Working Group 1
33rd Meeting, 3rd of April 2024
Meeting date
03/04/2024 @ 5:00 PM (CET/CEST)
Meeting summary
We had a short round of presentation for new comers. We decided to pause just this time our work on our protocol and 2-photon microscopy modality to focus on irradiance, and had the pleasure to listen to two very nice presentations by Ronian Siew and then Alienor Lahlou. For those of you who missed it, the recordings can be found here.
32nd meeting, 5th of March 2024
Meeting date
05/03/2024 @ 5:00 PM (CET/CEST)
Meeting summary
We summarized the By-Laws’ presentation since everyone had seen it at least once. The by-laws and its accompanying documents (Code of Conduct – CoC, Terms of Reference – ToR, and Best Practices – BP) aim to ensure QUAREP-LiMi provides a diverse, equitable, inclusive and transparent environment for its community to gather, address and efficiently make decision to critical challenges.
You can find previous recordings of the By-Laws presentation from WG2 here, as well as the slides here. In the folder named Decision Making Discussion https://nextcloud.quarep.org/index.php/f/445127 you will find the other relevant documents related to the by-laws:
•BP_BestPractices for QUAREP-LiMi Operations.docx
•CoC_WorkGroups.docx
•Bylaws Draft_04_a.docx
Here are our action items:
1.      WG1 needs to appoint one representative for the SC, ERB, and OB (two-year terms).
2.      WG1 needs to elect its co-chairs for the next two-year term. Nathalie and Laurent are happy to continue on for another two year. We would love to have a third co-chair.
3.      We need candidates! – Let us know if you are interested in being our WG1 representative for SC (ideally one of the co-chairs), ERB, or OB, or if you want to become a WG1 co-chair before March 12th.
We also briefly brainstormed on known ways to measure irradiance and decided that a path forward would be to review a proposed definition (by WG13) and present a manuscript (journal club style) at our next meeting.
WG1 will meet again on the 3rd of April and will then continue expanding the Illumination power stability protocol to multi-photons.
30th meeting, 7th of January 2024
Meeting date
07/02/2024 @ 5:00 PM (CET/CEST)
Meeting summary
First, our collaboration with WG-13 has been defined. Philippe Laissue (co-chair of WG13) talked about the mission of WG13 and how a protocol on how to measure irradiance could fit within the guidance on phototoxicity. Our first goal will be to define irradiance and write a small paragraph to summarize existing methods and guidelines on irradiance. Please share all references you have in this folder or directly in Zotero.
We will define irradiance and discuss papers found at our next WG1 meeting (30 min each month).
We then briefly discussed Robert Lees very relevant preprint on bioRxiv. We also made headway with version 3 of our protocol and included multi-photons specific comments and recommendations to steps 4 to 6 when needed. We will continue with step 7 at our next meeting. Please go to the protocol online here and add your comments and suggestions to the first 6 steps of the protocol. We will discuss all new comments at our next meeting.
28th meeting, 1st of November 2023
Meeting date
01/11/2023 @ 5:00 PM (CET/CEST)
Meeting summary
Lin Yangchen presented his protocol and tools for “Irradiance Measurement on a spinning-disk confocal and TIRF microscope”.
We decided to extend next time our protocol to 2P microscopy modality, and we collected the names of people in WG1 who want to collaborate with WG13 to create protocols on irradiance measurement and assessment of phytotoxicity. If you want also to join this subgroup, please contact Natalie Gaudreault.
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35th meeting, 19th of March 2024
Meeting date
19/03/2024 @ 5:00 PM (CET/CEST)
Meeting summary
WG04 pursues the analyses of 1um beads datasets for color co-registration, comparing different software. There was a discussion regarding measurements of signal to background ratio on aging bead preparations. The group discussed about how detectors settings and metadata can have an impact on the co-registration analysis results. Please note the next WG04 monthly meeting date. It was moved because of QUAREP annual meeting. Lastly, many thanks to the members who agreed to become co-chairs and representatives of WG-04: Maria Azevedo, Aurélien Dauphin, Christian Kukat, Judith Lacoste and Ileana Micu.
34th meeting, 20th of February 2024
Meeting date
20/02/2024 @ 5:00 PM (CET/CEST)
Meeting summary
Today the proposed QUAREP by-laws were presented. WG04 is grateful to those who worked with David Grunwald for the preparation of this impressive document. The by-laws will be submitted for approval during the QUAREP annual meeting next April. In the mean time, WG04 is asking its members to come forward for the following positions in our workgroup: WG04 co-chairs, a WG04 steering committee representative, a WG04 editorial review board representative and a WG04 ombuds board representative. In addition, QUAREP will need to elect 13 persons on the steering committee and 3 persons on the ombuds board. Our organisation just reached 600 members, for sure there will be new people joining on the above committees to make QUAREP better. Please let us know of your interest in the above positions. A big thanks in advance!
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30th meeting, 12th of March 2024
Meeting date
12/03/2024 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)
Meeting summary
This meeting will be dedicated to a quick review of the RID parameter, a global discussion about the new parameter AS told us about and importantly, the ByLaws document with the need of volunteer candidates for the various positions (SC, EBR, OB).
27th meeting, 11th of April 2023
Meeting date
11/04/2023 @ 4:00 PM (CET/CEST)
Meeting summary
For this meeting, we will need to take a decision about SBR parameter and all over parameter we decided not to consider.
+ 10 min per sub group to discuss briefly the progresses that have been made.
+ preparation of the Annual meeting