News and Press Releases

March 24, 2023

PicoQuant Donates 5000 EUR to Berliner Tafel e.V.

The donation included contributions from the company and PicoQuant employees

PicoQuant donated 5000 EUR to the Berliner Tafel e.V. charity. The organization works to combat hunger and poverty in Berlin, providing food and support to those in need. Frederik Siegmann, Head of Marketing of PicoQuant, presented the symbolic check to Nina Güntzel, a representative of the organization, on March 16. The donation was a combination of contributions from the company and private donations from PicoQuant employees, demonstrating the team's dedication to giving back to their local community. As part of their commitment to social responsibility, PicoQuant supports various social, educational, and environmental projects throughout the year. This recent donation will help the Berliner Tafel e.V. continue its crucial work in supporting vulnerable members of the community.

February 27, 2023

PicoQuant’s new confocal microscope, Luminosa, makes FLIM easy

Featured in Microscopy Today

Our new confocal microscope, Luminosa, is featured in the latest issue of Microscopy Today. In the article, our applications specialist Dr. Maria Loidolt-Krüger describes how Luminosa simplifies fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM). With its unique combination of state-of-the-art hardware and cutting-edge software, the microscope makes time-resolved fluorescence microscopy accessible to researchers of all levels while delivering high-quality data.

Read the full article at https://academic.oup.com/mt/article/31/1/24/7043305.

February 20, 2023

Three Winners of the SPIE BiOS Young Investigator Award

PicoQuant sponsors a prize worth 750 USD

The winners of the Young Investigator Award 2023 are Marina Santana Vega, University of Glasgow (UK), for her talk on "A new platform for single molecule measurements using the fluorous effect", Gur Lubin, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), for his talk on "Heralded spectroscopy: a new single-particle probe for nanocrystal photophysics", and Adam Bowman, Stanford University (USA), for his talk on "Electro-optic fluorescence lifetime microscopy (EO-FLIM) of single molecules and neurons".

Congratulations!

The BiOS symposium that is part of SPIE Photonics West, North America's largest photonics event, was held 28 January to 2 February 2023 in San Francisco, California, USA. Every year, PicoQuant co-organizes the special conference "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging" within the BiOS symposium and sponsors the "Young Investigator Award" worth 750 USD.

February 20, 2023

Registration is open: Time-resolved Microscopy Course

The online event gives an in-depth introduction to a powerful experimental toolbox through lectures practical sessions

It is our pleasure to announce the 15th International Course on "Time-resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy" taking place July 4 - 7, 2023 as an online meeting. The schedule of the online course will run between 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm CET (Berlin time), to better accommodate participants from different time zones. 

Our course provides an in-depth introduction to the world of time-resolved fluorescence microscopy with a focus on life science applications. The course combines a series of lectures by experts in the field with practical sessions on systems from the market-leading companies Nikon, Evident, Zeiss, and PicoQuant.

Lecturers include:

• Prof. Jelle Hendrix (Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt, Belgium)
• Prof. Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
• Dr. Samaneh Rezvani (PicoQuant GmbH, Berlin, Germany)
• Dr. Olaf Schulz (PicoQuant GmbH, Berlin, Germany)

Registration and Details: Time-resolved Microscopy Course

January 16, 2023

Luminosa brings smFRET to a new level

An article in PhotonicsViews

Read in the new issue of PhotonicsViews, how our new Single Photon Counting Confocal Microscope Luminosa brings single molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET) to a new level. Quantitative single molecule and time-resolved fluorescence techniques offer new insights into many samples in life and materials sciences. So far, their adoption has been slow because expert knowledge was required for correct data acquisition and analysis. Now, we have developed Luminosa, a confocal miroscope that combines state-of-the-art hardware with cutting-edge software to deliver high-quality data while simplifying daily operation. The article shows how Luminosa streamlines smFRET experiments.

Read the article in the Wiley Online Library: https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202300002