H2020 projects Meeting Report
A series of workshops and meetings on H2020 BioImaging projects, in which France BioImaging is involved, held at EMBL, Heidelberg, from 8 to 10 June. The first Exchange of Experience Workshop (EoE1) of GBI gathered colleagues from Australia, USA, India, Japan, Argentina and Europe. A large number of topics were discussed, including professional training for …
April-May 2016
The Executive Board of France-BioImaging has decided to support the following projects: Chromogranin A – Phosphatidic Acid Interaction And Regulation Of Hormone Secretion by Maïté Montero of the University of Rouen for 1 week in Marseille (CIML). Dynamic Properties of Synapse-Organizing Proteins by Thomas Biederer of the Tufts University School of Medecine, Boston, MS …
FBI Image Contest 2016
Our contest is now closed ! Results Deadline for submission: June 19, 2016 1 to 3 images will be awarded (the number will depend on the quantity and the quality of the participation to this contest) Only 1 prize can be awarded per participant. Only individuals, direct owners of the images submitted, can participate The …
Reporting
Activity reports FBI Roadmap for next generation imaging technologies (2023-2030) FBI Activity Report 2021-2022 FBI Activity Report 2020 FBI final report ( June 2019) Roadmap for biological imaging 2018 – 2024 Activity-Report 2011-2013 FBI Mid-term Report (June 2016) Executive Board Meeting Minutes (in French) 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 Events …
Training Sessions
France BioImaging is deeply involved in training activities. These activities are first dedicated to both beginners and experienced users. However FBI strategy is also to develop vocational training to platform engineers and education for future platform staff, based on the concept that to “train the trainers”, is mandatory. This aspect is an integral part of …
Summary of the 3rd FBI Annual Meeting
The 3rd France BioImaging Annual Meeting was held at the Institut Curie (PARIS), the 17th and 18th of September 2015. It gathered more than 200 attendees from all the FBI community and beyond. This year, the FBI-AM started by a few hours Community Meeting. During this session the national coordination (M. Coppey and J. Salamero) …
Work Packages
France-BioImaging operational level relies on five main Work Packages (WPs) described below. They gather trans-node and external experts in the corresponding domains. Depending on the complexity of their respective domains of interest, some WPs are managed by multiple “Working Groups” (or sub WPs). Their aims are to define new technological and methodological developments, to solve …
Nobel prize for bioimaging !
Stefan Hell, Eric Betzig and William Moerner have been honored with the highest scientific award, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2014, for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. Stefan Hell developed principles of Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy while William Moerner and Eric Betzig laid the foundation for single molecule microscopy. Both methods allow scientists …