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Sustainability in Focus: GerBI at the Volkswagen Foundation Workshop
On 8-9 December 2025, we represented GerBI at a workshop hosted by the Volkswagen Foundation at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover. Janina Hanne and Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters joined colleagues from ten innovative projects across Germany to explore an increasingly important question for our community: how can we use research equipment more sustainably [...]
Transitional phase of OME – GerBI’s involvement
German BioImaging – Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V. (GerBI) shares new transitional phase of the Open Microscopy Environment (OME) German BioImaging – GMB e.V. (GerBI) is pleased to announce its support of the Open Microscopy Environment (OME) during its transition phase. Jean-Marie Burel and GerBI’s technical director Josh Moore,longstanding members of OME’s [...]
German BioImaging joins Global BioImaging
Today, we are excited to announce that German BioImaging – Society for microscopy and image analysis e.V. - has officially joined the Global BioImaging Network as its 14th partner organisation. The partnership was formalised at this year’s ELMI2025 conference[1], where German BioImaging signed the GBI Memorandum of Understanding, marking an important milestone for both [...]
Recent Webinars Showcasing Our FAIR Image Data Projects
Over the past few weeks, we have been actively promoting the projects we support and collaborate with, especially in the area of FAIR image data management and OME-Zarr. For your convenience, we have gathered all related webinars on this topic here for you to watch again at any time. Webinar "Cloud-based [...]
TiM2023 & TiM2025 datasets now available on our own OMERO server!
We are pleased to announce that, thanks to the dedicated support of NFDI4BIOIMAGE data stewards and the I3D:bio team, all datasets generated during TiM2023 and TiM2025 have been successfully migrated to a new OMERO server hosted at the University of Münster. This server provides a secure, FAIR-compliant platform for data storage and sharing. [...]
Meet us at ELMI 2025!
We’ll be presenting our work at ELMI 2025 from 03.06. - 06.06.2025! Visit us at our posters and don't miss Josh Moore's talk on Thursday 12:00-12:15: "The road to OME-Zarr 1.0: A FAIR future for bioimaging". Our posters: Poster number 40: TiM 2025: an incubator for FAIR image data management, Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters Poster [...]
Making the Invisible Visible: GerBI at the 400th Anniversary of the Microscope in Berlin
On April 12 and 13, the Zeiss Großplanetarium in Berlin celebrated the 400th anniversary of the microscope with themed days titled "Invisible Worlds: From Microcosm to Universe." GerBI provided hands-on microscopy experiences for visitors. Fourteen GerBI members joined the event, alongside the German Ocean Foundation, the Society for Microscopy [...]
Flying to new horizons!
After careful consideration, we have decided to step away from Platform X. Over time, we realized that the platform, in its current state, no longer aligns with what we stand for at GerBI. We had already refrained from posting on X for some time, and we now want to make this decision official. [...]
Another Speaker Joins Our Amazing TiM2025 Lineup!
We’re thrilled to announce that our already fantastic lineup of speakers for TiM2025 is growing! Rita Strack will be joining us at TiM2025, delivering an exciting talk on Wednesday.We are incredibly grateful for her participation and can’t wait to welcome her to the stage! Stay tuned for more updates on our event [...]
