Inviting Sponsorship Opportunities for TiM2025!
Inviting Sponsorship Opportunities for TiM2025! We would like to invite all companies in the field of imaging and microscopy to sponsor our TiM2025. We offer various sponsorship options, which are listed in this sponsorship brochure.
The options can be booked by sending the sponsoring form at the end of this brochure to the following address: sponsoring.tim2025@gerbi-gmb.de
We are […]
TiM2025 speakers confirmed!
Confirming our TiM2025 speakers! Many thanks to Dr. Siân Culley, Dr. Matthew Hartley, Dr. Anna Kreshuk, Prof. Ali Ertürk and Dr. Serge Monneret for joining us in Münsingen next year! For more details, see our TiM2025 event page.
TiM2025 Update: Most workshop submissions ever!
In April, we opened the call for workshops for our TiM2025 and closed it at the end of June with the most ever for a TiM! We would like to thank the community for their commitment and look forward to seeing many great workshops at TiM.
Acceptance notifications will be sent out to workshop providers on 21 October.
In the meantime, we’re pleased to […]
TiM2025 – Call for workshops now open!
The call for workshops for the TiM2025 is now open! Deadline for submission is June 30th. We are looking forward to you workshop applications, and especially to TiM2025 next year! Details can be found here.
A look back at the Community Meeting 2024
What began as the Fulda Meetings continued this year as the GerBI Community Meeting. More than 50 GerBI members met from 3 to 6 March 2024 above the roofs of Fulda in the active Frauenberg monastery.
Our Community met to talk about research data management within GerBI (see our Zenodo), to lay the foundations for new task forces, and to exchange ideas […]
Workshop Announcement: FAIR data handling in microscopy – Structured metadata annotation in OMERO
The NFDI4BIOIMAGE consortium, in which GerBI-GMB is a co-applicant, and the I3D:bio project, organize an online workshop about effective use of structured metadata annotations in OMERO to enhance the usability of imaging data for image analysis and publication.
Two-Day-Workshop: April 29th & 30th.
Online via Zoom.
The workshop is targeted at researchers at all career levels using OMERO for data organization.
GerBI partners in the newly funded foundingGIDE project
Press Release for the start of foundingGIDE:
foundingGIDE – Laying the foundations of a Global Image Data Ecosystem
foundingGIDE is a Horizon Europe-funded project coordinated by Euro-BioImaging ERIC that will build strong foundations of a Global Image Data Ecosystem (GIDE) for image data exchange based on global coordination of technical developments […]
The GerBI year 2023 – in review
As 2023 draws to a close, we can look back on an eventful year full of exciting news, fascinating presentations and thrilling events with our community. Here we recap our activities in detail.
The year started with the encouraging news that the Network of European BioImage Analysts (NEUBIAS) received funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The grant was secured for two […]
I3D:bio’s OMERO training material available
The DFG-funded Information Infrastructure for BioImage Data (I3D:Bio) project arose from regular exchange within GerBI-GMB’s working group Image Data Analysis and Management and meetings of the informal Research Data Management for Microscopy (RDM4mic) group. A key goal of I3D:bio is to facilitate research data management at universities and research institutions in Germany leveraging the image data management platform OMERO (OME Remote Objects).
The team has […]
Report of the 3rd Day of Intravital Microscopy
3rd Day of Intravital Microscopy
Magdeburg, 23rd/24th of October 2023
After a very successful first meeting in 2018 in Dresden and an equally well recepted second event 2019 in Marburg, the Work Group 8 „Intravital Microscopy“ of German BioImaging e.V. decided to regularily organize an annual event. Unfortunately, the global COVID pandemic stopped us in our tracks in 2020 and the […]
Launch of STEM Optics kit
GerBI-GMB Team Training & Knowledge Transfer is proud to announce the launch of the STEM Optics kit, which was developed in a collaboration between fischertechnik and GerBI-GMB members Christian Feldhaus, Nadine Utz, Sabine Reither and Ruth Hans. The kit provides an easy to use optical bench to construct and demonstrate various optics scenarios with simple building blocks. Further information can […]
NEUBIAS secures funding from CZI
The Network of European BioImage Analysts secures funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The international Network of European BioImage Analysts (NEUBIAS) receives a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) as part of their Advancing Imaging through Collaborative Projects program to secure the sustainability of NEUBIAS, establish strong connections […]
Workshops for TiM2023 are online
CZI EOSS5 funding awarded to Josh Moore (GerBI-GMB)
Josh Moore at German BioImaging – GMB e.V. has been awarded $325,000 by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to coordinate and foster next–generation file formats (NGFF) while
NFDI4BIOIMAGE – funding is confirmed
At the beginning of November, the Joint Science Conference (GWK) decided to include eight additional consortia in the third round of funding for the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), including NFDI4BIOIMAGE. GerBI-GMB is happy to be a co-applicant of the NFDI4BIOIMAGE and as […]
Save the date: Core Facility Leadership and Management Course 2023
Save the date for our Core Facility Leadership and Management Course!
For details, see here: https://gerbi-gmb.de/event/gerbi-gmb-core-facility-leadership-and-management-course/
TiM 2023 – registration for participants now open!
Registration for TiM2023 is now open! We are looking forward to seeing you at TiM2023 next year in Münsten. For more details, have a look at our events page.
Speakers for TiM2023 announced
The speakers for TiM2023 are announced! We thank Prof. Ulrike Endesfelder, Prof. Stefan W. Hell, Dr. Erin Tranfield, Prof. Jan Huisken and Dr. Moritz Kreysing for joining us in Münsingen next year! For more details, have a look at our TiM2023 events page.
NFDI4BIOIMAGE community survey is published
In preparation of the NFDI4BIOIMAGE work programme plans, the NFDI4BIOIMAGE community survey (anonymous) was conducted from June to July 2021. The aim of the survey was to explore the research data management needs in bioimaging in Germany (& beyond).
The survey was run in collaboration with German BioImaging – GMB e.V.
The results of the survey including all original data are available online: […]
TiM 2023 – Call for workshops now open!
The call for workshops for the TiM2023 is now open! Deadline for submission is July 31st. We are looking forward to you workshop applications, and especially to TiM2023 next year! Details can be found here.
Job Shadowing starts again after pandemic break
For more information on our job shadowing program, visit https://gerbi-gmb.de/activities/education-program/.
GerBI-GMB joins image.sc as community partner
GerBI-GMB joined the image.sc forum as a community partner: https://forum.image.sc/tag/gerbi
Feel free to write any questions to GerBI-GMB by using the “gerbi” tag.
About image.sc:
GerBI-GMB members organize sleepout to raise funds for Ukraine
GerBI-GMB is organizing a “sleepout” to raise funds for Ukraine: https://betterplace.org/f41387
After a successful sleepout activity last year after our general assembly, some of our members again give up on their usual sleeping comfort and spend the night without a mattress, outdoors, in a garage, or a corridor. This time we’d like to raise funds for the Ukraine actions of […]
Registration open: Core Facility Leadership and Management Course 2022
Registration for our 2022 Core Facility Leadership and Management Course is now open!
For details, see here: https://gerbi-gmb.de/event/gerbi-gmb-core-facility-leadership-and-management-course/
Registration: https://gerbi-gmb.de/machform/view.php?id=37755
GerBI-GMB & DFG joint online event
Unfortunately, TiM2022 cannot happen in person this year, instead we are happy to announce that GerBI-GMB, in collaboration with DFG, will bring parts of the planned DFG event to the virtual space.

