Working Groups

Global Bioimaging is expanding partnerships by involving more biomedical in vivo imaging infrastructures. Currently, the biomedical imaging community is under-represented in the network. The few exceptions are the National Imaging Facility NIF in Australia and Euro-BioImaging ERIC in Europe, contributing with centres operating in the in vivo field. This group is dedicated to accessing and offering recommendations on relevant topics (such as data and quality management, standardization of imaging protocols, etc...) to the biomedical imaging field in a multi-dimensional approach from molecule to pre-clinical.

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During 2023 and 2024, Global Bioimaging's Career Paths for Imaging Scientists Working Group collected information on the challenges experienced by personnel in core facilities. Drawing on this data, the group has written an International Recommendation paper and, subsequently, a Journal of Microscopy Article on “Recognising the importance and impact of Imaging Scientists: Global guidelines for establishing career paths within core facilities”. The group aims to offer a global perspective on the challenges faced by core facility scientists and propose recommendations for nurturing their professional advancement, drawing insights from successful case studies.

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Imaging facility managers are expected by their universities, research organizations, and funders to demonstrate their value with comprehensive and measurable indicators. It is essential to demonstrate the impact on science but the overall impact on society needs to be assessed and demonstrated as well. This international working group (currently comprising members from Australia, Canada, France, Korea, Portugal, Mexico, Finland the US and EMBL) published the “International Recommendation for Measuring Imaging Core Facility Impact”, a comprehensive framework of highly relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Socio-Economic Indicators (SEI). The framework includes an indication of how easy or difficult it might be to gather different types of information to measure the related metrics from an imaging core facility perspective. This common set of guidelines for the community will act as a resource and a tool to demonstrate value and importance of imaging facilities for high quality reproducible research to colleagues, departments, faculties, institutions and funding bodies. One of our next objectives is to determine how Global BioImaging can align with and raise awareness about the 17 international Sustainable Development Goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals). The work is already under way and will benefit from the expertise of different international members that have in depth experience in developing comprehensive frameworks and solutions for the evaluation of SDGs.

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The Image Data Management working group focuses on the topics of data management, analysis, and the wider sharing ecosystem. This includes developing recommendations for data formats, the re-use of analysis technologies, and international collaboration between image data repositories. The working group contributes to the Global BioImaging international recommendation documents and works with other relevant international activities, developer groups, and national and regional repositories and databases to contribute to the development of image data management, analysis, and sharing solutions. Members of this working group are encouraged to submit requirements for standard formats, experiences in sharing data analysis technologies, and ideal forms of international collaboration for image data repositories.

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Training Core Facility Imaging Scientists working group focuses on the topic of training of imaging scientists who work in imaging facilities or support roles.

One of the key objectives of this working group is to share existing and upcoming training initiatives including training resources and platforms between representatives of national and international infrastructures and networks. Sharing of training resources and platforms can avoid duplication of effort and ensure synergies.

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