Midlands Innovation Electron Microscopy (MI EM) Network Conference 2026

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Midlands Innovation is delighted to announce that registration for this years electron microscopy (EM) network conference is now open. An agenda for the event, taking place at Warwick University on Tuesday 21st April, is found below. This years event will cover a wide range of exciting topics including:

• Introductions to wider Midlands based EM facilities 
• Exciting new EM capability in the region
• The formal launch of the MI EM Database
• Case studies of successful RTP development activities and how you could take advantage of such schemes
• Hear from National EM Facilities on current capability, activity and how to engage
• Advice and reflections on facilities structural re-arrangement
• How SEM based outreach can be made more accessible
• Tours of the Warwick EM RTP and WMG facilities

And more…

Please note, attendance is free to all regional EM facing research technical professionals. Support for event travel may be considered – please contact the MI EM team to enquire.

Tuesday 21st April

Location: Physics Building, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL

Registration link: https://warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp/em/info/miem-2026/

09.30 Arrival / Registration / Coffee

10.00 Welcome / Midlands Innovation Update – Ellen McGhee (MI)

10:15 Introduction to EM at Warwick – Peng Wang (Warwick)

MI EM Facilities – Regional Capabilities Update

10.30 Imaging Suite – Nottingham Trent University – Graham Hickman (NTU)

10.50 Applications of the multispecies PFIB at the WMG – Geoff West (Warwick)

11.10 Graphene Liquid Cell based TEM Analysis – Mike Fay (Nottingham)

11.30 Technobyte Presentation 1 – Tescan

11.35 Technobyte Presentation 2 – JEOL

11.40 Technobyte Presentation 3 – ThermoFisher

11.45 Technobyte Presentation 4 – Oxford Instruments

12.00 Lunch and Sponsor Exhibition

MI EM Community Session 1: EM Research Technical Professional (RTP) Development

13.00 ITSS / TSN ROKs Opportunities for RTPs – Kay Doncom (TSN ROKs)

13.15 ITSS Equipment Sharing Scheme Case Study: Investigating the Structure of Dysfunctional High-Density Lipoproteins – Claudia Lancey (Leicester) / Sophie Rawnsley-Lau (Lancaster)

13.30 Under the Microscope – A Case Study of Herschel and EPSTL in Technical Career Development – Emma Black (Leeds)

Questions & Discussion

MI EM Community Session 2: National Facility Engagement

13.45 National Electron Diffraction Facility – Jere Tidey (Warwick)

14.00 The SuperSTEM National Research Facility: spectroscopy and microscopy down to single atoms – Quentin Ramasse (SuperSTEM)

14.15 Advanced TEM imaging and automation at ePSIC, Diamond Light Source – Chris Allen (ePSIC)

14.30 Cryo-EM and Soft Xray Tomography at Diamond Light Source – Christos Savva (eBIC)

Questions & Discussion

15.00 Coffee Break

15.30 Technobyte Presentation 5 – NanoMEGAS

15.35 Technobyte Presentation 6 – Gatan

15.40 Technobyte Presentation 7 – CondenZero

MI EM Community Session 3: Complementary Opportunities

15.45 Midlands EM Database Launch – MI EM Database Team

16.00 Microscopic Meteorites – A SEM based Public Engagement Initiative – Lorelei Robertson (Nottingham)

16.15 Research Facilities Reorganisation – Ian Hancox (Warwick)

16.30 Closing Announcements – Emma Hesketh (Leicester)

16.30 Optional: Tours of Warwick Electron Microscopy Facilities