Core Facilities (Imaging)
Position: Research Associate (Postdoc)
ORCID: 0000-0002-2340-7431
T +43 1 40400 73538
philipp.velicky@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Cell Biology; Image Cytometry; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Microscopy
Research interests
My research background is molecular and cell biology, with focus on human trophoblast development and function. During my postdoctoral training at IST Austria I have focused on developing novel (super-resolution) light microscopy methods for living and fixed (brain) tissue.
Now I act as the head of the Core Facility Imaging and am happy to provide my expertise to researchers of the MedUni Vienna.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
Super-resolution microscope
- ONI Nanoimager (STORM microscope)
Confocal Microscopes
- Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2
- Zeiss LSM 900
- Leica SP8 FALCON DLS
- Olympus IXplore SpinSR (incl. SoRa Super Resolution Spinning Disk)
Multiplexing microscopes
- MACSima
Widefield microscopes
- Olympus IX83 widefield live cell microscope +TIRF module
- Zeiss Axio Imager M2
Slide Scanners
- Vectra Polaris
- VS200
- TissueFAXs
Grants
- 2MERGE (2025)
Source of Funding: City of Vienna, Hochschuljubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien
Principal Investigator - MOONSHOT (2025)
Source of Funding: FFG (Austrian Research Promotion Agency), F&E Infrastruktur
Principal Investigator - HigWay2Cell (2023)
Source of Funding: FFG (Austrian Research Promotion Agency), F&E Infrastructure
Principal Investigator - Epigentic regulation of trophoblats in severe preeclampsia (2018)
Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship
Principal Investigator
Selected publications
- Velicky, P., Miguel, E., Michalska, J.M. et al. (2023) ‘Dense 4D nanoscale reconstruction of living brain tissue‘, Nature Methods. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-01936-6.
- Michalska, J.M. et al. (2023) ‘Imaging brain tissue architectu re across millimeter to nanometer scales’, Nature Biotechnology. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01911-8.
- Dunajova, Z. et al. (2023) ‘Chiral and nematic phases of flexible active filaments’, Nature Physics. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02218-w.
- Ben-Simon, Y. et al. (2022) ‘A direct excitatory projection from entorhinal layer 6b neurons to the hippocampus contributes to spatial coding and memory’, Nature Communications. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32559-8.
- Jahr, W., Velicky, P. and Danzl, J.G. (2020) ‘Strategies to maximize performance in STimulated Emission Depletion (STED) nanoscopy of biological specimens’, Methods, 174, pp. 27–41. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2019.07.019.