The course will be an introduction to image processing and analysis, with a focus on biologically relevant examples. The attendees will learn the fundamentals of image analysis including how to do basic Macro programming in Fiji (ImageJ) for automated batch analysis of images, use different software solutions for image analysis, and will be introduced to visualisation and explorative data analysis after extraction of numerical data from images.

The teachers are Simon Nørrelykke and Szymon Stoma (IDA-ScopeM, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland), and Chong Zhang (SIMBioSys, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain).

The course is suitable not only for beginners in image analysis with no experience, but also for those who want to extend their knowledge of basic principles and more specialised tools.

The Correlated Multimodal Imaging Node Austria (CMI) is the official Austrian Euro-Bioimaging initiative of leading imaging experts in Austria. It was established as a consortium of eight universities and research institutes in and around Vienna (www.bioimaging-austria.at) to foster and pioneer correlated multimodal imaging across scales in life sciences. CMI offers more than 35 state-of-the-art imaging technologies from preclinical imaging to atomic resolution, numerous multimodal correlated imaging pipelines, and various support services, such as data and image analysis, to researchers on a national and international level.

This year’s Imaging in the Life Sciences Meeting is organized by CMI and hosted by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Cinical Traumatology.

Please register by May 5th at www.bioimaging-austria.at/web/pages/cmi-imaging-meeting.php. Please use the same link to submit your poster abstract.

The 3rd Course on High Content Screening and Image Analysis for Biosciences is a comprehensive and intensive course that aims to provide the basis of image-based screening. It is designed to graduate students, early career investigators and everyone willing to enter in the multiplex era. The course includes lectures given by specialists in the field and hands-on sessions with HCS instruments and open-source software for image and data analysis.

The RMS Light Microscopy summer school is an annual, residential three day course held at the University of York covering the principles of light microscopy. Participants are also trained in practical issues surrounding light microscopy. After introductory presentations, the course is taught predominantly through hands-on practical sessions.
The course is suitable for both novices and more experienced users wanting to gain a greater understanding of the microscope and feedback every year is always fantastic. Students came from a range of backgrounds in 2016, within both research and commercial organisations. All benefited greatly from the Course and left with increased understanding and skills.

Designed to talk about the current challenges in developing and using super-resolution microscopy with lots of time for discussion, this year the workshop will focus on the topic of labelling. Thoughts and ideas are encouraged to help define what is good/best practice around these challenging techniques, and give an insight into future potential developments.

The programme is still to be confirmed but will be similar to the 2015 programme.

L’INRA (unité Ingenum), le PEPI MACS (Mathématiques Appliquées – Calcul Scientifique) et le Groupe de Travail Galaxy de l’Institut Français de Bio-informatique proposent une formation pour l’intégration d’outils sous Galaxy. Cette formation s’adresse principalement aux ingénieurs travaillant dans les domaines autour de l’imagerie : traitement d’images, phénotypage, reconnaissance de formes, histologie quantitative, etc.

Cette formation se déroule en deux temps. Une première journée de cours présentera les bonnes pratiques d’intégration. La seconde journée sera consacrée à l’intégration de ses outils sous Galaxy. A partir des outils à intégrer chaque participant sera en mesure de construire un/des workflows sous Galaxy.

Dates: 16 au 17 mai
Lieu : Nantes (Westotel)
Frais d’inscription HT (incluant l’hébergement et la restauration)
personnels INRA : 150 €
autres académiques : 250 €
industriels : 500 €

Clôture des inscriptions : 31 mars 2017

Pour plus d’informations : http://www.france-bioinformatique.fr/g4i

Pour le comité d’organisation : Eric Biot, Anthony Bretaudeau, Christophe Caron, Olivier Inizan, David Legland, Valentin Marcon, Nicolas Parisey

We are pleased to announce the 5th EMBL Course for Bioimage Data Analysis to be held from Sunday, 14 May – Saturday , 20 May 2017. The deadline for application is March 15th, 2017.

This course will focus on computational methods for analysing images of proteins, cells and tissues, to boost the learning process of participants who have an immediate need to analyze images in their own research. For this, the course extends from basic foundations of image processing and programming to the actual implementation of workflows using scripting in ImageJ macro and MATLAB languages. We aim to gather expert knowledge to organize a world-leading course for bioimage analysis in the fields of cell & developmental biology, biochemistry and biophysics. A report written by a student in 2014 could give you some idea about the course.

The course will take place in Heidelberg, Germany at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre. Registration and motivation letter deadline is March 15, 2017. Please visit our course website for more details.
We look forward to welcoming you to Heidelberg, Germany.

Scientific Organisers,
Kota Miura, University of Heidelberg, Germany, NIBB, Okazaki Japan
Sébastien Tosi, Institute for Research in Biomedicine – IRB Barcelona, Spain
Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux, CNRS SFR F. Bonamy University of Nantes, France

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact:
Bronagh Carey
Administrative Organizer, BIAS 2017
Conference Officer
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

This event will include a series of seminars to explore the latest technological and scientific developments in fluorescence microscopy. The symposium, which will take place in the auditorium of the François Jacob building, represents a unique opportunity to hear from the leading experts in fluorescence microscopy about their latest research findings. It is open to all scientists on campus.
To coincide with this event, various companies will also be invited to display their state-of-the-art technological equipment with demonstrations in the Teaching Center. 12 companies have accepted the invitation to come and present their technology.
The event is free but prior registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Microscopy-workshop

mmc2017 is the flagship event of the Royal Microscopical Society and presents the very best in microscopy and imaging.
Abstract Submission and registration are now open, find out more at www.mmc-series.org.uk

The mmc2017 conference will consist of six daily parallel sessions, bringing together the Frontiers in Biomaging Meeting as well as EMAG, SPM, Microscopy Society of Ireland and Scottish Microscopy Group meetings with the Congress talks, allowing the scientific programme to cover an incredibly wide range of microscopy and imaging topics and techniques.

Each day will welcome world-class Plenary Speakers, with Monday 3 July boasting two as well as a number of Pre-Congress Workshops focusing on the ‘hot topics’ of the field which will not only prepare you for the exciting week ahead but also enhance your overall experience.

By registering for the mmc2017 conference, you will also have access to the huge mmc2017 exhibition which will take place from 4 – 6 July and will house over 100 companies offering equipment and services to improve and assist in the measurement process and the many operations and procedures stemming from it. There are plenty of training opportunities throughout the free exhibition with 4 commercial workshops areas and the Learning Zone from the Royal Microscopical Society, all boasting their own daily programme to teach you new skills or build on existing ones. The exhibition is also where you can find the enormous Poster Village and the shortlisted images from the RMS Scientific Imaging Competition (which is now accepting entries.)

Both Congress Delegates and Exhibition Visitors are able to attend the mmc2017 Satellite Events taking place each day which target more specific areas and gather peers to discuss these areas and share experiences and ideas. Meetings confirmed so far are; NEUBIAS Bioimage Analyst Community Meeting, Cross Disciplinary EM and LM Meeting and the FIB & EM Prep User Group Meeting.

The Microscopy and Image Analysis Platform (MIAP) Freiburg invites you to a “Core Facility Management Software Workshop” (7.-8.2.2017).
It is primarily designed to meet the requirements of Core Facility managers, looking for the optimal solution, as well as team or IT members, who will have to setup such a management software in their home institutions. We also encourage major opinion leaders in the field to use this workshop as an opportunity to discuss and define the future needs in the field.

Please find the workshop program and registration form on the following webpage:
http://www.imaging.uni-freiburg.de/

NEUBIAS2020 conference is a new yearly meeting point for the BioImage Analysis community, and we, the organizers from the NEUBIAS network, are very glad to invite you to participate in the first appointment, to happen in Lisbon (Portugal) on 12-17th of February 2017, hosted and co-organized by the Gulbenkian Institute of Science.

The conference aims to promote knowledge- and technological- transfer between all the players of the BioImage Analysis Community: Life scientists, Image Analysis and Software Developers, Microscopists, BioImaging Facility staff, and most importantly: Biomage Analysts, a new profession in Life Science that NEUBIAS aims to support and promote.

In brief, the event articulates in 4 events:

  • A Training School for Early Career Investigators. 25 seats available, on selection.
    (12-15 Feb. Oeiras, Portugal). Application deadline 30/11/2016. Travel Grants Available.
  • A Training School for BioImage Analysts, 25 seats available, on selection.
    (12-15 Feb. Oeiras, Portugal). Application deadline 30/11/2016. Travel Grants Available.
  • A Taggathon (working meeting of NEUBIAS to develop repositories and benchmarking), on invitation.  (13-15 Feb. Oeiras, Portugal)

AND

  • A BioImage Analysis Symposium: 15-17th February, 2017 – in Lisbon, Portugal.

OPEN TO REGISTRATION NOW!

The Symposium aims to offer a broad view over the latest developments and updates in Bioimage analysis, including a Showcase giving exposure to Open software packages and tools updates, companies products, community round tables, career path debates and community progress report.
Bioimage Analysis will be covered as a broad field of Research, Technology-development and Service-for-Data-Producers (i.e. researchers in Life Science) in the context of many types of BioImage data: Optical Microscopy, Electron Microscopy, Medical Imaging, among others.

Please visit our webpage for more information: www.neubias.org

We hope to attract many of you to Lisbon in February.

On behalf of all NEUBIAS members

Gaby Martins (Event Host, co-organizer)
Sebastian Munck and Arne Seitz (Event Co-organizers)
Jean-Yves Tinevez (Training School co-Organizer)
Fabrice Cordelières and Paulo Aguiar (Training School Organizers)
Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux, Chong Zhang, Sébastien Tosi and Graeme Ball (Taggathon Organizers)
Julia Fernandez Rodriguez (STSMs coordinator)
Kota Miura (Vice Chair, Training School co organizer)
Julien Colombelli (Chair)

More About NEUBIAS: Mobility Grants, Careers, Action.
NEUBIAS is a network Action funded by COST (www.cost.eu), aiming to maximize the impact of advances in imaging technology on the Life Sciences, and to boost the productivity of bioimaging-based research projects in Europe. The Action intends to provide a stronger identity to Bioimage Analysts by organising a new type of meeting fostering interactions between all stakeholders (i.e. NEUBIAS 2020).

NEUBIAS also provides mobility funds for scientists willing to expand their knowledge in Bioimage Analysis and/or to develop Image Analysis capabilities for their research project. Check the next Call for Short Term Scientific Missions, closing on November 15th, 2016. http://eubias.org/NEUBIAS/mobility-grants/

NEUBIAS also needs the input from the whole community to devise best-practice guidelines for the career path of BioImage Analysis, a new profession still not fully recognized in the field. If your work activity embraces Bioimage Analysis to support Life Science (as a service, collaboration etc…), please take 5 minutes to fill our new “Career Consultation”: http://eubias.org/NEUBIAS/careers/

August 20, 2017 August 24, 2017
Le Palais des Congres de Paris, 2 place de la Porte Maillot, Paris, 75017, France

Download the programme
See the poster
Website and Registration

Experience exciting and up to date research in cellular and molecular neuroscience in an inspiring and engaging environment with ample time for networking and discussion with international scientists.