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We are an interdisciplinary group that brings solutions to life science problems by combining our expertise in physics, engineering, mathematics and biology.
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- August 28th-30th 2023
The group organizes the Single Molecular Localization Symposium 2023 in Vienna!
News
- End of VBC Summer School for Anna DeputatovaYesterday marked the end of the two months of the VBC Summer School for Anna Deputatova, physics student at TU Dresden. In these two months, with Alessandro’s supervision, Anna was … Read more
- DOC Fellowship for Alessandro!
Alessandro’s research on MINFLUX and DNA-PAINT was awarded a DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Take a look at the IMP release!
- The lab presents at FOM Porto 2023
Almost the whole lab was present at Focus On Microscopy Porto 2023, with Alessandro and Max having selected talks in the MINFLUX session on the first day, Alba and Mehrta presenting posters in one of the Single Molecule sessions, and Francisco and Jakub just enjoying the sun. An amazing experience all around, which galvanized us for the future.
- Our lab Organizes SMLMS2023
Our group in collaboration with Mark Bates is organizing the Single Molecule localization Symposium 2023, which will be hosted at IMP in Vienna!
- Francisco and Alessandro present at EMBLIn February, Francisco held his invited talk and Alessandro presented a poster at the “In situ structural biology: from cryo-EM to multi-scale modelling” workshop at EMBL in Heidelberg.
- Welcome Francisco!Francisco has started his Master’s thesis in our lab! Learn more about him in our Team tab.
- Lab retreat in BrnoIn December, we had our lab retreat in Brno, Jakub’s hometown.
- Welcome Jakub!Jakub has recently joined our lab and started his Master’s in Physics at the University of Vienna.
- Mehrta and Alba attended the PicoQuant Single Molecule workshop in BerlinMehrta also presented a poster about her work on MINFLUX modelling at the workshop last month
- Alessandro presented at the Single Biomolecules meeting in Cold Spring HarborAlessandro presented his work on fluorescent probes for MINFLUX at the Single Biomolecules conference last month in Cold Spring Harbor
- Max and Francisco attended SMLMS 2022
We presented at the conference our work in scanning technology, MINFLUX modeling and fluorescent probes.
- Congrats to Alessandro on his first VBC Monday Seminar!Every Monday three PhD students and postdocs present their work to our campus.
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