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
Democratizing imaging infrastructure in Flanders and Europe (Chair: Prof. Winnok De Vos)
14:00 -14:10 Welcome Vice-Rector Maarten Weyn
14:10 -14:25 FLABI mission Prof. Sebastian Munck
14:25 -14:40 Flanders research infrastructure funding Caroline Volckaert
14:40 -15:00 EuroBioImaging evolving landscape Prof. John Eriksson
15:00 - 15:15 Break (Sponsored by Zeiss)
Flanders BioImaging Research Highlights (Chair: Dr. Chiara Rossi)
15:15 -15:20 KULeuven Prof. Koen Van Laere
15:20 -15:25 UAntwerpen Dr. Elisabeth Jonckers
15:25 -15:30 UGent Prof. Stefaan Vandenberghe
15:30 -15:35 VUB Dr. Janik Puttemans
15:35 -15:40 UGent Prof. Kevin Braeckmans - Presenter: Dr. Sarah Goddaer​
15:40 -15:45 UHasselt Prof. Jelle Hendrix
15:45 -15:50 UAntwerpen Prof. Winnok De Vos
15:50 -15:55 KULeuven Prof. Pieter Vanden Berghe
15:55 -16:00 VIB Prof. Sebastian Munck
16:00 - 16:15 Break
The expanding infrastructure landscape (Chair: Prof. Sebastian Munck)
16:15 -16:30 Core facility landscape Dr. Saskia Lippens
16:30 -16:45 The Maastricht node Prof. Marc Van Zandvoort
16:45 -17:00 Vlaams Supercomputing Center:
data management & HPC services for bioimaging Ingrid Barcena Roig
17:00 -17:15 Biobank - BBMRI ERIC Dr. Pieter Moons / Prof. Kristel Sleegers
17:15 -17:30 Closing Discussion
17:30 - 19:30 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)