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.

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Photos from BIOCOMM 2013
View daily slideshows from BIOCOMM 2013. More photos will be added as they become available.

BioImages 2013 Award Winners and Salon
BioImages is an annual visual media competition that showcases the finest still, graphics and motion media work in the life sciences and medicine. Award winners were revealed last night at the opening reception of BIOCOMM 2013.

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.

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 Live!

Can't make it to BIOCOMM2013?
Select sessions from BIOCOMM 2013 will be streamed live online. Participate in Show Us Your Stuff, InfoShare, BCA Business Meeting, and the Friday Roundtable Discussion. No registration is required.

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New Feature

Learn from the Experts
is a new feature on the BCA website that highlights 10 images and interviews of BCA members. Learn how each image was created and then read an interview with the photographer. This is part of a multi-phase project that involves participation from BCA members and showcases the diversity and expertise of BCA members.

 
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.