Microphotograph of cancerous cells of the blue mussel transmissible neoplasia in epifluorescence
We’ve got many news and upcoming events to share with you! Here is a quick rundown.
Register now for our FBI Annual meeting 2023!
On December 13th and 14th 2023, we have the pleasure to invite you to our Annual Meeting, to be hosted by our brand new FBI Toulouse Node at the Centre de Biologie Intégrative of the Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier.
We will be happy to celebrate yet another year of achievements and developments in bioimaging with all the members of the community.
This year, the Annual Meeting will focused on “Multiscale mechanobiology of cells and cell systems“, a topic specially selected for being one of Toulouse node’s expertise.
This “mechanobiology” theme is including (i) how cells generate and transmit forces, (ii) the impact of forces on cell/tissue dynamics, (iii) the impact of extrinsic forces on cells and tissues, and (iv) the development of new tools for manipulating and measuring forces in cells and tissues in a controlled, non-invasive way.
We invite the France-BioImaging Community to present their mechanobiology-related projects during the second day of the Annual Meeting around a dedicated session with selected talks. Moreover, we strongly encourage you to submit an abstract for a talk or a poster presentation during your registration!
Core facilities will also have an opportunity to present a poster.
3 days left until the end of our Image Contest 2023!
Haven’t submitted your image yet? You only have 3 days left!
You have until November 10th, 2023 and try to win your registration fees for one 2024 microscopy related event of your choice (FOM, ELMI, EMC, COMULIS conference, etc.).
We were at the ABIC Community Meeting and the GBI Exchange of Experience
We were at Stellenbosch, South Africa, for the ABIC Community Meeting and the GBI Exchange of Experience!
The ABIC (African BioImaging Consortium) Community Meeting aims at gathering Africa’s microscopists, biologists, data scientists, and science community developers for an event focused on empowering fundamental biology research in Africa. This meeting provides a platform for the community to share not only their work and research, but also their experiences, challenges, and visions. It was a great opportunity to strengthen our already existing relations with the African bioimaging community and to discuss about future collaborations regarding training and image analysis. Besides, we were also invited to present the work engaged with colleagues from Stellenbosch, Cape Town and the Africa Microscopy Initiative, especially our first Africa-France Joint Initiative for Biological Imaging (AFJIBI) calls for funding.
The second event we attended was the Global BioImaging Exchange of Experience! This 8th edition focused on training to empower imaging scientists in advanced imaging facilities. By providing essential knowledge and fostering collaboration, this event aimed to advance bioimaging and biomedical imaging, to share insights, inspire innovation, and bridge academic and facility career paths. As training being one of our main focuses, Fabrice Cordelières, our training mission officer, presented the results of our dedicated group, which promotes a FAIR approach (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
Last but not least, Cesar Valades-Cruz, who was a previous member of France-BioImaging in our Paris-Centre node at Institut Curie, had the chance to give a talk thanks to one of GBI travel grantees. Now located at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, he worked on multiple FBI projects such as BioImageIT and PolarImaging.
Overall, two wonderful events, in which it was a pleasure to meet the bioimaging community around the world!
New call for funding! CanSERV
You can now apply a new call to get free open access to instruments and services at one of our nodes’ core facility!
CanSERV Calls for user projects are open and accepting applications! All user projects – ranging from basic discovery science to translational science and into personalized oncology, that address at least one of the four strategic goals of the Cancer Mission – are eligible for this call:
Understanding of Cancer
Prevention and Early Detection
Diagnosis and treatment
Quality of life for patients and their families
Researchers from academia, industry and SMEs may apply for several services including: i) disease models, ii) cutting-edge imaging and structural biology technologies, iii) biomarker research and development, iv) new therapeutic solutions, v) complex clinical trial design and support, vi) personalised oncology implementation pipelines and recommendations and vii) regulatory support and tools to analyse the socioeconomic dimension of research activities.
Focus on one of our external users who just got his work published in Nature Communications
In 2022, in a project funded by the Euro-BioImaging pilot User Access Fund, Andrew Boyce, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary, used state-of-the-art microscopy techniquesat the Bordeaux Imaging Center, part of the Bordeaux node of France-BioImaging, for panoptical visualization of brain tissue in vivo. His work just got published in a Nature Communications article!
In this study, scientists have shown how regular light microscopy together with fluorescence labeling of the interstitial fluid in the extracellular space provide the information lacking in the previous techniques. Called Shadow Imaging, they have demonstrated the power of this approach on revealing neurons, microglia, tumor cells and blood capillaries together with their complete anatomical tissue contexts.
How did Andrew Boyce contribute to this study? Interested in blebbing neuron dendrites during cell death caused by a stroke, he only had, at that time, results from how cells in culture reacted during this kind of events but no information about the neighboring cells.
Thanks to Euro-BioImaging pilot User Access Fund, he came to Bordeaux to use a combination of live cell 3D stimulated emission depletion (3D-STED) microscopy and super-resolution shadow imaging (SUSHI), and adapt shadow imaging approaches to conventional confocal microscopy (COSHI). Shadow imaging allows you to visualize fine details of cell-cell interactions and the extracellular space in an unbiased manner. Brain tissue is complex and shadow imaging is a technique that allows researchers to visualize all of the cells in this very complex architecture in an unbiased manner so it was the perfect match for Andrew’s research project!
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