GloBIAS Teams and Groups

Moving towards a sustainable continuation of GloBIAS the board decided to create a more evolved structure to enable GloBIAS to keep growing.

This new structure moves away from the more grant and milestonce centric Work Group structure. It will include a number of new Teams and Work Groups, allowing members to engage at different levels and with different time commitments. An overview of the evolving structure can be found below.

Core Teams

Communications

lead: Paula Sampaio

The Comms Team plays a pivotal role in the dissemination and outreach efforts of GloBIAS, focusing on activities across various platforms including the Webpage and social media channels. The responsibilities encompass writing engaging content, cultivating online presence, and fostering connections with diverse audiences to amplify GloBIAS's mission and impact. The meeting schedule is about every two weeks.

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We are also on GitHub and Zenodo.

To reach out please email admin@globias.org with subject: [GloBIAS communications]

Welcome Team

lead: Tricia Loo

The Welcome Team aims to help new members to find their way around by sharing resources, introducing new members to already existing ones and providing a platform for exchange.

more updates coming soon....

Work Groups

Training & Education

lead: Christian Tischer, Beth Cimini

The GloBIAS training and education workgroup organizes and conducts activities to bolster global expertise in bioimage analysis. This group primarily aims to assist professional bioimage analysts in more effectively supporting life scientists with their microscopy data analysis. Current initiatives include establishing a global database of bioimage analysts to aid in organizing regional courses and networking, reviewing existing training materials for bioimage analysis to support the development of future courses.

Publications

lead: Kota Miura, Rocco D'Antuono

The group is now working on publishing a special issue in the Journal of Microscopy summarising the results of the workshop session on 'Reproducibility' from the GloBIAS workshop 24. In addition, the workgroup will continuously promote the publication of academic manuscripts related to bioimage analysis, in various forms such as research papers, survey reports, commentaries, and essays. For these publications, output channels may include journals, web articles, and blog posts.

HPC and cloud computing for image analysis

lead: Nicholas Condon, Benjamin Pavie

The HPC and cloud computing for image analysis work group aims to bring together the community of researchers using distributed or remote computing tools to discuss training materials, workshop content and best practices. The group meets monthly to showcase workflows & tools, to discuss challenges as well as to compile, plan and create new materials.

Seminar Series

lead: Elnaz Fazeli

Organising regular online presentations in the form of the BIAS seminar series concentrating on topics chosen by GloBIAS members in a yearly questionaire. These online events are open for everyone and uploaded to the GloBIAS YouTube channel.

GloBIAS Free Help session

lead: Iva Švecová, Paula Llanos

The group organises regular community events where researchers and image analysis enthusiasts can receive personalized guidance on their bioimage analysis questions. More details here.

Task Groups

Survey 24

lead: Robert Haase, Agustin Corbat

The survey 2024 was sent out beginning of February and is now closed. We asked 22 questions related to structure, needs and wishes of the community. We plan to use the responses to inform the foundation of the society. The analysis will be done mainly in GitHUB with input from the whole group, and we hope to draw conclusions that will help us to build the society and reflect the community needs. The group has published a preprint of the survey results which you can find here: preprint publication.

Workshop 2026 organization

lead: Jianxu Chen, Kota Miura

The workshop 2026 will be held on 11 to 13 November at the ISAS in Dortmund, Germany. More information here.

Data Carpentry BioImage Analysis Curriculum - update with Python

lead: Tereza Belinova, Marco Dalla Vecchia

Working together with the Data Carpentry and volunteers the group aims to create a training Curriculum for BioImage Analysis, integrating Python and based on the extensive existing resources from the Data carpentries. More information on the start of the project can be found here.

closed groups:

Workshop 2025 organization

lead: Kota Miura

The workshop 2025 continued to build the GloBIAS scientific society & community. The in-person event was held in in Kobe, Japan from Oct 26, 2025 - Oct 31, 2025, Venue: Riken BDR, Kobe, Japan. Please check the workshop pages for more information.

Workshop 2024 organization

lead: Julia Fernandez Rodriguez

The workshop 2024 to start building the GloBIAS scientific society & community in-person was held in Gothenburg from 5. Nov to 8. Nov.

50 people attended with 12 people being supported by CZI travel grants.

A final report on the workshop 2024 in Gothenburg can be found in our Zenodo here.

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