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Saturdays
10.30am - 3pm and Thursday Evenings,
7.00-9.15 pm,
University of Manchester, Stopford
Building/Medical School
M13 9PT (corner of Oxford Road and Aker
Street next to the Holy Name Church).
Meetings take place in the new facility of
the Anatomy & Histology unit providing
access to microscopes, slides, books,
computers and projection.
(MAPS: How to
find us at Streetmaps)
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- See Previous
Meetings (back to 1998) and to
view our successful All Day Summer
Meetings 2023 &
2019 and
Anglesey Exhibition and Zoom meetings.
- October 26th 2024
(Saturday 10.30-3.00)
Manchester University Med
Sch Oxford Rd
- Exhibits & Demos, Slide
& Book Library, Sales
- Tour of
Bioimaging/EM Facility (Dr Peter
March)
- Microscopy of Blood
(Mike Mahon)
- Report:
- Around 13 members of the
Manchester and Oldham Microscopical
Societies enjoyed a marvellous talk and
tour of the University Core
Microscopy facilities, viewing state of
the art automated Electron microscopes
which trim and image specimen blocks;
spinning disc multiphoton Confocal
microscopes; super-resolution and live
cell imaging producing multi-terabyte
images; automated slide scanners ..
& more.
Thanks especially to Dr Peter March for
his informative & enthusiastic
presentation.
 Links: Bioimaging
EM
- Mike Mahon presented a
talk on Blood Histology and members
undertook a brief practical identifying
blood cells in smear slides - however
current Health & Safety issues
prevented any stabbing!
(Click on image below for pdf of
talk)
- Chris Power brought
along a Zeiss microscope and camera to
assist in our practical and gave an
overview of some AI assisted imaging.
- Graham Marsh allowed us
to use a state of the art c1900 Watson
Van Heurck brass and black research
microscope and also showed a rare book
on Van Heurck
 
- The library was made
available and some good discussions were
had about collaboration and microscopy
and natural history outreach to younger
people.
- Thanks also to our hosts
- Manchester University Anatomy
department for use of the rooms with
upgraded AV facilities and organising
parking.
- It was also great to
have so many members of the Oldham
Society here who were presented with our
status bag of Dog's Bay Sand containing
numerous foramenifera.
- Overall, a very good
start to our new format Saturday
meetings!
- November 23rd
2024 (Saturday 10.30-3.00)
Manchester
University Med Sch Oxford Rd
- Exhibits & Demos, Slide
& Book Library, Sales
- Gibson Slide
Collection: Health Museum (Dr Dave
Sigee)
- Phase-Contrast
Microscopy (Mike Mahon)
- bring along suitable
specimens to view
- February 22nd (Saturday
10.30-3.00)
Manchester University Med
Sch Oxford Rd
- Exhibits & Demos, Slide
& Book Library, Sales
- Measurement in
Microscopy (Mike Mahon)
- bring along your own
specimens to measure
- Guest Talk/Tour
(tbc)
- March 20th (Thursday
7pm-9.15pm) Manchester University
Med Sch Oxford
Rd
- AGM 145 -
bring ideas for next season
- Exhibits & Demos, Slide
& Book Library, Sales
- Pollen Slides (John
Charlton)
- April 13th (tbc) 2025
- Liverpool World Museum
All Day
- MMS Outreach Demo for
World Microscope Day
400years since the
term 'Microscope' was first
used !
- Meeting may be held mid-week (tbc)
depending on museum opening times
- May ??th (Saturday)
2025 (10am
- 4pm)
Etherow
- All-Day
Outreach Event - Etherow Country
Park Sailing Club
- Collect
& Display
- Members,
Guests, Visitors are welcome to
bring along microscopes or samples
or go collecting around the country
park, nature reserve & lake -
viewing at the Club House,
refreshments available.
- Location SK6
5HN (Between Marple Bridge
& Romiley)
- Organiser:
Phil Slatter
- July 2nd
2025 (Wednesday 11am) Manchester Central (Formerly GMex)
- MMC
2025 : RMS Microscience
Microscopy Congress
- MMS members and
Guests meet-up to chat and tour the
exhibition
- 146th
Season (Provisional Programme)
- October 18th 2025,
Saturday
- November 15th
2025, Saturday
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