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Facility Manager Meeting 2010

Following up the successful meetings in York (2008) and Manchester (2009), the next Microscopy Facility Manager Meeting will be in London, at Imperial College, in January 2010.

The details (exact dates and topics) still need to be decided, so please take part in the polls below and send your comments to Martin Spitaler, m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk .

Date, time and location

The 'Doodle Poll - meeting dates' showed that many people can only do the first week of January, so the definitive date will now be Thursday 7 (lunch time) to Friday 8 January 2010 (lunch time).

The meeting will be held in the South Kensington campus of Imperial College London (see Google map for details). This is ~30 min by public transport from Euston and Kings Cross railway stations, 10 min from Victoria station, or a 25 min walk across Hyde Park from Paddington (slightly longer on the Circle Line). For time tables and other stations, see Transport for London (TfL) Journey Planner.

Accomodation in walking distance from the meeting location can be booked at discounted rates (starting from £69) through the Imperial College Hotel Accomodation website. Many affordable hotels can also be found on South Kensington Hotels, many of them actually cheaper than through the Imperial College website and also in walking distance, but you need to check distance (e.g. TfL) and quality (e.g. Tripadvisor) yourselves.

Programme

Format and topics are flexible and open to discussion, please send me your ideas!

Last year it turned out that discussions tended to drift towards smaller groups, so the idea came up to have dedicated break-out meetings on single topics. Several people also like the idea of dedicating some of those break-out meetings to BioimagingUK working groups which are relevant for facility staff.

Please let me know what you think of both ideas!

To explore your interests, I have started setting up a preliminary list of topics from email replies and the working groups most obviously linked to facilities 'Doodle Poll - proposed topics' - more topics will be added as they come in.

I propose you select all topics you are interested in, not just the working groups you are participating in, so we see what's interesting to most people and how best to organise the meeting.

Schedule (first draft)

=> This is a first draft, any feedback more than welcome!!

Last year's format (two half days with overnight stay) seemed to be popular, because it allows for plenty of informal interaction, but please pick your preferred format on the 'Doodle Poll - meeting format'.

• introduction and recent developments
• presentation(s)?...
• invited speaker...??
• break-out session 1

• lunch / dinner (depending on meeting format)

• presentation(s)?...
• break-out session 2
• summaries of break-out sessions
• discussions

Two break-out groups instead of one would allow everyone to get involved in more than one topic, any good?