PhoBiA — Photonics and Bionanotechnology Association

The results of the 2025 edition of MANIAC are here!

It has been an incredible contest with outstanding turnout. We have received a staggering 113 artworks from 42 authors! From this artful cornucopia our association’s members selected 19 gems to be exhibited in Świdnicka street next to the Market Square. The exhibition pleased the eyes of Wrocław residents for a whole week in September, while the remaining pieces will adorn the campus of Wrocław University of Science and Technology. The date and place of the exhibition will be revealed later.

The top 3 works in this year’s contest are:

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all participants. You can see the rest of the works here.

You MANIACs! Did you wait for the last moment to register to our fabulous contest?! No worries. Science and art love some good procrastination.

We are extending the registration deadline until 05.09.2025!

Now quit fooling around and don’t miss out on the chance of winning this year’s prizes!

REGISTRATION FORM

It may well be the middle of summer, but scientists and artists alike, know no rest! Our creative energy explodes like a summer lightning storm and it may only be appeased by a soothing prospect of fame, glory and… prizes 😉

We hereby open the registration for this year’s edition of our
MICROSCOPIC ART NON-LIMITED INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL CONTEST!

You can find the registration form under the link below.

REGISTRATION FORM

All the necessary documents are linked inside the form as well as in the MANIAC 2025 tab above.

We are waiting for your microscopy photos untill 31.08.2025!

Need some inspiration? Check out the photos from previous editions under the MANIAC tabs above!

Dofinansowano ze środków Gminy Wrocław w ramach programu Fundusz Aktywności Studenckiej (FAST), organizowanego przez Wrocławskie Centrum Akademickie.

Co-financed by the city of Wrocław as part of the Student Activity Fund (FAST), organised by the Wrocław Academic Centre.

Registration deadline extended!

Registration

This is not a drill!

The 2025 edition of our PhoBiA Annual Nanophotonics International Conference will take place this June!

Save the dates: 04-06.06.2025.
Follow our website and social media to stay updated on future announcements and registration.

But most importantly:

PhoBiA starts a new chapter in its history: we want to retire the old logo of our association and replace it with a new, modern design. We would like to ask our current and prospective members to help us create it! 

Submit your logo ideas through this form.

Submission deadline: 04.12.24

We will award prizes to the best designs. And one of them will be chosen as the new logo of PhoBiA! 

We welcome all submissions. At this stage your design does not have to be perfect, aligned, or a vector image. We will contact the author of the winning design and determine the final form of the logo together.

Useful information

Our current logo comes in two forms:

The banner form:

The square form:

You can choose to design either a banner or square logo or both.

We would like the new logo to have our name – PhoBiA, but not the full name. As we primary use it on conference posters or slides, the letters of the full name get too small.

We would like the new logo to reflect our scientific interests which include : microscopy, liquid crystals, optics, spectroscopy, fluorescence, structural biology, medical applications of light, nanomaterials.

We ask that the logo be your original work, and not constitute of pieces of someone else’s intellectual property.

It is with immense pleasure that we reflect on this year’s edition of our Microscopic Art Non-Limited International Annual Contest. We hope all of you had a chance to visit our exhibition at Wrocław Market Square. We thank all of you for the incredible number of entries we have received this year. We would like to jubilantly announce the winners of MANAIC 2024

1st place – Natasza Trzesowska from Wrocław University of Science and Technology for the photo 37th view of Mount Fuji

2nd place – Karolina Kowalska from ENS de Lyon for the photo THE MOON

3rd place – Patrycja Czarnecka from J. Iwaszkiewicz High school no. 1 in Namysłów for the photo Eclipse of Endosperm

We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to all current and former PhoBiA members who have helped prepare, promote the contest as well as those who helped individual contestants with their registration.

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We are happy to inform you, that we’ve added a few more days for you to register for MANIAC 2024!

The new deadline is 04.09.2024, 23:59.

If you just returned from the beach, now is the time to dust off your flash drive with your microscopy photos and send them to our contest! Good luck! We can’t wait to see your masterpiece at our exhibition in the market square.

Registration link

With summer in full swing you might be enjoying some well earned rest, or (more likely) finally catching up with your scientific goals. Whatever the case we would like to enrich your summer with some awe-inspiring microscopy art!

This year’s registration for our
MICROSCOPIC ART NON-LIMITED INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL CONTEST
is open!

Registration form

We are wainting for your microscopy photos untill 31.08.2024!

Need some inspiration? Check out the photos from previous editions under the tabs above!

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