The IMAGINE project will develop the next generation of scale-crossing imaging technologies to enable an integrated investigation of
structure and function of biological systems. It will focus on developing and integrating four major disruptive microscopy technologies,
namely: X-ray imaging, cryo electron microscopy, cryo and dynamic super-resolution microscopy and large volume intravital light
microscopy. It will furthermore develop the AI-powered image analysis and data integration/sharing capabilities, that are needed to
correlate these technologies and make their data widely available. To harness their power for some of the most pressing societal
challenges, IMAGINE will prepare its new imaging technologies to be deployed in the field, on Europe’s seas and coastlines, so that the
collection of environmental specimen in their natural context can be coupled with their study by highest resolution imaging technologies.
The IMAGINE technologies are currently at the cutting edge of physics and engineering and therefore only available in isolation and
to specialists. The project aims to bring them to the European life science user community at large by developing and validating them
for service readiness, so that they can be provided as future services by Europe’s Research Infrastructures (RIs). To this end, the project
will train RI staff on the operation and use of the IMAGINE technologies. To promote broad dissemination as commercial instruments,
IMAGINE will develop technologies jointly between academia and industry promoting open innovation with key instrumentation
manufacturers in the imaging field. The life science community increasingly relies on RIs to access ever more complex and rapidly
developing scientific instruments. The scale-crossing imaging technologies developed by IMAGINE will be critical to empower groundbreaking research in Europe, that is so urgently needed to address some of the biggest challenges our societies will face in the future.

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