France


The French Republic, a founding member of Euro-BioImaging, proudly hosts one Node in 8 regional sites (6 currently available for Euro-BioImaging users) across the country: French BioImaging Node. Learn more about the Nodes and get an overview of news and interactions with France below.

French BioImaging Node - Key figures 2024

27

Facilities

763

External Users

248

User Publications

9

Remote Users

87

Training courses

276

Staff involved

News about France

Euro-BioImaging Map 2025

May 30, 2025

Euro-BioImaging expands!

The Node upgrade process is a process by which existing Euro-BioImaging Nodes can add additional facilities to their Node, expanding the infrastructure by onboarding…

sample prep room

April 24, 2025

Shedding light on colorectal cancer progression

Colorectal cancer deaths are rising among young adults. Rabe’ah Almahassneh, a PhD student from the University of Valencia who is developing her research work…

Fuse My Cells Grand Challenge FBI

January 23, 2025

Fuse My Cells: France-BioImaging’s 2nd Challenge opens on January 31

Hey, deep learning experts! Show off your 3D image-to-image fusion skills using deep learning by entering France-BioImaging‘s Fuse My Cells challenge.  The main objective…

Spencer Shorte presents at the AMI Symposium in 2022.

January 14, 2025

In memory of Spencer Shorte

Euro-BioImaging mourns the loss of an important member of the international imaging community and an active advocate for imaging core facilities.  Spencer Shorte was…

France-BioImaging Annual Meeting 2024 in Strasbourg. Photo courtesy of France-BioImaging.

December 16, 2024

Congratulations, France-BioImaging!

2024 will stand out in France-BioImaging history as a very positive year. Not only was France-BioImaging awarded significant national funding to support their infrastructure…

December 12, 2024

Successful ANERIS workshop on Underwater Imaging, Bio-optic, and Participatory Technologies

On December 2nd and 4th, 2024, the Horizon Europe-funded ANERIS project organized two workshop sessions endorsed by the United Nations’ initiative…

France-BioImaging, Israel BioImaging and Euro-BioImaging at the ANERIS General Assembly meeting.

December 9, 2024

Euro-BioImaging and Nodes at ANERIS General Assembly Meeting

Earlier last week, two Euro-BioImaging Nodes, along with Euro-BioImaging hub members Ayoub El Ghadraoui and Susanne Vainio, took part in the ANERIS General Assembly…

Distributed Training course - Intro to BioImage Analysis with Python for Life Scientists banner

November 11, 2024

Euro-BioImaging runs a highly successful distributed image analysis training course

Within the framework of the eRImote project, Euro-BioImaging Hub in collaboration with France-BioImaging, PPBI and Swedish NMI, developed and implemented an innovative, distributed training…

2nd ANERIS workshop

November 7, 2024

ANERIS Workshop 2 : Underwater Imaging, Bio-optic, and Participatory Technologies

After a very successful 1st workshop on AI basics for image analysis, Euro-BioImaging and its nodes France Bioimaging and Israel Bioimaging are excited to announce the organization of a new…

Distributed Training course - Intro to BioImage Analysis with Python for Life Scientists banner

August 29, 2024

Distributed Training course - Intro to BioImage Analysis with Python for Life Scientists

Euro-BioImaging is proud to announce a pilot distributed training course for “Intro to BioImage Analysis with Python for Life Scientists” from October 7th to…

Euro-BioImaging map

June 17, 2024

New facilities join Euro-BioImaging Nodes

We are delighted to welcome new facilities into the Euro-BioImaging family as part of our recent Node upgrade. Four Euro-BioImaging Nodes – Swedish NMI,…

Edouard Bertrand video thumbnail

March 24, 2024

Edouard Bertrand, “What is open access to imaging?”

What is Euro-BioImaging? What is open access to imaging? As part of a series spotlighting Euro-BioImaging Nodes, we asked Edouard Bertrand, Scientific Director at…

Sophie Mace France BioImaging

March 11, 2024

Providing customised bioimage analysis advice & workflows through a nationwide, remotely operating core-facility

Many Euro-BioImaging Nodes are working on innovative image analysis and image data management solutions and the next Euro-BioImaging User Forum is designed to highlight…

Light My Cells Challenge

March 11, 2024

Light My Cells, the first France BioImaging Image Challenge

Join us at the Euro-BioImaging User Forum, for an afternoon of presentations from Euro-BioImaging users and image data/image analysis experts at our Nodes that…

January 26, 2024

Successful AI Basics for Image Analysis webinar available on YouTube

In November-December 2023, the Horizon Europe-funded ANERIS Project organized a workshop series to explore the realms of AI application for image processing. These workshops,…

Poster for the Multiscale Imaging in Neuroscience event with EBRAINS

October 25, 2023

Super-resolution imaging inside brain slices with lattice light-sheet microscopy

Our next Special Edition Virtual Pub, “Multiscale Imaging in the Neurosciences,” organized in collaboration with EBRAINS, will take place on Friday, October 27. At…

France BioImaging Euro-BioImaging User Forum on Plant Biology

September 7, 2023

Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy of Plant tissues

Imaging technologies support research into the structure and function of plants, shed light on plant health, resilience and adaptability, and help answer agroecology-related research…

Like a ball of yarn… Above is an example of how CXEM can be used to find the best itinerary within a sample to make transverse sections of the portion of interest. On the left, the micro-CT provided a 3D map of the sample within the resin block. On the right, a transverse ultrathin TEM section of the drosphilia gut. Image courtesy of Nuno Luis (Schnorrer lab, IBDM) & Nicolas Brouilly (Electron Microscopy Facility, IBDM AMU/CNRS, France BioImaging).

March 23, 2023

CXEM: Finding a needle in a haystack

Correlative X-ray imaging and electron microscopy (CXEM) is the combination of X-ray imaging and electron microscopy. It is a correlative approach that makes it…

March 8, 2023

ANERIS Project: Towards Operational Marine Biology

Euro-BioImaging is delighted to be part of the ANERIS (operAtional seNsing lifE technologies for maRIne ecosystemS) project, which kicks off this week in Barcelona. The…

RIM comparison

March 7, 2023

A powerful high speed, low phototoxicity microscopy method to achieve super-resolved images

Are you interested in looking at tissues or other thick samples in high resolution? We spoke to Marc Tramier, a group leader at the…

Nuclei tracking. Image credit: G. Jacquemet (Cell Migration lab, Åbo Akademi University), J.-Y. Tinevez (IAH).

December 12, 2022

Image data analysis services at France BioImaging

Today, imaging scientists are producing datasets of increasing volume, complexity, and information content. To realize the full potential of imaging data, Euro-BioImaging Nodes offer…

Examples of 3D light-sheet imaging of meiofauna by Valentin Foulon.

November 15, 2022

Meiofauna – the ocean’s next frontier

Meiofauna are tiny marine organisms that range in size from 20 microns to 1 milimetre. They are present everywhere in the sea, from the…

Andrew Boyce with the 3D-STED microscope at France BioImaging.

June 29, 2022

Using super resolution live cell imaging to understand cell death during stroke

Scientists have made extraordinary progress in understanding stroke and the effects it has in the brain, but are still exploring the finer details of…

User Forum on Neuroscience

March 15, 2022

Studying AMPA Receptor Dynamics with Lattice Light Sheet and Multiphoton Microscopy

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on April 5, 2022, from 14:00-17:00 CEST. This event will highlight the importance of…

February 17, 2022

User Access to France-BioImaging supported by CNRS grant

The Institut des Sciences Biologiques (INSB) of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has launched a call for projects to…

France BioImaging

May 27, 2020

Imaging technologies used to understand COVID-19 infection

Euro-BioImaging’s French Node in Bordeaux is contributing to an important study led by the University of Bordeaux to understand COVID-19 infection and inflammatory response…

November 21, 2019

Registration & Abstracts for the 4th NEUBIAS conference (29/2-6/3, 2020) in Bordeaux, France, now open

The registration for the 4th NEUBIAS conference in Bordeaux, Feb 29- Mar 6 February 2020, is now open. NEUBIAS brings together life-scientists, bioimage analysts, microscopists, and…