BioImagingUK

We asked our PhD students to write about the impact of new technologies on biomedical research. In this blog, Yuqin Wang focuses on the impact of spatial omics 👉 edin.ac/4kVsZTA
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Promotional poster for AFM & SPM Meeting 2026 with keynote and invited speakers, event dates, deadlines, and sponsor logos.

📣Book Now: AFM & SPM Meeting 2026 (23–25 June - with a training workshop on 22 June)

Great meeting bringing together researchers from around the world, and across the full range of scanning probe techniques!

Registration and Abstract submission: https://ow.ly/FCPV50Ymosn

We are #Hiring! Our lab is looking for a LabTech/Lab Manager! Take a look to our research here!
physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-gro...
Drop a line if you are interested to know more details!
#labtech #labtechnician #biology #labtechnicians #labmanager #labwork #Xenopus #zebrafish #devbiol

📣 Registration for the #EuroBioImaging Image Data Community Days is open! Join us for online event centered on bioimaging & preclinical imaging data.
🗓️ April 13-17, online
All are welcome!
Register here ⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/image...

Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 logo - Shaping Life-Mechanisms of Morphogenesis. Timelapse of a developing Arabidopsis leaf imaged at 9-12 days old under a confocal microscope, with cells segmented and coloured using MorphographX software. Images by Sarah Attrill.

Registrations now open for #SLS26 Sainsbury Laboratory Symposium 2026 in Cambridge, UK — Shaping Life: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis!
Join us explore how cellular, genetic & mechanical forces sculpt plant form
📅 22–24 Sept 2026
In-person + livestream
Limited fee waivers
www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls
#plantsi

Interview with Aníbal Vargas Ríos, LiSIUM initiative coordinator - FocalPlane Interview with Aníbal Vargas Ríos, LiSIUM initiative coordinator - Interviews

Our Community Manager @helenzsci.bsky.social chats with Aníbal Vargas Ríos @anvargasr.bsky.social about the LiSIUM initiative, which is democratising access to light-sheet microscopy in Chile and throughout Latin America.
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/17/i...

At this week's #VirtualPub, we welcome Jodie Malcolm, University of York, for a talk on "Adapting the OpenFlexure Microscope for Affordable Live-Cell Imaging."
🗓️ Friday, Feb 20 @ 13:00 CET
Join us!
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/affor...

image of the OpenFlexure Microscope on the left. On the right, our adapted live-cell imaging openflexure microscope with cradle to negate vibrations inside an existing incubator

Unleashing live-cell imaging for the masses!
Adapting the OpenFlexure Microscope for Affordable Live-Cell Imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Fits into existing incubators for time-lapse experiments & feeds into existing bioimaging analysis pipelines.
Thanks @wellcometrust.bsky.social funding

Please see below. York is one of these sites, enabling everything from the basics to some of the most advanced microscopy applications

📢 Require access to imaging equipment and/or image analysis but strapped for funds? Look no further than the UK Bioimaging User Access Fund. 👇👇👇👇

Look - Funding for Imaging Studies!
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🔬UK researchers: Access cutting-edge bioimaging tech + expert support with our User Access Fund!

💷 £5k for imaging
💷 £2k for image analysis

Choose from 6 top UK facilities, contact them, then apply!

rms.org.uk/user-access-fund

⏰ Next deadline: 31 March
✅ Decision in 4 weeks

Pls share!

The Microscopists | Steve Altschuler and Lani Wu (University of California, San Francisco) Steve Altschuler and Lani Wu are Professors in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.In this episode of The Microscopists, Peter O’Toole talks to Steve Altschuler ...

Pure joy. The last of #TheMicroscopists season with Steve Altschuler and Lani Wu. From Princeton to Microsoft, Rosetta to Harvard and having to learn biology as PI’s in undergad lectures!
Just a wonderful listen
Stream bit.ly/microscopist...

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Don't miss your chance to present during #ELMI2026 in Coimbra!
@eurobioimaging.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @gerbi-gmb.de @bioimagingna.bsky.social @france-bioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @globias.bsky.social

Have you used #PubScope yet? PubScope is Nikon’s powerful database with 125,000+ peer-reviewed publications that feature Nikon products 🔬🔍

Quick access 👉 https://bit.ly/4pCmW7j

🎥 See how easy it is to navigate, search, and filter through research by product, author, scientific field, and more!

Researcher standing beside a scientific poster on carbon nanofiber-based magnetic platforms for non-invasive heating and drug release.

Congratulations to Dorota Lachowicz, who won the RMS best poster prize at the #CRISTMAS2025 conference in Paris last month 🙂🔬

Read more: https://ow.ly/zYWa50XVCmF

Great talk of Georgina @bioimaginguk.bsky.social
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#UKLMF2026 : reminder that the registration for the DRI stewardship curriculum @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social is still open!

📣 Help spread the word! @globalbioimaging.bsky.social #Imaging4All — 3rd Call Open!
Fully funded mobility grants for low/middle-income country researchers to access imaging technologies for experiments and training.
🗓 Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
More info: globalbioimaging.org/i4a

Dates for your diary in 2026

12–23 January: UK ITSS WinterFest, Online. 9 February: Collaboration Fund application deadline – Details on our website. 27–29 March: TMU Annual Conference, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University. 28–29 April: UK Technology Specialists Network Conference, Crowne Plaza Stratford-upon-Avon.

11–22 May: UK ITSS SpringFest, Online. 2 June: Technician Commitment Signatory Event, London. 1 July: Technicians in Partnership Conference, Newcastle University.

Mark your calendars for 2026! Swipe below to see what exciting events and opportunities our community can look forward to in 2026 👇🏾

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join Marco Tripodi’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, where you'll design and develop computational pipelines to acquire and analyse behavioural and neurophysiological data.
More details: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Closes 04 JAN #PostdocJobs

Liverpool waterfront at dusk with historic buildings lit up, promoting the 21st International Microscopy Congress in 2026.

Don't forget - abstract submission and registration are *OPEN* for the 21st International Microscopy Congress #IMC21 🙌 🙂 🔬

(31 August - 4 September 2026)

Be sure to take your place at the world's premier event for the global microscopy community!

https://www.imc21.org.uk/

🔬 Hands-on bioimage data stewardship workshop
27/2/2026
Uni of Liverpool
Learn the complete data lifecycle from acquisition to repository submission.
Train-the-trainer format - take materials back to your facility!
✓ 25 places
✓ Up to £100 travel
✓ Apply by 7 Jan
Apply👇

3 more in Scotland, SW, SE

Come on, do it. You know you want to. ⬇️

Everybody welcome but spaces are limited. So don’t delay registration. Up to £100 travel costs covered. So looking forward to this.

Image Data Stewardship Workshop Application Form Date: 27 February 2026 Time: 10:30 - 17:00 (subject to change) Location: Liverpool University (***) We will inform you of the outcome as soon as possible and not later than 2 weeks after receiving yo...

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🔬 Hands-on bioimage data stewardship workshop
27/2/2026
Uni of Liverpool
Learn the complete data lifecycle from acquisition to repository submission.
Train-the-trainer format - take materials back to your facility!
✓ 25 places
✓ Up to £100 travel
✓ Apply by 7 Jan
Apply👇

3 more in Scotland, SW, SE

We’re excited to announce our special guest speaker for Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists

Join us as Dr Alex Johnson, Research Fellow at University of Exeter, presents “Probing plant endocytosis at multiple scales.”

Announcement for a virtual flow cytometry data analysis course scheduled for March 2-5, 2026, with an optional clinical module date to be confirmed.

Bookings are now *OPEN* for Virtual Flow Cytometry Data Analysis Course Spring 2026.

Great interactive, virtual course suitable for anyone relatively new to flow cytometry or those keen to expand their experience with applications and specific analysis 🙂

Book now: https://ow.ly/APHm50XAxMB

🧪 Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course (SOMC) 2026!

📍 University of Strathclyde | 21–30 July 2026
🌍 UK’s largest & most comprehensive practical microscopy course
🎓 Ideal for PhD students, postdocs & technical/facility staff
🗓️ Apply by 16 Jan 2026
📄 More info: www.centreforbiophotonics.com/somc26