The 88th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) took place this year on September 7th-15th in HELEXPO, the largest exhibition and congress centre in Greece. Under the motto “made in Germany” the honoured country in 2024 has been Germany, providing 6000 squared metres of exhibition space for German institutes and companies.  A …Read More »

On July 20th 2024, the Oben Ohne Open Air music festival took place in Munich. This is one of the largest outdoor festivals in southern Germany with about 20.000 visitors, mainly aged between 15 and 25 years old. Along with the music performances, the space serves as the platform for …Read More »

On the 28-30 June 2024, the FORSCHA (Münchner Wissenschaftstage) took place in Munich. This is a science communication fair free of cost that lasted 3 days and targeted general audience, with special emphasis on non-scientific public and kids. It took place in the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum in Munich. The WINTHER …Read More »

On 20 June 2024, SWOPT took part in the summer party of the TUM School of Medicine and Health in Munich Olympiapark. Our communication team prepared a booth with visual material to show the research we do at our insitute. We also distributed reusable bottles and sunscreen, which was highly …Read More »

This April, a delegation from the Helmholtz Association visited Southeast Asia. SWOPT coordinator, Prof. André C. Stiel, was part of it, together with other representatives from Helmholtz Munich and other research institutions. The aim of the trip was to initiate collaborations and gain detailed insights into the region’s research landscape. …Read More »

On 12-15 March 2024, the 19th European Molecular Imaging Meeting – EMIM 2024 took place in Porto (Portugal). Several researchers working in SWOPT participated in the talks and the posters presentations, presenting projects results and establishing new fruitful collaborations. Rosa Marquez from Prof. Szymanski’s group at UMCG presented her work …Read More »

Rosa Marquez participates in the Molecular Nanotour Symposium 2023 On 13th September, the Molecular Nanotour Symposium 2023 took place in the Schulz-Horner Building of the JGU Mainz campus (Germany). The PhD student Rosa Marquez, from the SWOPT partner University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), presented a poster with her results, as part …Read More »

On September 7th 2023, the SWOPT partners met for the first Consortium meeting, in a hybrid format. The principal investigators and early career researchers of each organization presented the progress made during the first year of the project. Vibrant discussions took place to analyse the results obtained so far, to address …Read More »

SWOPT coordinator host, Helmholtz Munich (HMGU), has received the prestigious Total E-Quality award for its commitment to promoting equal opportunities and an inclusive work culture. We are proud to be part of an institution with demonstrated dedication in achieving gender equality and cultural diversity. Pro-active measures are necessary to provide …Read More »

The Photons & Proteins workshop in honor of Martin Chalfie was held at the Università di Parma, Centro Sant’Elisabetta on July 3, 2023, from 14.30 to 18.00. Detailed information here. In the occasion of the conferral of the honoris causa degree in Physics by the University of Parma to Martin …Read More »

Our partners in the University Hospital Cologne are looking for a highly motivated Postdoc to contribute to SWOPT. The hired scientist will work in the development of a new imaging technique for in vivo monitoring of metabolites. More details here: https://jobs-uk-koeln.de/index.php?ac=jobad&id=5586  Read More »

On 5, 6 and 7 of May 2023, the FORSCHA – Münchner Wissenschaftstage took place in the city center of Munich, hosted at the Deutsches Museum Verkehrzentrum – Transport Museum. Our communications team was present in the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI, SWOPT coordinator) booth. The event was free-of-charge for visitors and …Read More »

Rosa Marquez won the second best poster prize with “Towards the next generation of optoacoustic imaging agents”. Every year the W.J. Kolff Institute organises the Kolff Institute Days to which all Kolff researchers and PhD students are invited. This year, the PhD student Rosa Marquez from the SWOPT partner University …Read More »

SWOPT coordinator, Andre C. Stiel, and Elsa C. Rodrigues have published a new review in FEBS Letters: “It’s a two-way street: Photoswitching and reversible changes of the protein matrix in photoswitchable fluorescent proteins and bacteriophytochromes”. The authors review the interactions between chromophore and protein matrix, focusing on photoswitching fluorescent proteins …Read More »

Our communication team has created the project logo. The concept of photoswitching is visualized by a human individual flipping this simplified molecular switch. First, the molecule is shown in its state of an inconspicuous appearance (grey), that after receiving light pulses becomes activated and more and more apparent in the …Read More »

On October 18, 2022, the SWOPT partners met for the first time as a consortium. The principal investigators and relevant team members of each organization introduced themselves, their institute or enterprise, and explained their involvement in the project. Furthemore, important deadlines and goals were decided. We’re looking forward to the …Read More »