October, a month of sharing experiences
Last month, several members of France-BioImaging took part in the opportunities offered by Euro-BioImaging’s EVOLVE project, enabling valuable exchanges and inspiring experiences.
Through the Job Shadowing initiative, Guillaume Gay, Data Engineer for the FBI.data mission and Research Software Engineer at LIRMM (Montpellier), welcomed Kenneth Ho, Big Data Systems Engineer at the Francis Crick Institute (London).
They discussed their shared challenges and solutions in microscopy data management, and this week-long visit gave them the time to delve deeply into several technical topics.
Caroline Thiriet, Deputy Administrative Director for International Relations and Industry at France-BioImaging, hosted Virginia Pierini, Service Manager at the EMBL Imaging Centre. Their discussions focused on how France-BioImaging coordinates its distributed national infrastructure, which brings together 10 Nodes and more than 30 imaging facilities across France.
Finally, Fabrice Cordelière, Head of Training for France-BioImaging and Bio-Image Analyst at the Bordeaux Imaging Center, took part in the Train-the-Trainer event, where he mentored Iva Švecová from the Light Microscopy Facility at the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Eva benefited from Fabrice’s extensive experience in team management, user training, coding practices, and user-driven data backup workflows.
We are delighted to contribute to the EVOLVE programme, which fosters collaboration, peer learning, and mutual inspiration among Euro-BioImaging Nodes. These initiatives reinforce our shared commitment to open, coordinated, and high-impact scientific services for the life science community.
Marine Béraud • November 17, 2025