LIMa is a core facility for providing services of microscopy imaging and bioimage analysis to users from Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University as well as other institutions. LIMa service features support for confocal laser scanning, multi-photon, live-cell imaging; light sheet techniques; bioimage computing and data analysis:

• User Meeting for service registration, information exchange, technical consultation, etc.
• Introduction to the LIMa microscopes and support for image acquisition
• Development and establishment of microscopy methods in cooperation with the users
• Introduction to popular image analysis software
• Development of customized image analysis methods and software tools
• Courses and workshops on image analysis techniques and practices as well as programming

Please note that, to use the microscopes, devices and image analysis services of LIMa, a service registration is required.

IEEE ISBI 2025 Best Paper Award

LIMa data scientist Qi Gao received the IEEE ISBI 2025 Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging in April 2025 in Houston, TX, USA, for the paper "Non-Rigid Registration of Time-Lapse Cell Microscopy Images Improved by a Semi-Incremental Optimization Method" (jointly with Karl Rohr). The paper was selected as second best scientific paper out of more than 600 accepted peer-reviewed papers.