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Interview with Elisabeth Kugler

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 9 April 2026

Elisabeth Kugler is the founder and director of Zeeks , a science communication and marketing company. Prior to starting Zeeks, Elisabeth trained as a biologist specialising in microscopy and bioimage analysis. I met Elisabeth over Zoom to discuss her career path, how and why she set up her company, her step-by-step approach for tackling new challenges

[FRANCE-BIOIMAGING] Join the SFBS 2026 workshop & symposium!

Posted by Marine Beraud, on 9 April 2026

Registrations are now open for the Sino-French BioImaging Symposium 2026 (SFBS 2026), which will take place in Bordeaux (France) from October 14 to 21, 2026. This event is organized within the framework of the International Research Network (IRN) BioImage between France and China, aiming to strengthen scientific exchanges between the French and Chinese bioimaging communities

Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by FocalPlane, on 3 April 2026

Here is a curated selection of the latest preprints on new tools and techniques in imaging. Let us know if we are missing any recent preprints that are on your reading list!

Cell Modeling in Space and Time at CSHL

Posted by Assaf Zaritsky, on 3 April 2026

We are excited to announce the first Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) meeting on Cell Modeling in Space and Time, taking place June 22-25, 2026. This inaugural gathering is designed to dismantle the traditional silos between disciplines, fostering creative interactions between experimental cell biologists, computational scientists, biophysicists, and mathematical modelers. The meeting will promote interdisciplinary

The NFDI4BIOIMAGE Research Data Management Community Survey 2026

Posted by Lisa Schaefer, on 2 April 2026

German BioImaging, within its work in the NFDI4BIOIMAGE consortium, and in collaboration with Euro-BioImaging ERIC, has launched the NFDI4BIOIMAGE Research Data Management Community Survey 2026. The survey aims to better understand how bioimaging data are generated, processed, managed, and shared across the life sciences community.

Hacking with GloBIAS by Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano

Posted by Beatriz Serrano-Solano, on 1 April 2026

This article was written by Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano, PhD candidate at the Center for Computational Biology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Seeing is believing, or at least that’s what I thought. Picture this: starting your master’s thesis, you are tasked with identifying (and, if you are lucky, quantifying) the difference between male and

Imaging spotlight: Minimally invasive live tissue clearing with SeeDB-Live

Posted by Takeshi Imai, on 1 April 2026

In this paper highlight from Shigenori Inagaki and Takeshi Imai, we learn about SeeDB-Live, a methodology for applying tissue clearing to live-cell imaging.

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