The International Microscopy Conference (Microscopy Conference 2021, MC2021 - Joint Meeting of Dreiländertagung & Multinational Congress on Microscopy) scheduled for Vienna last summer was finally held on 22-26 August 2021 due to the pandemic, held in virtual form. The event was attended by about 700 people from 39 countries, and in addition to several similar organizations, the Hungarian Microscopic Society also took part at this event.

Among the many conference posters, there were four Hungarian works. One of these Hungarian posters presented the effect of drought and osmotic stress on the structure of chloroplasts, based on the results of research conducted at the ELTE Institute of Biology under the supervision of Katalin Solymosi since 2017. Richard Hembrom, a PhD student of the Biology Doctoral School at Eötvös Lóránd University, was the first author of the poster in the Life Sciences section and won the Best Poster Award. Richard Hembrom PhD student is studying at Eötvös Loránd University with a Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship.