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Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Adan Guerrero

Posted by Mariana De Niz, 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.

Enhancing Global Access: interview with CZI grantee Caron Jacobs

Posted by Mariana De Niz, 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

The role of CZI in Expanding Global Access to Microscopy

Posted by Mariana De Niz, 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

Crick Bioimage Analysis Symposium 2023 - a Review

Posted by vanesssadao, 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.

Image.sc LIVE! around the world - a live bioimage analysis helpdesk is coming to a time zone near you!

Posted by Georgina Fletcher, 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

An interview with Erick Hernandez Renjifo

Posted by Mariana De Niz, 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

Towards global access: Argentina’s Sistema Nacional de Microscopía becomes the newest signatory of the Memorandum of Understanding of Global Bioimaging

Posted by Mariana De Niz, 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

Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ

Posted by Lior Pytowski, on 3 December 2023

We would like to invite you to an online course introducing you to the basics of image analysis, including automatic segmentation, colocalisation, denoising, 3D, etc. This course will start on February 5th, 2024. Sign-up and additional details here. What You’ll Learn This course consists of five 2.5-hour live interactive online sessions, where you’ll dive into

An interview with Laura Daza

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 28 November 2023

MiniBio: Laura Daza just finished her PhD at CinfonIA, at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. During her doctorate degree, she has worked in a variety of projects ranging from Computer Vision to image and data analysis. She studied Biomedical Engineering at Universidad de los Andes, where she first found her passion for Image Analysis.

An interview with Sebastian Lourido

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 21 November 2023

MiniBio: Prof. Sebastian Lourido is a tenured professor at the Whitehead Institute and the Faculty of Biology at MIT in Boston, USA. He began his studies in Colombia, and from an early age developed an interest for the natural world. Seeking versatility in his undergraduate degree, he went to Tulane, in the USA, where he

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HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples Development 2024 151: dev202307
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