
MiFoBio 2025
Functional Microscopy for Biology
EuroCurvoBioNet will actively contribute to MiFoBio 2025 by organizing 2 mini-symposia.
This high-level training program focuses on cutting-edge imaging for life sciences. MiFoBio brings together academics, industrialists, researchers, engineers, and students from diverse disciplines (around 300 people), creating an interdisciplinary gateway to functional biology and facilitating knowledge exchange in new technologies.
COST members will find this event particularly beneficial, as it offers the opportunity to apply cutting-edge imaging methods to their samples.
The event will feature two key workshops organized by our Action: one on the microfabrication of curved surfaces (led by Laurent Pieuchot, IS2M Mulhouse/France - WG3 leader, and Fabricio Borghi, Instituto de Fisica da UFRJ/Brazil – IS2M/France, COST member), and another on the imaging of cells on curved substrates (led by Caterina Tomba, INL/France, and Tatiana Petithory, IS2M/France, COST members).
Dates:
From 10.10.2025
to 17.10.2025
Venue:
Club Belambra “Les Tuquets”
Avenue de la Grande Plage
40510 Seignosse (Landes)
Types of Activities:
Courses & Seminars
Round tables
Workshops (hands-on)

Program
Financial Support
The COST Action program during MiFoBio consists of 5 sessions, to be held according to the schedule below:
Saturday, October 11th: Minisymposium
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14h-14h30 : Introduction of the symposium and the COST Action
Caterina Tomba/Laurent Pieuchot & John Dunlop/Łucja Kowalewska -
14h30-15h : Clémentine Ferrari, MPI-CI Potsdam (Germany)
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15h-15h30 : André Castro, IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico and ESTSetúbal, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (Portugal)
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15h30-16h : Łucja Kowalewska, University of Warsaw (Poland)
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18h00 : Seminar John Dunlop, University of Salzburg (Austria)
Sunday October 12th: Round table session
Monday-Tuesday October 13-14th: Workshop #1
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Development of microstructured cell culture substrates from 3D models using grayscale lithography,
Laurent Pieuchot, IS2M Mulhouse (France) - WG3 leader,
Fabricio Borghi, Instituto de Fisica da UFRJ (Brazil) – IS2M (France), COST member
Wednesday-Thursday, October 15-16th: Workshop #2
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Epithelium monolayers deformed by curved substrates:
advantages and drawbacks of light-sheet and confocal microscopy,
Caterina Tomba, INL (France),
Tatiana Petithory, IS2M (France), COST members
General Program of MiFoBio
MiFoBio will offer the following 6 teaching modules and seminars
Module 1: Marking strategies at different scales of life
Module 2: Nanoscopy : the challenges of spatial and temporal quantification
Module 3: Analysis, simulation and modelling: a new paradigm with AI ?
Module 4: Multi-scale imaging of biological systems
Module 5: Physical measurements, control and handling – Mechanobiology
Module 6: Waves on living organisms: breakthrough strategies in life imaging
Seminars
Financial Support


