German BioImaging

"Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research Images" by @elisabethbik.bsky.social will be co-hosted by us and @bioimagingna.bsky.social early career group on November 5th. Please share and follow this link for registration and join us for this exciting event: bit.ly/3VEvVvz

We are glad to announce that the @dfg.de has funded our #BioImageNet proposal! 🤩

🚨New release: NGFF specification 0.6 🚨 Last week, we formally released the latest version of the NGFF specification: 0️⃣.6️⃣( ngff.openmicroscopy.org/specificatio...) Let's take a small tour through the things possible with #ome-zarr 0.6 now that this is out! 👇

GerBI & @mpbioimagingnet.bsky.social: Ask the Experts: 3D Printing in Core Facilities! 📅 Sept 16, 3 PM CEST 📍 Zoom (Link here: t1p.de/a2bum) 💡 Ask Robert, Stefan & Kristin your burning questions - live or via form: t1p.de/7umut #3DPrinting #BioImaging #AskTheExperts #MaxBI #GerBI

🧬 6th Day of Intravital Microscopy Abstract submission deadline approaching! Share your latest results, methods & ideas 🔬✨ 📢 Registration & Abstract submission: tinyurl.com/4kt8vs23 🌟 Travel Awards for early-career researchers Connect with colleagues across the field! #IntravitalMicroscopy #GerBI

"What the heck is…OME-zarr/NGFF" Demystifying bioimaging tech: no jargon, no judgment, just real conversation with @jo-soltwedel.bsky.social on the latest tools & trends. 📅 Sept 3, 1–2:30 PM (Zoom) Register: t1p.de/0byxl | Infos: t1p.de/zkcnd #opensource #ngff #ome #bioimaging

🌍 Meet some of the outstanding speakers joining us for "Open Access to Imaging Around the Globe"! Our conference brings together imaging scientists from around the world. 📅 The program is now live, and registration is open until September 5.

🌍 Celebrating 10 years of @globalbioimaging.bsky.social! Join the Annual Meeting "Open Access to Imaging around the Globe", Oct 26–29, 2026, hybrid at EMBL Heidelberg + online. Free online participation. #GBI_EoE2026 Register by Sept 5 (in-person): t1p.de/j91jr #BioImaging #OpenAccess #Microscopy

🌏🔬💫 Don't reinvent the wheel! Good research data management starts before your first dataset. Our next #GBISpotlightOnData episode, "Start early with a (Research Data Management) Plan," shares practical tips for imaging scientists and core facilities on building a living DMP

Johannes joined @gerbi-gmb.de with a clear first major task: help lead the completion of #NGFF RFC-5. Today, just before heading off on a well-earned holiday and just shy of his one-year anniversary, 0.6 has a release candidate. Kudos, @jo-soltwedel.bsky.social! 🍻🏝️🚀

🚨 Last-minute chance alert! Two spots just opened up for the Core Facility Leadership & Management Course by GerBI&@hfpconsulting.bsky.social: an intense, interactive workshop for core facility leaders. 📅 Aug 24–29, 2026, Düsseldorf Grab your spot now ➡️ t1p.de/o7efv Tag a colleague who’d love this!

🚨 TiM2027 Deadline Extended! More time to submit your workshop! New deadline: July 14, 2026 Don’t miss your chance. 🔗 Apply now #TiM2027 #DeadlineExtended #Microscopy

@jo-soltwedel.bsky.social presenting about how important FAIR data management is for efficiently leveraging AI in a trustworthy manner. Small differences in underlying data annotation and metadata can effect AI-based analysis output a lot. #ELMI2026 @gerbi-gmb.de #OME-Zarr

Meet us at our poster this evening #ELMI2026

Great interactive talk about surveys/interactive survey about talks and cognitive biases from my colleague @lisa-schaefer.bsky.social from @gerbi-gmb.de at #ELMI2026

Just gave a talk at #ELMI2026 and a panel discussion about how #FAIR data impacts #AI and its use in #bio-image-analysis 🔬🧪- and what we at @gerbi-gmb.de do about it 👷👷‍♀️ Slides available here: zenodo.org/records/2070...

So excited for #ELMI2026 getting started! First act: The core facility day full of enlightening talks tailored around the world of Core Facilities. We’re happy to having contributed to make this day happen!

Call for Workshops: TiM2027! Expert in microscopy, image analysis, or AI? Propose a workshop for Trends in Microscopy 2027! ✅ Hands-on learning ✅ Access to labs & industry gear ✅ Network with researchers 📅 Deadline: June 30, 2026 🔗 Apply: t1p.de/zxwxx #TiM2027 #Microscopy #BioImaging

What if open science really saves you time and boosts your impact? @globalbioimaging.bsky.social & GerBI's Spotlight on Data reveals how FAIR practices protect your unpublished work while making your research more discoverable and reusable. 👉 Join the series #BioImaging #OpenScience #DataManagement

🚨ngff-spec release candidate out🚨 Just out: ngff specification version 0.6.dev4 (github.com/ome/ngff-spe...), which will be the last dev version (!) and mark the beginning of the 🚧spec-phase🚧 (see also forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekl...) This means: let's develop some implementations 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️ #OME2026 👋

#OME2026 is coming to an end. It has been a truly welcoming, motivating, and inspiring experience full of intensive exchange and shaped by an exceptionally open and collaborative spirit. Grateful for the many insightful discussions, new connections, and shared ideas. Thank you!

🔍 We are hiring: Remote Research Software Engineer (m/f/d) We are looking for a full-time Remote Research Software Engineer based in Germany who believes that better software can drive real environmental impact. 🌱 Full job ad: jobapplication.hrworks.de?companyId=bp...

What a delight to listen to Carole Goble's inspiring keynote at #OME2026 on community building, charismatic leadership, and endurance! A powerful reminder that lasting infrastructures are shaped not only by technology, but especially by the social experience: leveraging trust, thrust & transparency.

Matthew Hartley from EMBL-EBI, UK, demonstrating live at #OME2026 the power of recent updates around the BioImage Archive @bioimagearchive.bsky.social: Seamless image browsing enabled by OME-Zarr, and enhanced data search functionality are boosting the FAIRness of bioimage data significantly. 👏

#OME2026 day 2 opens with Shuichi Onami from RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, speaking about SSBD, an infrastructure for sharing biological dynamics data. SSBD combines repository functionality based on minimum required metadata with an added-value database containing richly curated datasets for optimal reuse.

Katy Wolstencroft from Amsterdam UMC, who has co-developed the original #FAIR principles, speaking at #OME2026 about national strategy in the Netherlands to make (image) data FAIR, building, among others, on OMERO and BIOMERO to enable research data infrastructure ecosystems at scale.

Kiya Govek from The Jackson Laboratory gave the inspiring opening lecture at the #OME2026 meeting, bringing us the community contributor perspective based on her online community survey. Next up: An Update from the OME Ecosystem

It's on! #OME2026 kicking off at Haus der Universität in Düsseldorf! @sweidtkamp.bsky.social opened this exciting community event, looking ahead at three days of exchange to shape bioimage data management as an international collaborative endeavor.

Prof. Martin Heil, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at @hhu.de, welcomes the #OME2026 community with warms words at this historic venue - the Haus der Universität. Welcome to Düsseldorf to all community members and supporters. 👏

A significant moment at #OME2026: Thanking Prof. Jason Swedlow, the founder of OME, who shaped this remarkable community work since the beginning of the millenium. His work & leadership were honored - even with a nod to his famous blue shirts by OME's Interim Board, nominated by Jason in Oct '25.

The 19th OME Meeting just kicked off in Düsseldorf! So happy to welcome this wonderful community to @hhu.de together with @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and the @openmicroscopy.org Team — really looking forward to the days ahead. 😊 Join online: gerbi-gmb.de/event/ome-20... #OME2026 #NFDI4BIOIMAGE #OME

Looking for a course on STED? You still have time to apply by 17 April 🔬⏰ @gerbi-gmb.de @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eulimi.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @france-bioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @danishbioimaging.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social

A great reminder that the #FAIR principles only truly make sense when all aspects align! Check out this spot-on visualization by @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social

📢 Bioimaging folks, your input matters! The NFDI4BIOIMAGE Research Data Management Survey 2026 is live. Help shape future tools, services & training. ⏱️ ~20 min | 🔒 anonymous | 🌍 open to all 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/en/community... 🗓️ Deadline: April 30, 2026 Please share! 🧬

#GerBIMeeting2026 kicking off day 2 in Fulda with inspirations from collaborating scientific communities, represented by Claudia Giesecke-Thiel (DGfZ), Johannes Jägers (Young Physiologists), and Yara Reis (GBI). Chaired by Hella Hartmann (GerBI). Next Up: Industry Spotlight

"GerBI ist open, creative, inspiring, playful, yet always professional" - Bettina Weigelin at the #GerBIMeeting2026, highlighting a great GerBI community feeling.

Starting today! We are looking forward to welcoming the Community at Kloster Frauenberg in Fulda for the 2026 GerBI-GMB Community Meeting. #GerBIMeeting2026

🚀 The GerBI-GMB Community Meeting is fully booked onsite! This biennial gathering brings together imaging scientists from academia & industry. Open for members and non-members! More here: t1p.de/kcj7x 💻 Online-attendance registration still open — most sessions streamed live! 🔗 t1p.de/cj9fs

19th #OME Community Meeting, Düsseldorf · 28–30 April 2026 Registration is now open! Join researchers, developers, and imaging facility staff to connect, share experiences, and discuss the future of OME tools. Details & registration (deadline: 31 March 2026): gerbi-gmb.de/event/ome-20...

Great news for German #BioImaging! 🤝 #GerBI & #de.NBI just signed an MoU to launch a GerBI #OMERO platform. de.NBI brings the cloud, GerBI handles ops, support & community. 🧩 A testbed + training hub for everyone. Stronger data, stronger science. More soon!

🎉 ELMI 2026 registration is OPEN! Join us in Coimbra 🇵🇹 June 16–19 for Europe’s premier microscopy event. 🔬 Cutting-edge talks 🧪 Hands-on workshops 🤝 Meet top researchers & vendors Secure your spot now! 🔗https://shorturl.at/IkyxX Post sponsored by @okolab.bsky.social

OME-NGFF Hackathon in Zürich just started! We're organizing ourselves to dig into various topics during the next few days. Let's shape the future of microscopy image data standards together. #OME-NGFF_Hackathon #GerBI

💬 We’re excited to announce, together with @gerbi-gmb.de, another Ask the Experts session! 🎉 Next week, on Nov 5 from 3–5 pm CET, we’ll discuss Spatial Transcriptomics with our invited experts: Jan-Philipp Mallm, Sheida Hadji Rasouliha and Marina Peralta! If you are interested to join, reach out!

Another #RDM4mic meeting, which focused on research data management for microscopy, took place @uni-muenster.de. 💫 Several NFDI4BIOIMAGE task area leaders and data stewards met on site and contributed to the program. Susanne Kunis' presentation is already available: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🔬 Join us in Leipzig! The #YMIA panel discussion "The Power of Sharing: Open Data in Bio-image Analysis" is happening in person at UFZ Leipzig on Friday! Organized by the Young Microscopists & Image Analysts (YMIA) Team, part of the GerBI community. #BioImageAnalysis #Microscopy #OpenData

🔬We are looking forward to the #RDM4mic meeting that will take place from October 21-23 at the University of Münster. It is co-organized by @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and @gerbi-gmb.de and aims to bring together members of the imaging and #RDM community. Read more: 👉 hackmd.io/@marietoveli...

First day of our 5th Day of Intravital Microscopy conference has started! Organised by our Team Intravital Microscopy and the working group of the @wsic.bsky.social and iFIT Cluster of Excellence. Already had amazing talks and are looking forward to many more ✨ #IvMic2025

🚀 Registration is open for BioHackathon Germany 2025! Join us 1–5 Dec in Walsrode for hands-on projects, networking, and innovation in #bioinformatics. 🧬🤝 🏨 Anders Hotel Walsrode | 🍽️ Social events | ✈️ Easy travel 🔗 Seats limited—register now! www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event... #Hackathon

We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉 📅 Dates: - Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025 - Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025 📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...  #bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr (1/x 🧵)

📢 Deadline Extended! We’re excited to announce that the registration deadline for in-person attendance at the #foundingGIDE Community Event has been extended. 🗓️ New deadline: 30 September 2025 (previously 31 August 2025)