www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two-author papers are always special. Using optogenetic stimulation of hippocampal synapses in awake mice and tracking them over approx. 2 weeks, we link synaptic strength, spine volume and their stability. It's confirmed: bigger spines are stronger and more stable 😅

1/5 🤔 What can you actually do with #FLUCS? 💡 FLUCS enables researchers to actively & flexibly control intracellular flows. Non-invasively & label-free. 📩 Get in contact with us to explore how FLUCS can add a new dimension to your research. #Photomanipulation #Bioimaging #Biophysics

🇸🇪 Thank you to everyone who visited us at #FOM2026 in Stockholm. 💡Sven came away with many useful discussions on #photomanipulation & advanced #bioimaging. 👋 We appreciated the strong interest throughout the meeting & look forward to seeing you again next year! #Microscopy #Multiphoton #FLUCS

1/3 🇸🇪 We are excited to join #FOM2026 in Stockholm at a shared booth with Chroma as co-sponsors of the meeting. 📍 Stop by and discuss your workflow with Sven to explore which state-of-the-art imaging & photomanipulation solution best fits your needs. #Microscopy #Bioimaging #Photomanipulation

3/3 🎯 UGA-42 Series: Three devices, one modular platform ⚡ Caliburn for ablation & microdissection 🔷 Geo for shaped illumination of larger areas ✨ Firefly for general photomanipulation

2/3 🔄 FLUCS Contact- and label-free flow manipulation using scanned IR laser-induced thermoviscous flows, in parallel with imaging.

1/3 🇫🇷 We are excited to join the 2nd FBI Mechanobiology Meeting 2026 in Paris! Anja will present the “Latest Applications in Fast & Precise Photomanipulation” 🗓️ Thu 26/03 🕒 11:45–12:05 📍Come meet us & discuss your mechanobiological workflow. #Mechanobiology #Microscopy #Bioimaging #Photomanipulation

2/3 🔬 At Rapp, we are proud to see our technologies enabling discoveries like this, where precision photomanipulation becomes a key step in uncovering complex biological mechanisms.

3/3 👏 Congratulations again to the Mateus Group @ritamateus.bsky.social, the lab of Frank Jülicher @mpipks.bsky.social & all other authors on this exciting work published in Science Advances. 📄Read the open access publication here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/3 💡How do injured organs know it's time to regrow? 🎯UV-laser microsurgery was used to precisely injure zfish larval fins during live imaging, helping reveal how wound-adjacent cells initiate a tissue-scale Ca²⁺ wavefront & organ-wide repair response. #Bioimaging #Photomanipulation #ScienceAdvances

📢 We are happy to share our booth with our good friends from Chroma Technology Corp. & TOPTICA Photonics.

🇵🇹 Coimbra, here we come! ✨ We’re proud to support #ELMI2026 as a Gold Sponsor. We can't wait to hear what you're working on! 👏Huge thanks to @ppbioimaging.bsky.social for the incredible organization. 📆 See you in June! #Microscopy #ImagingScience #Bioimaging #ScientificInnovation #FLUCS

We’re excited to join the @dfg.de Final Symposium “Frontiers in Light Microscopy – Technologies Driving Discovery” @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social Looking forward to celebrating the discoveries emerging from the light microscopy community #LightMicroscopy #Bioimaging #CellBiology #ScienceInGermany

Welcome to #bps2026 We’re now represented by @Oxxius in the US. Find our CEO @swarnck.bsky.social together with Anna Fasoli at booth no. 428. As usual, get additional #photomanipulation info from the teams at Chroma Technology (Booth no. 413) and @sutterinstrument.bsky.social (booth no. 500).

@visitech.bsky.social Thanks for the mention! Excited to keep pushing things forward together with this fantastic group of partners.

Beautiful ablations! Congrats to all people involved for very convincing experiments and results!

Curious how @rappopto.bsky.social can boost your biological research? Missed the webinar? Good news! You can still catch the 20-minute talk by @martinbrill.bsky.social on the @eurobioimaging.bsky.social #TechExchange YouTube channel 👇 ▶️ Watch here: youtu.be/pdRdvnvvh7I?...

Curious how @rappopto.bsky.social can support your biological research? Learn about advanced photomanipulation techniques in a webinar hosted by @eurobioimaging.bsky.social January 23, 2026 14:00–14:30 CET by @martinbrill.bsky.social Register here: www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/event...

New reviewed preprint 📄 from Menno Winter's lab using the UGA-42 Geo #photomanipulation device: The study uncovers a new, highly organized way the medial and lateral entorhinal cortices communicate — offering clues about how the brain separates spatial and episodic memory. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

2/2 As the year comes to a close and holidays approach – we want to express our sincere thanks for your confidence in us and the pleasant cooperation in the past year. Wishing you and your loved ones happy holidays and a successful New Year.

1/2 We strongly believe in science and technology for the good of humankind - and in protecting our forests. This year, we are donating the planting of 1,000 trees on our doorstep in mixed forests in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany to support biodiversity and climate protection.

All set in Philadelphia at #CellBio The American Society for Cell Biology #ASCB conference has officially started and we are excited to meet you. Find @swarnck.bsky.social at our friends from @89-north.bsky.social & Chroma at their booth #1116 and talk #photomanipulation, #cellbiology

Huge thanks to the @sutterinstrument.bsky.social team for a great visit after #SfN2025 We enjoyed diving into discussions about future projects #photomanipulation, #holographic stimulation, flexible in-vivo/in-vitro setups, & #FLIM on Sutter #multiphoton systems. Exciting times for #neuroscience!

Day 4 #SFN2025 in ☀️ San Diego Still around? Last chance to chat #photomanipulation & #multiphoton with @martinbrill.bsky.social & @swarnck.bsky.social Find them with their friends from Chroma Technology + 89 North booth (2120)

Day 3 at #SfN2025: Our custom applications let you switch seamlessly between slice and in vivo imaging on @sutterinstrument.bsky.social microscopes. Paired with our Rapp Holo-4D holographic photostim, you’re equipped for precise all-optical stimulation. Q&A: visit Chroma and 89North booth 2120.

Day 2 at #SfN2025 in San Diego: You can also find our solutions for #photomanipulation at our friends @sutterinstrument.bsky.social booth, number 600. Just ask for Adam Goldring. He knows our stuff.

Day 1 #SfN2025 exhibition has opened its doors. You can find @martinbrill.bsky.social and @swarnck.bsky.social with our friends from 89North and Chroma Technology Corp. at their both no. 2021. Come by and let's talk about your experiments and #photomanipulation from @rappopto.bsky.social

‪ Outstanding work by the entire team - congratulations to all authors involved! It’s great to see the precision and performance of the @rappopto.bsky.social Caliburn ablation laser in action — the level of detail in those cuts is genuinely impressive.

Absolutely beautiful work, congrats!

Application is open! Come join us and our fantastic line-up of speakers next year in March in Bonn!

Beautiful pictures—thanks for sharing, @kasiagrochowska.bsky.social Congratulations again on the new system. It's great to see that it's being put into action so quickly and successfully. We look forward to more great pictures in the future ;)

Grateful to have had the chance to connect to many old friends and to make new ones at the incredible "Bee and Fly Neuroethology Meeting" at the Harnack house of the @maxplanck.de in Berlin. The energy around new discoveries and brilliant scientists was infectious, and inspiring.

Hello BlueSky. Hello #Biophotonics. Hello #OptoFluidics & #MicroRobotics. @kitkarlsruhe.bsky.social #FLUCS2.0

Hi All, The QFLIM conference at NIH Nov. 3-4, 2025 is happening! Confirmed speakers; Melissa Skala Leonel Malacrida David Jameson Paul Wiseman Suzanne Frances Scarlata Thompson, Richard Steven Vogel, Ph.D Joanne Li With more coming! Website is still being updated. namsmicroscopy.com

We're proud that the FRAP technology from @rappopto.bsky.social supported this discovery by enabling high-resolution analysis of condensate dynamics. Congrats to the authors @annaleder.bsky.social and others of the Hiller Lab University of Basel

It was a splendid time with @kasiagrochowska.bsky.social and Long Yan from Florida Lifetime Imaging. It’s been a great pleasure working together - thank you @kasiagrochowska.bsky.social and the team for the fruitful collaboration! All the best for terrific data and exciting endeavors to come 🙌

Wonderful work by @viji-draviam.bsky.social and team. Congratulations on the publication! We're honored to be cited in your work—exciting to see our contributions supporting cutting-edge research. Looking forward to following your continued discoveries!

New insights: Muscles grow by splitting sarcomeres! 💥 Using our UGA-42 #photomanipulation, the authors showed sarcomeres divide under tension to stay functional during development. Congrats to all authors on a beautiful scientific paper!

A beautiful new paper about IP3 Uncaging with the UGA-42 system: Endothelial cells pass signals by triggering receptors on neighbors—not through gap junctions. A new way vessels stay in sync! by Buckley, Zhang, Lee, Wilson & McCarron 2025 FASEB faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/...

I'm thrilled to announce that I've been invited to give a talk on the #Biophotonics and Medical Applications Forum (B2.350) at #LASER World-of-Photonics in #Munich. Come by on June 26, 2025, from 10:40 to 11:00 to hear about the "Latest Applications in Fast and Precise #Photomanipulation".

#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity- Come listen [email protected] members to Jim Sims from Hamamatsu give an intro to Scientific Cameras as part of our Insights & Educational Tools from Industry on Wed June 18! Learn more & Register here: buff.ly/oxtbhLk

Come say hello at our joint booth at #ELMI2025 — there's some great coffee and beer there to celebrate 25 years of #ELMI! Just walk up the helix and grab yours. We're happy to chat.

2/2 The study explores how localized Ca²⁺ signaling influences cellular dynamics using @rappopto.bsky.social 375 nm laser, and the Caliburn laser for microsurgical ablation of cell junctions - offering high spatial and temporal control. Congrats to all authors involved. www.cell.com/current-biol...

1/2 A stunning new paper from Deqing Kong & the Jörg Großhans lab dives deep into how cells change shape and reorganize during development. Their toolkit? Precision light from @rappopto.bsky.social And we’re thrilled our lasers played a key role. www.cell.com/current-biol...

FRAP-in-SR for dynamic studies at 60nm resolution!! If you explore cell cycle, DNA damage or 53BP1, here are new tools for live-cell microscopy: a fruitful collaboration with @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social for SIM2/diSIM and @rappopto.bsky.social for localised FRAP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Europe will always stand for science and the freedom to learn and invent. As of 11 am, tune in, and discover how the @ec.europa.eu wants to help the best and brightest ‘Choose Europe’. → europa.eu/!Tx43kH

Welcome to our booth at #FOM2025 We are happy to talk to you about optical filters, laser illuminations, instrumentation for #photomanipulation, the openFrame microscope, and accessories. Many thanks to Chroma Technology and 89North for hosting us. Rapp OptoElectronic GmbH Cairn Research LTd

New Preprint. Active probe-free micro-rheology in living systems. All optical approach by Dr. Iliya Stoev. Collab @kit.edu with @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social @istaresearch.bsky.social and @mpi-cbg.de www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our CEO @swarnck.bsky.social is experiencing the Chinese Cell Biology Community at #CSCB2025 in Zhuai. He made new friends & e.g. saw the new Zeiss LSM Lightfield 4D. Special thanks are due to our local partners & hosts Echo Li from Chroma Technologies and Siyuan Feng from Evident Scientific.

#NWG2025 @neurowissg.bsky.social in Göttingen has started! We are looking forward to talking to you. Come by and take a look at our booth 39.