Welcome to the summer edition of the Danish Bioimaging newsletter

Here is a summary of our recent activities and accomplishments during the first six months of 2024. In this edition of the Danish Bioimaging newsletter, you will also find updates on our upcoming events . We are excited to share our progress and achievements with you!.

It was a great pleasure to welcome and network with the more than 150 participants who attended the 7th Danish Bioimaging Scientific Symposium – June 2024. The program included invited talks from internationally recognized bioimaging scientists across scales, talks about local and international bioimaging research infrastructures, workshops on image acquisition and analysis technologies, a poster session with drinks and finger food to boost collaboration and networking, and a booth area with our fantastic commercial sponsors. Parallel to the symposium, two open sessions focused on collaboration across bioimaging technology platforms in Denmark (DBI Panel of Facilities), and the Stakeholder meeting on the use of artificial intelligence in image analysis, organized in collaboration between the Alexandra Instituttet, QIM and DBI. Curious to know more? Check out this article by Eurobioimaging featuring the meeting – A look back at the 7th Danish BioImaging Symposium, and take a look at the meeting’s photo gallery.

This year, the Danish EuroBioImaging node was selected to organize and host a unique event, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funded Molecule to Human Boot Camp (M2H). One hundred and eighty-nine applications were received, from which twenty-four participants were selected coming from all over the world. The Molecular to Human boot camp will be held on September 16-27th, 2024, in Denmark, between Aarhus University and Copenhagen University. Both institutions draw from the combined expertise of clinical, preclinical, microscopy and image analysis expertise to create two multimodal imaging workflows to show case bioimaging experimental design rationality and critical considerations.
We would like to thank the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) for financing it, and the consortium behind the M2H grant application ( Global BioImaging, African BioImaging, Consortium (ABIC), Africa Microscopy Initiative (AMI), Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF), Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre (Bio-RTC), Biomedical Imaging Organization for South East Europe (BIO-SEE), the Consortium for Advancement of MRI Education & Research in Africa (CAMERA), Euro BioImaging ERIC and Latin America BioImaging (LABI)). Stay tuned for more information!.

It is soon one year since the DBI-INFRA Image Analysis Core Facility opened some services, and since then, the facility has organized several very acclaimed workshops, which have quickly reached capacity and recieved outstanding feedback from participants. The most recent workshop was the one-day QuPath workshop held in April 2024 and hosted by the Bioimaging Core Facility at Aarhus University. A hands-on workshop tailored for life scientists and bioimaging facility staff to learn how to quantify histology and multiplexing images. Furthermore, there was over-full house for the 6 days Image Analysis course organized by the Core Facility for Integrated Microscopy (CFIM) in collaboration with the DBI-INFRA Image Analysis Core Facility in June. The course received excellent feedback (4.8 out of 5 stars) from the students after diving deep into the world of digital images and getting project-based guidance to work with their own images, applying what they learned during the first part of the course. More workshops and events organized by the DBI-INFRA IA CF team will be announced after the summer break. Stay tuned!.

If you want to keep updated about the DBI-INFRA, you can check our website to get an overview of the bioimaging technologies, and planned activities offered at the different DBI-INFRA facilities. In addition, you can also check available funding opportunities to cover travelling and transnational user access to the best facilities across Europe, such as ISIDORe, AgroServ, AI4Life, CanServ and the new EVOLVE project.

Finally, the DBI User series has grown during 2024 – Researchers affiliated at different Danish institutions shared their bioimaging research with our community, highlighting how important bioimaging is for their research, and inspiring others with cool bioimaging data and methods. In the next interview, you will meet Rikke Agerskov, PhD student at the section for Molecular and Medical biology Roskilde University. See teaser under and Stay Tuned for the full interview!

Cover Video is a 3D visualization of the vasculature and tissue morphology of mouse intestine, acquired with the Zeiss Light Sheet 7 at the Core Facility Integrated Microscopy (CFIM), University of Copenhagen. Credits: Sample prepared and collected by Clara Prats, Hannelouise Kissow, and Jon Vergara Ucin. Consultation, clearing, imaging, and animation by Sunny Dai and Jana Harizanova.

We wish you all a very happy summer. Enjoy!

Best Regards/ DBI Network & DBI INFRA Coordinator Sonia Diaz

BNMI Job shadowing at CFIM, University of Copenhagen

Bjørnar Sporsheim, Manager of the Cellular & Molecular Imaging Core facility (CMIC) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, participated in the BNMI Job shadowing program visiting the Core Facility for Integrated Microscopy (CFIM) at the University of Copenhagen. In this short video he shares his experience. Know more about the BNMI Job shadowing 

Big congratulations to the DBI-INFRA Image Analysis Core Facility image analysis specialist Julia Katharina Mertesdorf for being selected for the Euro-BioImaging Cross-Node Job Shadowing program. Julia will visit the BioImage Informatics Infrastructure Unit (BIIF) in Uppsala, Sweden, for one week to learn about the organization and activities involved in running an image analysis facility.
The job shadowing program is made possible through EU funding as part of the EVOLVE project.
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Meet our users

Interview with Rikke Agerskov, PhD student at the section for Molecular and Medical biology
Roskilde University. Stay Tuned for the full interview!

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