VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA VIZBI

VIZBI workshop participants also awarded a Art & Biology runner-up prize to Alex Ritter from Altos Labs (San Francisco, California) for his engaging artwork entitled ‘Visualizing Killer Immune Cells with Microscopes and Hot Sculpted Glass‘.

VIZBI workshop participants awarded an Art & Biology runner-up prize to Harmony Wong from Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) for her striking artwork, ‘Delivery of therapeutics through Blood-Labyrinth Barrier in the inner ear‘.

Each year, VIZBI workshop participants cast their votes for the Art & Biology award, recognizing artwork that blends compelling visualization with original and engaging content. For 2024, the award was won by Leonora Martínez-Nuñez from UMass Chan Medical School (Worcester, Massachusetts) for ‘Musings on the Protein Alphabet’.

Participants at the VIZBI 2024 workshop cast their votes for the Best Poster Award, which recognizes a compelling application of data visualization to a significant scientific application. This year’s award was won by Holly Peterson (San Luis Obispo, California) for her poster, ‘Illuminating Cryo-EM‘.

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is looking to hire a Scientific Illustrator to join their Creative Team. EMBL is one of the world’s premier life science research institutions, and has hosted the European-based VIZBI meetings since 2010. This could be a great opportunity for someone in the VIZBI community! Learn more or apply now. Applications close 21 April 2024.

A quick reminder that early-bird registration for VIZBI 2024 closes this Monday, February 12 at 11:59pm PST. Sign-up now to hear from the exciting range of speakers at the 14th international meeting on Visualizing Biological Data (March 13–15 at USC in Los Angeles — and online)!

Early registration ends:

If you haven’t already, check out the three inspiring keynote speakers presenting at VIZBI 2024: Jessica Hullman (Northwestern U., USA), Alex McDowell (USC & 5D Global Studio, USA), and Anders Ynnerman (Linköping U., Sweden).

We delighted to share the VIZBI 2024 showreel, which previews some of the exciting work to be presented at the 14th international meeting on Visualizing Biological Data (March 13–15, online & onsite at USC, Los Angeles). Please consider sharing this video with colleagues interested in BioVis. To take advantage of the early-bird rate, register before February 12.

We’re delighted to share the VIZBI 2024 conference flyer. We have an exciting line-up of speakers for the first east-coast VIZBI meeting (March 13–15, online or onsite at USC in Los Angeles). Feel free to share the flyer with colleagues, or print out the hi-res version and put it up on your departmental noticeboard.

Registration is now open for VIZBI 2024. To get the early-bird rate — offering a saving of up to $270 — be sure to complete your registration before February 5th. We hope you can join us March 13–15, either online or on-site at USC, Los Angeles, for the 14th international meeting on Visualizing Biological Data.

Interested in presenting your work at VIZBI 2023 as a poster or artwork? The deadline for upload has been extended until this Friday, March 10 (11pm PST). Some of you may have already tried uploading your poster or artwork and encountered problems, due our server being overwhelmed. The issues have now been addressed, so please try uploading again.

A preview of some of the stunning work that will be presented at the upcoming EMBO workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI 2023).

Over the past few days, several people had problems completing the registration form due to technical issues. These issues have all been addressed, and we have extended the registration deadline for the on-site VIZBI workshop by a few more days, until Friday, Feb 24. If you still experience problems with the registration form, please contact us.

In case you missed it: this showreel video highlights some of the stunning work presented at last year’s VIZBI meeting. A showreel video for 2023 is coming soon.

Need help augmenting your VIZBI poster or artwork with interactive content (videos, image stacks, 3D models, or volumetric data)? Join the Zoom meeting on Feb. 7, 2023, 6:00pm (CET) with Tyler Ard, creator of Schol-AR. He will demonstrate the process and answer questions. To get details on how to join the meeting, sign-up on Eventbrite.

We’re delighted to share the poster for the EMBO Workshop on ‘Visualizing Biological Data’ (VIZBI 2023), which takes place March 2023 at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. The poster summarises the speaker line-up and program, and is available in low-res and hi-res versions. Feel free to share with colleagues, or put up on your departmental noticeboard. We hope very much you can join us in March – in-person or online – for VIZBI 2023!

The artwork selected by VIZBI 2022 delegates for the best Art and Biology award was FUNGIble tokens by Leonora Martínez-Nunez (​​UMASS medical school, USA). Leonora will receive a cash prize of $250 dollars, a PeerJ publication fee-waiver, and have their work showcased on the PeerJ Blog.

Based on popular vote from VIZBI 2022 delegates, the Best Scientific Poster Award goes to Mol Mir, Stephanie Nowotarski, and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (Stowers Institute & HHMI, USA) for their poster Using illustration as a primer for interpreting cellular EM data. They will receive a cash prize of $250 dollars, a PeerJ publication fee-waiver and have their work showcased on the PeerJ Blog.

We’re pleased to introduce Dagmara Kaczynska, who’ll be covering VIZBI 2022 on twitter, and here at the VIZBI blog.

Dagmara works at Cancer Research KI in Stockholm, Sweden, focusing on science communication and outreach. She obtained her PhD on 3D imaging and quantitative analysis of intact tissues and organs at Karolinska Institutet.

Follow Dagmara on twitter