BioImagingUK Meeting 2026
This annual meeting provides 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 will consist 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 will be interactive Q+A sessions to encourage discussion and enable emerging priorities and ideas to be highlighted.
There is a waiting list for Travel Bursaries for Technicians and Early Career Researchers - please apply here:
Draft Programme (subject to change)
From 0930: Arrival - Registration, Coffee & Pastries - Flett Theatre foyer (Floor 1, Earth Galleries Building)
10:00 - 10:55: UK Updates (Chair: Tbc)
10:00 BioImagingUK update
10:15 UKRI-BBSRC
10:25 UKRI-MRC
10:35 Wellcome Trust
10:45 National Image Stewardship Curriculum update
10:55 Group Discussion
10:55 - 12:00: Bioimaging Ecosystem (Chair Tbc)
11:05 Stefania Marcotti, UK-BIAS
11:15 Tony Burdett, BioFAIR
11:25 Andy French, AIBIO-UK
11:35 Martin Jones, CCP VolumeEM
11:45 Helen Zenner, Focal Plane
11:55 Group Discussion
12:05 - 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00: Biomedical Imaging (Chair: Tbc)
13:00 UK- Preclinical Imaging Network (UK-PIN) - Katie Dexter, University of Southampton and 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
1424 - 1600: Sustainable Careers, Facilities and Networks (Chair: Virginia Silo, UCL and Kurt Anderson, Francis Crick Institute)
1425: Advancing Biomedical Data Science Careers - Denise Bianco, Turing Institute
14:35 UK Research Facility Coordinators Network (RFCN) - Danielle Hoyle, Babraham Institute
1445: A year in a new career: Single Molecule Microscopy and Spectroscopy - Alex Paine-Dwyer, University of York
1455: Physics of Life NET - Karis Baker
1505: Intravital Microscopy: a versatile toolkit for optical imaging in vivo - Max Nobis, University of Manchester
1515: Group Discussion
1525 - 1600 - Community Input Session (facilitated by Kurt Anderson, Francis Crick Institute)
1600: 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
