We participated in the Taller de Óptica y Fotónica (TOPFOT), an annual workshop organized by Argentina's Territorial Optics Committee (CTO), serves as a crucial forum for discussing the link between Optics and Photonics and other fields of knowledge, featuring national and international speakers who present open problems. Held concurrently with the TOPFOT is the [...]
Last December, we organized the first edition of our training workshop on super-resolution microscopy (FOMISUR). We were pleased to receive many more applicants than we could accommodate for the lab practices. As a result, we assigned the available slots by prioritizing participants from more distant regions and scheduled a separate practice date for those [...]
It was a great plasure to have Giovanni Ferrari working with us for the last 4 months. We have advanced our projects and had a lot of fun in the way. Now it is time to go back to Munich, but there is still a lot to do together. Safe travels and [...]
Florian (right on the picture) has joined the group to pursue a Ph.D. working on single-particle tracking inside human neurons using p-MINFLUX. He has obtained a CONICET fellowship under the direction of Prof. Stefani and co-direction of Dr. Tomás Falzone of IBIOBA. Facundo Rouquaud (left on the picture) has joined as undergraduate student of [...]
Matías Laborero (right) and Lautaro Mancini (left) have joined our group as undergraduate students of the Physics Department of Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, to make a lab internship. They will implement and train a neural network to clasify astigmatic single moecule signals for 3D single-molecule localization [...]
MINFLUX nanoscopy pushes the boundaries of optical resolution by localizing single fluorophores with minimal excitation, providing valuable new insight about the structures and functions of biological systems at the nanoscale. MINFLUX is based on registering the number of photons emitted by the target fluorophore when it is excited with a minimum of light sequentially [...]
After some delays, we received the funds for the second year of the Federal Network of Super-resolution Microscopy (Red Federal de Microscopía de Super-resolución), and today the first shipment of components arrived. Now we can start building new microscopes to our partners of the network. The goal of the network is to use [...]
Fluorescence nanoscopy has reached levels of resolution compatible with structural biology measurements. The groups of Stefan Hell and Ralf Jungmann have recently demonstrated position measurements in biological samples with a precision below 1 nm. In contrast to traditional methods like X-ray crystalography or cryo-EM, these measurements can be performed under conditions compatible with life, [...]
Our lab leads the Federal Network for Super-resolution Microscopy (Red Federal de Microscopía de Super-Resolución) whose main objective is to disseminate super-resolution methods throughout Argentina, comprising hardware, software and "brainware", i.e. teaching and training. Within this program, we organized the first training workshop on super-resolution microscopy (Taller de Formación en Microscopía de Super-Resolución - [...]
We wellcome Giovanni Ferrari, Ph.D. candidate in the group of Prof. Philip Tinnefeld at the LMU Munich, who is visiting for 4 months with a DAAD fellowship. Giovanni will work on applying p-MINFLUX for single-particle tracking and optimizing a protocolo for widespread use of SIMPLER. We look forward to working with you Giovanni! [...]