Lars Richter came to our group in October 2019 with the support of a DAAD fellowship. For his Master's thesis, he worked closely with Luciano Masullo on our pulsed-interleaved MINFLUX, and was a great member of our research team. Now, Lars has moved to Munich to start a Ph.D. program under the supervision of Prof. [...]
Plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) are particularly efficient converters of light into heat, making them useful as remote-controlled nanometric sources of heat in numerous applications. However, measuring the temperature of a NP under illumination is not a simple task. In our recent paper in ACS Nano, we present a nanothermometry method based on anti-Stokes photoluminescence emission. Acquiring [...]
SMLM is fantastic to obtain super-resolved fluorescence images. However, it is often the case that the density of localizations is too low to obtain a clear image. Instead, sparse distributions of single-molecule positions are obtained, where any underlying molecular organization is invisible to the eye. The reason for this could be an inefficient labeling or [...]
We received a shipment with various instruments and equipment coming from Göttingen, as a generous donation of the Max-Planck Society organized by Dr. Thomas Jovin. All the team was very happy and helped with the unloading and unpacking. Thank you so much, Tom, for your friendship and constant support!
We are happy to see our contribution with super-resolution fluorescence imaging to this wonderful work led by our collaborator Dr. Damián Refojo (IBIOBA-CONICET, Max-Partner Institute), and his colleagues from Genentech Dr. Donald S. Kirkpatrick and Dr. Morgan Sheng. Neddylation is the post-translational protein modification most closely related to ubiquitination. Whereas the ubiquitin-like protein NEDD8 is [...]
Expansion microscopy is a useful alternative to super-resolution imaging to visualize sub-diffraction cellular structures. However, it only works quantitatively if the expansion is calibrated correctly, which is not trivial. In our recent paper in Scientific Reports, led by our collaborator Dr. Nico Unsain, we present a protocol to perform expansion fluorescence microscopy quantitatively. The expansion [...]
On January 13th, our group participated as a streaming hub in the first edition of the Photonics Online Meetup, an all-virtual, free conference of photonics (https://photonicsonlinemeetup.org/). The conference was entirely online and gathered researchers from all over the world for a one-day meeting that included a poster session via Twitter. An innovative concept for a conference, [...]
In a Ceremony in the Museo del Bicentenario, Prof. Stefani received the 2018 Houssay Prize in Mathematics, Physics, Computation and Astronomy. The Houssay Award is the most important scientific national award granted by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation. It is aimed at researchers under 45 who have developed most of their scientific activity [...]
Using examples from our lab, Dr. Ianina Violi explains the essence of nanotechnology on public television. Looking good on TV Iani!
Lars Richter arrived from Berlin to carry out his Master's thesis in Physics for the Humboldt University of Berlin. Lars obtained a DAAD fellowship to finance his stay and will be working with Luciano Masullo in the new pulsed-interleaved MINFLUX. Welcome Lars and good luck!