November 30, 2020

LMA 2020 Image Competition: Congratulations, Aria Ahmed-Cox!

Australian PhD student wins the 1st prize with entry depicting vesicle trafficking in brain cancer cells on MicroTime 200

The winners of the 2020 Light Microscopy Australia Image Competition have been announced. Over 100 beautiful entries competed for the top spots in the four categories Live Cell, Life Science, In Vivo, and Materials Science. Congratulations to all winners of this years fierce competition!

Among all of the winning entries, we’d like to highlight the submission “The Paths we Trace: Lifetime of Fluorescent Membranes in Cancer” by Aria Ahmed-Cox, a PhD Student at the Children’s Cancer Institute of the University of New South Wales. In her short video, she traced vesicle trafficking in brain cancer cells on a MicroTime 200 time-resolved fluorescence microscope using PicoQuant’s rapidFLIM approach.

With this entry, she won the 1st prize in the Live Cell category.

Congratulations!

Aria Ahmed-Cox’ work was conducted in collaboration with the Children’s Cancer Institute, Biomedical Imaging Facility, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, UNSW Sydney and the Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney. She and her group thank the Cancer Institute NSW for their generous support and acknowledge funding from the NHMRC Program Grant (APP1091261) and ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology (CE140100036).

November 26, 2020

Eight months of PicoQuant webinars – looking back and forwards

In March 2020, PicoQuant kicked off an ongoing series of webinars. Time for a short look back and at what’s coming next.

The events that started in early 2020 made it very difficult for us at PicoQuant to meet up in person with our customers and community. As staying in touch with people is very dear to our hearts, we turned to the next best thing: holding online gatherings. And thus, after a few weeks of frantic planning and preparations, our ongoing webinar series was born in mid-March 2020.

It’s been quite a ride: So far we’ve held 21 webinars and welcomed over 2400 attendees in total. Our goal is to provide the scientific community with deeper insights into techniques, methods, and applications. We’d like to give a big “thank you” to all participants for joining us and for all the lovely discussions. If you missed a session or wish to experience it again, then check out our webinar on demand page.

Going forward, we will continue to hold more webinars covering a broad range of topics. The next one on “Using pulsed laser light in your research – new application stories featuring PicoQuant’s picosecond pulsed lasers” will be held on December 2, 2020 by our laser product manager Guillaume Delpont. See you soon online!

November 25, 2020

PicoQuant’s Time-resolved Microscopy Course goes online

An in-depth introduction with lectures and practical sessions

PicoQuant’s 13th international course on “Time-resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy” will be held as a fully interactive online event form March 2-5, 2021. The course provides an in-depth introduction to the world of time-resolved fluorescence microscopy with a focus on life science applications. The program combines lectures by experts in the field with practical sessions on systems from the market-leading companies Nikon, Olympus, Zeiss, and PicoQuant as well as opportunities for discussion and networking. Registration is open until January 31, 2021. The course is limited to 50 participants who will be assigned on a first-come first-served basis.

November 18, 2020

Free Webinar: Using pulsed laser light in your research

New application stories featuring PicoQuant’s picosecond pulsed lasers

Pulsed lasers have become an invaluable tool for many research areas. Join our product manager Guillaume Delpont in this free webinar for a tour through recently published examples where picosecond pulsed laser light played a crucial role in tackling research challenges in fields as diverse as materials science, metrology, and ranging. The webinar aims to show novice and expert laser users how such lasers can help in your research.

Using pulsed laser light in your research – new application stories featuring PicoQuant’s picosecond pulsed lasers

Date: December 2, 2020, with two identical sessions at 10:00 and 16:00 (Berlin time, UTC+1)

Register now: webinar website

October 15, 2020

20% discount: end-of-year deal on TimeHarp 260 event timers

Get a TCSPC card with all optional features for less than the corresponding base model

PicoQuant has an exciting end-of-year offer for researchers at an academic institution who are looking for high-quality time-resolved photon counting electronics. From October 15 to December 31, 2020, all purchase orders for a TimeHarp 260 event timer with all optional features will be discounted by 20%*. Thus the full package will be less expensive than the corresponding base model.

The TimeHarp 260 is a high-quality, compact Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) and time-tagging PCIe 2.0 board used in research labs all over the world.

*The 20% discount only applies to researchers in academia. It only applies to TimeHarp 260 PICO or NANO boards (in either Single and Dual channel configuration) that are ordered with all add-ons (i.e. programming libraries or long range mode, if applicable) available for the corresponding card. Note that this discount does NOT apply to any TimeHarp 260 card included in a spectroscopy or microscopy system from PicoQuant.

To get a quote please visit the product website: TimeHarp 260