Ph. D. candidate Luciana Martínez gave a talk at the 4th edition of JOBION held at the Centro Cultural de la Ciencia, in Buenos Aires. Luciana presented her research on the challenges of optical printing metallic nanoparticles of complex shape, particularly gold nanostars. JOBION is a self-organized regular meeting where young researchers working [...]
Localization of single fluorescent emitters is central for many physicochemical and biophysical measurements at the nanoscale and beyond ensemble averaging. Examples include single-molecule tracking and super-resolution imaging by single-molecule localization microscopy. Among the numerous localization methods available, MINFLUX constituted a breakthrough for achieving a ∼10-fold improvement in resolution over wide-field camera-based approaches, reaching the [...]
This year, the annual meeting of the SAB was held in Rosario. CIBION contributed with the folowing presentations: Gonzalo Escalante - "Super-resolution of membrane proteins in Trypanosoma cruzi" Santiago Sosa - "Determining the orientation of single molecules in a protein cage by fluorescence nanoscopy" Luis Marcano-García - "Determination of association equilibrium constant from single [...]
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!