BINA Activities

Join us at our next BINA event! Click on the event to add the invite to your calendar!

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Sep

I2KxBINA2026

Join us for I2KxBINA 2026 from September 27 -October 2, 2026 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA

May

User Group

Lattice Lightsheet User Group

Event Title: TBA

Speakers: TBA

Hosted by BINA & Canada BioImaging

Every other first Tuesday of the month at 11 am CT (USA)

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May

User Group

Expansion Microscopy User Group

Talk/Event Title: Unveiling the molecular architecture of the cell using expansion microscopy

Speaker(s): Virginie Hamel, University of Geneva

Hosted by BINA & Canada BioImaging & Royal Microscopy Society

Meetings are the 1st Wednesday of the month, every two months – duplicate alternating meetings in North America (10 am CT (USA) and Australian time zones.

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May

Insights and Educational Tools from Industry Series

Talk Title: Understanding the Standardization Runway of OME-Zarr

Speaker: Josh Moore, Image Collective

Note that meetings are NOT generally recorded or posted for public viewing.

Hosted by the BINA Corporate Partners Working Group

Meetings are the Third Wednesday of the month, at 12 pm CT (USA)/ 10 am Pacific Time/1 pm Eastern Time

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May

BINA Builder’s Workshop Series

Event Title: Open Hardware in Microscopy Research

Speakers: Kevin Dean (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Gail McConnell (University of Strathclyde), Alfred Millett-Sikking (Calico Life Sciences LLC), Shalin Mehta (Biohub)

Organized by BINA’s Builders Working Group

Join us on Thursday, May 21st at 10:30 am CT (USA)

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May

Community Conversations Series

Event Title: TBA

Speaker(s): TBA

Hosted by the BINA Training & Education Working Group

Last Wednesday of the month, at 12 pm CT (USA)

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Jun

Careers Speaker Series

Talk Title: TBA

Speaker: TBA

Hosted by the BINA Early Career Working Group

First Thursday of every month, 1 pm CT (USA)

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Jun

User Group

Automated Image Management and Metadata Annotation (AIMM) User Group

Talk Title: TBA

Speaker: TBA

Hosted by BINA, CBI & Quarp-LiMi

Meetings are the first Friday of the month, every other month at 10 am CT (USA)

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Jun

Scientific Speaker Series

Talk Title: TBA

Speaker: TBA

Note that meetings are NOT generally recorded or posted for public viewing.

Hosted by Community Engagement Working Group

Second Tuesday of the Month at 12 pm CT (USA)

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Jun

User Group

Nanoscopy User Group (formerly STED)

Talk Title: TBA

Speaker: Kaye Thomas, University of Rochester

Hosted by BINA & Canada BioImaging,

Second Thursday of the month, every other month at 11 am CT (USA)
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View our past events on YouTube!

Nov

Recorded Event

Halfway to I2K: Virtual Tutorials on Image Analysis 2025

Join us at this virtual event November 17-19, 2025

Watch the videos now!

Recordings are now available!

Oct

Recorded Event

GBIxBINA2025

Join us for GBIxBINA 2025 from October 6-10 in Montréal, QC, Canada!

Watch the Recordings Here!

Apr

Recorded Event

OME 2025 Community Meeting

OME 2025 comes to North America @ MBL, Woods Hole, MA!

Recordings available here

Mar

Recorded Event

BINA @ ABRF

Meet up with BINA at ABRF in Las Vegas

Add yours here!

Using the button you can provide details of your presentation at the ABRF 2025 Annual Meeting, and we will publicize it on this page!

Oct

Recorded Event

Virtual I2K 2024

Join us at this virtual event Oct 28-30, 2024!

Watch here!

Sep

Recorded Event

BINA 2024 Community Congress

See you on September 23-27, 2024 hybrid event in Madison, Wisconsin

Watch Here!

Aug

Recorded Event

How to Get Hired!: Networking & Resumes

Hosted by the Early Career WG

Watch here!

Mar

Recorded Event

March Community Conversation

Hosted by the Builders Working Group

Mar

Recorded Event

Figure Making Best Practices – Checklists & Demo

Hosted by BINA Early Career WG and members of QUAREP-LiMi WG 12

Watch the video here!

Follow the link to watch the recording

Jan

Recorded Event

BINA @ AIM 2024

Meet up with BINA at Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop (21st Annual) in Berkeley!

Add Yours Here!

Using the button you can provide details of your presentation at Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop (21st Annual), and we will publicize it on this page!

Oct

Recorded Event

Halfway to I2K: Virtual Tutorials on Image Analysis

Join us at this virtual event Oct 17-19, 2023!

Learn More

Workshop Submission Open Now, registration coming in Sept.

Oct

Recorded Event

BINA Image Contest 2023

Submit your images to the BINA Image Contest for 2023!

Contest Closed

Enter the 2023 contest by noon Pacific time on October 2!

Sep

Recorded Event

LABIxBINA2023: Bioimaging Across the Americas

Joint event happening September 25-29, 2023, in Morelos State, Mexico

Watch!

See the BINA 2023 Community Congress Presentations at LABIxBINA

Oct

Recorded Event

BINA 2022 Community Congress

Registration is now Closed

May

Recorded Event

I2K 2022: From Images to Knowledge

Join us at this virtual event May 6, 9 & 10!

Learn More

Poster Submissions are also open – submit by April 27!

Feb

Recorded Event

Infrastructure Grants Workshop – Part 1 Funding Sources

Hosted by the Corporate Partners Working Group

Watch Here!

Jan

Recorded Event

Community Conversation – January 2022

Hosted by the Quality Control and Data Management Working Group

Watch Here!

Oct

Recorded Event

Community Conversation – October 2021

Hosted by the Training & Education Working Group

Watch Here!

BINA events that are closed and/or happened 6 months ago or more

Apr

Archived Event

OME 2025 Community Meeting – Save the Date

April 28- May 1, 2025, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, USA

See Event Webpage

April 28- May 1, 2025, MBL, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Dec

Archived Event

BINA @ ASCB 2024

Meet up with BINA at CellBio24 in San Diego!

Add Yours Here!

Using the button you can provide details of your presentation at CellBio24 ASCB|EMBO Meeting, and we will publicize it on this page!

Nov

Archived Event

BINA’s Leadership and Management Training – 2024

Workshops offered May 6 & 13, June 10 & 17, Aug 19 & 26, Oct 21 & 28, Nov 11 & 18

Registration for 2024 is filled, please contact us if you are interested in participating in 2025

Sep

Archived Event

BINA Image Contest 2024

Submit your images by August 30 at 12 pm PT/2 pm CT/3 pm ET

Check out the winners!

Contest is now closed and images are being reviewed!

Apr

Archived Event

BINA @ ABRF

Meet up with BINA at ABRF in Minneapolis

Add Yours Here!

Using the button you can provide details of your presentation at the ABRF 2024 Annual Meeting, and we will publicize it on this page!

Feb

Archived Event

BINA @ BPS 2024

Meet up with BINA at BPS in Philadelphia!

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Using the button you can provide details of your presentation at the Biophysical Society meeting BPS2024, and we will publicize it on this page!

Jan

Archived Event

BINA @ SPIE 2024

Meet up with BINA at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco!

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Using the button you can provide details of your presentation at SPIE Photonics West, and we will publicize it on this page!

Dec

Archived Event

BINA @ ASCB 2023

Meet up with BINA at ASCB in Boston!

Add Yours Here!

Using the link below you can provide details of your presentation at ASCB, and we will publicize it on this page!

Nov

Archived Event

Leadership and Management Soft Skills Training – 2023

Workshops offered May 23, June 12, Sept 18, Oct 16, Nov 20

Apply by November 13

Use the button to complete your application for the upcoming workshop

Nov

Archived Event

Early Career Community Conversation

Join the Early Career WG for a Conversation with the Community

May

Archived Event

May Community Conversation

Hosted by the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion WG

May

Archived Event

Pop-Up EoE after ABRF, May 11

Group EoE in Boston on Managing the image-data life cycle

Registration Closed

Registration open until May 1 or capacity is reached

Dec

Archived Event

BINA Census 2022

Click Here to Participate!

Oct

Archived Event

BINA Image Contest 2022

Submit your images to the BINA Image Contest for 2022!

Enter Now!

Enter the 2022 contest by noon Pacific time on October 7!

Sep

Archived Event

Core Facility Leadership and Management training for BioImaging North America

Virtual, Facilitated by hfp consulting

Application Closed

Apr

Archived Event

QCDM WG Drop-In Session

Join us on April 21 at 10 am Central!

Mar

Archived Event

Infrastructure Grants Workshop – Part 2

Come and learn about the process of applying for S10 NIH instrumentation grants, hear from experienced applicants, and ask your questions

10 am PT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET

Registration Closed

Hosted by the Corporate Partners Working Group

Activities

Upcoming Events

Recorded Events

Archived Events

I2KxBINA2026

Lattice Lightsheet User Group

Expansion Microscopy User Group

Insights and Educational Tools from Industry Series

BINA Builder’s Workshop Series

Community Conversations Series

Careers Speaker Series

Automated Image Management and Metadata Annotation (AIMM) User Group

Scientific Speaker Series

Nanoscopy User Group (formerly STED)

Halfway to I2K: Virtual Tutorials on Image Analysis 2025

GBIxBINA2025

OME 2025 Community Meeting

BINA @ ABRF

Virtual I2K 2024

BINA 2024 Community Congress

How to Get Hired!: Networking & Resumes

March Community Conversation

Figure Making Best Practices – Checklists & Demo

BINA @ AIM 2024

Halfway to I2K: Virtual Tutorials on Image Analysis

BINA Image Contest 2023

LABIxBINA2023: Bioimaging Across the Americas

BINA 2022 Community Congress

I2K 2022: From Images to Knowledge

Infrastructure Grants Workshop – Part 1 Funding Sources

Community Conversation – January 2022

Community Conversation – October 2021

OME 2025 Community Meeting – Save the Date

BINA @ ASCB 2024

BINA’s Leadership and Management Training – 2024

BINA Image Contest 2024

BINA @ ABRF

BINA @ BPS 2024

BINA @ SPIE 2024

BINA @ ASCB 2023

Leadership and Management Soft Skills Training – 2023

Early Career Community Conversation

May Community Conversation

Pop-Up EoE after ABRF, May 11

BINA Census 2022

BINA Image Contest 2022

Core Facility Leadership and Management training for BioImaging North America

QCDM WG Drop-In Session

Infrastructure Grants Workshop – Part 2

Community Events

2026

AFM Augmented Sample Fabrication for Next-Generation Layered Materials Devices

OME 2026 Community Meeting

Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course

Solving Thin-Film Uniformity Challenges on Curved Surfaces with Imaging Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

foundingGIDE Community Event 2026

Danish BioImaging Symposium at the Danish Cancer Institute

Electron crystallography workshop 2026

Microtubule meeting UK 2026

Quantitative Superresolution Microscopy Workshop (QSW) 2026

ESRIC Specialist school 2026

ESRIC Super-Resolution Specialist School 2026

Beyond the Barrier: Advanced Microscopy of Pathogens in High-Biosafety-Containment Laboratories

Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy

Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques

Microscopy of Oxidation 12

Introduction to image analysis

Automated Electrical Atomic Force Microscopy for Layered Materials Research / Compact Overview

MSC 2026 - Satellite Summer School

MSC 2026 - Annual Meeting of the Microscopy Society of Canada

Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

FEBS Advanced Practical course “Functional imaging of cellular dynamics”

FEBS Advanced Course – Functional imaging of cellular dynamics

Cours Francophone de Microscopie Optique - CFMO

The 19th Edition of the Frontiers in Neurophotonics Summer School

Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp

15th NorMIC Microscopy Workshop

Cell Biology at Scale 2026

India BioImaging_IIT Guwahati Microscopy and Image Analysis Course 2026

Nordic Microcopy Society (Scandem) Meeting