The 53rd annual meeting of the Texas Society for Microscopy was hosted will in Denton on February 22nd - 24th, 2018. The convention was hosted in Hilton Garden Inn on February 23rd and 24th, while a workshop was organized by Nikon Instruments Inc. at the Discovery Park of the University of North Texas on February 22nd, 2018.

Skylar King and Dua'a Quedan were recipients of the Howard J. Arnott Student Competition Award for the Graduate Student Presentation Competition in Biological Sciences at the 2018 Texas Society for Microscopy Conference. Skylar's PhD mentor is Dr. Pamela Padilla and Dua's PhD mentor is Dr. Douglas Root.