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The Microscopy Society of America (MSA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to enabling the discoveries that positively impact the course of humanity.

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2200+ Members Around the world

30 Local Affiliates across the Unites States

81 Annual Meetings Since 1942

Featured Members

Congratulations to our 2024 Major Society Award winners! Learn more about our Society Awards here.

Jay Jerome

Distinguished Scientist, Biological Sciences

2024 Major Society Awardee - Distinguished Scientist, Biological Sciences

J. Murray Gibson

Distinguished Scientist, Physical Sciences

2024 Major Society Awardee - Distinguished Scientist, Physical Sciences

Kathleen B. Reuter

Chuck Fiori Award

2024 Major Society Awardee - The Fiori Award

Wu Zhou

Burton Medal, Physical Sciences

2024 Major Society Awardee - Burton Medal, Physical Sciences

Florian Schueder

George Palade Award

2024 Major Society Awardee - George Palade Award

Michael Zachman

Albert Crewe Award

2024 Major Society Awardee - Albert Crewe Award

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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 - Achieving High-Resolution Cryo-EM Structures - Data Processing to Atomic Modeling

November 19, 2024| Zoom

Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) is a powerful and increasingly important technique in structural biology, allowing scientists to visualize the intricate details of biomolecules at near-atomic resolution. CryoEM generates vast amounts of data, requiring sophisticated computational tools and significant processing power to reconstruct high-resolution structures from the collected images.

Microscopy Today Presents - Laser Ablation Laser Ionization (LALI) with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOF-MS)

November 20, 2024| Zoom Webinar

Join Microscopy Today Presents and its spotlight on Exum Instruments for an enlightening two-part webinar on Laser Ablation Laser Ionization (LALI) with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOF-MS). Are you eager to enhance your microscopy lab tools and save valuable time? Then, discover how Exum's technology, Laser Ablation Laser Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (LALI-TOF-MS) can bring new efficiencies to your work and complement your existing microscopy tools.

MSA Webinar - Lens On Mentorship - Navigating Uncertainty - Advancing Mentoring and Inclusion in Complex Environments

November 20, 2024| Zoom Webinar

Hosted by the MSA DEI Committee, this inaugural "Lens On" webinar will feature invited speaker Dr. Antentor Hinton, Jr., PhD, from Vanderbilt University, who will discuss the DEI and mentoring work he has carried out and written about in his academic career.

Microscopy Today Presents - Laser Ablation Laser Ionization (LALI) with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOF-MS)

November 21, 2024| Zoom Webinar

M3S Fall 2024 meeting

November 22, 2024| 1 Baxter Parkway, Deerfield IL, 60015

The Midwest Microscopy and Microanalysis society Fall meeting will be held on November 22nd, Please register by November 15th.

New England Society for Microscopy Fall Symposium

December 5, 2024| 150 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02134, USA

Annual New England Society for Microscopy Fall Symposium to be hosted at Harvard University. Please join us for a great line-up of workshops and invited speakers.

AI and ML for Microscopy - Hackathon

December 16, 2024| Hybrid -- On site location: IAMM HQ Building, Room 147, 2641 Osprey Vista Way, Knoxville, TN 37920

The hackathon is open to everyone, regardless of background or experience. Our North Star goal is to build the bridge between microscopy and machine learning communities. For microscopists, we welcome participation from all field - electron, scanning probe, chemical imaging, and all stages of the microscope workflow from sample selection to microscope optimization, data analytics, in-line analysis, automated experimentation, and interpretation. From machine learning community, we welcome experts in image analysis, optimization, and active learning. Let’s build the window between machine learning and nanoscale world together!

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.

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/

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.

November 21, 2024

Microscopy Today Presents - Laser Ablation Laser Ionization (LALI) with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOF-MS)

November 22, 2024

M3S Fall 2024 meeting

The Midwest Microscopy and Microanalysis society Fall meeting will be held on November 22nd, Please register by November 15th.

December 5, 2024

New England Society for Microscopy Fall Symposium

Annual New England Society for Microscopy Fall Symposium to be hosted at Harvard University. Please join us for a great line-up of workshops and invited speakers.

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