Below are the details of past and future events, meetings and significant discussions on the topic of microscope quality control
Past meetings
2019 UK Facility managers Meeting (Liverpool)
3-4 Jan 2019: Microscope QC discussion session with commercial and academic participation.
Results of UK light microscopy facility managers QC survey outlined. Basis for focused microscope QC working group introduced. [presentation including survey]
MMC 2019
2 July 2019: Inaugural meeting of the RMS QC FIG
QC discussions and proposal for minimum QC metrics to capture [meeting summary]. Results (to date) of ELMI microscope QC poll outlined and discussed. [Presentation]
ELMI 2019 Core Facility Day
Discussion of QC procedures in light microscopy facilities. Presentation of pre-meeting core facility survey (still open) [CF-Survey]. Microscope QC and maintenance presentation (Laurent Gelman & Roland Nitschke) [link] Open letter to microscope vendors on the topic of monitoring system performance [link].
Future meetings
UK Microscopy Quality Control RMS-focused interest group 