Next Generation Optical Microscopy Initiative: Imaging cellular structure and function beyond the diffraction limit Super-resolved microscopy has revolutionised optical imaging by breaking the "diffraction limit" of optical resolution and achieving a resolution down to 10's of nm. Life Sciences researchers with interest in fields such as epigenetics, gene regulation and metabolism can now visualise biological structures and functions on the molecular scale in live cells and organisms. Teams at MRC LMS and Imperial College London have recently partnered to develop instruments, capabilities and imaging techniques such as SIM, STED, 3-D PALM STORM and FLIM-FRET to visualise and study biological structures and processes. In the innovation mixer on Wednesday, 1st March at 2.30pm we will highlight our advances in the field and present some in-house developments of these novel techniques.