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