News
26th January 2023
Nature names volume EM as one of the Seven Technologies to Watch in 2023
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In other exciting news, volume EM was named as one of the Seven Technologies to Watch in 2023 by Nature, alongside the James Webb Space Telescope, CRISPR, high precision radiocarbon dating, single-cell metabolomics, in vitro embryo models, and single molecule protein sequencing. Volume EM is no longer a ‘quiet revolution’!
Read more at nature - link here |
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25th January 2023
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) grant success for vEM community
Thanks to the outstanding work of all vEM working group members since the WGs were formed in 2020, and led by a subgroup of vEM volunteers (Kirk Czymmek, Paul Verkade, Michele Darrow, Jemima Burden, Georgina Fletcher, Alice Liang, Martyn Winn, Anwen Bullen, Leandro Lemgruber Soares, Raffa Carzaniga and Chris Peddie), we are very happy to tell you that the vEM community has been awarded funding!
The project is titled ‘Enabling Volume Electron Microscopy: Building a Global Community and Resources’ with funding from the ‘Advancing Imaging Through Collaborative Projects’ call from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), with a remit to ‘accelerate the adoption of volume EM technology in the scientific community by building effective resources, expanding the global community, and emphasizing outreach and dissemination’.
Link to funded grants here
The award is for $425,817, which will fund staff resource for a Program Manager and a Community Officer, Research Software Engineer time, production of case studies for outreach, production of training videos, and further work on the vEM community website.
Congratulations to the whole community, and many thanks to the PIs and coPIs of the proposal for all the work they put in over the summer.
The project is titled ‘Enabling Volume Electron Microscopy: Building a Global Community and Resources’ with funding from the ‘Advancing Imaging Through Collaborative Projects’ call from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), with a remit to ‘accelerate the adoption of volume EM technology in the scientific community by building effective resources, expanding the global community, and emphasizing outreach and dissemination’.
Link to funded grants here
The award is for $425,817, which will fund staff resource for a Program Manager and a Community Officer, Research Software Engineer time, production of case studies for outreach, production of training videos, and further work on the vEM community website.
Congratulations to the whole community, and many thanks to the PIs and coPIs of the proposal for all the work they put in over the summer.
23rd February 2022
Call for papers for the first volume EM edition of the Methods in Cell Biology series
Dear members of the volume EM community,
The three of us - Kedar Narayan, Lucy Collinson, Paul Verkade - are thrilled to announce an upcoming edition of Methods in Cell Biology. This will be MCB’s first collection of papers dedicated to volume EM, and as such, will serve as a high-profile marker in this fast-expanding and exciting field.
We are looking for two types of submissions:
1. Papers that describe technological developments in the “volume EM pipeline”, from sample preparation to imaging approaches to image analysis and visualization; and
2. Methodological manuscripts that describe the application of cutting-edge volume EM techniques to answer questions in cell biology in a variety of experimental systems.
Please see as an example the MCB book on CLEM: https://www.sciencedirect.com/bookseries/methods-in-cell-biology/vol/162/suppl/C
Together, we aim for this MCB edition to serve as a go-to resource for volume EM experts and cell biologists alike, for years to come. Please contact us with queries, we aim to have an author and title list by 01 April 2022. While we expect this edition to be complete in 2023, MCB’s policy is to publish papers as and when they are reviewed, so it is certainly possible to have your paper out in 2022 itself.
Looking forward to a building landmark MCB edition together!
The three of us - Kedar Narayan, Lucy Collinson, Paul Verkade - are thrilled to announce an upcoming edition of Methods in Cell Biology. This will be MCB’s first collection of papers dedicated to volume EM, and as such, will serve as a high-profile marker in this fast-expanding and exciting field.
We are looking for two types of submissions:
1. Papers that describe technological developments in the “volume EM pipeline”, from sample preparation to imaging approaches to image analysis and visualization; and
2. Methodological manuscripts that describe the application of cutting-edge volume EM techniques to answer questions in cell biology in a variety of experimental systems.
Please see as an example the MCB book on CLEM: https://www.sciencedirect.com/bookseries/methods-in-cell-biology/vol/162/suppl/C
Together, we aim for this MCB edition to serve as a go-to resource for volume EM experts and cell biologists alike, for years to come. Please contact us with queries, we aim to have an author and title list by 01 April 2022. While we expect this edition to be complete in 2023, MCB’s policy is to publish papers as and when they are reviewed, so it is certainly possible to have your paper out in 2022 itself.
Looking forward to a building landmark MCB edition together!
21st September 2021
