@bioimaginguk
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
📢 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...
Nighttime aerial view of Liverpool city center illuminated with colorful lights, promoting the 21st International Microscopy Congress in 2026.
📣 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
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
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!
@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!
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
@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
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.
