Expansion Microscopy User Group Meeting - Australia Hosted - January 2024

The expansion microscopy user group brings together researchers to share experiences to enable rapid uptake of the technology. In this Expansion meeting we are joined by Invited Speaker Dr Izzy Jayasinghe, head of the Department of Molecular Medicine, in the School of Biomedical Sciences at UNSW Medicine and Health and will be providing us with her talk “The utility and standardisation of expansion microscopy in cell and tissue imaging”. Izzy is an Associate Professor and Department Head of Molecular Medicine, UNSW (Australia), and a UKRI Future Leader Fellow at the University of Sheffield (UK). She was awarded her PhD in 2011 at the University of Auckland for the early work applying localisation microscopy (STORM) to visualise the cardiac ryanodine receptor. Following two postdoctoral positions in the Universities of Queensland and Exeter, Izzy has led the Signalling Nanodomains Lab in Leeds, and more recently in Sheffield and Sydney. Over the past eight years, Izzy and her team have specialised in correlative microscopies and some of the more recent super-resolution approaches such as expansion microscopy to study the intracellular calcium signalling machinery in excitable cells. As a part of her UKRI fellowship, Izzy’s team in Sheffield have been developing and refining the tools, probes and analysis approaches that advance the uptake and validation of expansion microscopy.