Meeting Program
2026 May 14
Meeting Program :
The scientific program will include plenary lectures, invited lectures, oral presentations and posters.
Abstracts, reflecting scientific results in all branches of microscopy , are encouraged. Only registered participants will be able to present at the conference.
08:30 - 09:30 Registration, Light Refreshments, Vendors Exhibition & Posters Mounting
OPENING SESSION - Hall A
Session Chair: Tamar Segal-Peretz , ISM Chairperson
09:30 - 09:50 Opening Remarks Presentation of the ISM Excellence Prizes- Yael Mutsafi and Margulis Prizes Presentation of the Eyal Shimoni Travel Scholarship and ISM Travel award to MSC2026
PLENARY SESSION - Hall A
Session Chair: Leeya Engel , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
09:50 - 10:30 Plenary Lecture: Benny Geiger , Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.MULTI- DIMENSIONAL VIEW OF CELL- MICROENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS: A 5-DECADE JOURNEY
Session Chair: Tamar Segal-Peretz , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
10:30 - 10:50 MICROSCOPY IN ISRAEL- PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Martin Kessel, , Hebrew University of JerusalemRan Zalk , Ben Gurion University of the NegevIdo Kaminer , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break and Vendors Exhibition
Session Chair: Adi Salomon , Bar Ilan University
11:20 - 12:00 Plenary Lecture: Boaz Pokroy , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelELUCIDATING STRUCTURE- FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN BIOLOGICAL AND BIO-INSPIRED MATERIALS
SOUND BITES SESSION - Hall A
Session Chair:
12:00 - 12:30 Posters Sound Bites
LUNCH SESSION
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and Vendors Exhibition
13:00 - 14:00 LIFE SCIENCES POSTERS INSTRUMENTATION & METHODOLOGY POSTERS MATERIALS SCIENCE POSTERS VENDORS EXHIBITION MICROGRAPH COMPETITION ISM GENERAL ASSEMBLY - Hall A
PARALLEL SESSIONS I
14:00 - 15:35 Life Science Materials Science Instrumentation & Methodology Development
15:35 - 16:00 Coffee Break and Vendors Exhibition
PARALLEL SESSIONS II
16:00 - 17:35 Life Science Materials Science
CLOSING SESSION - Hall A
Session Chair: Tamar Segal-Peretz , ISM Chairperson
17:35 - 18:00 Closing Remarks, Best Poster and Best Micrograph Nominations
18:00 Departure
Afternoon Parallel Sessions :
Session : Life Science
Materials Science
Instrumentation & Methodology Development
Hall name : Hall M Hall L Hall K
Session Chair : Natalie Elia , Ben Gurion UniversityAmnon Rothman , Ben Gurion UniversityAdy Arie , Tel-Aviv University
14:00 - 14:20 Invited Natan Shaked , Tel-Aviv University, Israel3D LABEL-FREE IMAGING OF RAPID BIOLOGICAL CELL DYNAMICS VIA INTERFEROMETRIC MULTIPLEXING Invited Yevgeny Rakita , Ben-Gurion University, IsraelTBA Invited Ofer Kfir , Tel-Aviv University, Israel4D-STEM OF 2D MATERIALS AT LOW ELECTRON ENERGIES
14:20 – 14:31 Mutsafi Shani Nadav Eliyahu , Bar-Ilan University, IsraelNUCLEAR SPECKLES ARE REGULTORY HUBS FOR VIRAL AND HOST MRNA EXPRESSION DURING HSV-1 INFECTION Shai Levy , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelPROBING SUPERFLUORESCENT EMISSION IN PEROVSKITE QUANTUM DOTS THROUGH ULTRAFAST CATHODOLUMINESCENCE ELECTRON MICROSCOPY Margulis Daniel Khaykelson , Weizmann Institute, IsraelUNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING AND 4D-STEM FOR ELUCIDATING HIDDEN STRUCTURAL DISORDER IN NANOMETER SCALES
14:31 - 14:42 Yael Noy , Weizmann Institute, IsraelFROM BLACK TO WHITE: DE NOVO BIOGENESIS OF A LIGHT-SCATTERING ORGANELLE DURING PIGMENT CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION Hadar Aharon , Tel-Aviv University, IsraelCATHODOLUMINESCENCE ENHANCEMENT MECHANISMS IN SILICA MICROSPHERES Ofri Goldenberg , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelPHYSICS-INFORMED SELF-SUPERVISED GENERATIVE MODEL FOR 3D LOCALIZATION MICROSCOPY
14:42 - 14:53 Shani Tcherner Elad , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelAN ENGINEERED PLATFORM TO STUDY THE INFLUENCE OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX NANOTOPOGRAPHY ON CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE Roey Ben David , Fritz Haber InstituteOPERANDO SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY STUDY OF NICKEL FOAM CATALYST DURING AMMONIA DECOMPOSITION REACTION TBD
14:53 - 15:04 Ran Tivony , Ben-Gurion University, IsraelQUANTIFYING ION TRANSPORT AND ELECTROCHEMICAL GRADIENTS IN SYNTHETIC CELL MEMBRANES Amram Azulay , Tel-Aviv University, IsraelCRYSTAL STRUCTURE METROLOGY USING SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY Hussam Salameh , Hebrew University, IsraelTOWARDS A COMPACT SUB-100-MEV SEM ELECTRON SPECTROMETER
15:05 - 15:15 Avital Wagner , Radboud University Medical CenterLOW-DOSE LIQUID-PHASE ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF BONE MINERALIZATION Alon Krause , Bar-Ilan University, IsraelMORPHOLOGY-ACTIVATED SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION IN METASTABLE PARA-RED PLATE CRYSTALS Ben Lich , Delmic BVSUPER-RESOLVED INTEGRATED CRYO-FLUORESCENCE IMAGING ON LAMELLA FOR PRECISION CRYO-ET
15:15 - 15:35 Invited Dvir Harris , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelTBA Invited Oren Lahav , KLAOVERLAY METROLOGY CHALLENGES IN ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR NODES
15:35 - 16:00 Coffee Break and Vendors Exhibition
Session : Life Science
Materials Science
Hall name : Hall M Hall L
Session Chair : Gili Bisker , Tel-Aviv University, IsraelDoron Naveh , Bar-Ilan University, Israel
16:00 - 16:20 Invited Liron David , Ben-Gurion University, IsraelTBA Invited Alexandra Tayar , Weizmann Institute, IsraelTBA
16:20- 16:31 Yuval Ebenstein , Tel-Aviv University, IsraelCONTINUOUSLY CONTROLLED SPECTRAL (COCOS) MICROSCOPY: FROM HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE MOLECULE MULTIPLEXING TO HIGH-RESOLUTION MULTI-COLOR IMAGING Tali Lemcoff , Ben-Gurion University, IsraelDAMSELFLIES OVERCOME COLOR SATURATION BARRIERS OF PHOTONIC GLASSES VIA PIGMENT LOADING AND REFRACTIVE INDEX MODULATION
16:31- 16:42 Geffen Rosenberg , Tel-Aviv University, IsraelQUANTIFYING POPULATION REVERSIBILITY OF SENSOR PERFORMANCE IN MULTI-CYCLE SINGLE-SENSOR RECOVERY ASSAY Hadar Nasi , Weizmann Institute, IsraelCORRELATIVE IMAGING CAPTURES A FUSION MECHANISM AS THE ORIGIN OF SINGLE-CRYSTALS WITH MULTIDOMAIN APPEARANCE
16:42 - 16:53 Peter Kirchweger , Weizmann Institute, IsraelADVANCED CRYO-STET IMAGING: FISHING FOR THE MTDNA IN SITU Sapir Rappoport , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelINTERACTIONS OF AMPHIPHILIC INTERPOLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEXES WITH LIPOSOME MEMBRANES STUDIED BY ON-THE-GRID PROCESSING CRYO-TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
16:53 - 17:04 Esraa Nsasra , Ben-Gurion University, IsraelTHE LAST 2 HOURS BEFORE DEATH: MULTISCALE SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COLLECTIVE CELL DEATH Shirel Kleiner , Tel-Aviv University, IsraelOPTICAL SENSORS FOR PROBING HYDROGELS AND THE BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
17:04 - 17:15 Inbar Yosibash , Tel-Aviv University, IsraelA VERSATILE GPMV-IMAGING PLATFORM FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF RECEPTOR BINDING AND MEMBRANE FUSION Martyna Polak , AGH universityELECTROSPUN PLLA COMPOSITE FIBERS WITH rGO AND MXene: SURFACE CHARGE MODULATION AND OSTEOBLAST RESPONSE
17:15- 17:35 Invited Shifra Lansky , Weizmann Institute, IsraelOLIGOMER PLASTICITY: AN EMERGING NEW MECHANISM IN MEMBRANE PROTEINS? Invited Angelica Elkan , Tel-Aviv University, IsraelMECHANISM GUIDED CRYSTAL GROWTH: FROM MOLECULAR MECHANISIMS TO MATURE CRYSTALS WITH DESIGNED MORPHOLOGIES
