The Wenzel Lab is a reasearch team developing high-throughput analysis methods to study cellular interactions with bioimaging, droplet microfluidics and multiomics - as open source appropriate technology.

El Laboratorio Wenzel es un equipo de investigación que desarrolla métodos de análisis de alto rendimiento para estudiar las interacciones celulares con bioimágenes, microfluidos en gotas y multiómica - como tecnología libre y apropiada. wenzel-lab    WenzelLab    MakerTobey    YouTube    Tobias Wenzel

Latest News

  • 2025-12-25: Our ANID national centre project "SENTINET - Surveillance, Epidemiology, and New Technologies for Infectious Emerging Threats" got approved - we are looking forward to contritbute to this mamoth effort as an affiliate research group!
  • 2025-12-22: Our AvanzaUC 2025 SYNCGEL project got approved - we are looking forward to the collaboration with Carolina Serrano and Manuel Amieva in Stanford!
  • 2025-11-05: We are hosting the CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human Program meeting in Chile! A meeting of incredible international leaders and Chilean talent.
  • 2025-10-13: Tobias and Juan José contribute to the Workshop "Democratizing microscopy in Latin America” by the Company of Biologists in Ecuador
  • 2025-09-15: We are at the CZI bioimaging meeting in San Jose, USA participating in an incredible exchange of bioimgaing know-how and future perspectives.
  • 2025-06-23: Pierre is in the Cicuta group Cambridge, UK, for his PhD internship - enjoy the exciting and beautiful space!
  • 2025-06-14: We participate in the CZI LaTam biomedical resources meeting in Mexico City - dissing strategies how to advance biomedical reseach in the region with awesome fellow advocates.
  • 2025-05-30: We contributed an invited research presentation to the UC Faculty of medicine research day in Santiago, CL.
  • 2025-05-29: We contributed to a panel in the UNIESCO supported open science roundtable on open science in Montevideo, Uruguay (remote)
  • 2025-05-07: Josefina represented our group in person at the CIFAR Multiscale Human Program meeting in Genever, CH.
  • 2025-04-07: Pierre represented our group in person as trainer at the EMBO advanced traingin course Micrbial Metagenomics - a 360 degree approach in Heidelberg, Germany.
  • 2025-03-24: Welcome to Francisca Noya Leal as Postdoc on a CIFAR catalyst grant! We also congratulate Emerson Duran, who is already a part-time team member, on winning his ANID Postdoc fellowhip and joining us full-time in April!
  • 2025-03-03: Welcome to Marcela Olivera, Isadora Koning Guerrero and Juan José León Gutiérez!
  • 2025-01-16: We are participating in the organoid focussed day of the meeting "Collaborative Innovations in Cancer Research 2025" at the Faculty of Medicine.
  • 2024-11-08: We are represented at the CIFAR Multiscale Human meeting in Tokyo - with exciting collaboration discussions and pokemon cokies for the group. In the meantime, postdoc Emmerson represents the group at the CZI bioimging meeting in the USA.
  • 2024-09-04: Our new website is live!
  • 2024-09-02: Welcome to our new lab members Josefina and Guillermo, as well as Eduardo!
  • 2024-08-28: Pierre represents our group at the Latin American Microfluidics meeting in Brazil!
  • 2024-08-19: Tobias and Pierre represent our group at the Latin American Bioimaging meeting in Brazil. What an amazing community.
  • 2024-05-01: Our PI Tobias Wenzel has been names CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar and we are excited to join the CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human program!
  • 2024-04-01: Our new fondecyt regular project has begun and will run until 2028! Advancing the Study of Host-Pathogen Interactions, A High- Throughput Droplet Microfluidic Method for Gastric Organoids

Wenzel Lab - Open method development for high-throughput bioanalysis
Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Catholic University of Chile
Avenida Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile