Basics Lichen Microscopy on Zoom
Date: Monday 1st December 2025
Time: 19.00 to 20.30 (approx)
Frequency: zoom meetings are usually every month - check events listing for dates
Details
This ‘Basics’ microscopy group on Zoom is an informal support group held each month, open to anyone who has recently started to study lichens using microscopy. We meet to share a few photos or short presentations, and to discuss techniques and the interpretation of what we have been looking at under the microscope.
Participants will already have both a dissecting microscope and a high-powered compound microscope with magnification to at least x400. You will know how to use your microscopes and will already have had a go at cutting lichen sections, even if with only limited success. You may have already taken part in an introductory ‘live’ microscopy course.
The main aim of the sessions is to ask questions, to gain confidence, to get better at cutting sections and to understand what you see.
If you haven’t shared photos in a Zoom session before, don’t be put off, we can help you with that.
Contact: To join this session, or for more information, contact Di Napier (Warwickshire):
zoom-microscopy@britishlichensociety.org.uk
Lots of useful information about lichen microscopy can be found on the BLS website page “Microscope Work”:
https://britishlichensociety.org.uk/learning/microscope-work
The two links on that page to information about cutting sections, written by John Skinner and Mark Powell, will be particularly useful.