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January 2021
  • The Collaborative Research Centre PolyTarget, of which our group is part of, is featured by the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. Check out the video here!


October 2020
  • We receive our new MINFLUX system from Abberior.
  • The new Abberior Expert Line STED microscope is installed. Featuring multicolour 3D STED and single photon counting electronics.

September 2020
  • Yashar Rouzbahani succesfully defends his Medical Photonics Master thesis Diffusion studies of different lipids on model membranes. Congratulations Yashar! He will now doing his PhD with us.

August 2020
  • The contemporary art museum Sinclair-Haus selects an image by Gaukhar Zhurgenbayeva for their What is Nature? exhibition. The image depicts a Candida albicans yeast invading a gut epithelial cell.

May 2020
  • Pablo Carravilla is featured in the Snapshots: Research at Leibniz IPHT video series. You can check the video here.
March 2020
  • Alex Seltmann, Francesco Reina and John Wigg, as part of the multidisciplinary #SimThinkAct group, participate in the WirVsVirus Hackathon of the German Federal Government, creating a web app for creative health education in the process. The app #SimThinkAct has been shortlisted in the top 10% of projects by the organisers!
  • Francesco Reina presents his results on model and cell membrane Single Particle Tracking at the Trends in Microscopy 2020 Spring School organized by the German Bioimaging society (Münsingen).
February 2020
  • Pablo Carravilla is awarded a MSCA Individual Fellowship from the European Commision.
  • Anindita Dasgupta joins our group. She will do her PhD with us. Welcome!
January 2020
  • Alex Seltmann presents his work on using Deep Learning to correct FCS measurements at QBI 2020 (Oxford).
  • Our new web page is online!