Early Career Symposium
The Early Career Symposium is an interdisciplinary event aimed at students, postdocs and early career professionals working in the field of microscopy. This will be a great opportunity for you to network ahead of the main mmc2027 conference, as well as to showcase your research with peers.
Submission is open for three abstract talk slots within the programme, this can be done through the main abstract submission system.
This symposium is free to attend and can be added to your booking during the registration process.
BioImagingUK / Early Career Networking Event - Monday 5 July, 1800 onwards. Manchester Central
Join us in celebrating the opening of mmc2027 with an informal BioImagingUK / Early Career Networking Reception in the foyer of Manchester Central.
Scientific Organisers
Katherine Paine
Katherine completed her PhD in Chris MacDonald’s lab at the University of York using yeast as a model organism to study membrane trafficking. This project involved using a wide range of microscopical techniques such as SIM and FRET study the regulation of cell surface membrane proteins. She is now a postdoc in Ahsan Akram’s lab at the University of Edinburgh using techniques such as multiplex fluorescence imaging and FLIM to understand the tissue microenvironment in lung cancer.
Gea van de Kerkhof
Gea is a microscopist focused on technique development for correlative/multi-modal imaging in the Life Sciences. She has experience with light, electron and X-ray imaging and spectroscopy. During her PhD she investigated the optics of structurally coloured bacteria and plants. Afterwards she worked at Diamond Light Source in a combined industrial role with Johnson Matthey. There, she developed techniques and workflows for in-situ liquid microscopy across the I14 nanoprobe beamline and a Cs corrected TEM. Now, she develops cryogenic correlative light and electron microscopy at the Central Laser Facility, in the Octopus imaging cluster. Here, she works on cryo-FIB lift-outs, with lamella to use correlatively between super-resolution fluorescence and transmission electron microscopy.
Zoe Barr
Zoe completed her PhD at the University of St Andrews and the James Hutton Institute, and has began a post-doctoral position at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Her research focus is the structure and function of the plant cell membrane contact sites, plasmodesmata, particularly using confocal microscopy and serial-block-face scanning-electron-microscopy.
Zoe was awarded her PGCAP and Associate fellow of higher education academy (AFHEA) in 2024, and has a continued interest in pedagogical practice. During an internship with the RMS, Zoe wrote an impact report on the outreach programme ‘Hitachi Global STEM Outreach Project portable SEM.
Emily Barot
Emily completed her PhD at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and the University of Manchester, advancing graphene-supported transmission electron microscopy at both room and cryogenic temperatures. She now works as a research technician at the electron microscopy facility in the faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester, where she gets to share are passion and expertise in EM with a wide range of facility users.