Category: Events

Miltenyi MACSQuant Tyto DEMO

Posted onAuthorBernhard Hochreiter

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

Posted onAuthorBernhard Hochreiter

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

Posted onAuthorBernhard Hochreiter

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

IOF Open Campus Video Competition 2022

Posted onAuthorTereza Belinova

Firing up the engine to move by Manjunath Javoor Imaging: B16_F1 Melanoma cell labeled for actin (protein involved in cell migration) with F-tractin_EGFP plated on laminin coated glass bottom dish. Microscope: Visitron-TIRF, 63x oil immersionProcessing: LUT: mpl magma     Multiplication by division by Michaela Jovic The video was taken on the Nikon CSU-W1 spinning disk confocal. It is a video of a cell cycle (microtubule and DNA markers) in the syncytial embryo.     Fireworks by Katy Planty by Alexander Johnosn Tracking microtubules in plants with the Olympus TIRF microscope and TrackMate software.     Explosion of the senses Read More …

Inquiry Equipment workshop Olympus / Evident

Posted onAuthorGabriel Krens

The Imaging & Optics Facility at ISTA has the oppertunity to organize an ‘hands-on equipment workshop’ that allows ISTA researchers to test a vast array of imaging technology port-folio from Evident (Olympus). We would be eager to receive your feedback about what kind of instrumentation is of you interrest to test ‘on site’ at ISTA campus – and where your research would benefor from → Please fill out the poll to share your interrest until April 27, 2022 Life Science: Light Sheet Micrscope: Alpha3 | Light Sheet Microscope | Olympus LS (olympus-lifescience.com) Single Molecule Microscopy (Storm / TIRF): Abbelight instruments Read More …

Winners of Open Campus Peoples’ Choice Image and Video Contest 2021

Posted onAuthorTereza Belinova

Dear all, Open Campus Day 2021 has passed and we hope all of you have enjoyed it as much as we did. We would like to once again thank the authors for all of their wonderful contributions to our annual image and video contest. We had a really tight competition this year in both of the categories as all of the contributions were very exciting: Orange dots represent the online voting. Green dots were placed by the visitors during Open Campus day Winner(s) of the Image category: “The eye of the fly” by Yvonne Vallis (de Bono Group) and Ece Read More …

Demo: Leica STELLARIS, Nano Workflow (CLEM) & Thunder-3D workshop, 18-21 October, 2021

Posted onAuthorGabriel Krens

Leica Microsystems, in cooperation with the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), are pleased to invite you to attend talks and product showcases featuring the STELLARIS Confocal Microscope Platform, THUNDER Imagers widefield systems and the Leica Nano Workflow for live cell CLEM. Join us and learn how these microscopy innovations can make a difference to your research. Monday 18th – Tuesday 19th October, LIVE PRESENTATIONS Monday, 18th October14:00-15:30Capture Life the moment it happens – the Leica Nano Workflow for live cell CLEMwith Dr Thorben Kurz Tuesday, 19th October09:00-10:25Leica THUNDER Imaging Systems: Analyzing 3D specimens with widefield microscopywith Dr Jan Read More …

Bioimaging People’s Choice Competition 2021 now online

Posted onAuthorTereza Belinova

Dear all, We would like to thank all of you very much for your contributions to this year’s Open Campus Day – People’s choice image and video contest. We are really excited to share with you the wonderful artworks submitted this year in both categories. All of the contributions will be presented this Sunday during the Open Campus Day. For those of you who cannot attend the event on Sunday, you can check out all submissions online and also include your vote. Good luck to all of the participants! Image Gallery Video Gallery