 Mark: I enjoyed meeting many people for the first time. Although zoom is great, it is nothing compared to in person! So it was very good to meet Naomi and Jemima from our AT group. I met several people that I knew only from the literature, and met several promising young people and some useful commercial vendors. Half or more of the people at the meeting were from Europe - there is a lot happening there! It was useful for me to get exposed to widely used software like webknossos, napari, microscopy image browser, empanada, etc. Although I have my own (imperfect) solutions to handling big data, it's great to know that there are alternatives are constantly being developed. I saw lots of impressive computer simulations but I came away with the general impression that there are lots of things to be discovered in biology by volume EM! Fib-SEM is moving forward fast, and it is the method of choice for certain kinds of subjects / problems. But I also came away with the conviction that array tomography / ATUM tape collector has its place. The capabilities for re-imaging and localization of molecules are big advantages. As for work that we can mention, I had a nice talk with Xiaomeng Han from the Lichtman lab about preserving extracellular space in the brain, and pre-embedding labeling of brain with single chain antibodies: 
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