Field of View in a Nutshell
Image Data
Promotes novel image data management and analysis solutions.
Imaging Expertise
Brings together ample expertise in different areas of imaging.
Networking
Connects researchers and students to foster new ideas and collaborations.
events
2025
Chrismtas open door event
December 11th, 2025
Annual Open Door Event at 2nd floor, where everyone is welcome to drop in, grab coffee, glögi or joulutorttu, and get to chat and know more about TBI and Fov, and all the activities. This years event set a record of over 70 people visiting the cozy room!
“Turku Imaging Facilities – from biological to biomedical: available resources and good practices” workshop
November 14th, 2025
A half-day event brought together key people from all Turku imaging facilities, who gave short talks on recent updates in their units, covering new developments, instruments, and training opportunities. Also, we featured presentations on best practices for navigating the entire imaging workflow, from experiment planning to data management. This way, we aim to ensure that our community stays up to date on available equipment and expertise and knows who to contact to get the support they need. We hope the workshop was valuable and will help our users in their future imaging projects.
turku imaging day
October 22nd, 2025
Turku Imaging Day (TID) returned for its third edition this year, taking place at Caribia in Turku. This time, the event stepped away from the traditional symposium format to create a more festive atmosphere – after all, celebrating imaging is at the heart of TID. The evening was organized by the Field of View research program and Turku BioImaging, with support from BioCity Turku. In addition to four company booths and over twenty scientific posters, around 180 participants enjoyed a rich scientific program, including nine talks covering a wide range of imaging-related topics, five fantastic flash talks, and an interactive panel discussion that sparked lively audience participation. Heartfelt thanks to all people who participated throughout the whole day, as speakers, organizers, and audience. Read the full story here. In the photo TBI team.
Practical Super-Resolution Microscopy Course
October 6th, 2025
A week-long course full of lectures, imaging, and networking! This course was organized by the Cell Imaging Core (CIC) of Turku Bioscience Centre, FoV and TBI, and provided participants with an in-depth exploration of cutting-edge super-resolution microscopy techniques, including enhanced confocal (Zeiss Airyscan/Leica Lightning), SIM, SMLM and STED. Participants not only gained theoretical knowledge but also had hands-on practical sessions on microscopes, the use of OMERO for image data storage, and learned some image analysis. On the final day, participants presented the acquired images and compared the super-resolution techniques they used.
FUTURE OF IMAGING MINISYMPOSIUM IN TURKU
June 13th, 2025
In June, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, in collaboration with TBI, and the Field of View research program, organized the mini-symposium “Future of Imaging”. The keynote speaker, Professor Stefan Hell, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2014), gave a talk about MINFLUX technology and his vision for the future of super-resolution microscopy. The program also featured presentations from students and senior scientists all about imaging and image analysis. The symposium concluded with an engaging panel discussion mediated by TBI’s Pasi Kankaanpää on imaging in the rapidly changing AI landscape, which received great interest from the audience. Many thanks to all participants, speakers, and panelists for contributing to this inspiring event. More info about the event is here.
Field of view catalyst funding and image competition
- Aaron Barron, Turku Brain and Mind Center
- Francisco Miguel Acosta Manzano,Turku PET Centre
- Ilkka Paatero, Turku Bioscience Centre
And the winner of the image competition was: The Rotifer, by Ilkka Paatero
2024
FIELD OF VIEW EVENT “TURKU IMAGING DAY”
Oct 23, 2024
Presidentti Auditorium, BioCity, Turku
Field of View research program together with TBI organized the second Turku Imaging Day to strengthen and grow the imaging community in Turku. Turku Imaging Day brought together researchers and students interested in imaging. The event consisted of excellent scientific talks about imaging, presentations from local imaging facilities, and flash talks and posters from early career researchers. At the end of the day, there was an evening networking event during which the winners of flash talk and poster competitions was announced.
The news about how Turku Imaging Day went is here.
Frontiers of Science seminar
Apr 4, 2024, at 12-13
Presidentti Auditorium, BioCity, Turku
In April, the Frontiers of Science (FoS) BioCity Turku seminar will be given by Professor Ricardo Henriques, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal “Open Super-Resolution and AI technologies in the quest for nanoscale live-cell imaging”. Host: Associate Professor Guillaume Jaquemet . This FoS seminar will be Field of View’s contribution to the FoS spring series in 2024.
2023
“TAILORED IMAGE DATA SOLUTIONS” COURSE
Dec 2023 – Jan 2024
The course is aimed at researchers within the Field of View Research Program, who seek tailored guidance and assistance in analysing and managing their image data. The course encompasses free-of-charge sessions with image data specialists from Turku BioImaging, who will provide for instance consultation, image data testing and quality assessment, suggestions for data management and analysis, assistance in open sharing of data, and if needed even complete in-house image data analysis of selected data samples. Accepted projects will take place during the first half of 2024, as agreed in each case. For more information, contact image-data@bioimaging.fi
Open Doors @ Turku BioImaging Office
Turku BioImaging Cozy Room, Biocity B-staircase, 2nd floor
Field of view guest seminar
Nov 28, 2023, at 13:30-15:00
Osmo Järvi Hall, Medisiina C, Kiinamyllynkatu 10, Turku
Field of View and the International MSc Programme in Biomedical Imaging (BIMA) invited Professor Ludovic Galas from the University of Rouen, PRIMACEN, France to give a talk while he was visiting Erasmus partners at UTU & ÅAU. Hosted by Associate Professor Diana Toivola, Professor Galas presented a lecture “Tunneling NanoTubes (TNTs): emerging, side or main route for cell-to-cell communication?”, which was very well received and sparked many questions and a lively conversation among the audience. Professor Galas’s visit strengthened the international collaboration between universities, providing future exchange and research opportunities to our imaging master’s students and researchers.
Frontiers of Science seminar
Oct 26, 2023, at 12-13
Presidentti Auditorium, BioCity, Turku
In October, the Frontiers of Science (FoS) BioCity Turku seminar was given by Professor Alpha Yap from the University of Queensland, Australia. The host, Associate Professor Guillaume Jacquemet, introduced Professor Alpha Yap, who then gave a fantastic talk about adherens junctions tissue mechanics and epithelial homeostasis. This FoS seminar was Field of View’s contribution to the FoS autumn series in 2023.
FIELD OF VIEW EVENT “TURKU IMAGING DAY”
Oct 3, 2023
Osmo Järvi Hall, Medisiina C, Kiinamyllynkatu 10, Turku
Field of View research program together with TBI organized the first Turku Imaging Day to strengthen and grow the imaging community in Turku. The Turku Imaging Day took place during the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Turku. Turku Imaging Day brought together more than 150 researchers and students interested in imaging, including university leadership, and received very positive feedback. The event consisted of excellent scientific talks about imaging, presentations from local imaging facilities, and flash talks and posters from early career researchers. The event also had company sponsors, and Euro-BioImaging was also a central sponsor and collaborator for the event. At the end of the day, there was an evening networking event during which the winners of flash talk and poster competitions were announced. We are planning to have this event annually.
The program and information about the event can be found at the event page. The news about the first Turku Imaging Day is here.
FIELD OF VIEW WORKSHOP “FROM IMAGE ACQUISITION TO ANALYSIS AND DATA STORAGE”
Mar 29, 2023 at 14:10 — 16:10
BioCity, Biologi Auditorium
Field of View organized a new type of workshop, together with TBI, Cell Imaging and Cytometry Core from Turku Bioscience, Medisiina Imaging Centre, Turku Screening Unit, and Laboratory of Industrial Physics. The workshop covered the entire imaging workflow from acquisition to analysis, focusing on available services and good practices. The event received a lot of positive feedback and was noticed also outside Turku as something important and worth doing more and more in the future. We plan to do the workshop again next year.
2022
“IN THE SPOTLIGHT” grantees 2022
Field of View research program aims to promote public understanding and appreciation of science and thus, opened a grant call “In the spotlight” for science communications projects in 1.11.—2.12.2022.
The committee has now evaluated all the proposals and decided to award “In the spotlight” grant to five different projects that are aimed at highlighting ongoing research projects and raising public awareness of outstanding research teams.“In the spotlight” grantees are:
· Mira Minkkinen, BSc; Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University
· Riku Klén, PhD, Assistant professor, Turku PET Centre, University of Turku
· Francisco M. Acosta, PhD; Turku PET Centre, Turku University Hospital, University of Turku
· Marie-Catherine Laisne, PhD student; Cell biologi, Åbo Akademi University
· Laura Ekblad, MD, PhD; Turku PET Centre, Turku University Hospital, University of Turku
The grantees will have their science communications project produced by Multimedia producer Henok Karvonen from Life Science Pixel Lab during the spring 2023. We congratulate all the grantees and look forward to see the produced material next year!
Field of View Kick Off Event
Visiting Center Joki, Cave Theatre
“In The Spotlight” grant call for science communications projects
Open Doors @ Turku BioImaging Office
Turku BioImaging Cozy Room, Biocity B-staircase, 2nd floor
Meet Us
Pasi Kankaanpää, PhD
Head of Biological Imaging, Turku BioImaging
Tiina Saanijoki, PhD
Head of Medical Imaging, Turku BioImaging
Sign up into Field of View program
If you would like to join the Field of View research program, please sign up by using this link, QRcode or the button below:
https://forms.gle/jNJP1nEpyfpnbQs99
Affiliated Research Groups
- Courtney, Michael
Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku – full member
- Eskelinen, Eeva-Liisa
Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku – associate member
sites.utu.fi/eskelinengroup - Eriksson, John
Cell Biology, Åbo Akademi University & Turku Bioscience Centre & Euro-BioImaging ERIC – associate member
- Grönroos, Tove
Turku PET Centre, University of Turku – full member
- Helin, Jatta
Turku PET Centre, University of Turku – full member
- Hänninen, Pekka
Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku – full member
- Ivaska, Johanna
Cell Adhesion and Cancer Lab, Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku – associate member
ivaskalab.utu.fi - Jacquemet, Guillaume
Cell Migration Lab, Cell Biology, Åbo Akademi University – full member
cellmig.org - Joutsa, Juho
Clinical Neurosciences, University of Turku, full member
- Kaasinen, Valtteri
Clinical Neurosciences, University of Turku, full member
- Klén, Riku
Instrumentation and Image Processing, Turku PET Centre, University of Turku – associate member
sites.utu.fi/instrimpro/en/ - KARI VIENOLA
Academy Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku – full member
- Mattila, Pieta
Lymphocyte Activation Lab, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku – associate member
mattilalab.utu.fi
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Merisaari, Harri
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FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, University of Turku – full member
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Rinne, Juha
Turku PET Centre, University of Turku – full member
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Roivainen, Anne
Turku PET Center & Turku Centre for Disease modeling,
University of Turku – associate member
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Ruusuvuori, Pekka
Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku – full member
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Subasi, Abdulhamit
Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku – full member
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Taimen, Pekka
Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku – associate member
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Teuho, Jarmo
Turku PET Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital – full member
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Toivola, Diana
Epithelial Biology Lab, Cell Biology, Åbo Akademi – associate member
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Tuulari, Jetro
Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku – full member
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Virtanen, Kirsi
Human Brown Fat Research Group, Turku PET Centre, University of Turku – associate member
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Gramolelli, SILVIA
Viral Oncogenesis Research Lab, Åbo Akademi University – associate member
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Hämälistö, Saara
Pathogenic Immune Cell Vesicles Lab, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku – associate member
Links & Useful Resources
https://bioimaging.fi/image-data-team
https://www.bioimaging.fi/life-science-pixel-lab
https://bioscience.fi/services/cell-imaging/lost-in-imaging
Contact Us
Field of View Research Program Directors
Pasi Kankaanpää
Tiina Saanijoki
tpsaan@utu.fi
