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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

The exact dates still need to be decided by YOU, please go to the 'Doodle Poll - meeting dates' to select your preferred date. Most people seemed to like a date early in January as last year, before facilities get too busy, so I have added Thu 7/ Fri 8 Jan, as well as the following week, to the dates, let me know if other dates would be better and I'll add them to the list.

Programme

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

From first feedback it seems that several people like the idea of spending some time on some BioimagingUK working groups. Several of those working groups overlap with topics discussed in previous years, so this could also be a chance for discussions in smaller, dedicated groups. But this meeting is still mainly dedicated to facilities, so please let us know what you think of this, and / or come up with other ideas.

To explore your interests, I have started setting up a preliminary list of topics from email replies and working groups most obviously linked to facilities 'Doodle Poll - proposed topics' - any new ideas will be added on the fly.

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 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
  • ...other / new topics?... invited speaker...??
  • Update Eurobioimaging
  • Update BioimagingUK
  • Report from participants of Eurobioimaging working groups / UK group leaders
  • Break-out meetings 1 - BioimagingUK working groups (and other dedicated groups?)
  • Lunch / dinner (depending on meeting format)
  • ...other / new topics?... invited speaker...??
  • Break-out meetings 2 - BioimagingUK working groups (and other dedicated groups?)
  • Summary working groups
  • discussions
Two break-out groups instead of one would allow everyone to get involved in more than one topic, any good?