Registrations are now open for the symposium “Physical Chemistry of the Cell”, to be held in Orsay, France from November 15th to November 17th, 2017.

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Majors topics of the meeting will be : New probes and labelling strategies/ New imaging modalities and biosensors/ Quantification and sensing at the super-resolution scale/ Optogenetic, theranostic and multimodal agents/ Histopathology & pre-clinical imaging / In vivo imaging, non-linear and photoacoustic imaging

Confirmed plenary speakers :

  • Luke LAVIS (Ashburn, Janelia Research Campus)
  • Franck RIQUET (University of Ghent)
  • Peter DEDECKER (KU Leuven)
  • Francesco PAVONE (University of Florence)
  • Matthia KARREMAN (DKFZ, Heildelberg)

There are still a few slots open for oral contributions (DL October 23rd)
Abstracts are welcome until November 6th

Please send your proposals by e-mail to physchemcell.2017@u-psud.fr, preferably in the form of a short A4 abstract.

Further information about the conference can be found at our web page :
http://www.cpps.u-psud.fr/?page_id=1698

This September, the “Global BioImaging” partners met in Bangalore at the NCBS, for the second workshop “Exchange of Experience II”. All continents were represented, with participants from Europe (EMBL, Finland, France, Italy, UK; under the EuroBioImaging banner), Australia, India, USA, South Africa, Japan, and new communities on board (e.g. Canada, Singapore).

In the frame of the past GBI program, the two first International Training Courses for Core Facility Staff organized in November 2016 and the first year of the International Job Shadowing Program were very successful and greatly acknowledged by their participants.

Beside an exhaustive presentation of the Project Status, major discussions on Open access to imaging infrastructures, image data management, quality management, Training for facility staff took place and were illustrated by diverse and very interesting presentations.

Other important issues were addressed concerning the future of “Global BioImaging”, beyond the end of the H2020 funded project and the engagement of the national communities. All participants were eager to pursue their collaboration beyond the initial project duration. In the concluding sessions of EoE II, it was agreed to :

  • Extend the GBI Management Board (EuBI Beneficiaries, Australia, India + Argentina, Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, USA). A virtual meeting to start the work on the long-term sustainability strategy will be launched in the coming weeks.
  • Help engagement ‘at home’ and facilitate dialogue with national imaging community and funders. A brief position paper on the international GBI network will be written.

Other information:

The second call of the “International Job Shadowing Program” has now been launched. Please take a look at http://www.eurobioimaging.eu/content-page/international-job-shadowing-program

Stay informed: The next EoE will take place back-to-back with the International Microscopy Conference IMC-19 on Sep 14-15th, 2018 in Sydney, hosted by the AMMRF.

This biophysics school aims at training students and young researchers to master fluorescent markers used in advanced fluorescence bioimaging: their diversity, how they actually work and what their current development are.

Deadline for registration: December 15, 2017.

It will be organized at the Ecole de Physique des Houches, in the french Alps,  on 18-23 March 2018.

Fluorescence-based imaging techniques play an increasing role in biology and medicine. In recent years, the field of fluorescence imaging has seen the spectacular development of super-resolution microscopy, also called “nanoscopy”. Nanoscopy has opened up huge research opportunities for biomedical sciences, as witnessed by the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2014, jointly attributed to S. Hell, E. Betzig and W. E. Moerner. In general, fluorescence microscopy requires labeling the samples with suitable fluorescent markers, either fluorescent proteins, organic fluorophores or nanoparticles. The markers used in super-resolution microscopy, however, must possess very specific properties. Nanoscopic techniques, in fact, rely fundamentally on the complex photophysical behavior of these markers.

Our school is motivated by the fact that more and more laboratories around the world are committed to the implementation of advanced microscopy techniques, in particular super resolution, with an increasing number of dedicated platforms. However, there is a global lack of knowledge about how fluorescent markers should be selected, their properties and mechanisms, and the type of artifacts they can create. The objective of the school is to contribute overcoming this lack.

Important novel developments are expected in the coming years that will introduce paradigm shifts in advanced fluorescence imaging. The course has the ambition to prepare participants to become major actors in these breakthroughs, by updating students and also preparing them to integrate new methods that were not necessarily taught at the level of a master degree, or that are difficult to teach because of interdisciplinarity.

Date and location
Date: 17 November 2017
Time: 9am-6pm
Location: Friedrich Miecher Institute, room 5.30The symposium is free of chargeOrganisers
Christel Genoud and Laurent Gelman

Contact person
christel.genoud@fmi.ch

Preliminary Program

09:00 09:15 Welcome
09:15 09:35 Dean Flanders (Head of IT, FMI): Coping with Large Life Science Data Sets from Acquisition to Archive
09:35 09:55 Urs Ziegler (University of Zurich): VM infrastructure for image processing at the University of Zurich
09:55 10:15 Enrico Tagliavini (IT, FMI): High performance storage fundamentals

10:15 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 10:50 Henry Luetcke (ID SYS, ETHZ): Distributed workflows for scalable analysis of large imaging datasets.
10:50 11:10 Katrin Volkmann (FAIM, FMI): High-Contect Screening Workflows at the FMI
11:10 11:30 Urs Mayr (Group Liberali, FMI): TissueMap, an image-processing platform for high-performance computing infrastructures

11:30 13:00 Lunch

13:00 13:20 Andrzej Rzepiela (ETH, Zurich): Phaedra – handling, analyzing, and visualizing HCS data
13:20 13:40 Stephan Gerhard (Group Friedrich, FMI): BrainCircuits.io, an image processing and analytics platform for large-scale EM connectomics
13:40 14:00 Michael Stadler (Head of Bioinformatics, FMI): Identification of cell types from single cell transriptomics data

14:00 14:15 Coffee break

14:15 14:35 Christian Tischer (AMLF, EMBL): Plugins to analyze and process big datasets in ImageJ
14:35 14:55 Thorsten Falk (IT, Uni Freiburg im Breisgau): Fully convolutional neural networks for 5-D microscopic image analysis
14:55 15:15 Raphaël Thierry (FAIM, FMI): Neural networks and Machine Learning for Image Classification

15:15 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 15:50 Andreas Schenk (FAIM/Group Thomä, FMI): Big data analysis in Structural EM
15:50 16:10 Fabian Svara and Jörgen Kornfeld (ariadne-service): Combining human and artificial intelligence for high-throughput image annotation
16:10 16:30 Dieter Goehlmann (Bitplane): Imaris 9 – New Billion Triangle Surface Model. Analysis of huge datasets using multi resolution surface segmentation
16:30 16:50 Maria Marosvölgyi (Arivis): Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Large Image Data via Desktop, Web and Virtual Reality

16:50 17:00 Closing remarks
17:00 – Apero in Basel (optional)

Image Contest FBI 2017

The France BioImaging Image Contest is back for its 2nd edition!

This image contest is open to all within the imaging community: core facility staff and users, R&D labs teams and co-workers, students… Submit your best microscopy images for a chance to showcase your skills, research and creativity to the French bioimaging community and beyond, allowing people to see the visual appeal of the life sciences. Images from the contest will be featured on France BioImaging communication tools, online and in print.

France BioImaging and all the French community aims to develop and promote innovative imaging technologies and methods. But microscopy images can also take an artistic, creative look and make the invisible world beautiful.

The National Coordination is eager to see your work !

Prizes

1 to 3 images will be awarded depending on the quatity and quality of the entries submitted. Prize winners will get to choose one option, between the following:

  • Registration and travel costs (flight from France to Hungary) to NEUBIAS Symposium (31 January-2 February 2018, Szeged, Hungary)*
  • Registration fees for Focus on Microscopy 2018 (25-28 March 2018, Singapore)
  • Registration fees for ELMI 2018 (5-8 June 2018, Dublin, Ireland)

* Prize winners already accepted to the NEUBIAS Training Schools may request that France BioImaging cover their fees as a prize. However, keep in mind that may you not win a prize, the registration fee for the event will still be due.

 

Submission deadline: Sunday 26 November 2017, 23h59 UTC+2. THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.

Click here to consult the terms and conditions of the contest. When you are ready, submit your entry by filling the form below. You can check out last year’s entries for inspiration. One participant can submit several entries.

 

 

 

The Global BioImaging project entails an international job shadowing program that aims to give the opportunity to the project’s stakeholders to visit imaging facilities across the globe and learn from their peers.

The program allows both the hosting facilities and their guests to exchange experiences and ideas, while working on innovative imaging technologies and the related technical aspects. It also has the added value to support networking and prepare possible future collaborations between imaging infrastructures.

After the success of the first round of the Global BioImaging shadowing program, which took place during 2017, the call for the second round is now open!

Imaging facility staff members within the Global BioImaging (GBI) Project Network (Euro-BioImaging, Australian National Imaging Facility, Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility, India-BioImaging) who wish to make a period of job shadowing at another GBI imaging facility can now apply to the program. Visits are foreseen to be international (from Europe to India/Australia and vice versa).

A limited number of travel grants is available for this second round of shadowing.

Applications will be scored by a panel of international external experts on the basis of applicants’ CVs and compliance between their positions and the requested job shadowing. The travel grants will be assigned to the highest scoring applications.You can find below the general guidelines for the shadowing program and a list of hosting facilities. Please read these documents carefully and if interested apply to the program by filling-in the on-line form at the following link: https://www.research.net/r/gbijobshadowing . Please be aware that you will be asked to upload a CV and a letter of approval from your supervisor/facility manager.

For all details, please visit the dedicated page on the Euro BioImaging website.

Practical information

Deadline for submission of the applications is Sunday 22/10/2017.

Selected applicants will be contacted/informed in November 2017. Visits should take place during the first half of 2018.

For more information, feel free to contact:

Alessandra Viale, WP5 manager (Biomedical Imaging facilities) alessandra.viale@unito.it

Maritta Löytömäki WP5 manager (Biological Imaging facilities) tbi-office@bioimaging.fi

Inga Pukonen, WP5 manager (Biological Imaging facilities) tbi-office@bioimaging.fi

 

This Symposium is organized by the Réseau d’Imagerie Cellulaire Paris-Saclay.

Address: Salle de conférence du CNRS -7 rue Guy Môquet – 94800 Villejuif (see program for detailed map)

This is a free event.

Registration is free (mandatory) at : feuilldelum[at]gmail.com

Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) is an emerging technology that combines optical sectioning with multiple-view imaging to observe tissues and living organisms with a remarkable resolution. Unlike conventional techniques of widefield and confocal fluorescence microscopy, the light sheet technique illuminates on the region surrounding the focal plane of the detection objective in a twin objective configuration.

Light sheet methods exhibit a reduced photobleaching and a lower phototoxicity. By rotating the specimen, the technique can image virtually any plane with multiple views obtained from different angles. LSFM is ideal for examining of both large (animals) and small (cells) specimens labeled with fluorescent proteins and other fluorophores.

L’I2BC organise un atelier à destination des chercheurs curieux de se perfectionner ou de s’initier aux techniques spécifiques à la microscopie confocale.

Le programme détaillé et les modalités d’inscription sont disponibles à l’adresse suivante : http://cnrsformation.cnrs.fr/stage-17090-Atelier-de-microscopie-confocale.html?axe=72

La pré-inscription se fait en cliquant sur le bouton orange “S’inscrire” en haut à droite de la page.

Pour plus de renseignements, contacter imagerie@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr.

Comité d’organisation : Sandrine Lécart, Romain Le Bars & Laëtitia Besse.

(This training session will be taught in French only).

Formation CNRS
Objectifs :
 Apprendre les fondamentaux de la microscopie photonique
 Acquérir les bonnes pratiques
 Découvrir les techniques avancées
 Acquérir de l’autonomie sur un ensemble de techniques de microscopie fréquemment rencontrées dans les laboratoires de biologie

Inscription avant le 9 octobre 2017 via le portail de formation du CNRS, Rubrique “Connaissances scientifiques” : https://admin.core-cloud.net/ou/SMUT/PFM/Lists/OFFRE%20REGIONALE%20IdF/Programme%202017.aspx

Imaging cells and molecular structures at the highest resolution has proven to be essential to study chromatin organization and cell cycle choreography of chromosomes, but also to analyze complex molecular machineries that act on DNA. During multi-im2017 one day and a half workshop, 3D_CHROME experts will share their knowledge on state-of-the-art imaging techniques, from live-cell imaging to high-resolution structural analyses. Keynote talks will be given by two external invited speakers.

multi-im2017 is organized in two sessions:

  • Cell-cycle choreography of chromosomes
  • Replication, Recombination, and Repair

Join us as well for the three round tables (Live cell Imaging / AFM, EM, cryoEM / Super-resolution) and one Poster Session

The workshop will take place on September 18-19, 2017 in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

The workshop is aimed at scientists with background in biology and imaging, including PhD students, engineers, young and senior scientists. Participation in the workshop is free but with obligatory registration (see Registration page on this website). Registration is limited to 150 participants, on a first-come basis.

This international course is aimed at both life science and clinical science fields, with the common fundamentals covered on day 1 and 2. The course then splits into life science and clinical orientated modules, from practical demonstrations to lectures highlighting not just the applications, but best practise as well.

The course is constructed as a set of three modules. You can elect to attend the Course from between two to five days, depending on the Modules selected.

The Modules consist of lectures interspersed with sessions in the laboratory. It is anticipated that instruments from three manufacturers will be available for practical work.

Detailed program and registration: https://www.rms.org.uk/discover-engage/event-calendar/flow-cytometry-course-2017.html#Flow Course 2017

The 8th Abercrombie meeting, celebrating the work of Michael Abercrombie, will be held from 11-14 September 2017 in Oxford and will address the key, exciting new findings and emerging approaches in the study of cell migration across a range of biological contexts, both in vitro and in vivo as well as providing an excellent platform for open and constructive discussions between researchers from world-leading labs.
Poster abstract submission and registration are open!