We are excited to be among the international grantees of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for the program @napari_imaging This project is an international collaboration with our former member Dr. Luciano Masullo, now at the MPI for Biochemistry, Munich) and Prof. Andrea Bassi from the Politecnico di Milano. We will produce a plugin to simulate the optical [...]
Focal Plane has made a series of interviews to latin american microscopy scientists. Three members of our lab were interviewed to tell about their experiences: An interview with Fernando Stefani - FocalPlane (biologists.com) An interview with Lucía López - FocalPlane (biologists.com) An interview with Luciano Masullo - FocalPlane (biologists.com)
Luciano Masullo has been awarded with the Juan José Giambiagi award of the Argentine Physics Association (AFA) for the best doctoral thesis on experimental Physics for the period 2020-2021. Luciano joined our group in 2014, for his graduation thesis. At that time he worked closely with Dr. Fede Barabas, learning SMLM and developing the Python [...]
During three weeks in September, Prof. Stefani visited friends and collaborators en the Munich area. He gave lectures and supervised ongoing projects in collaboration. Prof. Stefani visited: Prof. Philip Tinnefeld and his group at the Faculty for Chemistry and Pharmacy of the LMU Munich, where former members Dr. Alan Szalai and Ph. [...]
This year, the meeting of the Latin American Bioimaging network was held in Montevideo. Dr. Lucía Lopez gave an inspiring talk sharing her experience, as a woman imaging scientist in Latin America Dr. Lía Pietrasanta, coordinator of the National System of Microscopy of Argentina was also there, [...]
An ideal nanofabrication method should allow the organization of nanoparticles and molecules with nanometric positional precision, stoichiometric control and well-defined orientation. The DNA origami technique has evolved into a highly versatile bottom-up nanofabrication methodology that fulfils almost all of these features. It enables the nanometric positioning of molecules and nanoparticles with stoichiometric control, and even [...]
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has granted us an Equipment Subsidy to purchase a new supercontinuum laser that will be used for future pulsed-MINFLUX experiments. Ph. D. candidate Florencia Choque already set it up and running. Thanks so much to the Humboldt Foundation for this great support!
We are very happy that the traditional annual get together of the Physics Department is back, and that we can discuss science and education face-to-face with our colleagues and friends! The Day of the Physics Department (Día del DF, DDF) is a great meeting where professors, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students discuss the [...]
By nature, photon emission occurs without directionality. In most situations photon emission is dipolar, and multipolar emission may be obtained under very special conditions. Therefore, imposing directionality requires the mediation of specific devices. Directional optical nano antennas have been demonstrated over a decade ago using the Yagi-Uda concept; i.e. a phased array that produces constructive [...]
The iCANX talks is a wonderful initiative by Prof. Haixia (Alice) Zhang from Pekin University. Every Friday a new talk by top scientists from around the world. You can check them out here https://ican-x.com/talks This friday, it was the turn of Oscar Martinez, former Professor of the Physics Department, currently at the Faculty of Engineering [...]