We invite everyone to a day full of demo sessions on our microscopy, flow-cytometry,
and data analysis tools. You can join sessions based on your preferences and schedule,
talk to the facility experts, listen to the facility updates and plans, and enjoy coffee and
refreshments! The event is free of charge and suitable for anyone interested in our
technology.
When: Wednesday 18th March 2026
Where: IMCF, BIOCEV, Prลฏmyslovรก 595, 252 50 Vestec, (meeting point at the IMCF social room)
Please register for the demo sessions here.
Registration is not mandatory, but the sessions have limited capacity, and we
cannot guarantee a free spot for you without previous registration.
Preliminary program:
| 9:00 โ 9:30 | Meeting at the IMCF social room (with coffee and refreshments) |
| 9:15 โ 9:30 | Quick facility tour |
| 9:30 โ 10:00 | Demo sessions block 1 |
| 10:10 โ 10:40 | |
| 10:50 โ 11:20 | |
| 11:30 โ 12:00 | |
| 12:00 โ 13:00 | Lunch break (on your own) |
| 12:45 โ 13:00 | Quick facility tour |
| 13:00 โ 14:00 | News and future at IMCF with cookies (interactive talk about the current state of our facility, discussion with users, tour to the new optical microscopy room, coffee and refreshments included) – red/green seminary room |
| 14:10 โ 14:40 | Demo sessions block 2 |
| 14:50 โ 15:20 | |
| 15:30 โ 16:00 | |
| 16:10 โ 16:40 |
Light Microscopy demo sessions
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Zeiss LLS7 | Abberior INFINITY | Leica SP8 FLIM | NIS Elements JOBS | ||||
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Akoya phenocycler | LSM 880 | Leica SP8 cryo-confocal | FRAP + FCS | ||||
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Zeiss LLS7 | LSM 880 | Leica SP8 cryo-confocal | Leica SP8 FLIM | ||||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Abberior INFINITY | Akoya phenocycler | LSM 880 | FRAP + FCS | ||||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch break | |||||||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | News and future at IMCF with cookies (red/green seminary room) | |||||||
| 14:10 – 14:40 | Zeiss LLS7 | Abberior INFINITY | Leica SP8 cryo-confocal | FRAP + FCS | ||||
| 14:50 – 15:20 | Abberior INFINITY | Akoya phenocycler | LSM 880 | NIS Elements JOBS | ||||
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Zeiss LLS7 | LSM 880 | Leica SP8 FLIM | FRAP + FCS | ||||
| 16:10 – 16:40 | Akoya phenocycler | LSM 880 | Leica SP8 cryo-confocal | Leica SP8 FLIM | ||||
List of demo sessions
Carl Zeiss LLS7 – How to image in 3D the whole living cells fast and gentle?
Abberior INFINITY – Super-resolution down to 30 nm with just a few clicks
Akoya PhenoCycler-Fusion 2.0 – Fast slide scanning and/or multiplexing up to 100 markers?
LSM 880 – What can I image (and damage) without labelling? NADPH, lipids, collagen and more by IR non-linear microscopy
Leica SP8 cryo-confocal – Why to image (and not to image) frozen samples? Cryo-confocal imaging
SP8 FLIM – Are you excited about my lifetime? I can sense yes – fluorescence for sensing on confocal spectrofluorometer
FRAP & FCS – Bleach me if you can, I can move quite fast – molecular dynamics in living cells by FRAP and FCS
NIS Elements JOBS – Automate your experiments using JOBS
Electron Microscopy demo sessions
| 9:30 – 10:00 | TEM Cryo | SEM | Ultramicrotomy | ||||
| 10:10 – 10:40 | SEM | EM Sample prep RT | |||||
| 10:50 – 11:20 | TEM Cryo | FIB SEM | Ultramicrotomy | ||||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | EM Sample prep RT | ||||||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch break | ||||||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | News and future at IMCF with cookies (red/green seminary room) | ||||||
| 14:10 – 14:40 | TEM RT | SEM | Ultramicrotomy | EM Sample prep Cryo | |||
| 14:50 – 15:20 | TEM RT | SEM | EM Sample prep RT | EM Sample prep Cryo | |||
| 15:30 – 16:00 | TEM RT | FIB SEM | Ultramicrotomy | EM Sample prep Cryo | |||
| 16:10 – 16:40 | TEM RT | EM Sample prep RT | EM Sample prep Cryo | ||||
List of demo sessions
TEM at room temperature (Jeol JEM 2100 Plus) – Transmission Electron Microscopy in ultrastructural analysis of nano particles, biopolymers, cells & tissues
TEM at Cryo conditions (Jeol JEM 2100 Plus) – Transmission Electron Microscopy for cryo-EM analysis of cryo-immobilized biological samples
SEM (FEI Helios NanoLab 660 G3 UC) – Scanning Electron Microscopy for surface morphology and elemental analysis (broad range of samples)
FIB SEM (FEI Helios NanoLab 660 G3 UC) – Dual beam FIB-SEM microscopy for automated volume-EM ultrastructural analysis
Ultramicrotomy (Leica UC7) – Ultramicrotomy and preparation of ultra-thin sections and cryo-sections for TEM
EM sample preparation at room temperature – Devices and sample processing workflows suitable for TEM/SEM analysis
EM sample preparation at cryo conditions – High pressure freezer and Plunge freezer for sample cryo-fixation used in cryo-TEM/SEM/FM
Data Analysis demo sessions
| 9:30 – 10:00 | A Showcase of Image Data Tools at IMCF (OMERO, Imaris, Huygens, NIS-Elements) |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | A Showcase of Image Data Tools at IMCF (OMERO, Imaris, Huygens, NIS-Elements) |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | A Showcase of Image Data Tools at IMCF (OMERO, Imaris, Huygens, NIS-Elements) |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | A Showcase of Image Data Tools at IMCF (OMERO, Imaris, Huygens, NIS-Elements) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | News and future at IMCF with cookies (red/green seminary room) |
| 14:10 – 14:40 | A Showcase of Image Data Tools at IMCF (OMERO, Imaris, Huygens, NIS-Elements) |
| 14:50 – 15:20 | A Showcase of Image Data Tools at IMCF (OMERO, Imaris, Huygens, NIS-Elements) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | A Showcase of Image Data Tools at IMCF (OMERO, Imaris, Huygens, NIS-Elements) |
Flow Cytometry demo sessions
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Fortessa Cytek | |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Aria | |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Fortessa Cytek | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Aria | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch break | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | News and future at IMCF with cookies (red/green seminary room) | |
| 14:10 – 14:40 | Fortessa Cytek | |
| 14:50 – 15:20 | Aria | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Fortessa Cytek | |
| 16:10 – 16:40 | Aria | |
Fortessa Cytek (BD Fortessa SORP & Cytek Aurora) – See What Your Cells Are Telling You: A Practical Flow Cytometry Walkthrough
Aria (Aria Fusion sorter) – Cell Sorting Demystified: See How Target Cells Are Isolated