COMULISglobe - Multimodal Imaging across Scales in Life Sciences funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The CZI funded COMULISglobe project aims to consolidate and extend a collaborative and innovative network that promotes correlative multimodal imaging and analysis across scales from biological research to clinical diagnostics and establish a global multimodal imaging society to ensure long-term sustainability. Correlative imaging integrates the best features of combined techniques and overcomes limitations faced when applying single modalities independently. This relies on the joint expertise of biologists, physicists, clinicians, and computer scientists, and depends on coordinated activities and knowledge transfer between technology developers and users.
To achieve this inherently interdisciplinary goal, it is indispensable to establish a network of scientists across continents and disciplines, from academia and industry, including transnational research facilities (e.g. synchrotrons, Euro-BioImaging-ERIC), to foster and market correlative multimodal imaging as a versatile tool in biomedical research and diagnostics.
We have founded the COMULIS Society in order to achieve these goals and are currently organizing multiple opportunities for global networking such as showcase projects, Training schools, conferences and symposia, Mobility Grants for Training Schools, Lab Exchanges or Synchrotron travel grants, an open call for Correlative Multimodal Imaging Projects at Euro-BioImaging Nodes or software development and the registration challenge.
Andreas Walter
Professor of Biophotonics & Bioimaging,
Aalen University, Germany
Jan Grimm
Professor, Lab Head Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Natasa Sladoje
Professor in Computerized Image Analysis, Uppsala University, Sweden
Johanna Bischof
Scientific Project Manager,
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Claudia Kuntner-Hannes
Associate-Professor, Medical University Vienna, Austria
Paul Verkade
Professor of Bioimaging, University of Bristol, UK
Lize Engelbrecht
Manager of Central Analytical Facilities Microscopy Unit, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Kirsi Lorentz
Associate-Professor, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Daniela Kuzdas-Wood
Executive Director COMULIS Society, Vienna, Austria
John Eriksson
Director General Euro-BioImaging
Finland
Julia Fernandez-Rodriguez
Head of Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux
Head of MicroPIcell Imaging Facility,Nantes University, France
Paula Sampaio
Head of Advanced Light Microscopy Scientific Platform i3S Porto, Portugal