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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Helen Spiers

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

ADVANCING MICROSCOPY IMAGE ANALYSIS WITH CITIZEN SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING Helen Spiers is the Biomedical Research Lead of The Zooniverse platform for online citizen science (www.zooniverse.org), as well as research scientist at The Francis Crick Institute. In her role, Helen Spiers develops novel online citizen science research projects in collaboration with international and interdisciplinary groups.
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Michael Weber

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

UNLOCKING NEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH WITH MODULAR AND SHAREABLE ‘FLAMINGO’ LIGHT SHEET MICROSCOPES Michael Weber has focused a lot of his career in microscopy development. He is a grantee of the CZI cycle 1 grants to imaging scientists. As part of his project, he helps developing light sheet microscopes called ‘Flamingos’ that can travel between research
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Michelle Itano

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

ENHANCING THE ROLE OF A MICROSCOPY CORE FACILITY TO CATALYSE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH Michelle Itano is a cellular biophysicist and Director of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Neuroscience Microscopy Core. Her project for the Cycle 1 Imaging Scientists CZI funding call aims to actively engage and grow collaboration between researchers and computer scientists to
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Adan Guerrero

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

CONNECTING THE MEXICAN BIOIMAGING COMMUNITY Adan Guerrero is an Associate Professor at the National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy within the Biotechnology Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is an awardee of multiple CZI grants, including one for the development of open nanoscopy methods, and one for the development of Mexican Bioimaging Workshops.
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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Caron Jacobs

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

AFRICA BIOIMAGING CONSORTIUM: BUILDING THE AFRICAN MICROSCOPY COMMUNITY Caron Jacobs is one of the leaders of the Africa Bioimaging Consortium, whose aim is to unite a pan-African network of imaging and life scientists. The project focuses on enabling access to technology in various ways, including infrastructure, expertise, networking, and the ‘Teach Africa Microscopy’ program, tailored
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The role of CZI in Expanding Global Access to Microscopy

Posted by , on 24 January 2024

Having noticed the impressive impact that CZI has had on bioimaging progress, community-building, capacity-building, and providing support to underserved communities, during this ‘Imaging the Future Week’ we decided to highlight the work of scientists worldwide, who are CZI grant-recipients. They shared with us their successes and challenges, the role that CZI has had on their
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Crick Bioimage Analysis Symposium 2023 - a Review

Posted by , on 22 December 2023

(By Vanessa Dao, Hradini Konthalapalli, Olatz Niembro Vivanco, Karishma Valand) The Crick Bioimage Analysis Symposium had its first in-person meeting in 2022. This year, #CBIAS2023 gathered around 200 people on site and 80 virtually. It has been an exciting two days of bringing biomedical researchers and their questions together with image analysis and their techniques.
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Image.sc LIVE! around the world - a live bioimage analysis helpdesk is coming to a time zone near you!

Posted by , on 13 December 2023

Community surveys often point to the biggest bottleneck in excellent bioimaging science being image analysis. That’s why the RMS DAIM committee and their friends across the world are putting the fantastic image.sc forum “on the road” and staging a first of its kind event which we’re calling “Image.sc LIVE! around the world”. All the info you need is here: Image.sc LIVE
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An interview with Erick Hernandez Renjifo

Posted by , on 5 December 2023

MiniBio: Dr. Erick Hernandez Renjifo leads the Materials Analysis team at the Institute of OMICAS research at Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia. Erick started his career in Materials Sciences at Universidad del Valle. He has had a versatile career in both, academia, and industry, where he worked at a copper steelworks factory and a car
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Towards global access: Argentina’s Sistema Nacional de Microscopía becomes the newest signatory of the Memorandum of Understanding of Global Bioimaging

Posted by , on 4 December 2023

Joining international efforts towards ensuring global and equal access to microscopy technologies, last October 5th 2023, Argentina’s Sistema Nacional de Microscopía (SNM) became the latest signatory of the international Memorandum of Understanding of Global Bioimaging (GBI). We recently spoke with Dr. Yara Reis, external relations manager of GBI and with Prof. Lia Pietrasanta, one of the representatives of
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