Autumn News from the Danish Bioimaging Community!
Welcome back to the Danish BioImaging Newsletter. In this issue, you’ll find a summary of our recent activities, updates on upcoming events, exciting job openings, and several new initiatives from Euro-Bioimaging. We’re also thrilled to share news on training sessions, funding opportunities, and inspiring testimonials from users using the bioimaging core facilities in Denmark.
The DBI-INFRA Image Analysis Core Facility (IACF) team, composed of Tricia Loo (Bioimage Analyst) and Julia Mertesdorf (Computer Scientist) is continuing its tour across Denmark offering workshops and Open Office sessions to provide in-person support to researchers.
Back 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. The course was fully booked, with participants from both academia and industry. Check out this short testimonial with Peter Kusk, a research scientist at the startup company Ceremedy and learn how valuable the Python course was for him.
In September, the IACF visited the Aarhus BioImaging Core Facility and the Pre-clinical core facility in Aarhus Hospital. The IACF team visited the Aarhus BioImaging Core facility for two days to conduct a one-day QuPath workshop and an Image Analysis Open Office hosted by the Aarhus Bioimaging Core Facility.
The IACF is also trialling the installation of workstations at different DBI-INFRA facilities for users across Denmark to access IACF services. The first IACF satellite workstation has been installed at the DBI-INFRA pre-clinical core facility in Aarhus University Hospital, and it gives access to IACF-developed workflows and pre-configured environments for popular machine learning tools used in bioimage analysis. The workstation can be used in-person at Aarhus University Hospital, Building A, 5th floor, or remotely via Remote Desktop Manager for those with access to AU VPN (Virtual Private Network).
This installation is currently in its pilot phase, so for now, please contact the IACF email at iacf@dbi-infra.eu to get access to the system. In future, the workstation will be independently accessible for all users registered to our booking system (www.dbi-infra.eu/user-access).
The IACF is ready to assist any research in Denmark and in Europe through the Euro-Bioimaging portal. 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 team offers recurring free-of-charge bi-weekly public consultation sessions (Call4Help) with virtual guidance on bioimage analysis challenges. Furthermore, the IACF team will attend the GloBIAS Bioimage Analysis Conference 2025 in October in Kobe, Japan. Additionally, Tricia Loo has joined the new Euro-BioImaging Data Steward Expert Group, a new community for anyone involved in bioimage data stewardship with the aim to provide a platform for sharing knowledge, exchanging best practices, expanding networks, discussing challenges and learning from experts across Europe.
The 2025 DBI Cross Institutional Bioimaging PhD course is currently running (September 8th to November 17th). The course is hosted by four institutions across Denmark, as consecutive Monday modules for 10 weeks. The emphasis of the course is a tour around facilities offering bioimaging techniques in Denmark, covering subjects like live cell imaging, confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, super-resolution microscopy, single particle techniques, stimulated emission depletion microscopy, imaging of neurons, cell migration and image analysis.
On June 11–12th, 2025 we held the 8th Danish Bioimaging Scientific Symposium at Roskilde University. This year, the event aimed to create space and opportunities for interdisciplinary interactions and collaborations between three key communities in Denmark: technology developers, bioimaging experts and researchers working at the intersection of technology and biology. Furthermore, the event featured a great program of talks, a poster session, the second Image Danish Bioimaging Contest, a booth area and a symposium dinner. Check out the photo gallery of our symposium. A big thank you to everyone who participated and we hope to welcome you again at the 9th Danish BioImaging Symposium in 2026, which will be hosted by the Danish Cancer Institute.
In August, members of the Danish Bioimaging community from Odense, Aarhus, Copenhagen attended the 4th Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure (BNMI) yearly meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden. This year the program featured great lectures, poster sessions covering topics from electron and light microscopy, X-ray imaging, to advanced image analysis. Attendees actively participated in formal discussions and informal social gatherings. If you want to read more about this event, check out this article published by Euro-bioimaging. BNMI offers grants to visit microscopy facilities in the Nordic countries. If you are in need to access a Nordic microscopy facility, check the BNMI website here
Furthermore, the CZI Molecule to Human (M2H) community’s monthly virtual meetings are ongoing. On September 1, we had the pleasure of welcoming Vladimir Ghukasyan and Vania Cao from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). During this session, participants focused on showcasing how the M2H boot camp has impacted their work and career paths, with an emphasis on bridging light microscopy with clinical and pre-clinical imaging communities and infrastructures. The next M2H meeting is scheduled for November 24 and will focus on discussing the M2H boot camp white paper.
We are thrilled to share that the DBI-INFRA Advisory board has been constituted, and the first meeting will be held in 2026. The Advisory Board members will meet with representatives from the leadership teams of the DBI-INFRA hosting institutions (University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde University, University of Southern Denmark, Aalborg University, Aarhus University and the Danish Cancer Institute) to give direct feedback on the DBI-INFRA implementation phase, and advice on strategic developments. We warmly welcome and thank all members of our DBI-INFRA Advisory Board for their commitment and support.
We conclude our newsletter by congratulating two of DBI’s core facilities in Copenhagen: the Center for Advanced Bioimaging (CAB) and the Core Facility for Integrated Bioimaging (CFIB), which recently celebrated two important milestones!
On June 16, 2025,the Center for Advanced Bioimaging, CAB, invited us to come and see the new state-of-the-art microscopes and all their possibilities. Read more about this great event on the CAB website.
Additionally, the Core Facility for Integrated Microscopy (CFIM), University of Copenhagen, has recently joined the new Center for Core Facilities. As part of the reorganization, CFIM has been fused with the NMR Center, as the newly launched Core Facility for Integrated BioImaging (CFIB). The vision of CFIB is to develop and implement multimodal bioimaging workflows, supporting researchers to design technology workflows tailored to answer their research questions across scales with the most optimal technologies. Last week, CFIB inaugurated the IntraVital Imaging facility, a collaboration between CFIB and the Animal Core Facility to empower scientists to perform longitudinal intravital imaging studies.
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Happy Autumn and stay connected!
Best,
DBI Network & DBI INFRA Coordinator Sonia Diaz
Jobs
- Director of the Core Facility for Integrated Bioimaging (CFIB)
- Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy applications specialist at CFIB (Core Facility for Integrated Bioimaging
- 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 on November 7, 2025.
If you are a staff member of a Core Facility in Denmark and would like to join us, please contact DBI Coordinator at sonia.garcia@sund.ku. dk and we will contact you with more detailed information.
Euro-BioImaging News
- Virtual Pub All imaging enthusiasts are invited to join
- EurobioImaging second image contest – Participate in the Four of the Invisible / Fall 2025. Submissions are open until 20th December 2025 23:59 CET.
- Funding opportunities
- EVOLVE Job shadowing program and Train the Trainer
Sonia Diaz, DBI-INFRA Coordinator will visit EMBL hub in Heidelberg, Germany, for one week in October 2025 to learn about the Euro-BioImaging communications strategy, outreach and activities involved as communications officer. She will be shadowing the Communications Officer Marianna Childness. Click here to know more about the Job shadowing program, a program open to all Euro-BioImaging Node Staff. - Xiaowen Wang, Agata Silvan Alcaraz and Katharina Kaiser from the Core Facility for Integrated Microscopy (CFIM) will attend the Train the trainer course in Heidelberg. Clara Prats, DBI Director, will be also attending as a teacher of this program. The Train-the-Trainer course is tailored specifically for imaging core facility staff working at Euro-BioImaging Nodes who are involved in user support, training, and course organization. This course is about how to teach image techniques effectively and provides a comprehensive toolkit for developing and delivering impactful training sessions, user courses, and collaborative workshops.
- Euro-BioImaging is also launching a campaign to raise awareness about the amazing research taking place at the core facilities that are part of Euro-BioImaging. With this campaign, we hope to raise awareness about our users, their research, and of course our facilities. Let’s work together to raise awareness of the amazing science happening at Euro-BioImaging!. Share your story with Euro-BioImaging!.
Meet the DBI Users
- Meet the DBI users – check out all the videos published in our series – Danish BioImaging videos
- Interview with Trine Schønfeldt – Ph.d. University of Copenhagen – Skin Immunology Research Center. Coming soon!.
- In November we will interview two users at the DBI-INFRA Aarhus BioImaging Core Facility.
- Watch below our latest videos interview with Andrea Mancini, user at Danish Cancer Institute and Vinay Mishra, user at DaMBIC.
Interview with Andrea Mancini – Danish Cancer Institute. Open access to CD7 high-throughput microscope. 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.
Interview with Vinay Mishra – Postdoc – Danish Molecular Biomedical Imaging Center DAMBIC user, University of Southern Denmark, SDU.
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