Antwerp Centre for Advanced Microscopy
High impact science through systematic and quantitative imaging
Flanders BioImaging Networking Event
December 15th, 2025 ------ 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Campus Drie Eiken, University of Antwerp
ACAM is hosting this year's Flanders BioImaging networking event. The event will feature an overview of all core facilities, highlighting the strength and potential of each research infrastructure in enabling high-impact research and development.
Program
14:00 - 15:00 Democratizing imaging infrastructure in Flanders and Europe
Welcome Vice-Rector Maarten Weyn
FLABI mission Prof. Sebastian Munck
Flanders research infrastructure funding Caroline Volckaert
EuroBioImaging evolving landscape Prof. John Eriksson
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Break
15:15 - 16:00 Research Highlights
KUL, UAntwerpen, UHasselt, UGent, VUB, VIB
Break
16:15 - 17:30 The expanding infrastructure landscape
Core facility landscape Dr. Saskia Lippens
The Maastricht node Prof. Marc Van Zandvoort
Vlaams Supercomputing Center (VSC): data management and HPC services for bioimaging Ingrid Barcena Roig
Biobank - BBMRI ERIC Dr. Pieter Moons / Prof. Kristel Sleegers
Open Discussion
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Reception
Flanders BioImaging
Flanders BioImaging is an interuniversity consortium dedicated to biomedical imaging and advanced light microscopy, set up to integrate and optimize imaging infrastructure in Flanders.
FBI coordinates with EuroBioImaging, the Flemish Research Data Network and the ELIXIR ERIC to develop Open and FAIR data management tools for biological and biomedical imaging in Flanders and beyond. In 2022 the consortium was successfully evaluated as a candidate node by the EU EuroBioImaging (EuBi) project, which achieved European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) status in 2019.
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Organizing committee
> Prof. Winnok De Vos -- ACAM (University of Antwerp)
​> Dr. Marlies Verschuuren - ACAM (University of Antwerp)
> Prof. Sebastian Munck -- VIB BioImaging Core Leuven (KU Leuven)