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.

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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:

• Training School #6: Bioimage Analysis for your research (for Early Career Investigators)
  “Learn how to build Bioimage Analysis workflows across software tools & scripts”Digital image processing (DIP), Building workflows 2D, 3D & time-lapse, Extracting numerical data from bioimages, Toolboxes, Workflow automation (scripting).Sessions to solve your problem with an Analyst.
• Training School #7: Advanced Bioimage Analysis Workflows (for Bioimage Analysts)“Practical access to latest bioimage analysis workflows and their components.”Workflow Deconstruction, Algorithms of Workflow Components, Forums, Implementation

  Registration to the Training Schools open until November 9th, 2017.

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.

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

To obtain email updates regarding the conference, please subscribe to
our mailing list at: https://www.quantitativebioimaging.com/subscribe

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

The next RMS LM Facility Managers Meeting aimed at people running or working in light microscopy facilities will be held at the Francis Crick Institute.
From very humble beginnings, this meeting series has grown to a much more significant and influential community of facility managers. Numbers of attendees have grown 10 fold since the first meeting in 2006 as more and more facilities have opened. We now represent one of the best organised facility groupings in the UK if not indeed the world.
Following on from previous years, you can expect to find out more on the latest developments in Bioimaging and how we can feed in to wider international groups that are starting up. We will also discuss some of the basic elements (funding, impact measures) of running a core facility as well as the latest technological and application developments that effect ourselves and our users.