"Discovering Small Wonders" – this is the motto for the Mouse Door Open Day 2026, which takes place every year on October 3rd. This year too, several Imaging Core Facilities from the German BioImaging (GerBI) network are opening their doors and inviting children to discover the fascinating world of [...]
City of Coimbra ELMI 2026 The beautiful Portuguese city of Coimbra welcomed the European light microscopy community for ELMI 2026, and German BioImaging (GerBI) was there in full force! From poster presentations and invited talks to community sessions and industry networking, it was an action-packed and truly inspiring [...]
https://bsky.app/profile/jo-soltwedel.bsky.social/post/3mpqmrfjzo22x The Next-Generation File Format (NGFF) specification 0.6 (rc0) has been released, representing the latest development in the standardization of bioimaging data. This update introduces key improvements, particularly in the area of coordinate transformations, which are now integrated into the specification. Please see the original post on this on see the original post [...]
German BioImaging, within its work in the NFDI4BIOIMAGE consortium, and in collaboration with Euro-BioImaging ERIC, has launched: The NFDI4BIOIMAGE Research Data Management Community Survey 2026 The survey aims to better understand how bioimaging data are generated, processed, managed, and shared across the life sciences community. The questionnaire takes about 20–25 minutes, is fully anonymous, [...]
The GerBI Community Meeting 2026 participants, picture by Christian Schmidt GerBI Community Meeting 2026: Bringing the GerBI Community Together From March 16-18, 2026, the beautiful Frauenberg Conference Monastery in Fulda transformed into a vibrant meeting place for the bioimaging community as GerBI hosted its Community Meeting. Over three [...]
Press Release German BioImaging Joins TU Dresden in the Implementation of the DFG Code of Conduct for Good Scientific Practice Heidelberg/Dresden, [24.02.2026] — German BioImaging – Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V. (GerBI) is proud to announce that it has formally joined TU Dresden’s implementation of the German Research Foundation’s Code of Conduct: Guidelines for [...]
Online attendance still possible! Our Community Meeting in Fulda (March 16–18) is fully booked on-site! We are fully booked! Online registration is still available, and most sessions will be streamed live. Virtual participation is warmly welcomed, please register to receive participation updates and the meeting-link. Link to registration form: https://gerbi-gmb.de/machform/view.php?id=90957 You find more [...]
When biologists started to accumulate ever-increasing amounts of data, this created a need for those data to be annotated in a way that would allow computer programs to reason over the data. This is the role of ontologies – vocabularies that allow to formally describe a domain of knowledge using computer-actionable axioms. The [...]
We are excited to announce that GerBI (German BioImaging – GMB e.V.) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with de.NBI (German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure https://www.denbi.de/). This agreement formalizes a collaboration in which de.NBI provides cloud infrastructure to GerBI for the deployment and operation of a centralized OMERO platform. The OMERO instance will [...]
In October 2025 GerBI started a cooperation with the German Optical Museum in Jena. This blog article gives insights on the cooperation and the workshop-series carried out in november and december 2025. Background to the GerBI/D.O.M. Cooperation What makes a microscopy exhibit truly engaging? This was the guiding question for [...]
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