New time and venue: Philip Hockberger of Northwestern University, Chicago, USA is delivering a talk on sustainability of core facilities. Philip Hockberger, Associate Vice President for Research in Northwestern University, Chicago, USA will deliver a talk on Building a Sustainable Portfolio of Core Facilities in Turku. 29 January 2020. 13:00 – 15:00. PharmaCity Auditorium 1. All are welcome to attend. No registration. mORE NEWS

Philip Hockberger, Associate Vice President for Research in Northwestern University, Chicago, USA will deliver a talk on Career Development in Core Facilities. 28 January 2020. 13:00 – 15:00. Biocity Turku, Mauno Koivisto Centre, Ministeri Hall. All are welcome to attend. No registration.

Academy of Finland grants FIRI funding to the Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node. Academy of Finland (www.aka.fi) has granted FIRI 2019 proposal submitted by the Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node. A total of € 2 660 000 will be granted to the Finnish Node over the period of 2020-2024. The funding will be used to enhance technological capabilities of imaging core facilities that are part of the Finnish Node in Helsinki (University of Helsinki), Turku (University of Turku & Åbo Akademi University), and Oulu (University of Oulu). The acquired instrument funding will provide unprecedented opportunities for researchers to make new discoveries in health and disease. As the partner of Euro-BioImaging ERIC research infrastructure, the Finnish Euro-BioImaging Node and its partners in Helsinki, Turku, and Oulu provide open access to imaging technologies to all national and international users from both academia and industry as well as providing a wide range of…

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Meeting of imaging core facilities of the Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node took place in Helsinki, Finland. Members of imaging core facilities from University of Helsinki, University of Oulu, University of Turku, and Åbo Akademi University that make up the Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node met in Helsinki to share latest updates and recent development from core units. Members of core facilities that make up the Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node meet in Helsinki. Suvi Saarnio (bottom left), Viktor Raimi (top middle), Kimmo Tan­huan­pää (middle), Mikko Liljeström (top right), and Markku Saari (bottom right). Markku Saari represented Cell Imaging and Cytometry core facility in Turku, Suvi Saarnio represented Electron Microscopy Unit in Helsinki, Mikko Liljeström and Viktor Raimi represented Biomedicum Imaging Unit in Helsinki, and Kimmo Tan­huan­pää represented Light Microscopy Unit in Helsinki, and Veli-Pekka Ronkainen represented Biocenter Oulu imaging unit. Discussed topics included a communication platform for members of…

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A meeting of Euro-BioImaging Nodes providing biological imaging took place at EMBL Heidelberg on 8-9 October 2019. This meeting featured a series of flash talks from members of all participating Euro-BioImaging Nodes, a networking session, the description of Euro-BioImaging web portal by Euro-BioImaging team, and a panel discussion on how to integrate technology development and innovation in Euro-BioImaging Nodes. The Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node was represented by Gleb Grebnev and Markku Saari. Gleb Grebnev delivered a flash talk describing the structure, organization, and cutting-edge technologies that are offered by the Node.

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