About Us
Why we are different
In addition to being an almost exclusive family based company and hiring consultants from different professional backgrounds, MIA Cellavie consideres that behind strong science there are valuable individuals, that is why we cherish human quality above all.
We are proud to offer our team a healthy and supportive working environnement that works as one big familly. Our team is composed of individuals with diverse and complementary skils ranging from life sciences (cytometry and microscopy), mechanical engineering, computer sciences and bio-physics.
MIA Cellavie offers service microscopy for life sciences and health technologies:
Advantages and benefits of using our integrated approach for microscopy:
- Maximize your equipment performance through quality control measurements.
- Achieve reproducibility with data and metadata management.
- Get solutions with image processing and analysis.
- Perform artefact-free, reproducible and quantitative microscopy projects.
- Do your research projects efficiently.
- Obtain robust, strong and reliable scientific and medical data.
- Maximize investments in your staff, equipment and reagents.

Our Story
Rethinking artifact-free, reproducible and quantitative data for ROBUST answers in science, medicine and research since 2006.
Back at the end of 2005, the idea for MIA Cellavie came to Dr Judith Lacoste’s mind during her time in a university research lab, being in charge of microscopes. She was deeply concerned about the lack of quality standards for light microscopy equipments. With her ability to think outside the box and her love for new challenges, she took it upon herself to offer the scientific community a way to get more precise and reliable data out of microscopes.
Implications in Open, Reproductible and F.A.I.R Science
In addition to her work within MIA Cellavie Inc, here is an overview of Judith Lacoste's implications within the scientific community

Global BioImaging
Member of Data Management Workgroup

Quality Assessment and Reproductibility for Instruments and Images in Light Microscopy
-Member of Steering committee
-Co-chair of System chromatic aberration and co-registration Workgroup
-Member of Lateral and axial resolution Workgroup
-Member of Microscopy data provenance and QC metadata Workgroup

Canada BioImaging
Active Member

BioImaging North America
-Board of director
-Co-chair of AiMM automated Image Management and Meta-data annotation user.
-Active member of QCDM and Quality control and data management Workgroup

Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Active member of the discovery and metadata experts group