Experimental Biophotonics research group 

Advanced light microscopy R&D especially on holographic and two‑photon microscopy, and applications in cell biology, cancer and nanotechnology.


Experimental Biophotonics Facility

Open access services in advanced light microscopy, especially holographic quantitative phase imaging with incoherent light source and laser scanning confocal microscopy.








Czech-BioImaging is a national research infrastructure for biological and medical imaging. It is a distributed infrastructure of leading imaging facilities in the Czech Republic. The infrastructure provides an open access to a wide range of imaging technologies and expertise to all scientists in the Czech Republic and from abroad by a unified and coordinated logistics approach.

NEWS

21.05.2025

Potato starch as a lens

Ordinary potato starch surpasses even nanomaterials in its optical properties. Thanks to its structure, a starch grain functions as a microlens, which can simultaneously focus an optical beam, change…
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12.05.2025

Introducing AID (Analytical Image Differencing)

 – a novel tool that quantifies cell mass dynamics from time-lapse holographic data, entirely label-free and non-invasive. A pilot study highlights the "zero-line length" as a potential new…
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19.03.2025

New papers by R.Chmelík and I.Michálková

We published two of our papers on 3D label-free imaging at SPIE Photonics West 2025, San Francisco and they are available here: paper Chmelik/paper Michalkova.
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