Dear ISM members and friends,

Thank you all for participating and contributing to a very enjoyable and inspiring meeting.

Special thanks to all our plenary and invited speakers !

Thank you to the family and friends of Eyal Shimoni who joined us for the openning session in honor of Eyal. Special thanks to Eran Tadmor for initiating the Eyal Shimoni memorial annual scolarship and for his exceptionally generous contribution.

We wish to express our great appreciation to the Mutsafi and Benhalevy families for the Yael Mutsafi Memorial prize and for honoring us with their presence at the meeting.

Thanks to the scientific committees and especially to the heads of the committees, Yuval Garini, Yaron Shav-Tal, Inna Popov and Yevgeny Rakita. Thanks to the Mutsafi prize international committees and the committees for the Best posters

We also wish to thank our partners from the industry and from academia for their generous financial support and for contributing to a great exhibition.

Congratulations to:

• * Zohar Persky, from the Weizmann Institute, recipient of the Mutsafi Memorial Prize for her work titled: “DISSECTING THE PHENOTYPIC LANDSCAPE OF BACTERIAL POPULATIONS VIA IMAGING TRANSCRIPTOMICS”


• * Rachael Deis, from the Weizmann Institute, and Narmeen Haj, from the Technion, the recipients of the 2025 Eyal Shimoni Memorial Travel Scholarship.


• * Anastasiya Reveguk, from Tel-Aviv University, recipient of the Best Poster in Materials Science for her work titled: “STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MAGNETRON SPUTTERED Fe3Si THIN FILMS BY ELECTRON MICROSCOPY”


• * Daniel Khaykelso, from the Weizmann Institut, recipient of the Best Poster in Materials Science for his work titled: “PSEUDO-1D WAVE-LIKE DEFORMATIONS AND DISORDER IN (POLY)-HEPTAZINE IMIDE PHOTOCATALYSTS DRIVEN BY SODIUM ION INTERCALATION”


• * Shirel Kleiner, from Tel-Aviv University, recipient of the Best Poster in Life Science for her work titled: “SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES AS NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR MONITORING HYDROGEL SELF-ASSEMBLY”


• * Hadas Omer, from the Technion, recipient of the Best Poster in Life Science for her work titled: “DNA ORIGAMI NANO-DYNAMIC STRUCTURE FOR TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY”


• * Chalom Zemmour, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, recipient of the 2025 Best Micrograph titled: “GOLD AGE”

Welcome and best of luck to Tamar Segal-Peretz form the Technion and Gaby Frank from Ben-Gurion university on stepping into their roles as Chairperson and Secretary.

We wish to thank Leah Gheber, Assaf Gal, Inna Popov and Zahava Barkay who are leaving the ISM board after many years of great contribution to the activity of the society.

We look forward to meet you all again next year at ISM2026 !