CanSERV call to support cancer research
We are happy to announce that the first EU-funded canSERV call is open and is now accepting applications to support cancer research projects. The researchers can apply for FREE SERVICES at several European Research Infrastructures, including Euro-BioImaging ERIC. Deadline for proposal submission is January 4th, 2024. Within this canSERV call, our Finnish Advanced Microscopy Node (FiAM) is providing open-access imaging technologies and expert services to both academic and industrial users: Multimodal Advanced Light Microscopy (includes image analysis), Super-Resolution Microscopy, Electron Microscopy and CLEM, Mesoscopic Imaging, High Throughput Microscopy/High Content Screening Some important highlights: All external users even those from Finland are eligible to apply for FiAM services via the canSERV call Projects applying for less than 3 services and with an overall budget of less than 15 000 euros, will be reviewed in fast-track. This means they will not have to wait for the January 4th, 2024 deadline to enter…
Practical course on Deep tissue imaging, Oxford, UK
Turku Cell Imaging and Cytometry Core Facility has teamed up with the Oxford-Zeiss Centre of Excellence at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford to organize a joint “Practical Course on Deep Tissue Imaging”. This course will take place in Oxford, UK on November 6-10. Course Description:Deep imaging (>50 μm) in biomedical samples such as thick tissue sections, spheroids, and organoids with fluorescence microscopy has become a much more common quest by bio-medical researchers. Yet, such imaging is very challenging as a consequence of difficulties with deep penetrative staining, and with optical limitations including light penetration, light scattering, and refractive index mismatch. The aim of this course is to collectively explore the use of a range of state-of-the-art fluorescence microscopes that are available within the Oxford – ZEISS Centre of Excellence at the University of Oxford, in order to gain a better understanding of the advantages and…
ISIDORE PROJECT “AUTOMATIC PIPELINE FOR BRAIN AUTORADIOGRAPHY IMAGE ANALYSIS”
Turku BioImaging, in collaboration with Zuzana Čočková (Charles University, Prague) and Francisco Lopez-Picón (Turku PET Centre) developed the Mouse Brain Alignment Tool (MBAT), a Python-based software for processing autoradiographic (ARG) images of mouse brain tissue sections and analyzing them using topographical data from the Allen Institute’s Mouse Brain Atlas. The ARG images of mouse brain were from a study that investigates brain damage caused by COVID-19. This project was funded by the ISIDORe project of Euro-BioImaging through the Finnish Advanced Microscopy Node. In June 2023, Zuzana visited Turku BioImaging (TBI) and developed the software together with Junel Solis, one of TBI’s image data analysts. The image is taken by Joanna Pylvänäinen. “The developed pipeline for analysis of ARG images will increase reliability and reproducibility as well as enable end-users to focus on image analysis without technical interruptions”, explains Junel. The source code repository will soon be made public and open source. The project results were…