NEWS – PhoBiA — Photonics and Bionanotechnology Association

PANIC 2025

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.

MANIAC 2024 – results

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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MANIAC 2024 registration extended until 04.09.24!

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

MANIAC 2024 registration

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!

Rules and regulations (PL)
Rules and regulations (ENG)

12.06.24 meeting with the rector

On 12.06.24 PhoBiA members met with our university’s rector, prof. dr hab. inż. Arkadiusz Wójs. We had the opportunity to reflect on our recent PANIC 2024 conference and discuss current and future endeavors of our association.

We end this academic year with a feeling of accomplishment and we are motivated to keep up our good work. We would like to wish all PhoBiA members, as well as our friends in Wrocław and beyond, safe, sunny and exciting summer holidays!