Miltenyi MACSQuant Tyto DEMO

When: November 11, 2025 – November 13, 2025 Where: t.b.a. In the Week of November 10th, we will host a demo of the microfluidics sorter MACSQuant Tyto from Miltenyi.  This is a non droplet sorter that features a quick and simple to use cartridge system that provides a fast and highly sterile sort, that can also be used for BSL 2 samples. As the microfluidic technology is very gentle, also very sensitive and even larger cells can be sorted with a high viability. The downside is that it can only sort one population within the cartridge, so plate-sorting or multiple Read More …

Winners of the IOF Scientific Image Competition 2025

We are very happy to announce the winners of this years competition. The interest in the competition was very high and we got a total of 440 votes (3 votes per person) in the course of yesterday’s open campus day. You can find all the entries in this presentation:https://iof-group.gitlabpages.ista.ac.at/teaching/2025-imagecompetition-analysis/assets/2025_image_competition_presentation.pdf(Please do not re-post any images without explicit permission of the author!) And as we like over-engineering stuff as much as the next person, Marco developed a sticker-segmentation analysis routine for obtaining the results of the voting, which you can look up in our repository here:https://iof-group.gitlabpages.ista.ac.at/teaching/2025-imagecompetition-analysis/ Without further ado, the winners are: Read More …

Winners of the IOF scientific image and video competition 2024

We are honoured to announce this years Winners! For the image competition: The glow of Ketamine by Anna Pellizzer, Alessandro Venturino and Maximilian Schuster Developing Mouse Embryo (E10.5) by Sebastian Böhm, Kasumi Kishi, Rohit Krishnan Harish, Thomas Minchington and Anna Kicheva Memory blossoms by Hana Štefaničková And for the video competition: Starry Night by Tushna Kapoor Klosterneuburger Blut! by Xin Tong Stars and stripes by Isabelle Mayer Once again, we thank every one who entered into the competition and are looking forward to your amazing contributions in the following years!   Cheers, Your IOF Team