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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
