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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Jammed packed visit to HH for DESY and euXFel user meetings and the SPB/SFX consortium meeting!

DESY campus some innovative cooling mechanism for machine parts ;-)

Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Continuing the theme of venue ceilings (admittedly its had poor uptake and i think no one else has succumb to this potentially riveting trend) but as the hotel carpet at this event is not going to impress @scurry.bsky.social i submit this interesting (if i do say so myself) ceiling venue …

Ceiling of venue hosting the final ASAP all hands meeting somewhere in Europe

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

krios 1 @diamondlightsource.bsky.social celebrated 10 years of user operations last week - many people thought we were mad to plonk it down in this spot in the synchrotron …but its still there as we ended up with a lot more in a very small space of time !

Titan krios I (a 300 KeV Cryo transmission electron microscope) with its 10 yr birthday hat in the experimental hall of Diamond Light Source.

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Looking forward to a day of science from our Wellcome Phd programme coordinated by @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social and the Rosalind Franklin Institute

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

walking through Brussels centre to midi station now to get eurostar back to Blighty! @ccpem.bsky.social

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Just finished an excellent midterm review of our fragment screen project funded by Horizon Europe (thanks to everyone and the reviewers and our project coordinator for constructive feedback) @fragment-screen.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hope everyone who made it enjoyed the 3 days of science and networking! We even had nice weather!

EMCC Nottingham - venue for the 2025 Joint BCI (eBIC & B24) user meeting and CCP-EM spring symposium

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

As it was so nice and my iphone 6se delivered such a photo without any adjustments i dis a few more on my lunch walk around a small part of the Harwell campus - hope you enjoy

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Yuriy Chaban summarising eBIC in the 2nd day of this great meeting !

Yuriy Chaban from eBIC Diamond talking at the ccpem spring symposium 2025

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Next keynote just about to begin - goto zoom if u hybrid! Valentina Loconte is the new Principal Beamline Scientist at B24 @diamondlightsource.bsky.social and joined us from ALS @als-lbnl.bsky.social earlier this year #BCIUM2025 @ccpem.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social

Valentina Loconte giving keynote lecture to start the B24 session at the BCI user meeting 2025

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

First user talk at #bcium2025 from david waterman of ccp4 noless! @ccpem.bsky.social who are still not on bluesky @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

View from the stage #bci-ccpem2025 @ccpem.bsky.social just about to start!

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Geese at York on their way to confront Jamie blaza @jnb-lab.bsky.social about his role in the DUC …luckily its good Friday and we hope to see him feathers intact at the joint BCI user meeting an @ccpem.bsky.social spring symposium next week!

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

9) if you failed to register in person you can join online! (parallel session no) Again we would like to thank all our sponsors for helping make this possible especially the social events to help networking!

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

6) Then discussion and feedback session with our DUC reps @jnb-lab.bsky.social and Natasha Lukoyanova

Not the Diamond User Committee (DUC) but a Mallard duck

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

5) Science highlights and updates from eBIC and B24 staff along with talks from our users! @instruct-eric.bsky.social @actacrystd.iucr.org

BCI User meeting speakers 23rd April 2025

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

2) The sessions are covering the latest in correlative microscopy at eBIC, An introduction to electron diffraction at eBIC and Integrative Membrane Protein Structural Biology on the Harwell Campus (MPL!)

HTP cloning and expression of membrane proteins at MPL
A) Protein tagging options with the pOPIN vector system. (B) Tracking GFP fluorescence under different expression conditions in HEK293 for a membrane transporter protein. (C) SDS-PAGE from small-scale test expression and purification of a His tagged membrane protein. (D) Corresponding size exclusion profiles for a selection of constructs.

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Participants in the annual serial crystallography workshop for graduates student some funded by our @wellcometrust.bsky.social PhD program have got homework to do in the evening time …. @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social

legobox set of I24 which accordi g to google is the worlds best tuneable microfocus mx beamline in the world

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

2 day workshop discussing opportunities for accelerating bioimaging at Wellcome going very well so far with useful discussion on infrastructure provision and equitable access @instruct-eric.bsky.social @fragment-screen.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The return of hotel carpets for me at least …this is a hotel close to Euston in London room temp issues now in new room at 22c which i’m struggling with in mid march in uk …previous room at 27 so i guess can’t complain???

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The BCI user meeting starts with 5 parallel satellite sessions covering a host of topics that will focus on correlative approaches, 3DED, MEMBRANE PROTEINS and two workshops from two of our sponsors @thermofishersci.bsky.social and SPTLABTECH

Programme for parallel satellite sessions ahead of the annual BCI user meeting

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

There is still time to register both in person and virtually! here is a taster for the BCI meeting that covers eBIC and B24 our soft x-ray tomography microscope @diamondlightsource.bsky.social !

List of speakers for the BCI User Meeting held jointly with CCP-EM at Nottingham EMCC 2025

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

2) B24 sits within the biological cryoImaging group at Diamond which is completed by eBIC the UK's national CryoEM centre @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social Full details can be found here: tinyurl.com/B24Bio

Correlative imaging at B24 beamline at Diamond Light Source

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

New visitor and outreach centre at the EU-XFEL …great stuff!

Exhibition hall at the lighthouse - the EU-XFEL visitor centre

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Eine reise in den nanokosmos !

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Super cool school labs at the lifhthouse of the @europeanxfel

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