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Dear Colleague, The 8th Quantitative Bioimaging Conference, QBI 2020, will take place at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK on 6-9 January 2020. The Statistics community is likely to find several of the sessions of interest, including minisymposia on Spatial Statistics, Bioimage Informatics, and Machine Learning Approaches to Image Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification. The full programme and instructions on how to register can be found at https://www.quantitativebioimaging.com/qbi2020/ In addition to the conference programme for 7-9 January, there will be a day of workshops on 6 January. The planned conference workshops are: * Spatial statistics in bioimaging analysis * Introduction to scientific programming for image analysts * Cluster and photon counting analysis * Single molecule localization microscopy flight simulator A new feature of the conference is a challenges session: * Challenges in subcellular trafficking A plenary discussion panel on * Uses and misuses of machine learning The keynote speakers of the conference are: * Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Janelia Farm * Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Institute, Munich Other confirmed speakers to date are: Dylan Owen, University College London; Melike Lakadamyali, University of Pennsylvanial; Steve Presse, Arizona State; Kristin Grussmayer, EPFL; Aleksandra Radenovic, EPFL; Christian Soeller, University of Exeter; Alexander Jesacher, Innsbruck; Dirk-Peter Herten, Heidelberg; Michael Dustin, Oxford; Gerhard Schütz, Vienna; Fred Maxfield, New York; Daniel Wuestner, Odense; Christoph Wuelfing, Bristol; Thibault Lagache, Columbia University, New York; Thierry Pecot, Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina; Ilaria Testa, Stockholm; Gail McConnell, Strathclyde; Charles Kervrann, Rennes; Edward Cohen, Imperial College, London; Anish Abraham, College Station; Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, University of Bordeaux; Thomas Walter, Institute Curie, Paris; Luke Lavis, Janelia Farm; Lei Tian, Boston; Andrew York, San Francisco; Bernd Bodenmiller, Zuerich; Josephine Bunch, National Physical Laboratory, UK; Jan-Otto Hooghoudt, Aalborg University; Rasmus Waagepetersen, Aalborg University; Lucy Collinson, London; Roarke Horstmeyer, Durham, NC, USA; Badri Roysam, Houston; Sandrine Leveque-Fort, Paris; Frederick Klauschen, Institute of Pathology, Charite – University Medicine Berlin; Shanon Seger, Hoffman La-Roche, Switzerland Our student and post-doc section is planning the following events: * Meet the experts * Career opportunities in academia and industry To obtain email updates, please sign up for membership of the QBI Society at www.quantitativebioimaging.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.quantitativebioimaging.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=ODFT-G5SujMiGrKuoJJjVg&r=vMPNHdtAHTJsN8XFNp7yRRIL7F5uF52sgeBAC7c0fV8&m=aMAruWfHB_1LotGlJEHQ82BaafxWDVE6tqaxHB1ToLI&s=rJBEbDLk-7eWmRDsb0jtrK3_jpGy_UwDnBDAOG10rtg&e=>. Membership is free of charge. We look forward to seeing you in Oxford in January 2020. Sincerely, QBI 2020 Organizing Committee You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.