United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, an Euro-BioImaging ERIC founding member, proudly hosts one Node with facilities in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Liverpool, York and Harwell: The UK Node. Learn more about the Node and get an overview of news and interactions with the United Kingdom below.

The UK Node - Key figures 2024

Facilities

197

External Users

147

User Publications

Remote Users

Training courses

50.9

Staff involved

News about the United Kingdom

October 28, 2025

UK Bioimaging Launches User Access Fund for Researchers

UK researchers now have unprecedented access to state-of-the-art bioimaging technologies through a new fund announced by the UK Node of Euro-BioImaging. The UK Bioimaging…

October 1, 2025

Meet Andreas Bodén, Microscopy Innovation Centre at King’s College London

As part of our ongoing series spotlighting the talented scientists working at the Euro-BioImaging Nodes, our Scientific Ambassador Virginia Silió sat down with Andreas…

Robert Lees is an expert in multiphoton and lightsheet microscopy based at the Octopus Facility in Harwell, part of Euro-BioImaging’s UK Node.

September 8, 2025

Meet Robert Lees, Link Scientist at Octopus Facility, Central Laser Facility, Harwell Campus

As part of our ongoing series spotlighting the talented scientists working at the Euro-BioImaging Nodes, we sat down with Robert Lees, an expert in…

Photo by McCoy Wynne and the Centre for Cellular Imaging at the University of Liverpool.

July 10, 2025

Congratulations to the Euro-BioImaging UK Node!

The UK Euro-BioImaging Node has received a £1.8 million strategic award from UKRI-BBSRC and UKRI-MRC to expand access to cutting-edge imaging technologies for UK…

March 14, 2025

Peter O'Toole Leads Inspiring EVOLVE Mentoring Masterclass on Imaging Core Facility Leadership

The EVOLVE Team2025 Mentoring Masterclass series kicked off with an engaging session featuring Peter O’Toole, President of the Royal Microscopical Society and Director of…

January 16, 2025

The UK’s Light Microscopy Core Facilities staff meeting kicks off 2025

The UK Light Microscopy Facility meeting, organised by the RMS and a local host, is always a bright way to start the year in…

Stefaan Vandenberghe (Flanders BioImaging Node) and Theodora Stewart (UK Node) with Euro-BioImaging Hut team member Claudia Pfander at the IHI Brokerage Event 2024.

November 15, 2024

Euro-BioImaging Nodes participate in the IHI Brokerage Event

Earlier this week, four Euro-BioImaging Nodes accompanied by Claudia Pfander, Euro-BioImaging’s Strategic Business Developer, participated in a 2-day IHI Brokerage event in Brussels, designed…

Peter O’Toole, Head of the University of York’s Bioscience Technology Facility.

July 2, 2024

Spotlight on University of York's Bioscience Technology Facility

Following ELMI2024 in Liverpool, UK, several members of the Euro-BioImaging Hub team had the opportunity to visit one of the sites of our UK Node at the University of York.

Euro-BioImaging Team members & Bioimaging UK at ELMI2024.

June 10, 2024

Fabulous ELMI 2024!

This year, the European Light Microscopy Initiative meeting took place from June 3-7 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, organised by the Royal Microscopy Society. We…

The 10th Euro-BioImaging Board Meeting was held at EMBL Heidelberg from May 21-22, 2024.

June 5, 2024

Highlights of the 10th Euro-BioImaging Board Meeting

On May 21-22, 2024, the Euro-BioImaging Hub team had the pleasure of hosting the 10th Euro-BioImaging Board Meeting at EMBL Heidelberg. The Euro-BioImaging Board…

The Euro-BioImaging Board Meeting in May 2023 with hand-over from Benny Geiger to new Chair Maddy Parsons.

August 1, 2023

Highlights from Euro-BioImaging’s 8th Board Meeting

Last week, we hosted the 8th Euro-BioImaging Board meeting in Turku, Finland. Representatives of Euro-BioImaging’s 16 member countries & EMBL joined for two days of hybrid meetings. Many…

July 23, 2023

Georgina Fletcher, "What is Euro-BioImaging?"

What is Euro-BioImaging? What is open access to imaging? As part of a series spotlighting Euro-BioImaging Nodes, we asked Georgina Fletcher, UK Node Coordinator,…

Dr Selene Roberts at the MINFLUX machine at the OCTOPUS facility, part of Euro-BioImaging's UK Node.

March 14, 2023

MINFLUX: Super fast, super-resolution microscopy

Want to see objects that are 5 nanometers apart? Need to track objects moving in live cells with high temporal resolution? Then why not…

Spatial trasncriptomics. Image courtesy of Bioscience Technology Facility, University of York.

March 1, 2023

Spatial Transcriptomics – For understanding tissue architecture

Spatial Transcriptomics is a useful approach for understanding tissue architecture and for understanding the molecular basis of health and disease. The Bioscience Technology Facility…

October 13, 2022

Euro-BioImaging welcomes two new Nodes and two Node Upgrades!

We are pleased to announce that the Euro-BioImaging family is growing! On October 12, 2022, two new Nodes and two Node upgrades were approved…

November 17, 2020

The Virtual Pub: High temperature live-imaging for studying hyperthermophilic archaea

Our next Virtual Pub will be held on Friday, November 20th at 1 PM CET. Don’t miss out on this exciting presentation of the…