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A warm welcome to our new President, President-Elect, and Directors on MSA Council! Learn more about our Society Leadership here.

Grant Jensen

President-Elect

Term | 2025

Brigham Young University
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Elizabeth Villa

Term | 2025 - 2027

Professor/Investigator
UCSD/HHMI
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Juan Carlos Idrobo

Term | 2025 - 2027

Associate Professor
University of Washington
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Paul Voyles

President

Term | 2025

Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Annual ConferenceMicroscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) 2025

Salt Lake City, UT | July 27th - 31st, 2025 | Learn More

Upcoming Events

MSA Webinars Black History Month - Putting the Pieces Together - New Insights on Cellulose Synthase Oligomerization Using Cryo-E

February 6, 2025| Zoom Webinar

Join us for the first installment of this year's MSA Webinar Series: Black History Month Microscopist Speaker Series, featuring Lynnicia Massenburg, PhD.

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MSA Webinars Black History Month - An uncommon view - Understanding plant intercellular communication via plasmodesmata

February 13, 2025| Zoom Webinar

Join us for the second installment of this year's MSA Webinar Series: Black History Month Microscopist Speaker Series, featuring Tessa Burch-Smith, PhD.

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MSA Webinars Black History Month - From Light to Electron Microscopy - Navigating a Cross-Disciplinary Career Path

February 20, 2025| Zoom Webinar

Join us for the third installment of this year's MSA Webinar Series: Black History Month Microscopist Speaker Series, featuring Zayna King, PhD.

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MSA Webinars Black History Month - Back to the Fundamentals - Atomic-scale Infrared Excitations of 2D Materials in Non-equilibri

February 27, 2025| Zoom Webinar

Join us for the fourth installment of this year's MSA Webinar Series: Black History Month Microscopist Speaker Series, featuring Kory Burns, PhD.

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RMS Virtual Flow Cytometry Data Analysis Course Spring 2025

March 3, 2025| Online

This online course will run over four half-days from Monday 3 March to Thursday 6 March 2025, plus one optional additional Clinical Module on Monday 10 March 2025. The course will cover the basics of analysis for a number of different applications including antibody phenotyping, DNA and cell cycle kinetics, cell proliferation and death, and functional studies. There will also be the opportunity to explore high-dimensional analysis using dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques.

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59th Annual Meeting of the Texas Society for Microscopy (TSM)

March 6, 2025| The University of Houston (Houston, TX)

Texas Society for Microscopy (TSM) will be hosting its 59th annual meeting at The University of Houston (TX) from March 6th-8th, 2025. For further information visit https://texas.microscopy.org/events/annual-tsm-meeting/

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Women in Microscopy Conference

March 7, 2025| Virtual

Join us for the half-day virtual 2025 Women in Microscopy conference, featuring a keynote, research talks, and panel discussions. Friends and allies and encouraged and welcome to attend.

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Spring Meeting of the Appalachian Regional Microscopy Society (AReMS)

March 13, 2025| Boone (NC)

Appalachian Regional Microscopy Society (AReMS) will be hosting its spring meeting in Boone (NC) from 13th-14th of March, 2025. For further information visit https://arems.org

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Electron Microscopy Spring School 2025

March 31, 2025| University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

The Electron Microscopy Spring School aims to provide a basic training in both the theory and practice of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The course covers imaging, diffraction and chemical microanalysis as well as the highly important area of sample preparation.

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Microscopy Data Analysis - Machine Learning and the BioImage Archive

March 31, 2025| Virtual (run by EMBL-EBI, based at Hinxton, United Kingdom)

This virtual course will show how public bioimaging data resources, centred around the BioImage Archive, enable and enhance machine learning based image analysis. The content will explore a variety of data types including electron and light microscopy and miscellaneous or multi-modal imaging data at the cell and tissue scale. Participants will cover contemporary biological image analysis with an emphasis on machine learning methods, as well as how to access and use images from databases

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February 13, 2025

MSA Webinars Black History Month - An uncommon view - Understanding plant intercellular communication via plasmodesmata

Join us for the second installment of this year's MSA Webinar Series: Black History Month Microscopist Speaker Series, featuring Tessa Burch-Smith, PhD.

February 20, 2025

MSA Webinars Black History Month - From Light to Electron Microscopy - Navigating a Cross-Disciplinary Career Path

Join us for the third installment of this year's MSA Webinar Series: Black History Month Microscopist Speaker Series, featuring Zayna King, PhD.

February 27, 2025

MSA Webinars Black History Month - Back to the Fundamentals - Atomic-scale Infrared Excitations of 2D Materials in Non-equilibri

Join us for the fourth installment of this year's MSA Webinar Series: Black History Month Microscopist Speaker Series, featuring Kory Burns, PhD.

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