Find out about the latest news, announcements and stories about microscopy at ANU.

SEM image of a chickpea pollen cell
Tuesday, 05 Aug 2025
  • News

In a stunning display of micro-scale artistry, Asma Muhammad Hanif, a PhD candidate
from the Chan group, Research School of Biology has won the 'Cool Science' category
at Training Centre for Future Crops Development annual meeting's image competition
earlier in June this year.

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Tuesday, 22 Oct 2024
  • News

Thanks to everyone who entered the 2024 CAM Image Competition. We have picked the winners!

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Friday, 24 May 2024
  • News

Registrations are open for CAM's Microscopy workshops. These are open to both ANU staff/students and external participants.

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Friday, 29 Sep 2023
  • News

Thanks to everyone who entered the 2023 CAM Image Competition. We have picked the winners!

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Friday, 19 Aug 2022
  • News

Recent installations at ANU’s Centre for Advanced Microscopy (CAM) are offering researchers new and unique possibilities in imaging and sample preparation.

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Tuesday, 12 Jul 2022
  • Research story

Browse some of the stunning images taken by CAM users.

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Wednesday, 30 Mar 2022
  • Application

Multiple imaging techniques used to assess nanofibrous biomaterials for brain repair potential.

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Sunday, 20 Feb 2022
  • News

CAM has microscopy subscriptions and packages available, tailored to suit individual group requirements.

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The SEM image shows a fossilised 'tetrad' of 4 liverwort spores (Cingulasporites ornatus) from McGraths Flat, a newly discovered fossil site near Gulgong, NSW. The depicted pollen helped to date the fossil site as a ca. 15 million-year-old Miocene deposit
Tuesday, 23 Nov 2021
  • Research story

Images of microfossils taken at CAM are being used to help understand Australia’s past environment, as part of the Australian Museum’s Citizen Science project “Date a Fossil”.

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