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Custom light solutions for your most advanced research. Each device is unique, tailored to your needs.
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opto biolabs
based in Freiburg, the city of optogenetics in the heart of the Black Forest region
we deliver smart illumination devices for your most advanced research applications to meet your most demanding research needs
Founder Story!
founder story
Dr. Kathrin Brenker
I love optogenetics!
As a former optogenetics scientist, I experienced the wonders and frustrations of this amazing field. Being the only opto-researcher in a hardcore immunology lab, I had to figure it out by myself. How much light do I really need? Where do I get light sources from? How can I prevent heat damage and most importantly: Why do my cells keep dying? It took me years to establish reliable illumination workflows!
Do we all have to invent the wheel ourselves? I disagree!
Our customers establish illumination standards across the world!
Where you can meet us
in the upcoming months:
OPTOGEN 2025, Copenhagen May 6-8
10TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR OPTOGENETICS AND NEUROPHOTONICS
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Photochemistry GRC
(Gordon Research Conference)
July 27th-August1
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
21st Congress of European Society for Photobiology
24-28. August, Bari, Italy
Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction
GRC (Gordon Research Conferences)
Feb 8-13, 2026, Ventura, California
Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology
July 12-17th, Lewiston, Maine, USA 2026