AFM meeting banner showing AFM & SPM conference dates 23-25 June, Leeds, abstract deadline 10th April
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Please share with colleagues and group members 📢
This is a great opportunity to discuss and share your latest work with the AFM and SPM community.
🚨 Submit before 10th April
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
Great to see this work now out: doi.org/10.1002/anie...
Here are some of the fantastic HS-AFM movies of DNA origami strand displacement dynamics 🎬
It was a pleasure collaborating and contributing to this work led by Chalmers Chau, Paolo Actis and Christoph Wälti.
Happy Birthday #AFM!
To celebrate the first description of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in Physical Review Letters, we spoke to our longstanding honorary member Christoph Gerber, who, together with Carl Quate and Gerd Binnig, invented this groundbreaking instrument.
@unibas.ch bit.ly/4raqCOm
AFM & SPM 2026 - invited speaker poster
📢 AFM & SPM Meeting 2026 | 📍Leeds, UK | 📅 23–25 June
Excited to share the confirmed speaker list so far for the RMS AFM & SPM Meeting 2026, taking place in Leeds this summer.
More info and registration:
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social
#AFM #SPM
Archaeal cells whose DNA has been stained with a blue dye. Zoomed-in images of mutant cells that display chromosome segregation defects.
High-resolution images of DNA-protein complexes obtained with atomic force microscopy. Upon binding, the protein bridges distant sites, forming loops.
📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📅 January 7, 2026
Please RP🙏thx!
Speakers, registration, and more details coming soon. Please get in touch if you would like to contribute to the training, exhibition, sponsorship or just feeding in ideas.
Meeting features:
🔹 Training and development day (optional)
🔹 Instrument Exhibitions to showcase cutting-edge tools and technologies
🔹 Poster sessions, contributed and invited talks
🔹 Discussions about future initiatives for the field
🔹 Networking and social events
SPM areas of interest:
🔸 Material Science
🔸 Biosciences
🔸 SPM in UHV
🔸 New SPM methods and techniques
🔸 New Computational methods for SPM
This meeting will bring together speakers and participants from around the world, with a focus on cross-method SPM collaboration, knowledge exchange and developing the next generation of SPM researchers.
Image featuring University of Leeds campus and text overlay: AFM & SPM 2026, June 22-25, Leeds, UK
Join us in Leeds next Summer for: AFM & SPM 2026
Co-organised with Lekshmi Kailas, Kristina Rusimova, Samuel Jarvis and Jess Cole from the Royal Microscopical Society.
#AFM #SPM #Microscopy
Exciting work led by @nano-chalmers.bsky.social delivered in collaboration with @georgerheath.bsky.social introducing a rationally designed DNA origami system for the multiplexed detection of miRNA in crude RNA extracts via nanopore sensing.
We're also building a list of links to public #AFM image datasets to help the community find, share, and re-analyse datasets more easily.
Know of any open AFM image data? Feel free to add a link it here:
george-r-heath.github.io/NanoLocz/doc...
Join a user meeting (all welcome):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/nanolocz-1...
• Wed 11 June · 09:30-10:30 BST
(10:30 CEST 🇪🇺, 14:00 IST 🇮🇳, 16:30 CST 🇨🇳, 17:30 JST 🇯🇵)
• Tues 17 June · 16:00-17:00 BST
(17:00 CEST 🇪🇺, 11:00 EDT 🇺🇸, 08:00 PDT 🇺🇸, 12:00 BRT 🇧🇷)
Squeeze more out of your AFM images with NanoLocz v1.3 💪
Download the updated version here:
github.com/George-R-Hea...
Excited to report our latest research on new “molecular glues” that specifically lock the BRCC36 isopeptidase complex (BRISC) in an autoinhibited state and reduce interferon signalling. This first-of-its-kind approach could reshape how we target large deubiquitylase (DUB) complexes.
rdcu.be/edRwF
What a contribution this article is to the bioAFM community. 👍👍👍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AFM
A packed conference audience listens intently to a speaker who is out of shot.
The abstract submissions deadline for #mmc2025 has been extended!
Submit your abstract by *Friday 28 February* and join our impressive line-up of speakers!
rms.org.uk/resource/mmc...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social @micro-au.bsky.social
A presenter gives a talk from behind a podium at mmc2023.
📢Abstract submissions deadline for #mmc2025 is *tomorrow* (14 February).
Don't miss the chance to present your work at Europe's largest #microscopy and #imaging event taking place this year!
Abstract submissions: mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
📢 New round of PhD studentships.
Open to applicants worldwide.
📅 Deadline 14th March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#microsky #archaeasky #chromosome 🧬🧬🧬
@steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social @georgerheath.bsky.social
Join us in beautiful York, UK!
Check out the latest work on RCD-1 from our lab:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to my labmates! 👏
#AFM #RCD-1
Postdoc Varun Gupta will be presenting some great AFM in the 1st session of the Linz Winter Workshop this weekend ⛷️👏
👋👋 Hi everyone! The Astbury Centre is now on Bluesky. Follow along for updates about exciting Astbury Centre science. For now, we have put together a starter pack of members of the Astbury Centre community.
15th January is the abstract deadline for the upcoming #AFMBioMed2025 in #Barcelona! New formats, events… I wouldn’t miss it—save the date #April2025!
Proud to be part of this paper published in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Using high-speed AFM, we have visualized the real-time translocation of substrate polypeptide by the single molecule of SecYEG-SecA!!!
Please check this amazing video taken by high-speed AFM!!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please share, we have #PhD opportunities for anyone interested in filming the #Biophysics of life at the nanoscale.
Full details at: heath-afm-lab.github.io/positions/
Projects based around developing and applying High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy methods to understand molecular dynamics.
Diagram showing archaeal cells containing two chromosomes bound by proteins prior to cell division.
📢 Interested in chromosomes and microbes thriving at the edge of life?PhD project in York-UK on chromosome segregation in #Archaea.
Supervised by me, @Steve Quinn & @georgerheath.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Open to Applicants Worldwide!
📅 January 6, 2025
#microsky #archaeasky
AFM starter pack. Sorry if I missed anyone, relatively small numbers at the moment. Please share, nominate others/yourself (any career stage). I will also try to add incoming new users regularly.
go.bsky.app/MSz2t33
First attempt in a (loosely defined) Single-Molecule Biophysics starter pack. Please share and (self-) nominate. go.bsky.app/CteFZM5
Thank you
