WG 11 – Objectives
WG11 will work together with scientific publishers to promote the adoption of best practices in the reporting of metadata (for both image acquisition and analysis) throughout scientific journals and books. Only by ensuring all relevant constituents researchers and imaging scientists submitting publications and designing research; editors, scientific publishers, and reviewers monitoring and preparing publications; and funders, researchers, and educators evaluating and disseminating publications) are working in concert can we raise the bar to ensure reproducibility in imaging experiments. WG11 will focus on the following activities: 1) inform scientific publishers of the standards and metadata put forward by the other QUAREP-LiMi Working Groups; 2) liaise with and encourage individual journals to modify their imaging guidelines to align with these recommendations; 3) work together with the scientific publishers to enforce high standards of imaging metadata reporting in all research works accepted for publication; 4) facilitate the involvement of technical reviewers with significant microscopy expertise during the review of papers that rely heavily on imaging techniques; 5) work together with publishers to promote and increase the appropriate acknowledgement and co-authorship of imaging scientists and core imaging facilities in publications; 6) encourage publishers to compel authors to make raw imaging data available if, and when, required for validation of published research and to make reasonable suggestions regarding duration of storage of raw imaging data relevant to published results; 7) propose minimum standards for figure quality, figure colour selection, scale bars, inserts, annotations and labelling, in order to render all microscopy figures easily interpretable by experts and non-experts alike.
WG 11 – Co-Chairs
WG 11 - Latest News
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.
We welcome a new member to our working groups 2, 3, 10, 11 and 12. Mr. Aleš Kladnik from, the Biotechnical Faculty of University of Ljubljana in Slovenia just joined QUAREP-LiMi.
Last meeting: 24th April 2025, 5:00 pm
A “Bare Minimum Standards for Microscopy Methods Reporting or Establishing Community-Driven Minimal Guidelines for Microscopy Methods Reporting” has been defined bei WG 11.
You can access the guidelines here.
33rd 10th of October 2024
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Memberlist WG 11
Last name | First Name | Town | Organisation Affiliation | Lab Affiliation | Country | Time Zone |
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Aaron | Jesse | Ashburn | HHMI Janelia Research Campus | Private lab | US | UTC-4 |
Acton | Richard | Cambridge | Human Developmental Biology Initiative | Univ. | GB | UTC+-0 |
Ali | Rizwan | Riyadh | King Abdullah International Medical Research Center | Univ. | SA | UTC+3 |
Alshafie | Walaa | Ashburn | Janelia research campus | Univ. | US | UTC-4 |
Avilov | Sergiy | Freiburg | Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics | MPG | DE | UTC+2 |
Azevedo | Andreia | Porto | Faculty of Engineering – University of Porto | Univ. | PT | UTC+-0 |
Banerjee | Priyam | New York | Rockefeller University | Univ. | US | UTC-5 |
Barbu-Stevanovic | Mihaela | New York | New York Blood Center | Industry | US | UTC-6 |
Batti | Laura | Geneva | Wyss Center | Private lab | CH | UTC+1 |
Benton | Matthew | Heidelberg | EMBL | EU-Org | DE | UTC+1 |
Bercowsky | Arianne | Zug | Dotphoton AG | Industry | CH | UTC+1 |
Bertocchi | Cristina | Santiago de Chile | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | Univ. | CL | UTC-3 |
Blazikova | Michaela | Prague | Light Microscopy Core Facility, IMG CAS | Univ. | CZ | UTC+1 |
Boehm | Ulrike | Oberkochen | Carl Zeiss AG | Industry | DE | UTC-4 |
Bottomley | Amy | Ultimo | University of Technology Sydney | Univ. | AU | UTC+10 |
Brideau | Craig | Calgary | University of Calgary | Univ. | CA | UTC-7 |
Bronze de Firmino | Joao Pedro | Hamilton | Centre for Advanced Light Microscopy at McMaster University | Univ. | CA | UTC-5 |
Budde | Kai | Rostock | University of Rostock | Univ. | DE | UTC+2 |
Calandra | Ivan | Neuwied | IMPALA, Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) | Leibniz | DE | UTC+1 |
Cameron | Lisa | Durham | Duke University | Univ. | US | UTC-4 |
Cammer | Michael | New Rochelle | NYU Langone Medical | Univ. | US | UTC+5 |
Campbell | George | Memphis | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital | Private lab | US | UTC-6 |
Carvalho | Mariana | Braga | INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory | EU-Org | PT | UTC+-0 |
Catrina | Irina | New York | Yeshiva University | Univ. | US | UTC-5 |
Chacko | Jenu | Madison | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Univ. | US | UTC-6 |
Chang | Jinny | Parkville | The University of Melbourne | Univ. | AU | UTC+10 |
Christopher | Jana | Heidelberg | FEBS Press/Uni Heidelberg/Image-Integrity | Univ. | DE | UTC+1 |
Cleret-Buhot | Aurélie | Montreal | Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) | Univ. | CA | UTC-4 |
Conde-Sousa | Eduardo | Porto | INEB/i3S | Univ. | PT | UTC+0 |
Corbat | Agustin | Uppsala | SciLifeLab BioImage Informatics/Uppsala Universitet/Sweden | Univ. | SE | UTC+2 |
Cuny | Andreas | Basel | ETH Zurich | Univ. | CH | UTC+2 |
De Niz | Mariana | Chicago | Northwestern University | Univ. | US | UTC-5 |
De Vos | Winnok | Antwerp | University of Antwerp | Univ. | BE | UTC+1 |
Dietzel | Steffen | Munich | GerBi-GMB WG 1 | Univ. | DE | UTC+2 |
Diez-Guerra | F. Javier | Madrid | CBMSO (CSIC-UAM) | Univ. | ES | UTC+2 |
Doherty | Glen | New York | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Univ. | US | UTC-4 |
Donnelly | Katelynne | Fort Collins | Biotect Services | Industry | US | UTC+7 |
Dostál | Zbyněk | Brno | Brno University of Technology | Univ. | CZ | UTC+1 |
Duong | Cao Nguyen | Saarbrücken | Leibniz Institute for New Materials | Leibniz | DE | UTC+1 |
Eseola | Alice | Norwich | The Sainsbury Laboratory | Univ. | GB | UTC+1 |
Ewers | Helge | Berlin | Freie Universität Berlin | Univ. | DE | UTC+1 |
Fernandez-Rodriguez | Julia | Gothenburg | University of Gothenburg | Univ. | SE | UTC+2 |
Fillion | Marie-Lyne | Montreal | Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research | Univ. | CA | UTC-4 |
Franke | Christian | Jena | Institute of Applied Optics and Biophysics of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena | Univ. | DE | UTC+2 |
Gaboriau | David | London | Imperial College London | Univ. | GB | UTC+-0 |
Garcia Gonzalez | Esther | Didcot | STFC, UKRI | Gov. | GB | UTC+1 |
Gaudreault | Nathalie | Seattle | Allen Institute | Private lab | US | UTC-7 |
Gauthier | Pascal | Jonquiere | RioTinto | Private lab | CA | UTC+5 |
Georgakoudi | Irene | Hanover | Dartmouth College | Univ. | US | UTC-5 |
Ghukasyan | Vladimir | Boston | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | Industry | US | UTC-5 |