On September 22nd, 2016, a joint meeting took place between the FBI coordination, IPDM node and other partners, to discuss the implementation of data management services within FBI. Please find below the main points discussed during the meeting.

1. Objective – Setting the required elements for public access to different types of Image Data within FBI.
2. Purpose and expectations – to have, in one year’s time, a successful proof of concept for FBI. This topic is of particular importance for FBI, as it will soon be required of any project funded with public money to provide data management plans. In the very short term, infrastructures will likely be expected to guarantee the safe conservation and fast access to any data supporting a publication (see for example the Netherlands protocol).
3. Audience – two different audiences were considered as targets of the project: users within the FBI perimeter, and the general public (fully public access); the former being more feasible in a year’s time than the latter.
4. Proposals
   
   • WP1a Support
     • Support the work of WP1a in their benchmarking action (Contact: Orestis Faklaris);
     • Being workflow-oriented, so that the methods defined to support WP1a can be applied to other WPs.
   • Metrology-oriented database
     • Instrument-based metrology database: asking each site to share metrology benchmarking of microscopes from 2016, including software used when any;
     • At midterm: go to real biological object to associate metrology data as quality metrics;
     • Before the end of the project: include metrology oriented annotations to WP1a support;
     • Long term: include metrology-oriented annotations to open image data repositories.
   •  Open Image Data Repository:
     • Hosting 2016 publications acknowledging FBI, uploading raw data at least supporting published figures.
5. Resources: Remaining funds from Pasteur IPDM could be mobilized to carry out the project (the funds would go towards financing the equipment and staff). Coordination funds will be allocated to the employment of an engineer for a period of approximately 9 months.

Meeting Participants:
Volker Baecker (Montpellier), Anatole Chessel (Paris Sud), Stéphane Dallongeville (IPDM Paris Centre), Anne Danckaert (Paris Centre), Elaine Del Nery (Paris Centre), Nimisha Gupta (OpenImadis Bengalore), Cédric Matthews (Marseille), Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux (IPDM), Jean Salamero (Coordination), Corinne Tessier (Coordination).

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 will allow 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.

The call for the first GBI international shadowing program is now open!

Deadline for submission of the applications is 31/10/2016.

NEUBIAS, the network of European BioImage Analysts funded by the EU framework COST, has opened a new activity that will run continuously for 4 years, and is centered on mobility grants, also called Short-Term Scientific Missions.

The first call deadline is the 10th of September, but several other call will be regularly published.

BioImage Analysts and Life Scientists, from Research Labs AND Core facilities, can apply for funds to cover their expenses when visiting a Host-Lab in a different country (Lab or industry) where they will perform a short scientific project strictly focused on BioImage Analysis, and that should enable:
1) collaborations on innovative image analysis methods,
2) access to big data analysis technology and/or image analysis tools for scientists lacking them locally,
3) knowledge transfer to support careers and regional development.

Please check all the information here: http://eubias.org/NEUBIAS/?page_id=707 and contact these people for any question: Julia Fernandez Rodriguez – NEUBIAS STSM Coordinator – juliafer@cci.sahlgrenska.gu.se Clara Prats – NEUBIAS WG7 Co-Leader – cprats@sund.ku.dk Julien Colombelli – NEUBIAS Action Chair – julien.colombelli@irbbarcelona.org

Already before year 2016, FBI was involved in many teaching and training activities. With the care about “not reinventing the wheel”, FBI first brought its support to running activities in this domain at the national level. For this reason, it was decided to bring recurrent help to the MiFoBio school of the CNRS, organized by the GDR MIV since 2004. Moreover and similarly, FBI is co-organizing the FBI-Advanced Training sessions, also with the GDR MIV. These two 5-9 days events are highly valuable and are recognized as such by a large community, far beyond core facility staffs. They are largely focused on theory and hands-one training and on applying this knowledge to specific biological questions. In 2016, FBI was a pushing force to give an international visibility to both actions. Both concepts merit a stronger international impact as other workshops or training series do, like EMBL-EMBO or Woods Hall workshops and courses. Taking advantage on diverse opportunities at the European and International level together with other main international actors in this topic (H2020, EuBI, NEUBIAS, FENS CAJAL), FBI now drafted a strategy at an upper level, with the aim at defining a complete “train the trainers” portfolio.

 
Let us mention some almost achieved deliverables: organizing surveys on Training Activity and Training Sites for Core Facility Staff and User within the European landscape followed by the proposition of new and necessary “trainings” (H2020 WP7 EuBI PPII) which will be presented during the 1st EuBI Core Facility Staff meeting (30th of October beforehand the MiFobio 2016), including organizing virtual (e-training), soft and management skills courses, hands-on training.

 
In this respect, France BioImaging co-organizes and will also teach at the 1st International Training Courses for Imaging Core Facility Staff of the Global BioImaging project (deadline 18th September), next November 2016 in Heidelberg (GBI International Training Courses for Imaging Core Facility Staff) which will adress two specific issues:
-“Challenges in image data management and analysis”
-“Management and operation of imaging core facilities”

 
Our experience in international course activities, expertise, equipment of our Local-Nodes with state of the art imaging techniques, allow us to propose the largest and most advanced portfolio of “à la carte” trainings in BioImaging over Europe. As a future step, France-BioImaging is supporting the opening of a call for “EuBI Training Nodes” in which FBI will propose itself as a “Training Node”. FBI is in a very strong position to propose an integrated Training offer in bioimaging. The Marseille and Bordeaux Nodes are currently building Training Centers. In Paris Centre, an Imaging Training common program is part of the recent official partnership between Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie (February 2016). Joint ventures between Marseille and Montpellier nodes and inclusiveness between Paris Centre and IdF Sud nodes teaching programs are foreseen.