APMC 2025

Asia Pacific Largest Event Dedicated to Microscopy, Microanalysis, and Imaging

The 13th Asia Pacific Microscopy Congress 2025 (APMC13) will bring the world of scientific imaging and microanalysis together in Australia’s New World city - Brisbane.

Embedded in Asian & Australian Indigenous Culture and Tradition, the Committee of Asia Pacific Societies for Microscopy (CAPSM) will present the 13th Asia Pacific Microscopy Congress (APMC13) to establish a balanced programme of light, ion and electron microscopy and imaging spectroscopy in physical, material and life sciences. Microscopists, scientist, manufacturers, and suppliers will come together to share new instrumentations, techniques, workflows, applications, and technologies.

Welcome

The Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society (AMMS) is honoured to host APMC13 in Brisbane, Australia from Feb. 2nd to 7th in 2025. APMC13 will be an in-person event, bringing together colleagues across the life and physical sciences, engineering, and instrumentation to work towards new visions and goals in microscopy. We take pride in putting together a strong program for the conference based on advances in electron, X-ray and light microscopy and microscopy-enabled research in the life and physical sciences.

The conference will include oral and poster presentation sessions, trade show and workshops, pre- and post-conference workshops, and social events.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

The open exchange of ideas and the freedom of thought and expression are central to this conference. Our aim is to create an inclusive, respectful environment that invites participation from people of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, religions, and sexual orientation. We actively seek to increase the diversity of our presenters, delegates and sponsors.

We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants. All interactions are to be respectful and constructive, including interactions during the review process, at the conference itself, and on social media.

Acknowledgement of Country

On behalf of the conference organisers, we acknowledge Australian’s first custodians, caretaker, protectors, guardians, and defenders.

We also acknowledge the first story holders who mapped the land and it’s creation. Stories wrapped with tens of thousands of years of knowledge, responsibility, wisdom and connection to land.

We acknowledge the Turrbul and Jagera people as the Traditional Owners of the land where we gather today and recognise that this land has always been under their custodianship.

We pay our respect to Elders past and present and to emerging community leaders. We also extend our respect to all Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people here today.

We acknowledge our shared responsibility to our Country and that its future is brightest when we walk together and learn from the traditional owners wisdom, so much more needed as we anticipate.

Professor Roger Wepf
Conference Chair

Director of Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis, The University of Queensland Australia

Associate Professor Louise Cole
Conference Chair

Director of Microbial Imaging Facility (MIF), University of Technology Sydney Australia

Dr. Sima Aminorroaya
APMC13 Secretary

Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis,
The University of Sydney

Conference Ambassador

Brian T. Bollard was born in Geelong in 2003 and is descended from the famous long line of Geelong Bollards. Interested in microscopy from a young age, Brian was only a few months old when he was appointed Conference Ambassador for the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society and he has never looked back (he can’t, his head doesn’t move). Unable to settle down, Brian never manages to stay in one place for more than two years. While this wandering lifestyle would not suit everybody, Brian thrives on it, and he hardly seems to have aged at all since his first conference in 2004. Brian spends his longest life-time period recently in Perth (trapped by COVID state rules) and currently believes Brisbane to be among one of his favourite places to be in Australia enjoying the lifestyle of the Sunshine State Queensland. He looks forward to welcoming you all to Brisbane for APMC13 & ACMM28 in February 2025.