BioImagingUK Meeting 2026
This fully-booked annual meeting provided an opportunity for the UK Bioimaging community to discuss priorities and strategies in national infrastructure, technology development, training, careers and ways to share knowledge across different disciplines. The day consisted of short talks from members of the BioImagingUK community, national funders, and industrial/institute collaboration partners to update on progress, new opportunities and initiatives. There was interactive Q+A sessions to encourage discussion and enable emerging priorities and ideas to be highlighted.
There was a waiting list for Travel Bursaries for Technicians and Early Career Researchers - please apply here
Final Programme
From 0930: Arrival - Registration, Coffee & Pastries - Flett Theatre foyer (Floor 1, Earth Galleries Building)
10:00 - 11:05: UK Updates (Co-Chairs: Maddy Parsons, KCL and Steve Thomas, University of Birmingham)
10:00 BioImagingUK update, Georgina Fletcher
10:15 UKRI-BBSRC, Jennifer Swarbrick
10:25 UKRI-MRC, Penny Morton
10:35 Wellcome Trust, Viv Goosens
10:45 National Image Stewardship Curriculum update, Aybuke Kupcu Yoldas, Bioimage Archive, EMBL-EBI
10:55 Group Discussion
11:05 - 12:00: Bioimaging Ecosystem (Co-Chairs: Leandro Lemgruber, University of Glasgow and Antonina Kruppa, University of Cambridge)
11:05 UK-BIAS, Stefania Marcotti
11:15 BioFAIR, Tony Burdett
11:25 AIBIO-UK – Growing the AI in the Biosciences Community, Andy French, University of Nottingham
11:35 Collaborative CCP-volumeEM - Connecting People, Tools, and Data Across the Volume EM Community - Martin Jones, Francis Crick Institute
11:45 Focal Plane, Helen Zenner
11:55 Group Discussion
12:05 - 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00: Biomedical Imaging (Co-Chairs: Kavitha Sunasee, KCL and Katie Dexter, University of Southampton)
13:00 UK Preclinical Imaging Network (UK-PIN) - Saimir Luli, Newcastle University
13:10 Democratising the analysis of spatial transcriptomic data using Multi-Dimensional Viewer - Steve Taylor, University of Oxford
13:20 Building FAIR Nextflow Modules for Bioimage Analysis: A Multi-Institute Community Effort - Tong Li, Sanger Centre
13:30 From tissue to cells: bridging mesoscale and microscale with laboratory-based phase-contrast X-ray imaging, Michela Esposito - UCL
13:40 Preclinical In Vivo Imaging at Oxford: A Multimodal Imaging Facility for Biomedical Research - Gaurav Malviya, University of Oxford
13:50 Group Discussion
1400 – 1425: Coffee
1425 - 1525: Sustainable Careers, Facilities and Networks (Co-Chairs: Virginia Silo, UCL and Kurt Anderson, Francis Crick Institute)
14:25 Advancing Biomedical Data Science Careers - Denise Bianco, Turing Institute
14:35 UK Research Facility Coordinators Network (RFCN) - Danielle Hoyle, Babraham Institute
14:45 A year in a new career: Single Molecule Microscopy and Spectroscopy - Alex Payne-Dwyer, University of York
14:55 Introducing the Physics of Life Network: Connecting Physics and the Life Sciences - Karis Baker, PoL NET
15:05 Intravital Microscopy: a versatile toolkit for optical imaging in vivo - Max Nobis, University of Manchester
15:15 Group Discussion
1525 - 1600: Community Input Session (facilitated by Kurt Anderson, Francis Crick Institute)
16:00 Meeting Close
Scientific Organiser
Georgina Fletcher
Georgina is the Project Officer for the community network BioImagingUK, an open organisation of UK scientists that develop, use, or administer imaging solutions for life science research.
Contact Georgina for BioImagingUK enquiries.
georgina@rms.org.uk
+44 (0) 1865 254777
