MIC Research Day 2025

 

On June 25, 2025, more than 180 participants from the Universities of Bern, Fribourg, Zürich and Bellinzona as well as representatives from the industry attended our traditional MIC Research Day. The balanced program of the event was presented by microscopists Thomas Auer, Soheila Zeinali, Amandine Brenna, Andrew Hemphill, Leonie Anton, Gaelle Lentini, Aurella Emonet, Marina Eckermann and Alexandre Bokhobza, ranging from PhD students to established researchers and coming from all three faculties of the MIC (Vetsuisse, Natural Sciences and Medicine) as well as our guest Maria Rosito from the Link Campus University in Rome. In excellent presentations, these scientists showed the broad spectrum of microscopy applications represented in the MIC community.

A highlight of this year’s event was the newly introduced Image contest, where participants were asked to send in their most beautiful, funny and thought-provoking pictures. After a communal vote the 3 winners got their well-deserved prizes! Thanks to a generous contribution from 2 of our sponsors, the first prize was a Nikon Camera, the second a Huygens-Pro subscription from Huygens. Have a look at the amazing pictures in the Gallery. In addition, Guillaume Witz and his team introduced the VIBE Platform, a Bioimage Analysis Platform which will serve the microscopy community of the University of Bern by fall 2026.  Participants were invited to the MIC Symposium 2025 on November 14 in Bern, with this year’s topic "Multi-Scale Imaging Across Modalities".

As usual, this event offered numerous opportunities for networking among microscopists at the University of Bern. Networking was also supported by the industry partners with their exhibition and industry talk, which fitted well into the event. We would like to thank all CEM PhD students for their help with the organization, all participants for their enthusiasm for microscopy and last but not least the event sponsors for their generous financial support.

Have a look at some impressions from the MIC Research Day 2025 in the Gallery.

Program of the MIC Research Day 2025 (PDF, 423KB)

Impressions

Supported by

  • Abbelight SAS
  • EVIDENT Europe GmbH
  • GMP SA
  • Haslab GmbH
  • Merck KGaA
  • Nikon Europe 
  • Promega Corporation
  • Scientific Volume Imaging B.V.

Confirmed Speakers

  • Thomas Auer, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Soheila Zeinali, ARTORG, Switzerland
  • Amandine Brenna, Theodor Kocher Institute, Switzerland
  • Maria Rosito, Link Campus University, Rome, Italy
  • Guillaume Witz, VIBE Platform, Switzerland
  • Andrew Hemphill, Institute of Parasitology, Switzerland
  • Leonie Anton, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Switzerland
  • Gealle Lentini, Institute of Cell Biology, Switzerland
  • Aurelia Emonet, Institute of Plant Sciences, Switzerland
  • Marina Eckermann, Institute of Applied Physics, Switzerland
  • Alexandre Bokhobza, Institute of Physiology, Switzerland