FOM 2001 is organized as a joint international conference consisting of the 13th International Conference on Confocal Microscopy and the 14th International Conference on 3D Image Processing and Microscopy and is sponsored by:

• Royal Microscopical Society, Oxford, UK
• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microscopie, The Netherlands
• Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, The Netherlands
• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Bioptechs
• Halcyonics
• Perkin Elmer Life Sciences, The Netherlands
• Uvikon (Nikon)