Welcome to the brandnew GerBI Blog!
Here, we share ideas, thoughts, and insights that evolve in and around GerBI.
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Our Journey to Defining GerBI’s Vision and Mission
At GerBI, crafting our vision and mission wasn’t just a task, it was a journey. A journey of reflection, discussion, and shared discovery. We asked ourselves the big questions: What do we stand for? Where are we heading together? What drives us? Starting with Why We began with inspiration from Simon Sinek’s TED Talk: organizations that start with why inspire more than those that focus only on what they do. It helped us see clearly: Vision = why we do something or the future we aspire to create Mission = how we do something [...]
GerBI Community Meeting 2026 – Recap
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 inspiring days, members and guests came together to exchange ideas, learn from one another, and strengthen the connections that make this community so special. A Warm Start The word cloud from our welcome session. The meeting opened with a welcoming session that immediately [...]
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 without compromising scientific excellence? From the start, the atmosphere was open, collaborative, and engaging. The range of ideas was impressive, from hands-on repair initiatives and smart equipment databases to successful equipment transfer models and even the recycling of an entire institute’s instrumentation. The GerBI [...]
GerBI meets the German Optical Museum Jena (D.O.M) – What makes microscopy truly engaging?
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 a recent workshop series where colleagues from German BioImaging (GerBI) and the Deutsches Optisches Museum (D.O.M.) came together to share ideas, experiences, and practical solutions. The focus was an open exchange about which specimens could captivate museum visitors of all ages while remaining scientifically robust, [...]
