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BioImagingUK is an organic organisation of UK Scientists that develop, use or administer #imaging solutions for #LifeScience Research Join our Mailing List to get all the updates: http://tinyurl.com/5n6hrhzj
An Outreach and Education Special Issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus is now available online!
Find out more about some of the most impactful initiatives within the RMS and wider #microscopy community 🙂🔬
https://ow.ly/XWRm50YrizH
📢 UK RESEARCHERS - Ever wished you could try a completely different imaging approach on your sample but lacked access to equipment or funds?
That's exactly what the Euro-BioImaging UK Node User Access Fund is for!
Applications are open year-round, with 3 deadlines/yr:
📅 31 Mar | 31 July | 30 Nov
🔬 3D rendering of Candida parapsilosis yeast and pseudohyphae, stained to visualise mannan in the cell wall and vacuoles.
Data: Andor Dragonfly spinning disk confocal | 3D processing in IMARIS by @darrenthomson.bsky.social Head of MYCOscopy, MRC CMM.
#MedicalMycology #Microscopy #ImageOfTheWeek
If you like plants and microscopy (optical, spectroscopic, and/or electron based), George Littlejohn and I are charing the plant session at #IMC21:
Abstract submission is open, so come join us in Liverpool!
🌱🔬😎
www.imc21.org.uk/congress/abs...
📣 Submit your abstract for the 21st International Microscopy Congress #IMC21 by *THIS FRIDAY* (6 March)
Don't miss the chance to share your work with the global #microscopy community in Liverpool this summer!
Abstract submission: https://www.imc21.org.uk/congress/abstract-submission.html
Another one of our engineers does brain imaging tech and it's mindblowing. #Microscopy is so cool. His tool allows you to track a blood cell enter the brain! Aka tracking oxygen delivery to the brain. Huge for dementia research and vascular diseases. #MedSky 🩺 engineering.washu.edu/news/2026/Fu...
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
@cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social
📣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...
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
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...
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!
@ukri.org @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
@eurobioimaging.bsky.social @calm-stp.bsky.social @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social @uoe-igc.bsky.social @cci-liv.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @obu-hst-research.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @bscb-official.bsky.social @lankylaste.bsky.social @makaefer.bsky.social
🔬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!
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...
@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social @bitesizebio.bsky.social
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!
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
@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social
#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
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
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. ⬇️