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Marja Lohela, Biomedicum imaging core facility, Finnish Biomedical Imaging Node

February 27, 2025

Perspectives on remote access for animal research projects

To make imaging technologies more accessible, and with respect to climate and sustainability considerations, many Nodes within the Euro-BioImaging family have developed the capacity…

Estefanía Calvo Alvarez in the sample prep room at the University of Milan. 

February 27, 2025

Shedding light on the pathogenic potential of Leishmania tarentolae parasites

Leishmania are protozoan parasites responsible for causing leishmaniasis, a spectrum of severe immunopathologies that affect both humans and animals worldwide. These diseases, which manifest…

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…

Euro-BioImaging user Roberta Ranieri of the University of Perugia conducts her experiment at Euro-BioImaging’s EMBL Node in September 2020.

July 27, 2021

Euro-BioImaging: Adapting to a new normal – remote access and beyond

In March 2020, many imaging core facilities had to turn their equipment off and close shop for multiple weeks, due to the global pandemic.

A view of what the user sees when connected remotely to the reconstruction PC at Italy's Elletra Synchrotron facility.

July 23, 2020

Running remote experiments in Italy’s Elettra Synchrotron laboratory

Due to the COVID-19 emergency in Spring 2020, Euro-BioImaging’s  Phase Contrast Imaging Flagship Node in Trieste, Italy, started running remote experiments at its…

Regular contacts with users are planned prior to the beginning of the project in remote access projects at MMMI Italian Node.

June 25, 2020

Remote access in preclinical imaging services

Imaging facilities across the globe are scrambling to adapt remote procedures – or new, stricter hygiene measures – that make it possible to open…

These are the steps in 3D-(CL)EM workflow at the Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy Node. Red text indicates steps that require user interaction.

June 22, 2020

Remote access to Finnish Advanced Light Microscopy node

Laboratories around the world are in the process of developing new methods to welcome new users in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdown. Members…

Finnish Advanced Microscopy Node

May 20, 2020

Some tips about providing virtual microscopy and remote access

The major impact of the coronavirus COVID-19 – including lockdown and quarantine in most parts of Europe – has changed the way scientists work.