In addition to visiting one of the Euro-BioImaging Node facilities and directly using one of the imaging systems, remote access offers a helpful alternative or additional access pathway to many Euro-BioImaging services.
Remote Access can include many different modalities - from mail-in sample shipment followed by the imaging facility staff performing the experiment in consultation with the users, virtual access to data and software solutions, or direct remote control of instruments.
Remote Access can also be combined with physical access as part of an overall user project under hybrid access.
Euro-BioImaging encourages and supports all its users to take advantage of the access modality most suitable for their project, circumstances, and to actively discuss with the hosting facility what access models are available.
Remote access improves the accessibility of Euro-BioImaging's services for all researchers who may not be able to travel to a facility and reduces the environmental impact of our service provision.
Want to learn more about remote access and how it is provided?
Euro-BioImaging participated in the eRImote project. The eRImote project consortium collected a broad range of helpful documents, examples, and best-practise around how to provide remote and virtual access from Research Infrastructures across a broad range of domains. These documents can be found in the eRImote Information Platform. And useful talks around the topic are available on the YouTube playlist below.
User Stories and Examples of Remote Access
February 27, 2025
Perspectives on remote access for animal research projects
To make imaging technologies more accessible, and with respect to climate and sustainability considerations, many Nodes within the Euro-BioImaging family have developed the capacity…
February 27, 2025
Shedding light on the pathogenic potential of Leishmania tarentolae parasites
Leishmania are protozoan parasites responsible for causing leishmaniasis, a spectrum of severe immunopathologies that affect both humans and animals worldwide. These diseases, which manifest…
May 5, 2023
High-end Electron Microscopy to understand tapeworm life cycle & larval anatomy
Uriel Koziol, a professor at the Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, studies parasitic tapeworms (such as Echinococcus and Taenia), a type of worm…
July 27, 2021
Euro-BioImaging: Adapting to a new normal – remote access and beyond
In March 2020, many imaging core facilities had to turn their equipment off and close shop for multiple weeks, due to the global pandemic.
July 23, 2020
Running remote experiments in Italy’s Elettra Synchrotron laboratory
Due to the COVID-19 emergency in Spring 2020, Euro-BioImaging’s Phase Contrast Imaging Flagship Node in Trieste, Italy, started running remote experiments at its…
June 25, 2020
Remote access in preclinical imaging services
Imaging facilities across the globe are scrambling to adapt remote procedures – or new, stricter hygiene measures – that make it possible to open…
June 22, 2020
Remote access to Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy node
Laboratories around the world are in the process of developing new methods to welcome new users in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdown. Members…
May 20, 2020
Some tips about providing virtual microscopy and remote access
The major impact of the coronavirus COVID-19 – including lockdown and quarantine in most parts of Europe – has changed the way scientists work.
