Author: Aiko Sekiguchi

Released a new video about SSBD

We have released a new video introducing and explaining SSBD.

This video will help you better understand what SSBD is and how it works.
For more details, please refer to the related publication:

  • Koji Kyoda, Hiroya Itoga, Yuki Yamagata, Emi Fujisawa, Fangfang Wang, Miguel Miranda-Miranda, Haruna Yamamoto, Yasue Nakano, Yukako Tohsato, Shuichi Onami, SSBD: an ecosystem for enhanced sharing and reuse of bioimaging data, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 53, Issue D1, 6 January 2025, Pages D1716–D1723, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae860

We encourage you to explore how SSBD can be utilized in your research!

Please note that the video is in Japanese only.

foundingGIDE Community Event 2025 registration is open

We’re excited to announce that registrations are now open for the foundingGIDE Community Event 2025, taking place in Brisbane, Australia on October 17–18. Join us for 1.5 days of collaboration and engagement with the global imaging data community. More details below.

The foundingGIDE Community Event is positioned between two major data-centric conferences and offers a unique opportunity for professionals engaged in research data management, imaging, and digital infrastructure to connect with the global data research community. FoundingGIDE Community Event (October 17-18) is following International Data Week 2025 (October 13–16) and preceding eResearch Australasia 2025 (October 20–24) all at the same location, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia. These three events bring together communities working toward the FAIR data principles and advancing practices in data sharing, stewardship, and interoperability across scientific domains.

To find out more about the event and to register, visit https://founding-gide.eurobioimaging.eu/community-event-2025/.

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foundingGIDE has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101130216. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Join us at GloBIAS 2025 – Registration is open!

We are delighted to invite you to join us at the GloBIAS Bioimage Analysis Conference 2025 from Oct 26, 2025 – Oct 31, 2025 in Kobe, Japan at the RIKEN Kobe Campus.

The Conference will consist of several events:

  • Training school, hackathon and taggathon from 26 October to 29 October, 
  • Symposium with poster session, Open-source Software Lounge, Call4Help sessions from 29 October to 31 October

Important dates:

  • Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2025
  • Training school application deadline: 15 May 2025
  • Training School Trainee, Travel grants, Poster/Oral notification: 15 June 2025

More information can be found on our website: https://www.globias.org/activities/bioimage-analysis-conference-2025-in-kobe

There you can also find the link to the registration form.

We look forward to welcoming you in Kobe!

Received RIKEN BAIHO Award

We received RIKEN BAIHO Award, which go to work that is unique and has an impact both inside and outside RIKEN.

Awardees: Koji Kyota, Yuya Itoga (BDR Development Dynamics Research Team), Yuki Yamagata (R-IH Life Sciences Data Sharing Development Unit), Shuichi Onami (BDR Development Dynamics Research Team)
Achievement Title: Building a Global Ecosystem to Promote the Sharing and Reuse of Imaging Data in Life Sciences
Reference: RIKEN EIHO Award, RIKEN BAIHO Award, and RIKEN OUBU Award Presentation (March 14, 2025, RIKEN) in Japanese

Talks at OLSP Symposium 2025 went public

We hosted an open symposium, RIKEN Symposia: OLSP Symposium 2025 – Present and Future Perspectives of Open Life Sciences – on 27th January, 2025 in Wako, Japan.

Presentations including Dr Onami’s talk are now available for public in our YouTube Channel and the symposium website.

 

OLSP Symposium 2025 Session 1 Activities in the OLSP Project

OLSP Symposium 2025 Session 2 Case Studies in Open Sciences

OLSP Symposium 2025 Session 3 Innovative Tools for Open Life Sciences

foundingGIDE Community Event 2024 Highlights

Check out the video highlights of the foundingGIDE Community Event 2024.

Talks at the community event is also available on the youtube and slides are on Zenodo.

Take a look at the GIDE24 Survey plots.

foundingGIDE Community Event 2025

The upcoming community event is taking place in Brisbane, Australia, from October 17 – 18th. Get a notification so that you won’t miss this exciting event.

Community Event 2025

New Paper is out

We are thrilled to share our newly developed incubator-type biaxial light-sheet microscope in collaboration with the Tomonobu Watanabe Lab. The system allows in toto single-cell observation in a whole hemisphere of an E5.5 embryo for 12h.

Reference

Shioi G, Watanabe TM, Kaneshiro J, Azuma Y, Onami S. Trans-scale live-imaging of an E5.5 mouse embryo using incubator-type biaxial light-sheet microscopy. Life Sci. Alliance. 2025 Jan 15;8(3):e202402839. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202402839.

New Paper is out

A collaborative research paper with Dr Horikawa (Tokushima University) and Dr Nagai (Osaka University) et al. has been published.

Kakizuka, T., Nakaoka, H., Hara, Y. et al. Mesoscale heterogeneity is a critical determinant for spiral pattern formation in developing social amoeba. Sci Rep 15, 1422 (2025). doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-85759-9

[Press Release]Discovery of a new mechanism by which changes in the distance between genes regulate their expression

Drs Hiroaki Oishi, Hiroshi Ochiai, (Kyushu University, respectively) and Soya Shinkai et al. found a novel mechanism of gene expression regulation involving changes in the spatial distance between genes. Understanding the mechanisms of gene expression regulation is crucial not only for molecular biology but also for medical research, as it directly links to identifying disease causes and therapeutic targets.

Learn more about the study on Press Release by Kyushu University, RIKEN and JST. (In Japanese only)

Reference

Ohishi, H., Shinkai, S., Owada, H., Fujii, T., Hosoda, K., Onami, S., Yamamoto, T., Ohkawa, Y., Ochiai, H. (2024). Transcription-coupled changes in genomic region proximities during transcriptional bursting. Sci. Adv. 10, eadn0020. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adn0020