FOCUS ON MICROSCOPY 2026, Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday March 29 to Wednesday April 1, 2026
We would like to announce FOM2026, the next conference in the FOM series. FOM2026 will take place in, Stockholm, Sweden, from Sunday March 29 to Wednesday April 1, 2026. Please note that this will be in the week before Easter 2026.
The FOM2026 conference will take place at:
Kistamässan, Arne Beurlings Torg 5, 164 40 Kista, Sweden
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Important dates
| Opening submission of abstracts | Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
| Deadline application financial support | Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
| Deadline submission of abstracts | Tuesday, January 13, 2026 |
| Acceptance contributions, draft program on the web | Thursday, January 29, 2026 |
| Deadline early registration | Thursday, February 19, 2026 |
| FOM2026 Conference | Sunday, March 29 – Wednesday, April 1, 2026 |
| Easter Sunday 2026 | Sunday, April 5, 2026 |
FOM2026 continues a long-standing (since 1988), yearly conference series on the latest innovations and developments in (optical) microscopy and their application in biology, medicine, and the material sciences.
The conference will start on Sunday, March 29, with tutorials, followed by parallel sessions, Flash poster presentations and a plenary opening session with invited speakers at the end of the afternoon. The tentative program will be available later this year, and can be found under “Program” on this web site.
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Topics
- Theory and practice of confocal and multiphoton-excitation microscopy
- Instrumentation and microscope design
- Super-resolution microscopy
- 3D and 4D live cell and tissue imaging
- Adaptive optics for microscopy
- Light sheet microscopy
- Phase/interference based microscopies
- OCT, holography, endoscopy
- Advanced fluorescence imaging/spectroscopy: FRET, FRAP, FLIM, FCS, SOFI
- New fluorescent probes, proteins, quantum dots, single molecule imaging
- Clearing and expansion techniques
- Coherent non-linear microscopies: SHG, THG, SFG, CARS
- Multi-dimensional fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy imaging
- Correlated microscopies e.g. light/electron
- Laser manipulation and tracking, photo-activation
- Fast acquisition, automated and high-content microscopy
- 3D image processing and visualization for multidimensional data
FOM 2026 presentations
Presentations in a plenary session are scheduled for 40 minutes and oral presentations in parallel sessions for 20 minutes, both including discussion time. In addition, two sessions are reserved for presenting posters.
Detailed information about the previous FOM conferences can be found on this website under the “About” button. From 2004 onwards also with one page abstracts of the presented contributions. Please note also the “Search FOM database” button for full searches through the whole FOM archive over the years.