Tech Events by The Francis Crick Institute

The seventh Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium: two days on the software and methods used to pull data out of microscopy images. The programme mixes invited and selected talks, poster sessions and panel discussions, with a strong focus on early-career researchers. A separate hands-on napari workshop runs on 25 and 26 November. Run by The Francis Crick Institute at its building by King's Cross, 23 to 24 November. In person, with an online option. Check the Eventbrite page for ticket price and availability; refunds aren't offered. Why go: the main London meeting where biologists and image-analysis developers compare tools. Best for bioimage analysts, computational biologists and anyone building AI for microscopy.

The Society of Electron Microscope Technology's winter meeting, hosted at the Francis Crick Institute on Midland Road. Seven invited speakers plus eight early-career talks run through the Royal Microscopical Society beginners competition. The programme spans new instrument design, bioimaging and cryo-SEM, using SEM to supplement macrophotography, new probes for confocal microscopy, EBSD applications, atom probe microscopy, XPS and Raman spectroscopy, and microscopy in food research. It is a full day, 09:00 to 18:00, in the Crick's auditorium. There is a registration fee covering room hire and speaker travel; the listing does not state the amount. An optional virtual stream costs the same, with joining details sent to registrants on 2 December. Refunds up to seven days before. Why go: instrument-level detail you will not get from a conference keynote, and the early-career competition is a good read on where imaging technique is heading. Best for microscopists, materials and bio-imaging researchers, and instrument vendors.

with Charles Mullighan (Keynote, FRS, St Jude Children's Research Hospital) · Dominique Bonnet (Chair, The Francis Crick Institute)

The 29th edition of a leading annual meeting bringing UK and European researchers together on blood cell development and disease, covering blood stem cell biology, developmental haematopoiesis, gene regulation and leukaemia research. Includes a poster exhibition and short talks from submitted abstracts. Price is not published on the event page.

Lunchtime drop-in session in the Crick gallery where researchers discuss their work with visitors. Free with no booking required.

with Nic Tapon (Principal Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute)

A morning lecture in the Crick Crash Course series, which exists to put research from across the institute in front of a non-specialist audience. This one traces Drosophila research from the early 1900s to the work going on at the Crick now: genetic inheritance, how brains process information, and how cells know when to multiply. Audience Q&A follows. Held at the Crick itself on Midland Road. Why go: the fly is the organism that taught biology most of what it knows about genes, and this is an hour of actual Crick science rather than a science-communication set piece. Best for anyone in biotech or health tech who wants the underlying research explained properly, and for people considering a move into life sciences.

with Bonnie Bassler (Professor, Princeton University)

Crick Lecture on bacterial cell-to-cell communication, delivered by a leading figure in quorum sensing research. Times and price were not published on the institute's listing at time of writing.

A free evening of pop-up science on identity, connections and belonging. Attendees find out what diseases shaped human history, meet researchers from the Crick's Ancient Genomics Lab, and create a collage exploring their own identity. Runs alongside the We Go Way Back exhibition; over-18s only.

Distinguished McKnight University Professor Alan C. Love delivers the next Being Human Lecture.

Evening drop-in session in the Crick gallery where researchers discuss their work with visitors. Free with no booking required.

with Nicholas McGranahan (Professor, UCL) · Sergio Quezada (Professor, The Francis Crick Institute) · Erik Sahai (Host, The Francis Crick Institute)

Two-day meeting bringing together researchers at the forefront of cancer biology, from genomics and immunology to metabolism and the tumour microenvironment. Programme features invited talks, a poster session, careers workshops and a roundtable on innovative clinical trial design in oncology. Price is not published on the event page.

Lunchtime drop-in session in the Crick gallery where researchers discuss their work with visitors and answer questions about life in the lab. Free with no booking required; groups of seven or more should contact the institute in advance.

A one-day symposium at the Francis Crick Institute connecting London's computational biology, AI and biotech communities — research talks aimed at sparking collaboration across the three.

Sixth-form edition of the Crick's drop-in gallery format in which scientists take a break from research to chat about their work with visitors. Designed for group discussion and conversation.