Diamond is pleased to announce the Biological Cryo-Imaging (BCI) User Meeting 2025, jointly organised with the CCP-EM Spring Symposium.
Diamond is pleased to announce that the Biological Cryo-Imaging (BCI) User Meeting for 2025, is again being jointly held with CCP-EM's Spring Symposium at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham, UK. The event is open to researchers from academia and industry but everyone with an interest in bio-imaging is encouraged to attend.
The BCI User meeting is an opportunity for current and potential future users of eBIC (the UKs national facility for Cryo-Electron Microscopy) and B24, Diamond's soft X-ray cryo-tomography beamline to get the latest news, have the opportunity to hear about the science carried out by our users and meet our scientific staff.
This year there are three keynote speakers as well as talks form our users. The event starts at 11:00am with five specialised parallel sessions covering correlative microscopy at eBIC, electron diffraction at eBIC, working with membrane proteins at DLS, a HexAuFoil user group meeting (Quantifoil) and advances and tools in SPA (Thermo Fisher).
Visualising structures in cells: latest in correlative microscopy at eBIC. Session host(s): Parijat Majumder (eBIC, DLS) & James Gilchrist (eBIC, DLS)
An introduction to electron diffraction at eBIC. Session host(s): Eilis Bragginton (eBIC, DLS) & David Owen (eBIC, DLS)
How to work with Membrane Proteins at Diamond Light Source?. Session host(s): tbc (Membrane Protein Lab, DLS)
HexAuFoil User Group meeting: Sharing experience and first results. Session host(s): tbc (Quantifoil)
Thermo Fisher meeting - Advances and tools in single particle cryoEM. Session host(s): tbc (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
These focused satellite sessions will provide attendees with the opportunity to delve deeper into specific areas of interest and engage with experts in the field. They will be followed by lunch for all attendees and then the main User Meeting that will take up the rest of the afternoon. The meeting will conclude with a drinks/ buffet reception followed by an evening of entertainment.
The CCP-EM Spring Symposium will follow on from the BCI User Meeting. The symposium will take place in Nottingham, on 24th and 25th April 2025 and provides a forum to highlight state of the art developments in computational cryo-EM and related themes as well as showcasing outstanding recent biological applications.
Topics will include:
The joint event promotes an inclusive, friendly atmosphere welcoming both current and new members to the community.
An outline schedule for the joint BCI User Meeting and CCP-EM Spring symposium will be announced shortly. Please note that all times are in UK local time (BST).
BCI User meeting organising committee:
Confirmed BCI speakers:
Confirmed CCP-EM Spring Symposium speakers:
CCP-EM Spring Symposium scientific organisers:
Registration is now open!
Please follow the link HERE to register for this event.
The East Midlands Conference Centre offers an experience of elegance and cutting-edge facilities, boasting a state-of-the-art meeting spaces, superb banqueting suites, and contemporary public areas.
Where is East Midlands Conference Centre?
The Conference Centre is just a 10 minute drive from the J25 of the M1 and centrally located in Nottingham, with convenient rail links to London.
Find here further information on how to get to EMCC and what they offer.
We would like to thank CryoCloud, Dectris, Nanosoft, SPT LabTech, SubAngstrom and Thermo Fisher Scientific for their support.
If you are interested in sponsoring this joint event please contact [email protected]
On the evening of the 23rd April 2025 there will be a ceilidh with the popular folk-rock band Blackbeard's Tea Party.
If you're interested in helping with the post conference dinner evening entertainment on the 24th April 2025, please get in touch with the CCP-EM team ([email protected])
Thanks to the kind support of our sponsors we have a limited number of bursaries which will cover registration fees (BCI/CCPEM) and two night halls accommodation.
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