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A Resource for Producers of
Visual Media in the Life Sciences

The BioCommunications Association, or BCA, is an international association of media professionals who create and use quality images in visual communications for teaching, documentation and presentations in the life sciences and medicine. If you are interested in an organization dedicated to supporting the production of visual communications for the life sciences then welcome to the BCA.

BCA Update

BIOCOMM 2013 Program
The Program for BIOCOMM 2013, the annual meeting of the BCA, is online. This year's diverse and interesting presentations include: Quantitative Imaging: Treating Images as Data, Centralization of Patient Photography, Focus Stacking for High Magnification Photomacrography, Maintaining Enthusiasm and Creativity in a Budget Driven World, Blending Surgical Video and Computer Animation: The Toronto Surgical Video Atlas, Intro to Plant Time-lapse Photography, and Building Rich, Interactive Tablet Apps for Designers.

The meeting will be held at the historic Asilomar Conference Grounds in Monterey, California from June 17-21, followed by Nikon's two day post-meeting workshop. Information about the program and workshops, accommodations as well as registration is available on meeting web pages.

The deadline for registration is May 16, 2013.

Keynote and Pioneer Speakers for
BIOCOMM 2013
The BCA is thrilled to announce that contemporary black and white landscape photographer John Sexton will deliver the Maria Ikenberg Lindberg Keynote address at BIOCOMM 2013. John is also is an educator, master printmaker, author and workshop instructor.

Ted Kinsman, who is a specialist in time-lapse cinematography, radiography, scanning electron microscopy, and high-speed flash photography, will present the Anne Shiras Pioneer Lecture at BIOCOMM 2013. Ted Kinsman operates Sciencephotography.com and teaches macro photography at RIT in the BPC Department.

BIOCOMM 2013 Registration
The registration page for BIOCOMM 2013 is now online with information about the conference rates, accomodations and meals.

Recruit and Reward Program
Save $25 on BCA membership or on registration for BIOCOMM 2013. See the Recruit and Rewards Program page for more information.

Recent Publications

BCA News Spring 2013
The Spring 2013 edition of the BCA News is now online.

Journal of Biocommunication
Volume 38 is now available through the Members Only page.

EFFE Grants

EFFE Grants Applications Deadline April 23, 2013
The Endowment Fund for Education (EFFE) Committee of the BCA urges you to get your grant applications in for review by the committee. Requests for funding of a variety of projects will be considered. If you have a good idea but have limited or no resources, apply to EFFE. BCA wants to support worthwhile projects, so there is no time to waste. Grant applications close on April 23, 2013.

A condition of EFFE funding is that we ask recipients to share their findings with the membership of BCA, either as a journal article or as conference presentation - perhaps both. This provides the applicant with another opportunity to participate more broadly in BCA.