UCL BioImage Interest Group

About the Group

UCL BIIG is a UCL Imaging Science Technology Platform initiative which brings together user groups run by the LMCB (Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology), Division of Biosciences, IPLS (Institute for the Physics of Living Systems), UCL Cancer Domain, UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. The Interest Group aims to connect users and experts from different backgrounds who are interested in biological and biomedical image acquisition and analysis. UCL BIIG aims to share knowledge, expertise and foster discussion and collaborations around the topics of bioimaging and bioimage analysis in an informal setting.

Monthly hybrid meetings

We hold monthly hybrid meetings at the LMCB (seminar room 2.30, 2nd Floor) and on Zoom every second Friday of the month with talks at 12-1 pm, followed by refreshments. We host two speakers for short (15 min) and informal presentations each time, allowing plenty of time for discussion. We welcome work-in-progress presentations and highly encourage the participation of early-career researchers - feel free to email us if you would like to speak!

2025/26 Programme

Spring

13 March 2026 |
Tim Huygelen - title TBC
Speaker TBC

17 April 2026 |
Special Session: Call4Help

8 May 2026 |
Speakers TBC

12 June 2026 |
Speakers TBC

Autumn

12 September 2025 |
Kaixiang Shuai (Laboratory for Molecular and Cell Biology) - Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas
Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering) - Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray Computed Tomography and Digital Volume Correlation.

10 October 2025 |
Anna Bajur (Imperial) - Quantifying cellular forces, one molecule at a time
Virginia Silio (UCL) - Euro-Bioimaging: From Access to Analysis

14 November 2025 |
Alice Leavey (Southampton) - From chameleons to sea urchins: Using AI-driven digital dissection tools to study development and evolution
Andrei Enica (UCL Cancer Institute) -  A data analysis pipeline for imaging-based single-cell spatial transcriptomics

12 December 2025 |
Wilton Hsu (UCL) - Optimizing 3D segmentation with Nextflow
May Liu You-Hsuan (Cambridge/Imperial) - Mechanical stress and cell fate acquisition during zebrafish trunk neural crest cell migration: Tissue bioimaging

We also pleased to announce that the UCL Science Technology Platform Imaging Symposium will be held on Thursday, 26th February 2026 at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. Please register early because places are limited.