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Community Working Group

Contact Chairs

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Chairs

Jemima Burden & Christopher Peddie

Remit

This International working group aims to connect and develop a community of all those practically involved in vEM techniques, across sample preparation, ancillary techniques e.g. x-ray, CLEM, and includes researchers, microscopists, data scientists, and industry partners.
Updated 11th October 2024

Members

​Aleksandr Mironov, Alexandra Elli, Alice Liang, Ana Correia, Anneke Kremer, Aubrey Funke, Benoit Gallet, Charlie Wood, Chris Peddie, Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Eija Jokitalo, Georgina Fletcher, Gerard Kleywegt, Jemima Burden, Johanna Bischof, Julia Fernandez-Rodriguez, Jurgen Kriel, Kirk Czymmek, Leandro Lemgruber, Louise Hughes, Lucy Collinson, Mario Ortega Sandoval, Martin Jones, Martina Schifferer, Matt Russell, Michele Darrow, Minyu Chan, Nalan Liv, Paolo Ronchi, Patricia Goggin, Paul Verkade, Rachel Lennon, Raffa Carzaniga, Rebecca Thompson, Sigurður Rúnar Guðmundsson, Weibke Mobius, Xinran Lin, Yannick Schwab

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Actions - done

• Community support: enable communication and information sharing
  • create vEM mailing list
  • build discussion forum
  • run twitter account
  • build vEM website 
  • google drive
• vEM sessions and presentations in major microscopy conferences
  • MMC 2021
  • M&M 2021, 2022
  • IMC 2023
  • EMC 2024
  • Frontiers in Bioimaging 2022
• vEM GRC application: status Approved
• vEM publications 
  • Journal of Microscopy 
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental biology Special Issue
  • Methods in Cell Biology on vEM
  • In Focus piece on vEM initiative
  • FocalPlane Blog series

Actions - in progress

• Engage more globally within the vEM community
• Engage with the cryoEM community
• Expand website content 
• Build Global map of volume EM community (joint project with Infrastructure WG)

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Links and Resources

Resources

Join the JISC vEM mailing list 

Slack discussion group
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vEM twitter

UK - Volume EM map - under construction

Publications

Published:
Journal of Microscopy review of vCLEM

Methods in Cell Biology on vEM (2023)

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental biology Special Issue on Correlative Light and Volume Electron Microscopy: Methods and Applications

Nature: vEM primer (July 2023)

Ongoing:
Focal Plane volume EM blog series

Conferences

​Volume Electron Microscopy Gordon Research Conference - July 2023