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!

2024/25 Programme

Spring

14 February 2025 |
Isabel Bravo Ferrer (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology) - Assessing morphological changes in astrocytes in a Wnt deficient mouse model
Isabell Whiteley (SWC Advanced Microscopy Facility) - Standardisation and quality control for microscopes

14 March 2025 |
Ruaridh Gollifer (UCL Advanced Research Computing) - Managing microscopy images with OMERO at UCL
Konstantinos Kalyviotis (Imperial) - Hyperspectral Oblique Plane Microscopy Enables Spontaneous, Label-Free Imaging of Biological Dynamic Processes in Live Animals

20 March 2025 |
Networking lunch: Imaging Across The Biosciences (co-organised with Division of Biosciences) - sign-up required.

11 April 2025 |
Matouš Elphick (Francis Crick Institute) - CLEM-Reg: An automated point cloud based registration algorithm for correlative light and volume electron microscopy
Mia Frances Crowther (QMUL) - TBD

9 May 2025 |
Anna Foix Romero (Cambridge) - TBD
Shu En Lim (LMCB/Advanced Research Computing) - TBD

We are also planning summer events - stay tuned.