The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), a founding member of Euro-BioImaging, is host to the Bio-Hub and proudly offers access through the EMBL Node to imaging facilities at EMBL Heidelberg and EMBL Barcelona: Euro-BioImaging EMBL-Node. Learn more about the Nodes and get an overview of news and interactions with EMBL below.

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News about EMBL

Euro-BioImaging Hub staff, Node staff and industry partners at EMBL Heidelberg for the All Hands Nodes Meeting 2025.

April 9, 2025

Wonderful All Hands Nodes Meeting at EMBL Heidelberg

From March 25-28, Euro-BioImaging Hub team was delighted to host our Node community & industry partners. The Euro-BioImaging All Hands Meeting is the occasion…

March 24, 2025

Imaging to combat crop diseases: How Euro-BioImaging transforms agricultural research

Between 20-40% of global food crop production is lost each year due to plant pests and pathogens, highlighting the urgency for scientific research in…

All Hands Nodes meeting 2025 in Heidelberg

January 31, 2025

Programme's out for the All Hands Nodes meeting

We are looking forward to the Euro-BioImaging All Hands Nodes meeting! This event takes place in person at EMBL Heidelberg from March 25-28, 2025.

Susana Guerra and Joseph McGrail at EMBL EMCF, part of Euro-BioImaging's EMBL Node

November 28, 2024

Understanding MPOX transmission

Susana Guerra is a Professor of Microbiology at the Autonomous University of Madrid Medical School. After working with pox viruses for 24 years, her…

Register now! All Hands Nodes meeting

November 26, 2024

Registration is open for the Euro-BioImaging All Hands Nodes meeting

We are delighted to announce that registration is open for the Euro-BioImaging All Hands Nodes meeting, which will be held at EMBL Heidelberg from…

The Euro-BioImaging SAB members and Directorate at EMBL Heidelberg, October 2024. Photo by Kinga Lubowiecka, EMBL/Photolab. 

October 22, 2024

Meeting with our SAB in Heidelberg

The Euro-BioImaging Hub team was delighted to meet in person with our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) at EMBL Heidelberg October 8-9. The Euro-BioImaging Scientific…

Nathan Ribot and Nedal Darif at the Electron Microscope.

June 27, 2024

New correlative imaging methods to unlock the secrets of malaria oocyst reproduction in the mosquito midgut

With support through ISIDORe funding and Euro-BioImaging, Nathan Ribot and Nedal Darif have joined forces to study a rare, never before described phenomena in malaria parasite replication (oocyst development) in the mosquito’s midgut.

February 5, 2024

Cryo-ET to understand how enteroviruses replicate

Enteroviruses cause a range of diverse diseases in humans, like polio or viral myocarditis. While there is a vaccine available for polio, the replication…

Maximum intensity projection of Acantharia (plankton), plunge frozen and imaged with a high-end confocal microscope. Green: Acantharia; red: chlorophyll of symbionts (microalgae). Credits: Anna Steyer/EMBL

January 3, 2024

Cryo-ET: Imagination is the limit

Studying macromolecular complexes in their native environment in a cell is a real challenge, but new methods and technology advances are allowing scientists to…

Luis Eduardo Sánchez Cisneros looks at drospholia at EMBL’s Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, part of Euro-BioImaging’s EMBL Node.

November 21, 2023

Looking at Drosophila development with laser microdissection & 2-photon microscopy

Daniel Ríos Barrera is a developmental biologist and Associate Investigator at the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas (IIBO) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México…

Imagine project kick-off in Heidelberg

June 15, 2023

IMAGINE project – imaging technology developments to address socio-economic challenges

Euro-BioImaging is pleased to be part of the IMAGINE project, which kicked off this week at the EMBL Imaging Centre in Heidelberg, Germany. The…

Timo Zimmerman, team leader for light microscopy services at the EMBL Imaging Center. Photo courtesy of EMBL PhotoLab.

March 16, 2023

MINFLUX: A light microscopy technique that closes the gap on structural biology

MINFLUX is a super-resolution approach developed by Nobel prize laureate Stefan Hell in 2016. Two Euro-BioImaging Nodes are currently offering MINFLUX in open access…

Euro-BioImaging User Forum: Cardiovascular Research

March 7, 2023

Analysis of Nano-Structural Dynamics in Cardiomyocytes

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, from 14:00-17:00 CET. The topic is “Cardiovascular research.” This event will highlight…

February 2, 2023

Euro-BioImaging’s All Hands Nodes Meeting in April 2023

We are pleased to announce that our first in-person All Hands Nodes Meeting since Euro-BioImaging ERIC operations began in 2019 will be held at…

Mark Hink, Dorus Gadella and Marko Lamp at EMBL.

July 19, 2022

The other side of the bench: When Node staff become users

One of Euro-BioImaging’s key missions is to facilitate excellent science by providing open access to imaging technologies and expertise. Users come from many backgrounds…

May 5, 2022

Welcome, EMBL Imaging Center, to the Euro-BioImaging family!

Euro-BioImaging is happy to welcome the EMBL Imaging Center (EMBL IC) to the Euro-BioImaging family of Nodes. The EMBL Node submitted an Expression of…

Figure 1: Chiara and Faba look at images acquired by using the high-throughput microscope at EMBL’s ALMF. Photo copyright EMBL PhotoLab/Massimo Del Prete.

April 20, 2022

Where do SupraMolecular Attack Particles come from?

Chiara Cassioli, a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Siena, is passionate about basic research. Her quest to discover how immune cells communicate within…

September 28, 2021

‘Seeing is Believing’ conference: Meet Euro-BioImaging & EMBL Imaging Center on October 8th

The bi-annual EMBO and EMBL Symposium Seeing is Believing is a central event for the microscopy community. Seeing is Believing brings together leading…

Photo of a lamella prepared for the study (A), a reconstructed slice of the entire tissue specimen at a resolution of 100 µm (B) and the outcomes of three local area scans performed in three selected areas (C-E) with a resolution of 5 µm

July 21, 2021

How imaging technologies contribute to understanding viruses

Euro-BioImaging offers an ever-expanding portfolio of cutting-edge imaging technologies and expertise that covers a range of applications in the life sciences – including in…

March 3, 2021

Remote experiments with STED microscopy at Euro-BioImaging's EMBL Node? Yes, you can!

Jonas Bagge is a PhD Fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen. His speciality is DNA repair, with a…

Left: 3D rendering of organelles visualised by TEM tomography. Multiple tomograms are accessible via an online browser. Credit: Giulia Mizzon, Electron Microscopy Core Facility EMBL. Right: FIB-SEM imaging reveals in 3D the ultrastructure of an entire infected cell. Credit: Julian Hennies, Schwab team, EMBL. 

November 24, 2020

Euro-BioImaging’s EMBL Node contributes to understanding SARS-CoV-2 replication cycle in human cells

Understanding virus replication is a key part of any therapeutic strategy to combat COVID-19. Without this crucial piece of the puzzle, it is hard…

November 9, 2020

The Virtual Pub: Deep learning for image segmentation

Our next Virtual Pub will be held on Friday, November 13th at 1 PM CET. Don’t miss out on this exciting talk which will…

July 23, 2020

How high-throughput microscopy can contribute to COVID-19 diagnosis

Biological and biomedical imaging technologies are essential for addressing many research questions related to Covid-19 and for diagnosis. A recent study conducted by the Heidelberg University…

September 18, 2019

EMBL-EBI announces the launch of the BioImage Archive

With the advances in modern imaging technologies, the wealth of digital imaging data is rising exponentially. While this will lead to exciting breakthroughs, new…