Dear Bioimaging colleagues,

NEUBIAS, the Network of European BioImage Analysts (www.neubias.org), is delighted to announce two new Training Schools on BioImage Analysis:

  • for Early Career Investigators (life scientists)
  • for Facility staff (imaging & analysis staff from core-facilities)

The focus of training will be on construction and automation of BioImage Analysis workflows, using as examples more than one toolbox and different exercises. The schools will be held in Edinburgh, 16-19th of October 2018, hosted by the MRC Center for Regenerative Medicine/Imaging facility and co-organized by the University of Edinburgh and University of Dundee.

NEUBIAS schools are an excellent opportunity to learn from many experts in Bioimage Analysis (we are expecting >30 specialists at the event) and “….a great mix of intensive learning and community networking” (former trainee testimonial!). The schools will include practical sessions and seminars on ImageJ for analysis and publication, scripting/macros in ImageJ and Matlab, Omero, CellProfiler, QuPath, Ilastik, Ethics in Image Analysis and work on own data.

  • Applications are now open (each school has 20 available seats and ~7 trainers)
  • Applicants are highly encouraged to bring their own laptops and data.
  • Within the COST framework (funders of NEUBIAS), 7 travel grants per school are offered to applicants who qualify.
  • Registration requires a “letter of motivation” (filled in application form) and later a confirmation of status.
  • Application deadline:  May 11th 2018
  • Selection notification: 1st week of June 2018.

More information about schools (programme & trainers) and venue, travel & lodge available at our website:
www.neubias.org -> “Training Schools”

http://eubias.org/NEUBIAS/training-schools/eci/ts8-edinburgh-2018/

http://eubias.org/NEUBIAS/training-schools/staff/ts9-edinburgh-2018/

We kindly ask that you help us reach all potential interested applicants.

on behalf of all NEUBIAS members, of local organizers (Bertrand Vernay & Graeme Ball) and programme organizers (Anna Klemm, Laura Murphy, Graeme Ball and Sebastien Herbert)

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NEUBIAS is an European network of >220 members and 41 countries, which aims to promote the communication between Life Scientists, Instrumentalists, Developers and BioImage Analysts and to establish and promote the role of Bioimage Analysts in Life Science. Our mission includes:
– A training programme for 3 different target audiences:”Early Career” researchers, (core) Facility Staff and Bioimage Analysts (running until 2020 – expected 400 trainees and 15 training schools).
– Promote different yearly events (NEUBIAS Conference, workshops [training schools], Taggathons)
– Online Resources: Repository of tools and workflows e.g. biii.eu, Benchmarking and Sample datasets, Training material and Open Textbook.
– A Short Term Scientific Mission mobility programme for Scientists to visit Host Labs and get in depth insights into cutting edge Image Analysis technology.
– A “ITC conference grants” programme to support travel for Early career Investigators from Inclusiveness Target Countries to present their work at conferences.
– Outreach material.
… more at www.neubias.org

The CMI Imaging in the Life Sciences (ILS) Meeting 2018 is organized by BioImaging Austria-CMI and will take place on September 20th & 21st at the Vienna BioCenter Campus, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, IMP Lecture Hall.

You will find the program below, which features top-class keynote speakers.

Follow the link for registration for the ILS Meeting, Lunch Seminars or poster submissions: http://www.bioimaging-austria.at/web/pages/cmi-imaging-meeting.php

Seats are limited; don’t hesitate to register or submit a poster abstract by July 15th.

Invited speakers cover a wide range of state-of-the-art imaging technologies and their unprecedented application in the life sciences: Werner Kühlbrandt, Willy Suppato, Monika Ritsch-Marte, Martina Marchetti-Deschmann, Rainer Kaufmann, Florian Schur, Eva Pereiro, Birgit Plochberger, Marcus Hacker, Ulrich Dodt, Wolfgang Graier, Jacky Goetz, Wolfgang Drexler, Thomas Beyer and Ivan Viola.

Registration Deadline: April 11, 2018

This EMBO Practical Course is aimed at junior researchers in developmental biology, struggling with imaging of cell movement and tissue morphogenesis in vivo using conventional microscopy techniques. Exploring techniques such as confocal, two-photon, light-sheet, and optical tomography with different samples is a major feature of the course. Several commercial partners contribute with state-of-the-art equipment for students to use during the course.

This year we will have:

Six keynote lectures
Four labs for eight different projects (selected from applications)
One multi-photon microscope
Three laser scanning and three spinning disk confocals
Four light-sheet (commercial & custom built) and two optical tomography systems
Seven workstations for 3D image analysis
More equipments being confirmed…

Following the new annual microscopy course “Principles and Applications of Fluorescence Microscopy” which is on offer for Masters and PhD students the teaching department and  the UTechS PBI (Imagopole) is organizing  a Workshop including both symposium (March 13th 2018) and  demonstration (March 12-16th). This workshop will be held on the campus and will run for until Friday, March 16th, 2018.

The symposium will be open to all researchers on the campus, but also to all guests and customers invited by the companies. This is a unique opportunity to bring together in one site the latest news of the greatest actors of fluorescence microscopy in Paris.

The event is free, but requires registration.

Please visit our website at https://www.pasteur.fr/en/FMWIII for the full program and list of speakers.

The school is dedicated to teaching the basics and wider context necessary to understand recent advances and current challenges in biological and medical imaging. Cutting-edge techniques using a wide range of image-formation mechanisms — including magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, infrared and optical microscopy, electron microscopy and X-ray imaging — will be discussed, with a focus on multimodal and multiscale imaging methods, together with supporting technologies such as computer-aided image analysis and modelling.

The school will provide different tracks for participants with a background in life sciences and physical sciences, respectively. Furthermore, specialized lectures will address current topics in biological and medical imaging. The students will have lectures in the morning and practical sessions in the afternoon (either hands-on lab work or lab demonstrations, depending on the field). The program will be rounded off with a practical day and an industry day.

The school follows a challenging and demanding schedule. It addresses excellent MSc and PhD students as well as scientists from industry with background in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, medical science or physics. We plan to admit about 60 participants (internally and from abroad).

Admission will be decided based on the applicant’s curriculum vitae, a statement of purpose and applicant’s references. Students who have not yet started a PhD program may apply for a stipend. Interested students are kindly asked to submit their application pack including their study grades and reference letter on our homepage (www.excite.ethz.ch)

The application deadline is Monday, 23 April 2018. The notification of acceptance will be given by 25 May 2018.

Further information can be found here: www.excite.ethz.ch

Imaging has become a key technique in life science to achieve high-standards research and results. Among the three major components of imaging based research – laboratory experiment, microscopy and image analysis – nearly 60% of life science researchers acknowledged that “image analysis is the most difficult part”. Therefore, training researchers on image data analysis is crucial to ensure that they can get the most out of the data that they generate.

Several initiatives are active in developing training solutions in image data management and analysis Neubias, EuroBioimaging (EuBI), Global BioImaging (GBI) and ELIXIR. GBI/ELIXIR/EuBI/NEUBIAS are jointly organizing a hackaton on image analysis training material re-usability, that aims to bring together training providers from the imaging community and contributors to the ELIXIR Training Platform in order to create a curated collection of training materials on data management and analysis and facilitate their Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Re-usability.

Audience: Bioimage analysts, trainers and developers from NEUBIAS, EuroBioImaging and Global BioImaging, as well as ELIXIR’s Bioschemas and TeSS developers, and anyone willing to contribute, to: (i) foster new collaborations between ELIXIR and key initiatives from the image analysis community, (ii) create a curated collection of training materials on data management and analysis and (iii) facilitate their Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Re-usability.

Registration and more information can be found here.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0zo2wEn1iowAyjLdsDimZWGGy38gf1_7yJWyVnbOJym3Qpw/viewform

Registration Deadline: March 1st, 2018

Pre-registration is still open – deadline extended until March 5th 2018.

To submit a workshop please fill in the form below and then go to  ateliers-mifobio.fr for the procedure).

(French version: http://gdr-miv.fr/mifobio2018/)

Thank you for participating to this new edition MiFoBio 2018 by proposing a workshop. As announced in the spring, it will be necessary to explain the interest of your project and give a synopsis. It is therefore important to prepare your workshop project upstream. Evaluation of proposals will follow quickly in November. Depending on the returns, a second call will be made on a more restricted perimeter.

These workshops must fit into one of the themes below. The objective is to deal at least in part with one of the common questions so that we can then discuss at the end of the school the contributions of different technologies for the same subject.

  1. Biological, physical, photochemical question on the themes identified below:
  • Mitochondria and metabolism
  • Regulation of gene expression, maintenance of information integrity, nucleus
  • Synapse, neuron, brain,
  • Interaction between cells or with the environment, mechanobiology.
  • Membrane and receivers, signaling,
  • biofilm
  • Development, regeneration, evolution
  • organoid

2. New technological, instrumental or probe and marker development
3. Implementation of at least two significantly different techniques for the same question
4. Instrumental engineering and systems engineering (characterization of instruments, peak methods, new practices)
5. Image Bar: Image analysis
6. FabLab MiFoBio: small practical realization: optics, electronics or analysis
7. Outside class (to be justified)

For the record, a workshop aims to share knowledge and know-how in the field of biological imaging and biophotonics through practice. It is worn by two academics at most and must allow the participants to practice. The workshops implement methodological and instrumental approaches and deal with a scientific issue that is often interdisciplinary.

Cordially

The MiFoBio organizing team

The ESRIC super-resolution summer school is a five-day residential course held in Edinburgh. The course is designed to give participants a thorough grounding in super-resolution microscopy in an informal and intimate setting. It brings together leading academics and the major suppliers of super-resolution microscopes to provide expertise and guidance in the theory and practise of structured illumination microscopy (SIM), stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED), AiryScan Microscopy and single molecule localization microscopies (PALM, sptPALM and dSTORM).

The summer school will consist of informal lectures and workshops and participants will have ample time to gain project specific advice from all of the academic experts and suppliers through dedicated Q&A sessions and informal social events. The course is suitable for anyone with prior experience of fluorescence microscopy looking to exploit the benefits of super-resolution microscopy in their research.
There are 36 places on the course and applications are processed through a rolling admission

The 2018 meeting of the European Light Microscopy Initiative is taking place in Dublin this June.
The programme is a unique mix of talks presenting the latest research, and workshops from the manufacturers demonstrating the latest equipment and software developments.
Abstract Submission is open until Friday 2 February for the following sessions:
– Super-resolution
– Light Sheet Microscopy and in vivo Imaging
– Approaches in Correlative Microscopy
– Single Molecule
– Frontiers in Imaging Analysis
– Frontiers in Imaging, Probes and Label Free
elmi2018 already has a great line up of invited speakers including our Keynote Speaker Professor Scott E Fraser from the University of Southern California who will present the talk “Eavesdropping on Biological Processes with Multi-Dimensional Molecular Imaging”
Find out more about the conference, workshops and networking opportunities, and register your place at this unmissable event at www.elmi2018.eu

A message from the organizers:
Registration to the Bioimage Analysis Symposium  of the 2nd NEUBIAS conference, in Szeged (Hungary), 31/01 to 02/02, 2018, is IMMINENTLY CLOSING !

We have extended the registration deadline to January 10th, 6pm (CET).

The Network of European Bioimage Analysts (NEUBIAS) is happy to confirm:

– 35+ talks with Keynotes Gaudenz Danuser, Gene Myers and Marleen DeBruijne,
– 70+ posters
– 22 Software packages in live demo at the Open source Software Lounge
– 4 industry workshops
– Call4help: A special BioImage Data Clinics session for participants to present and tackle their analysis problem with experts
– 220+ participants

– Free shuttles set from Budapest airport for NEUBIAS participants. You can access the current program here:

http://eubias.org/NEUBIAS/rQHDX

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The NEUBIAS conference is a forum to exchange the newest findings, applications, and cutting-edge developments in Bioimage Analysis, machine learning, data mining, and storage. European Bioimage Analysts organize this event bringing together an international, interdisciplinary community of about 250 leading scientists in the life and computer sciences. The 3-days Symposium reflects the need to foster the networking between image analysis Developers and their end-users. The interest and needs for image processing in life sciences are heavily growing, a reality that is reflected by the success of earlier events of NEUBIAS in Lisbon in February 2017.

The organizing committee is assembling a top-notch program featuring both academic and industry presenters which will include Image restoration, storage & management, 3D & 4D image analysis, tools for high content analysis, data mining and open source developments. Aside from plenary talks and abstract presentations, we will have dedicated “Call 4 Help” sessions to team up tool providers with life scientists facing roadblocks in their image analysis, and two satellite “training schools” for “early career scientists” and “advanced Bioimage Analysts”. NEUBIAS Symposium will also feature the latest updates on open source software tools, components, and packages, in plenary talks and during the “Open Source Software Lounge” session which has been a great success in Lisbon, and where participants can meet developers and power users of a wide range of Open tools for Bioimage analysis in Live demo format.

The 2nd Annual Conference of NEUBIAS, gathering the whole BioImage Analysis Community into a multi-faceted event, offers two Training schools, a Working Meeting (Taggathon) and a Large Symposium dedicated to Scientific Developments and Open Tools in BioImage Analysis.

Training Schools:

Symposium:

Topics Highlights of the Symposium

BioImage Analysis in Life Science, Developments, Machine Learning, Bioimage Data Mining, Storage, etc…
Open source Software Lounge, Call4help, Open Tools, Industry workshops, Panel Discussions, more…

Registration to the Symposium open until January 10th, 2018.

Abstracts submission deadline: November 11th, 2017.

The Electron Microscopy platform of the University and DIMNP are pleased to announce the volume EM conference which will take place at the new “Fac de Medecine” of Montpellier on December 14-15th.
Volume EM is a set of methods that allow to obtain high resolution 3D ultrastructural data, using scanning electron microscopy coupled to different automatic serial sectioning techniques. With these methods it is now possible to obtain high resolution 3D data within a few hours or days. Volume EM is of rapidly growing interest at the international level with applications in many fields of research.
During the conference, high level scientists and application developers will present the principles of these methods and selected examples of applications for research.
A “zebrafish challenge” has also been proposed to different microscope manufacturers, for which they had to image an imposed portion of zebrafish embryo using the equipment of their choice. The objective will be to analyse the results obtained in conditions close to “real research”. The data will be presented and commented at the end of the conference, highlighting advantages and limits of each type of method.
The conference will be entirely in English. Inscription is free.. For any question, please write to volumeem@umontpellier.fr

Registration for the 2018 Conference on Quantitative BioImaging (QBI) is open and space is limited! Those who have submitted abstracts for the conference are being given the chance to register first before the registration availability is publicly advertised. Space is limited, so please, as soon as possible, register online at: https://www. quantitativebioimaging.com/apps/registration/

As in previous years, we have no registration fee for academic participants. Space is limited so please register as early as possible. The details of the program are being finalized by the organizers and will be made available on the conference website.

Information on hotels near the conference location is available on the conference website. The listed hotels are within walking distance of public bus stops. General details about the public bus routes to and from and the conference site are available on the website.

This will be the sixth conference in this series focusing on the quantitative analysis of bioimaging data in an interdisciplinary manner, and is to be held from January 4-6, 2018, at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. It will bring together researchers from engineering, (bio)physics, biology, and chemistry who work on quantitative aspects of microscopy.

Our Keynote Speakers are:

  •  Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
    Göttingen, Germany.
  •  Paul French, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  •  Theo Lasser, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne,
    Switzerland.

2018 Meeting Special Sessions: 

In addition to contributed sessions we are planning a diverse range
of special sessions including:

  •  Digital microscopy and image informatics
  •  Software design for quantitative microscopy image analysis

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