 200. Please register as soon as possible.
Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Ji Wei, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China; Professor Yoshi Kubota, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan; Professor Hua Yunfeng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China; and Dr. Michele Darrow, Rosalind Franklin Institute, United Kingdom.
Session Topics will include:
· Correlative and Allied Imaging Techniques
· Downstream Uses of Volumetric Data
· Molecular Targeting and Probes
· Automation Across the vEM Workflow
· Sample Preparation Improvements
· Future Technologies - what’s on the horizon?
· vEM in Pathology and Translation
· Large Volume, Large Scale, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence
· Integration of Multi-modal, Multi-scale Volumetric Data
· Applications of vEM
With Challenge Panel Sessions on the following topics:
· vEM Pain Points
· What is vEM?
· Big Data, Big Problems
A number of travel bursaries will be available for early career researchers and those with longer journeys. These can be applied during the registration process.
We are extraordinarily grateful to those who have made contributions that make this possible: Bio-eBeam, Carl Zeiss, JEOL, ThermoFisher, Leica, Delmic, Oxford Instruments, Yidong Tek, CIQTEK, EMCN, Linkam, Connectomix, Hitachi, Comet/Dragonfly, SiriusXT, Scalable Minds, and Microscopy Innovations.
Meeting Organizing Committee
Alice Liang, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Kirk Czymmek, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA,
Michele Darrow, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Paul Verkade, University of Bristol, UK
Local Organizing Committee:
Qiang Guo, Peking University, Beijing, China
Kun Song, Peking University, Beijing, China
Guopeng Wang, Peking University, Beijing, China
Yiqun Liu, Peking University, Beijing, China
Scientific Organising Committee:
Michele Darrow, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
Kirk Czymmek, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA
Zach Freyberg, University of Pittsburgh, US
Isabelle Guerin-Bonne, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Qiang Guo, Peking University, China
Yunfeng Hua, Shanghai Institute of Precision Medicine, China
Byung-Ho Kang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chieko Saito, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan
Kun Song, Peking University, China
Paul Verkade, University of Bristol, UK
Alice Liang, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, USA