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Image: A widefield fluorescent microscopy image of a larval fruit fly.
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Euro-BioImaging ERIC will launch with at least 15 founding members
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Since May 2016, Euro-BioImaging has enjoyed a successful interim operation; offering life scientists open access to imaging services across its 29 Nodes Candidates throughout Europe. The next step is ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) status, and this will be launched with at least 15 founding members: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland (the legal host), France, Hungary, Israel, Italy (site of the Med Hub), Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, UK and the intergovernmental organisation, EMBL (site of the Bio Hub). Belgium will participate as an observer while Poland, and Spain are preparing for their participation in the near future. With their commitment, the founding members demonstrate imaging research as a national priority for at least the next five years, thereby supporting scientific flexibility and excellence across Europe.
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Image: EuBI Founding members. Dark green: founding members; light green: observer; dark grey: prospective members; blue outline: Hub hosts.
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EMBL-EBI announces the launch of the BioImage Archive
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With the advances in modern imaging technologies, the wealth of digital imaging data is rising exponentially. While this will lead to exciting breakthroughs, new challenges are also presenting themselves. The storage of data, its complexity and interoperability are but a few of the challenges for today’s life scientists. In response to these modern imaging trends, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is expanding its remit to include bioimaging data. Through its new, dedicated resource for biological images, called the BioImage Archive, EMBL-EBI aims to make it easier for researchers around the world to store, share, access and analyse biological images.
The BioImage Archive is part of a wider EMBL drive to improve access to imaging technology and data. EMBL is also a founding member of Euro-BioImaging ERIC and hosts the Euro-BioImaging general data services as well as the Euro-BioImaging Bio Hub at its site in Heidelberg. To learn more about the BioImage Archive, read the EMBL-EBI’s press release.
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Euro-BioImaging helps develop an open collaborative space for digital biology in Europe
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Euro-BioImaging along with twelve other ESFRI Research Infrastructures in the Life Science domain have joined forces to take on the challenge to transform the fragmented research data landscape into an open collaborative space for digital biology within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The project is called EOSC-Life and is supported by a 23.7M € award from the European Commission.
In EOSC-Life the Research Infrastructures will publish data from facilities and data resources in the EOSC and link these FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) databases to open and reusable tools and workflows accessible to users via Europe’s national and international life-science clouds.
Euro-BioImaging plays a significant role in EOSC-Life including: ensuring data analysis tools and workflows are cloud ready; supporting “demonstrators” to populate and test the cloud; development of user management and access service; development of open calls for the community to access cloud tools and services; outreach to and engagement with industry; contribution to training.
FAIR data and services will improve the reproducibility of biomedical research and drive new scientific discoveries. It is therefore hoped that Euro-BioImaging’s effort in the EOSC-Life project will help keep European Life Science at the forefront of global advances and increase our understanding of life and disease.
Read our news article here.
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An insight into the Italian Advanced Light Microscopy Node
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In this newsletter we highlight the Italian Advanced Light Microscopy Node, its services and successful outreach during EuBI Interim Operation. This Node is a large multi-modal, multi-sited Node, comprised of five imaging facilities located in Naples, Genoa, Padua, Florence and Milan. Together the Node sites provide access to a wide range of technologies as well as a complete service package, from sample preparation to final image analysis, quantitation and visualization. The Node also has experience with a wide spectrum of model organisms and systems including mammalian and insect cell culture.
Thanks to the Node’s varied expertise and resources it services around 1000 users a year, from both academia and industry, providing open-access to its imaging services. Since the start of EuBI Interim Operation in May 2016, the Italian Advanced Light Microscopy Node is the second most requested Node with 27% of its users willing to travel internationally to access its facilities. The most requested technologies from this Node include EM, LSCM and CLEM. For a full list of the Node’s technologies and services and to learn how to gain access, please visit the web access portal.
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Image: Members of the ALM Italian Node: Gabriele Turacchio, Marinella Pirozzi and Raman Parashuraman
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Exciting next steps for the Euro-BioImaging Industry Board
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On 26 April, the Euro-BioImaging Industry Board held its spring meeting. The twelve members, representing a range of imaging-associated companies, discussed industry's participation in initiatives such as the EOSC-Life project, LifeTime and the BioImage Archive. The Board’s involvement in future funding applications and workshops with Euro-BioImaging Nodes was also an important topic. Upcoming opportunities for the Board include:
- Development of "one voice" tools to speak to the funders of imaging research
- Embedding the Board into the Euro-BioImaging governance structure
- Participation at Euro-BioImaging stakeholder events
If you represent a company that is interested in joining the Board or if you are a member of the Euro-BioImaging community and would like to find out how you can collaborate with the Board, please visit the website and/or contact the Coordinator.
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Image: Members of the Euro-BioImaging Industry Board
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Registration for Global BioImaging’s 4th Exchange of Experience workshop is now open
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The Exchange of Experience workshop series continues with an event focusing on career paths for core facility staff and the future activities of the Global BioImaging network.
Exchange of Experience IV will be hosted by SingaScope – a Singapore-wide microscopy infrastructure network – and will bring together partners and delegates from the continuously growing GBI network, including representatives from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa and the United States.
The workshop will be held in the Biopolis campus in Singapore, the home of A* STAR’s biomedical research institutes, on 13-14 September 2019.
Registration is free but is limited to 60 people. For more information and to apply, visit the Global BioImaging website.
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Image: The skyline of Singapore
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Global BioImaging launches its international job shadowing program
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The Global BioImaging job shadowing is an "on-the-job" learning opportunity whereby technical and managerial staff working in an imaging core facility have the opportunity to visit and learn from peers across the globe. Essentially, imaging facility shadowing involves working with another experienced member of staff in a different facility who may have, for example; more experience in providing open user access or operating a different set of imaging technologies etc.
For more information and to apply visit the Global BioImaging job shadowing webpage.
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Image: Andreas Brech, from the Oslo University Hospital, Head of the EuBI NorMIC Oslo Node Candidate, visiting the Centre for Advanced Microscopy (CAM) at the Australian National University during the previous Job Shadowing programme
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Exploring the potential of correlated multi-modal imaging
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Recently, there has been a lot of discussion in the imaging community about correlated multi-modal imaging (CMI) as a means to gather more holistic information about an individual specimen. The CMI process of combining two or more imaging techniques to a single sample can result in a greater understanding of the sample’s macro, meso- and microscopic structure, dynamics, function and chemical composition. CMI therefore has huge potential in biological and biomedical research but numerous barriers need to be overcome to make CMI a more standard practice. In recognition of this COMULIS - Correlated Multi-modal Imaging in Life Sciences – was formed by BioImaging Austria as a EU-funded COST Action which aims to fuel the urgently needed collaborations in the field of CMI.
There are a number of ways to engage with COMULIS and here we put the spotlight on the COMULIS Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) which provide travel grants to individuals wishing to explore new imaging techniques – and this is where Euro-BioImaging can help. Via a single web portal, Euro-BioImaging provides access to 36 different imaging technologies located across Europe. Here we highlight examples Euro-BioImaging Nodes that are particularly interested in welcoming individuals supported by STSMs to explore the potential of CMI:
There are many more Nodes and technologies! Visit the interim web access portal for more detail.
To read about COMULIS and its full list of opportunities, visit the COMULIS website.
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FEBS Congress 2019
Krakow, Poland, 6-11 July 2019
https://2019.febscongress.org/
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Microscience Microscopy Conference (mmc) 2019
Manchester, UK, 1-4 July 2019
https://www.mmc-series.org.uk/
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Tübingen Career Day
Tübingen, Germany, 13 September 2019
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Imaging of diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers in Oncology workshop
Le Bono, France, 25-28 September 2019
https://www.cgo-workshop-vecto.fr/
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