Michele Darrow

Structural biologist with interests in technology development, and volumetric and correlative imaging.

[Michele Darrow @MDarrow7]

If you're looking for a #volumeEM fix before 2026, there's also the 2025 vEM GRC and GRS in May, held in Barcelona.

Apply to attend here: https://t.co/92L3kRo8UU

@KedarNarayan2 @SchwabYannick

[Michele Darrow @MDarrow7]

The inaugural #vEMTechForum2024 is in the books! What a whirlwind! Some numbers:
-131 attendees
-23 talks/7 sessions
-24 posters/3 sessions
-3 demo lounges/14 stands
-3 challenge panels/12 panellists
-5 travel awards
-3 poster awards
-2 birthdays
-170 town hall attendees (hybrid)

[Michele Darrow @MDarrow7]

It has been a privilege to organise the #vEMTechForum2024. We truly have a wonderful, supportive community and I have enjoyed bringing it together. But now it's time to hand over the baton in preparation for the next #vEMTechForum2026

[Rosalind Franklin Institute @RosFrankInst]

@MDarrow7 and @basham_mark took part in a really interesting Data Struggles Challenge Panel Discussion at the #vEMTechForum2024. The panel discussed the importance of open data and consistent metadata in research. @VolumeEM1

[Liz Kellogg ❄️🔬 @kellogg_liz]

Dear cryo-EM women scientists,

We want to honor you and your contributions at BPS 2025.
This year, the Cryo-EM subgroup will honor a mid/senior-career woman scientist as the inaugural June Almeida awardee.
June Almeida is the virologist who first discovered the coronavirus in 1967 using negative stain electron microscopy. Her story, like many women we know, is remarkable. https://t.co/FJQ25VQaNr
It is in the spirit of June Almeida’s innovative research that this award is named. The awardee, in addition to receiving an honorarium, will present their research at the BPS CryoEM Subgroup Symposium. The deadline for nominations for the Almeida Award is November 1st, and details of the award and the application process can be found at (https://t.co/zD0CnCErF4). Nomination packets should be sent to [email protected].

Questions? Contact @OliBClarke, me, @MeghnaG27 @PilarCossio2 or @10feng

♥️We sincerely hope to see you at BPS 2025 in LA to celebrate achievements and advances in cryo-EM!

[Michele Darrow @MDarrow7]

@jenheemstra How do we make this happen? How do we change the incentives?

[Rosalind Franklin Institute @RosFrankInst]

We are #hiring!
We are currently recruiting a Senior Research Software Engineer to join our team.
Find out more and apply here: https://t.co/ol59z5rlsy

[Science Scribbler @ScienceScribbl1]

Why do we need citizen science? Take #PlacentaProfiles for example: our #volunteers picked out 2.23M potential mitochondria in just 18 months – a number that would take a single researcher years to match. The #power of the #crowd indeed 💪

[Science Scribbler @ScienceScribbl1]

📢HOT OFF THE PRESS📢

Our new paper, in collaboration with the @EtchACell team at @TheCrick, @DiamondLightSou and @RosFrankInst shares our collective experience in using @the_zooniverse for #citizenscience projects using biological #volumeEM data:

https://t.co/ch71tWaWuy

[Nature Methods @naturemethods]

Out today from Collinson, Verkade, and colleagues, an exciting Comment describing the "quiet revolution" that has been taking shape in volume EM and the grassroots community effort to build and disseminate these technologies @EM_STP @PaulVerkade @volumeEM1 https://t.co/wSNteXb1Xs

[Rosalind Franklin Institute @RosFrankInst]

We are delighted to have renewed core funding for the next three years from @EPSRC

Find out more about our plans here - https://t.co/SIkKLFKcon

@UKRI_News

[Rosalind Franklin Institute @RosFrankInst]

We are #hiring!
If you would like to develop new methods to advance the capabilities of current biological imaging using high-resolution time-resolved transmission electron microscopes, this may be a role for you!
To find out more and apply, click here - https://t.co/dHT9IVQCRo

[Rebecca Thompson @Bex_16]

Want to learn about training in #cryoEM to help you get started or build your skills?

Join @edward_eng and I tomorrow (8th Feb- 4pm GMT) to hear more 🤓 I'll be talking about opportunities through @iNEXT_Discovery, @instructhub and more

Register here https://t.co/xkRTPk2hkn

[Rosalind Franklin Institute @RosFrankInst]

Franklin researchers, working with @thermosciEMSpec used a prototype version of the recently announced "Arctis" microscope to obtain the structure of a human ribosome to 4.9Å – achieving the highest resolution structure within a mammalian cell.

[Rosalind Franklin Institute @RosFrankInst]

#ICYMI: Exciting work ahead to build resources and expand the #volumeEM community, supported by @cziscience and @ChanZuckerberg ⬇️

[Michele Darrow @MDarrow7]

Excited to work with such a great team of #volumeEM #scientists 🔥🔥🔥

https://t.co/Z6xg18Cs0Z

[Michele Darrow @MDarrow7]

We're building a community of #researchers and #resources to enable #volumeEM - a group of techniques for #ImagingTheFuture 🔬that let us see inside of #Cells and #tissue to answer biomedical questions! Thank you for your support @cziscience @ChanZuckerberg 💜

@VolumeEM1

[Euro-BioImaging Industry Board @EBIB_imaging]

Looking forward to this week's #TechExchange!
Find out more about lab-scale soft x-ray microscopy and exciting applications in #virology this Friday at 2pm CET with Kenneth Fahy from @SiriusXT_Ltd.
Register here: https://t.co/o7jbtcvDCc