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Kirsty Craigie attended the 10 Years of mesoSPIM symposium

Kirsty attended the 10 Years of mesoSPIM Symposium 2025 in Zurich, Switzerland, to present our RatDISCO work. 

Kirsty obtained a travel grant from the Technology Specialists Network to attend this event organised by the mesoSPIM Initiative and the Microscopy Innovation Platform (MIP)at the University of Zurich.
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We attended The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) 7th International Festival of Neuroscience in Liverpool (April 2025)

Cristina talked about our latest work at the Silent Symposium 1: Spatial Biology of Neuronal Tissue in Multiple Dimensions, and Kirsty presented a poster on  RatDISCO

Thank you to Miltenyi for the invitation and for the generous travel awards.
 
BNA poster
BNA

Image competition winner

Cristina won the BNA Member Photo Competition 2025. The image was exhibited at BNA2025 and won the first prize. The image will feature in the BNA 2025/2026 academic calendar. 
 
This competition showcases neuroscience through photography - providing an insight into everyday life as a neuroscientist. 
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Kirsty Craigie's talk at the MACS® Imaging and Spatial Biology APAC User Group Meeting 2024

MACS® Imaging and Spatial Biology APAC User Group Meeting 2024

Kirsty Craigie gave an online talk titled: RatDISCO: A novel immunolabeling and clearing pipeline for large rat brains.

  • August 27–28, 2024 | Seoul National University Hospital, Seoultitled

The Developing Brain art Exibition

The Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) and the Patrick Wild Centre partnered up with ‘Fusion: Art meets Science’ to create The Developing Brain exhibition. This project was open to all artists and neurodevelopmental scientists, to collaborate and create something inspired by this mysterious structure.

Cristina Martinez Gonzalez and Jackie Bell presented the pieces: "Inside my head" and "wider than the sky"

 

FENS

We attended the FENS Forum 2024 in Vienna and presented our poster: RATDISCO, an optical clearing and immunolabelling pipeline for large rodent tissue.

Thank you to SIDB, Miltenyi and Guarantors of Brain, for their generous travel awards.

Cristina and Kirsty at our FENS poster

 

Microscience Microscopy Congress 2025

One of the biggest events of its kind in Europe, mmc2025 incorporating EMAG 2025 will bring you the very best in microscopy, imaging and cytometry from across the globe.

  • 1 - 3 July 2025, Manchester, UK