Bio-optical Working Group activities were initiated through a proposal submitted to the IMOS office in October 2009.

An overview of the working group was presented at the IMOS National Meeting in February 2010.

During its first meeting on 23-24 March 2010, the IMOS Bio-optics Working Group (WG) discussed and finalised the Terms of Reference (ToR) for its operations during Jan 2010 to July 2012.