News 2025

• 04.12 Luigi will present the activities of NBI at the 4th PhD Symposium of the Doctoral Program in Computational and Quantitative Biology of the EPFL
• 26.11 With colleagues at KU Leuven and Nankai University, we have launched a call for contributions for a research topic on Advances in Nonlinear Microscopy for Fast Volumetric Imaging in Biology and Medical Sciences. Get in touch with us if you are interested in contributing to the issue. 
• Moritz and Thomas presented the SLIDE and SWIM technology at the Swiss yearly Biomedical Photonics Meeting in Neuchâtel on November 24th.
• Thanks to Moritz for presenting SLIDE technology and its application to stem cell detection at MIFOBIO2025 in Seignosse (FR) taking care of multiple dedicated hands-on workshops with the mobile FAIR CHARM SLIDE system

  

• On October 8th, Luigi is invited speaker at the forthcoming Symposium Shaping the future of Medical Decisions in Göttingen
• On October 1st, Dr Mary Matthews from the Imperial College London will present on work on Harmonics in Chiral Liquids 
• Congratulations to Shayantani, Alexandra, and Doyoung for their article in British Journal of Dermatology in collaboration with the group of Emmanuella Guenova
• On September 10th, Luigi is presenting the work of the group as invited speaker at the forthcoming 35th Conference of the German Society for Cytometry
• A microscopy image by Thomas and Alexandra is now on display along the Geneva lakeside as part of the exhibition La quantique décodée

    

• On Monday June 16th, Alfred Vogel from the University of Lübeck will present his research on Laser Microbeam Meets Nonlinear and Superresolution Microscopy.
• On May 21st, Alexandra presents her work on Deep and Fast Imaging: SWIM and SLIDE for Nonlinear Microscopy with New Laser Sources at FORTH in Crete.
• 14-20 May, Luigi is presenting the work of NBI at the International School Shaping light in space and time for biomedical imaging.
• On Friday April 11th at 12 pm in the Stückelberg Auditorium (EcPhys) in the framework of the Physics of Biology Seminar Series, Willy Supatto from LOB, CNRS/Polytechnique Paris will present Advances in multiphoton imaging of live embryos: faster, deeper and label-free.
• On Thursday April 3d at 1.30 pm in Room AEM 074 Moritz Wiggert from NBI will present his current work on Spectro-temporal laser scanning for video rate volumetric two-photon imaging within the seminar series Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy.
• Prof. Alfred Vogel from the University of Lübeck will talk about Photodamage in nonlinear microscopy: mechanisms & mitigation strategies on February 24th at 3 pm. If you are interested in this online seminar get in touch for the weblink.
• We will present the activities of the labto the Western Switzerland Cluster of Life Sciences, BioAlps, on February 11th
• Alexander Biewald  will present his work on Spatiotemporal Spectroscopy of Fast Excited-State Diffusion in 2D Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films within the Nonlinear optical spectroscopy and microscopy seminar series co-hosted with the Phys Chem Dept. on February 13th  at 1:30 pm, 2 Room 229 (Sci II).
• The list of seminars of Physics of Biology co-hosted by NBI for 2025 is  now online.

• Laura Vittadello (SYMME, Université de Savoie) will talk about Avantages and disadvantages of nonlinear microscopy based on high energy femtosecond pulses on January 9th at 11 am, room EP 138.

News 2024

• 10.12.2024 The NBI gathered to celebrate the end of the year (and of the semester!).
• In collaboration with Prof. T. Adachi of the Dept. of Phys. Chem., we are glad to announce the seminar "Quantitative photometrics in time-resolved optical spectroscopy" by Bernhard Lang on November 7th at 1.30 pm, room EP 234. 
• On Friday September 27th at 12 am Pieter Vanden Berghe from KU Leuven will present the introductory talk A microscopy view on neuronal control of gut function followed by the main seminar Live harmonic and fluorescence imaging of peripheral neuron function and degeneration within the seminar series on Physics of Biology (Ecole de physique - Amphithéâtre Stueckelberg)
• 09.09.2024 Congratulations to Thomas and Alexandre who succesfully defended their Master Thesis project in our group! Good job, guys.
• 26-30.08.2024 Doyoung, Moritz, Paulí and Luigi are presenting NBI's latest results (posters and talk) at the VII Summer school Photonics meets Biology in Split, Croatia Update: Paulí won the best poster award!! Congratulations!
• 15-19.07.2024 INRAE/ONIRIS team from Nantes is visiting us for joint measurements on stem cells in blood and dystrophic muscles
• 01.07.2024 Visit and talk by Yoseline Cabara from the Wyss Center, Geneva
• 24.06.2024 Visit and talk by Dr. Simone Spinozzi from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Lausanne. Simone will discuss how Nexilin is essential for cardiac T-tubule development and organisation on Monday, June 24^th at 11 AM in Room 178 AEM.
• 19.06.2024 Congratulations to Nicolas Faust for his Master thesis in Applied Physics: Assessing the efficiency of Wasserstein distance to quantify image quality in microscopy
• 12.06.2024 Our article in collaboration with S. Karpf's and P. Horvath's group has been published in Small. Congratulations to Shayantani, Alexandra, and Moritz!
• 11.06.2024 Luigi is presenting the work of the NBI group at From Solid State to Biophysics XI, in Dubrovnik
• 18-19.04.2024 Visit and talks by Prof. Michele Celebrano - PoliMI (Thursday 18^th at 1.30 pm, SCI-II 457) and by Prof. Giulia Tagliabue - EPFL (Friday 19^th at 11 am, AEM-138).
• 11.04.2024 Visit by Dr. Margaux Bouzin - Università Milano Bicocca. Margaux will discuss Model-based image reconstruction for super-resolution photo-thermal imaging on Thursday, April 11^th at 11 am Room AEM 178.
• 15.03.2024 Congratulations to Paulí and Volodym in Geneva, Florian, and the team in Annecy for the article accepted in Nanoscale!
• 12.03.2024 Alexandra and Moritz are presenting their posters at the upcoming Focus on Microscopy Conference in Genova, Italy

News 2023

• 21.12.2023 Check out the new exciting program of the Physics of Biology series of talks scheduled through 2024.
• 15.12.2023 Alexandra (talk), Doyoung, and Paulí (posters) presenting at the Swiss meeting on Progress in Biomedical Photonics 2023. Congratulations to Doyoung for the Best Poster Award!!
• 06.12.2023 Congratulations to Doyoung and Gabi (Uni Concordia) for their article published today in Advanced Functional Materials! A wonderful collaboration between Montreal and Geneva.
• 05.12.2023 Seminar by Nicola Galvanetto (Uni Zürich): Molecular dynamics determine mesoscopic properties of biomolecular condensates (1.30 pm, SCI II room A50)
• 16.11.2023 Seminar by Johanna Brazard (Uni Geneva): Unravelling potential energy surface of organic and biomacromolecules by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (12.30 pm, SCI III room 1S059)
• 26.10.2023 The SLIDE porototype of the FAIR CHARM project arrived in Geneva
• 10.10.2023 Seminar by Sim Sakong (EPFL): Target search dynamics of Sox transcription factors with single molecule imaging (2.30 pm, AEM  room 178)
• 30.08.2023 Invited talk at Photonica 2023
• 24.08.2023 New website online