March 16, 2018

10th European Short Course on “Time-resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy”

The course held by PicoQuant offered an in-depth introduction into time-resolved microscopy techniques

The 10th edition of this course, held from March 6-8, 2018 in Berlin was highly appreciated and found to be inspiring by the 40 participants from universities and industry. Six lectures and five hands-on sessions with instruments from major microscopy companies including Nikon, Olympus, PicoQuant, and Zeiss were given. These sessions covered different methods and procedures used in time-resolved fluorescence microscopy such as FLIM / rapidFLIM, FLIM-FRET, F(L)CS, PLIM for material science, single molecule spectroscopy, and STED super-resolution microscopy.

February 13, 2018

Best of two worlds: combining optical tweezers with time-resolved confocal microscopy

PicoQuant and Ionovation now offer an integrated platform that combines microscopy and force spectroscopy

As a joint development, PicoQuant and Ionovation combined time-resolved microscopy and optical tweezers in a single system. Both instruments retain their individual functionalities but can also be used together, thus enabling customers to carry out time-resolved fluorescence microscopy (e.g. fluorescence lifetime imaging) on trapped objects such as cells. PicoQuant and Ionovation will showcase the features of this combined system at the 62nd Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco (February 17- 21, 2018).

February 6, 2018

PicoQuant’s Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging sessions at Photonics West / BiOS 2018

Outstanding lectures, ample opportunities for networking

The Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging sessions organized by PicoQuant at Photonics West / BiOS 2018 from January 27-28 in San Francisco was an outstanding success. A large audience enjoyed the presentations and lectures by renowned scientists covering a broad range of subjects. Nobel prize winner Stefan W. Hell’s presentation on MINFLUX and Xiaoliang S Xie’s talk on single cell genomics were the sessions crowning highlights.

January 30, 2018

BitMap and PicoQuant – progress in medical tissue imaging

Research project hosted at PicoQuant focuses on developing multichannel photon detection methods for biomedical applications

PicoQuant and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin are co-supervising an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions in the Innovative Training Networks H2020-MSCA-ITN. During his stay at PicoQuant, the ESR is preparing a PhD thesis on "Novel Applications for Spectrally Resolved Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (sFLIM)".

January 17, 2018

Photonics West 2018 in San Francisco

PicoQuant attends the world's largest photonics technologies event

From January 27 to February 1, PicoQuant showcases at the Photonics West in San Francisco its latest innovations in picosecond pulsed diode lasers, in single photon counting, as well as in microscopy and spectroscopy applications. The highlights at this exhibition include the high power pulsed laser „VisIR/VisUV“ platform with the new wavelengths 266, 280, 295, 532, 560 and 590 nm as well as the new Quantum Correlation Analysis Software „QuCoa“.