Nathalie Gaudreault
08/05/2025
In April 2025, Yury Belyaev from the Microscopy Imaging Center (MIC) at the University of Bern, and a member of QUAREP-LiMi Working Group 5 (WG5), visited the Central Analytical Facilities (CAF) Microscopy Unit at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, as part of the Global BioImaging (GBI) International Job Shadowing Program During his visit, Yury Belyaev collaborated with Lize Engelbrecht, manager of the CAF Microscopy Unit, to organize a hands-on microscopy workshop. The training covered wide-field and confocal microscopy, image analysis, and
WG11, as part of its mission to enhance publication standards for reproducible image-based science and in response to an inquiry from Nature Methods, has defined the “Bare Minimum Requirements for Microscopy Methods Reporting“. This checklist, built upon the REMBI framework and the NBO-Q metadata model, is designed to guide researchers, scientific journals, and editors in the peer-review process, ensuring that microscopy methods across most applications include sufficient details for reproducibility.
©Copyright Einstein Foundation, Sebastian Gabsch On Friday, 14.03.2025, Helena Jambor and Christopher Schmied of Quarep-LiMi WG12 were honored at the annual award ceremony of the Einstein Foundation Berlin, held at the Museum Bode in Berlin. They received the Einstein Foundation Early Career Award for promoting research quality with their project: “PixelQuality – Best practices for publishing images.” The Early Career Award comes with a prize of EUR 100,000. Other award recipients included the platform PubPeer for the Institutional Award and
In 2024, QUAREP-LiMi took a significant step forward by developing its By-Laws. Version 1.0 of the QUAREP-LiMi By-Laws has now been published on Zenodo. You can view and download them here:: https://zenodo.org/records/14884071
On March 13, 2025, Einstein Foundation Early Career Award winners Helena Jambor and Christopher Schmied, along with Elisabeth Bik and Brandon Stell, will host a colloquium titled “From Detection to Prevention: Improving the Scientific Publication Record Through Error Detection, Post-Publication Peer Review, and Image Guidelines.” The event will be available both online and in person. For more information and to register, visit: https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/events/award/2024-einstein-foundation-award-winners-colloquium
WG 1 – Illumination Power published its third version of the protocol “Illumination Power, Stability and Linearity Measurements for Confocal, Widefield and Multiphoton Microscopes”. The protocol is featured on protocols.io
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The WG 2 released its first protocol “Characterization of the Photon Conversion Factor, Noise, and Dynamic Range of Light Microscope Detection Systems“. In total there are 5 protocols belonging to the protocol: Introduction – Background and Aims Sample Preparation – An Easy-to-Prepare Sample Slide Data Generation – Systems with an Area Detector Data Generation – Systems with a Point Detector Analysis – Characterization of the Photon Conversion Factor, Noise, and Dynamic Range The protocols are featured on
The Einstein Early Career Award for Promoting Quality in Research celebrates outstanding early career researchers who are pioneering improvements in the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of science. Among this year’s inspiring finalists were Helene Jambor and Christopher Schmied, who took home the Award for their innovative work on guidelines to elevate the publication and analysis of scientific images. Their efforts are setting new standards in research and empowering scientists to create clearer, more reliable discoveries!
Helena Jambor and Christopher Schmied from Working Group 12 have been selected as one of the five finalists for the 2024 Early Career Einstein Foundation Award with their proposal, “PixelQuality: Best Practices for Publishing Images”. Their project will be presented at Berlin Science Week on November 5th. (For more information, visit Berlin Science Week.)More information and registration for the online talk here: https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/events/other/meet-the-finalists-early-career-award-2024 .