McCrone Research Institute

Get your abstracts in for Inter/Micro 2025! Guidelines here https://lnkd.in/gH_-xEd5 Since 1948, Inter/Micro is an internationally recognized conference that attracts professional and amateur microscopists from all areas of light and electron microscopy. Research presentations include topics covering techniques and instrumentation, environmental and industrial microscopy, and forensic and chemical microscopy.

The rest of the 2025 calendar us up! https://lnkd.in/gkmDd7SV Classes scheduled though December! All of the regulars plus a few new and rarely offered classes. There is a new hybrid offering for Microscopy of Combustion Products. Microscopy of Food and Foreign Body Identification will be coming up in May and a hands on Sample Preparation and Manipulation for Microanalysis this August! Check them all out!

NOW SHIPPING: THE LATEST ISSUE OF...The Microscope Journal Vol. 71:3 2024 https://lnkd.in/g5_MfTS4 On the cover - Photomicrograph of a bird feather using Rheinberg illumination combined with the Microlab Northwest LED ring light epi-illuminator. Rheinberg filter includes a yellow annular ring and blue central disk in conjunction with the purple LED from the ring light illuminator. (Photomicrograph courtesy of Heidie Crutcher) ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE INCLUDE: ??The Formation and Distinction of Erroneous Dispersion Staining Colors for Refractive Index Determination Using the Dispersion Staining Method by Shu-Chun Su ??Case Studies for the Use of Heavy Liquid Density Separation Prior to the Microscopical Examination of Talc Ore and Talcum Powders by Steven P. Compton and Matthew R. Underwood ??Brian J. Ford’s Critical Focus #52: Microscopes and the Amazing School of the Future ??A New Approach to Optical Staining and Light Interaction Analysis Using a LED Ring Light Epi-Illuminator by Heidie Crutcher

Get your abstracts ready for Inter/Micro 2025! Abstract submission guidelines are here https://lnkd.in/gH_-xEd5 Topics include: · Chemical and forensic microscopy · Environmental and industrial microscopy ·?Techniques and instrumentation

Need to learn how to identify spores like those seen here? Our in-person, hands on course in Indoor Air Quality: Fungal Spore Identification is coming up soon! You will work on the microscope, learn to identify common spores and get practice taking samples. Come see us in Chicago this September! More information here https://lnkd.in/giWaNvDn

2025 Microscopy Courses! We've got two upcoming courses which are rarely offered in person. This March we will have Indoor Air Quality: Fungal Spore Identification https://lnkd.in/gQiBBAt9 and May will bring Microscopy of Food and Foreign Body Identification https://lnkd.in/g9vEftkA. Don't miss the opportunity to learn from leading microscopists in their field. Looking forward to seeing you in Chicago!

Indoor Air Quality: Fungal Spore Identification - IN-PERSON! Join us in Chicago for the opportunity to learn from the best. A week of hands on instruction at the microscope. This course is rarely offered in person, so don't miss the opportunity, March 10-14, 2025. More information here https://lnkd.in/gQiBBAt9

We've rolled out the course calendar for the first few months of 2025! Check it out here! https://lnkd.in/gkmDd7SV There will be more to come!

Happy Halloween! Here's a treat for you - a radiolarian "pumpkin", tricked out with Rheinberg illumination. Look out for the 2025 course schedule rolling out soon! All of the old favorites will be back plus a few new and rarely offered classes. Photo by Meggan Dempsey.

There is still time to register for 2024 classes! Indoor Air Quality (basic and advanced), Polarized Light Microscopy and Microscope Cleaning, Maintenance & Adjustment. In-person and online options! https://lnkd.in/gsC3aNnc