It was a balmy December night at the MSSA 2013 gala dinner - hosted at the Farm Inn east of Pretoria - when my name was announced as the winner of the JEOL/ALS sponsored: ‘Most promising microscopist award.’ This prize included an all-expenses paid trip to present at an international microscopy conference in 2014. After normalizing my heart rate realising that I had indeed won this coveted prize, I knew that I wanted to attend what I like to refer to as the “Olympics of microscopy” – The International Microscopy Congress (IMC)

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