Volume EM working groups

Volume EM working groups

Community WG (International)

Remit: This international community working group aims to support all those practically involved in vEM techniques, across sample preparation, ancillary techniques e.g. x-ray, CLEM, and includes microscopists and data scientists.
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Co-Chairs: Chris Peddie & Jemima Burden​

Training (International)

Remit: To provide resources and training on both the technical skills and managerial skills relating to all aspects of vEM.

​Co-Chairs: ​Flavia Moreira & Raffa Carzaniga

Sample Preparation (International)

Remit: Curation of sample preparation resources for the vEM community, including a protocol library that encompasses preparation steps through to imaging, with a focus on discussion and dissemination of knowledge around why each step is done, health and safety information, and annotations to indicate options and when they might be useful.
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​Co-Chairs: Carles Bosch Piñol & Michele Darrow

Outreach WG (International)

Remit: We aim to perform outreach to the wider international biomedical science community in the form of: 
1) Education about the various vEM techniques.
2) Engagement of stakeholders including end users, engineers, software developers, funders and the public.

Co-Chairs: Anwen Bullen & Georgina Fletcher​

Data (International) 

Remit:
​1) Storage, transfer, metadata, analysis tools, archiving.
2) Long-term scope and short-term actions to be discussed.
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Co-Chairs: Martyn Winn & Kedar Narayan

Infrastructure (UK Focused)

Remit: Define, seek funding for, build and run a coordinated accessible infrastructure for vEM to meet the needs of the UK bioscience research community.

Co-Chairs: Lucy Collinson & Paul Verkade