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๐จ New feature launch in our latest newsletter!
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New Web Page - Volume EM Industrial Partners
www.volumeem.org/industrial-p...
Weโre excited to introduce our newly curated Industrial Partners page, showcasing organizations recognized by the volumeEM Community as key contributors in the field.
We've just published our latest newsletter: conta.cc/4rqHX6D
Please take a moment to check it out and share your thoughts.
The result? Stunning insights into cell structures such as nuclei, mitochondria are possible, as well helping us better understand many important diseases.
This short animated video offers a clear, visual introduction to volume electron microscopy (vEM), showing how ultra-thin serial planes of cells are imaged at the nanoscale with electrons and then computationally assembled into detailed 3D views.
๐ฌ Just dropped: our latest video!
If youโre new to volume EM, a non-scientist, or a scientist from another field, this video is a great place to start.
#vEM #volumeelectronmicroscopy #volumeemcommunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJmW...
๐ฅ New Video Alert!
We are excited to share a new how-to video on preparing an ITO coverslip for array tomography. A big shoutout to Aaron Sait for creating this clear, step-by-step tutorial.
๐บ Check out the video: youtu.be/DMr1Aveb1Zg?...
#volumeEM #ArrayTomography
Volume EM Visualization of 3D Synaptic Ultrastructure in Postmortem Human Prefrontal Cortex
This @volumeem1.bsky.social case study covers the challenges, solutions and impact of ultrastructural analysis of postmortem brain tissue.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/31/v...
๐ณ๏ธ Voting is now open for the 2025 Volume EM Image Competition!
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Vote for your top 3 favorites in each category
๐ Voting closes October 9 at 4:00 PM BST / 10:00 AM CT
๐ Winners will be announced at the Town Hall Meeting later that day!
๐ Cast your vote here: www.volumeem.org/vote_awesome...
๐ Awesome vEM Images Competition deadline extended to Oct 6, 5 PM CT! ๐
Submit to one or both categories:
1๏ธโฃ The Power of EM
2๏ธโฃ Bringing Meaning to the Data
๐ $250 for 1st, $100 for 2nd & 3rd (each category)
๐ www.volumeem.org/awesome-imag...
Details and last year's winning images โฌ๏ธ
@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @micro-au.bsky.social @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social
๐ณ๏ธ Voting opens Oct 7 on our site
๐ Winners announced Oct 9 @ virtual Town Hall
๐ง Questions? vemcommunity@gmail.com
#volumeEM #AwesomevEMImages
๐ Awesome vEM Images Competition deadline extended to Oct 6, 5 PM CT! ๐
Submit to one or both categories:
1๏ธโฃ The Power of EM
2๏ธโฃ Bringing Meaning to the Data
๐ $250 for 1st, $100 for 2nd & 3rd (each category)
๐ www.volumeem.org/awesome-imag...
Details and last year's winning images โฌ๏ธ
LAST CALL!
Please take the anonymous, 10-minute survey so we can learn more about the computational needs of the volumeEM community: forms.office.com/e/eMAJGCKUnc
The survey will close on Friday 19th September, so make sure your voice is heard!
๐ฃ The Awesome vEM Images Competition is back!
Submit your images in one of two categories:
๐ผ๏ธ The Power of vEM
๐ง Bringing Meaning to the Data (New!)
๐ Prizes: $250 for 1st place, $100 for 2nd & 3rd in each category
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Deadline: Oct 2, 5PM CT
๐ More details: www.volumeem.org/awesome-imag...
๐ฃ Join Us for the 6th Annual Volume EM Community Initiative Town Hall Meeting on October 9th, 2025 from 3-6pm BST / 10am-1pm ET. A key theme of this yearโs Town Hall is strengthening connections across the global community.
๐ Register now on our website: www.volumeem.org/2025-town-ha...
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Big news! volumeEM has been ranked the second most requested technology of 2024 in Biological Imaging in the latest Euro-Bioimaging Annual Report!
๐ Read the full report here: www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/euro-bi...
#volumeEM
Presented by:
by Jason Yin, Jason Liang and Joseph Sall from Alice Liang Lab, NYU Langone Health Microscopy Core, New York, USA
- On behalf of the Training Working Group.
๐ฅ New Video: How to Do Flat Embedding
Weโre excited to share the latest video from the vEM Community! In this video, you'll learn the process of flat embedding samples for SBF-SEM, a crucial method for high-resolution imaging: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbS2...
#volumeEM #SBFSEM #FlatEmbedding
The vEM Tech Forum 2026 is organized by Alice Liang (NYU Langone Health), Kun Song (Peking University) and Qiang Guo (Peking University).
We can't wait to connect with all of you there!
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Weโre excited to announce that the ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐
๐จ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ is now officially on the calendar!
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October 12-15, 2026
๐ Peking University, Beijing, China
Stay tuned for more details!
Discover how SBF-SEM (Serial Block-Face Scanning Electron Microscopy), a vEM technique, is being used to unveil new perspectives on corneal development.
Check out our new case study: tinyurl.com/54pxp6ku
Authors: Rob Young, Kiranjit Bains, Phil Lewis and Andrew Quantock - Cardiff University, UK
Next Euro-Bioimaging Virtual Pub/volumeEM Series!
Join Andreas Mรผller @andimicroscopy.bsky.social from Paul Langerhans Institute, TU Dresden, for a talk on "The Exploratory Potential of Volume Electron Microscopy"!
๐๏ธ June 20th, 2025
โฐ 13:00 CEST
๐ Register: www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/explo...
๐ฅ New #volumeEM Video Alert: AI Segmentation in Volume Electron Microscopy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoz...
Segmentation is key to analyzing 3D volume EM data. Learn how semantic, instance, and panoptic methods isolate structures like mitochondria, nuclei, and cytoplasm in complex tissues.
empanada new version (v1.2) released!!
empanada.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Youโll see many goodies in this release:
1. Two new models: DropNet and NucleoNet
2. Several new modules includes tiling
Enjoy and please let us know if this works for you, happy segmenting!