Happy Easter from the Danish BioImaging community!
We are happy to bring you the latest edition of the Danish BioImaging Newsletter (the first quarter of 2025). In this issue, you will find a summary of the DBI network’s activities, the latest news on upcoming events, job offers, and several exciting opportunities from EuroBioimaging.
In January, the DBI-INFRA Image Analysis Core Facility (IACF) held a two-day Python for Bioimage Analysis workshop at the Danish Molecular Biomedical Imaging Center (DaMBIC) at the University of Southern Denmark. The IACF team provided participants with expert guidance on their bioimage analysis challenges and offered the opportunity to learn from the questions raised by their peers. The course received excellent feedback from the participants who highlighted how much they learned during the workshop.
In March, the IACF team organized a three-day Python course across two institutions: the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. By combining lectures and expertise across institutions, the course maximized the impact of shared teaching resources and collaboration. The course was fully booked, with participants from both academia and industry. We interviewed two attendees, so stay tuned to hear their insights and learn how valuable the course was for their research.
If you are interested in image analysis services, courses, and workshops, you can visit the DanishBioImaging Infrastructure page and learn more about the services and events organized by the IACF. The IACF offers recurring free-of-charge bi-weekly public consultation sessions (Call4Help) with virtual guidance on bioimage analysis challenges. If you are looking for expert support with your data, be sure to join these sessions. An interdisciplinary team, composed of Tricia Loo (bioimage analyst with a life science background), Julia Katharina Mertesdorf and Peidi Xu (bioimage analysts with computer science backgrounds), is ready to assist you with image analysis consultations.
As a look back to 2024, we invite you to watch this video from the CZI Molecule to Human (M2H) boot camp held in Aarhus and Copenhagen, where participants from all over the globe gathered in Denmark to co-create two bioimaging workflows across disciplines, from clinical and preclinical to super-resolution light microscopy. To build upon this great community, monthly virtual meetings are open to anybody interested in bridging clinical and pre-clinical imaging with microscopy imaging. During the first session, the M2H participants received updates on the boot camp report and reflected on how their participation has influenced their work. These virtual meetings will continue once a month in 2025 as an ongoing forum for exchanging experiences and fostering collaboration between the two fields. Contact Sonia Diaz if you want to join the community!
In February, we held the first DBI Panel of Facilities meeting, with an engaging agenda highlighting the exciting activities planned for this year, and collecting ideas and needs from core facilities across the country. We also announced the results of the elections for the Euro-BioImaging representatives who also function as Chair and Vice-Chair for the Panel of Facilities. Thomas Hartig Braunstein and Nynne Christensen retain their position of chair and co-chair for another two-year term. Click here to read the meeting minutes with the topics discussed. The second PoF meeting will be in person during the second day of the DBI Scientific Symposium, June 12th at Roskilde University. If you work in a bioimaging core facility, contact Sonia Diaz if you want to join the PoF!
In March, the DBI-INFRA team and the Chair and Co-Chair of the DBI PoF attended the Eurobioimaging All Hands Node in EMBL, Heidelberg. The meeting brought together the teams working at the different Euro-BioImaging Nodes to foster transnational collaborations and exchange of experiences on user access, training course management, outreach activities, image data standards, future training programs, and bioimaging technologies impact assessments. Danish BioImaging participated actively with Thomas Hartig showcasing how is the user access experience at the Danish Bioimaging Node and Tricia Loo presenting the status of the implementation of the IACF services and take-home learnings from implementing image analysis open-access services in Denmark. If you want to read more about this event, check out this article published by EuroBioImaging.
Keep reading to learn about what is coming up next and do not miss the new section Publications and Acknowledgements featuring a link to publications supported by Danish BioImaging facilities, and stressing the importance of acknowledging the access to and contribution of Core Facilities on research outputs.
DBI wishes you a joyful Easter! God Påske!
DBI Network & DBI INFRA Coordinator Sonia Diaz
Cover video:
Teaser of the upcoming interview with Vinay Mishra, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Pharmacy at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Stay tuned for the full interview, where he talks about how access to advanced microscopy facilities at DaMBIC was critical for the success of his research and the development of the MicroTool: Microscopy for Enhanced Stability of Mixed Dairy Products.
Do not miss the 8th Danish BioImaging Symposium
Roskilde University!!!
The 8th Danish Bioimaging Scientific Symposium is hosted by Roskilde University, and will take place in June 11–12th, 2025. This year, the symposium’s program has been designed to boost knowledge exchange and community building among bioimaging facilities and technology development groups.
We have an exciting program lined up, featuring inspiring talks from technology experts and developers followed by panel discussions, and theme-focused breakout sessions for in-depth brainstorming towards the creation of interdisciplinary collaborative consortiums.
- Bioimaging technology uptake into facilities
- Method and tool development uptake into core facilities
- Creation of a national image repository & cloud HPC analysis
Invited speakers
- Bo Wegge Laursen, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen
- Victoria Birkedal, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University
- Javier Martin Gonzalez, Manager of the Transgenic Core Facility, University of Copenhagen
- Pratik Shah, Assistant Professor, Roskilde University
- Aimilia Nousi, Facility Manager, Center for 4D Cell Dynamics
- Emil Boye Kromann, Associate Professor DTU Department of Health Technology
- Guillermo Sergio Moreno Pescador, Assistant professor, University of Copenhagen
- Martin Aage Barsøe Hedegaard, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
- DBI INFRA Image Analysis Core Facility
- Jon Sporring, Professor, Image Analysis, Computational Modelling and Geometry
- Hannah Mihai, Data Management Consultant, DeiC
In addition, there will be a poster session, the second Image Danish Bioimaging Contest, and a dinner symposium. Click here to register and join us for a unique opportunity to network, explore emerging bioimaging technologies, brainstorm new ideas based on life science user needs, and establish collaborations across the community. Registration (50kr fee) will include catering for coffee breaks, poster sessions, and the symposium dinner.
We look forward to meeting you there!.
Open calls and events
- PhD course Biological Imaging and its advanced modules The basic module will run from April 23 till May 21 (twice a week)
- 4th BioImage Informatics Finland (BIIF) Network Symposium, Seili, Finland 22-23 May
- 8th Danish BioImaging Symposim Roskilde University, June 11-12
- 4th Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure (BNMI) network symposium will take place at Gothenburg, Sweden, August 19-22, 2025
Jobs
- Postdoc in Protein Design of Photoactive Proteins
- Global Jobs list of job opportunities in the imaging community!. This resource is powered by MicroscopyDB
Panel of Facilities – Denmark
The Panel of Facilities (PoF) convenes three times a year, with one session held in person. The next PoF meeting will take place in person at Roskilde University on June 12 at 1:00 PM, on the last day of the Danish Bioimaging Scientific Symposium.
If you are a staff member of a Core Facility in Denmark and plan to attend the symposium, you are invited to join the PoF meeting as well. To receive an invitation, please send a message to DBI Coordinator sonia.garcia@sund.ku.dk
EuroBioimaging News
- Virtual Pub All imaging enthusiasts are invited to join
- EurobioImaging first image contest – Participate in the Four Seasons of the Invisible and celebrate the beauty of imaging every season, with prizes to win!
- Funding opportunities
- JobShadowing – The second call for applications is accepting submissions until May 16th, 2025. This program is open to all Euro-BioImaging Node staff.
- During the first round of the Job shadowing program, conducted between September 2024 and March 2025, Julia Katharina Mertesdorf from the DBI-INFRA Image Analysis Core Facility in Denmark visited the BioImage Informatics Infrastructure Unit (BIIF) in Uppsala, Sweden, for one week in November 2024 to learn about the organization and activities involved in running an image analysis facility. If you want to learn more about her job-shadowing experience and pick up some tips on how to apply for this second call, listen to Julia’s story!
Danish Cancer Institute
Open access to CD7 high-throughput microscope
Under the DBI-INFRA implementation, the core facility for Bioimaging at the Danish Cancer Institute has purchased a Carl Zeiss Cell Discoverer 7 for automated high-throughput microscopy. The system allows for high throughput imaging with a broad range of resolutions from widefield to super resolution Airyscan. Stay tuned for the interview with Andrea Mancini from the Cell Stress and Survival group at the Danish Cancer Institute who is using the CD7 high-throughput microscope.
Moreover, if you are a researcher in Denmark interested in using this equipment for your research contact Core Facility Manager Chris Dinant. The equipment is open access to any researcher in Denmark thanks to the support of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
Photo Gallery
Publications and Acknowledgements
Documenting the impact of open access core facilities is essential for their survival. Remember to acknowledge core facilities and any contribution of their staff in your publications – Check and follow the guidelines from the Royal Microscopy Society !!!
Papers – University of Copenhagen CAB
Publications – University of Copenhagen CFIM
Publications and Acknowledgements Aarhus BioImaging Core Facility
DaMBIC Publications DaMBIC