News / Infectious disease

Nathan Ribot and Nedal Darif at the Electron Microscope.

June 27, 2024

New correlative imaging methods to unlock the secrets of malaria oocyst reproduction in the mosquito midgut

With support through ISIDORe funding and Euro-BioImaging, Nathan Ribot and Nedal Darif have joined forces to study a rare, never before described phenomena in malaria parasite replication (oocyst development) in the mosquito’s midgut.

Raw image and cell segmentation masks from S-BIAD1076

June 12, 2024

Combining image-based serology and machine learning to screen for SARS-CoV-2

One step at a time, the team at Euro-BioImaging is working hard to make the world of bioimaging more FAIR every day. Here's an example of a Covid-19 dataset.

A staff scientist sits at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Volumescope, looking closely at data

February 21, 2024

Dissecting the natural history of the Malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in mosquitoes with advanced 3D electron microscopy

Pablo Suárez Cortés is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin (Germany). His work focuses on understanding how Plasmodium falciparum,…

February 5, 2024

Cryo-ET to understand how enteroviruses replicate

Enteroviruses cause a range of diverse diseases in humans, like polio or viral myocarditis. While there is a vaccine available for polio, the replication…

November 15, 2023

An open source image analysis tool for studying neuroinflammation linked to COVID-19

COVID-19 infection has been associated with many neurological manifestations, from neuroinflammation to impaired brain energy metabolism. In the Turku PET Centre, which is part…

October 6, 2023

Join us for the fourth Euro-BioImaging User Forum: “Fighting Infectious Diseases”

Euro-BioImaging is organizing a fourth online User Forum on Thursday, October 6, 2022 from 14:00-17:00 CEST. The topic is “Fighting Infectious Diseases.” This event…

Figure 1: Hierarchical scanning of entire monkey hearts. A) a heart before serial ethanol dehydration. B) stabilized heart prepared for scanning. C) transverse cut in the overview (67 µm pixel) scan. D) ‘zoomed in’ stitched plane (8 µm pixel) in the area of interest, demonstrating condensed myocardial band (#) and a coronary vessel (*). D) Single view of ‘zoomed in’ scan (2 µm pixel)

June 19, 2023

Multiscale multimodal 3D analysis of cardiovascular alterations/ structural features in a rhesus macaque monkey model for COVID-19

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest health crisis of the 21th century. Due to the extremely high number of infections, it is of…

Developing larva of Hymenolepis microstoma. Image by Uriel Koziol, Ilya Belevich, and Eija Jokitalo.

May 5, 2023

High-end Electron Microscopy to understand tapeworm life cycle & larval anatomy

Uriel Koziol, a professor at the Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, studies parasitic tapeworms (such as Echinococcus and Taenia), a type of worm…

April 3, 2023

Soft X-ray tomography showcasing

Analysis of three-dimensional biological cell samples is critical for understanding the mechanisms of viral disease and for developing novel therapeutics. Cryo soft X-ray tomography…

October 26, 2022

Successful User Forum on Fighting infectious diseases

On October 6th, Euro-BioImaging ERIC organized its fourth online User Forum. The topic was “Fighting infectious diseases.” The event highlighted the range of infectious…

September 29, 2022

Potential of functional neuroimaging techniques for understanding long-term effects of COVID-19

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on October 6, 2022, from 14:00-17:00 CEST. This event will highlight the importance of cutting-edge imaging technologies…

September 26, 2022

MRI as a tool to study murine models of chronic lung infection