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Samrat Basak

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Single Molecule Localization and Super resolution microscopy enthusiast @labtinnefeld.bsky.social , LMU Munich

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Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This new paper 🥂, just published in ACS Nano @pubs.acs.org s.acs.org, needed physicists, chemists, and biochemists in the same room! 🤓 Running out of colors in your #microscopy experiments? We developed #NanoFLex, which encodes protein identity by leveraging #nanobodies and #fluorescence lifetime
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🧬Yuval Ebenstein🧬 @hagenom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🌈Proud to share our new paper in ACS Photonics! We developed a Spectral Confocal Spinning Disk ISM system for simultaneous high-resolution multi-color imaging using a custom linear Amici prism & GPU Python pipeline. Congrats to Lanna Bram & Jonathan Jeffet! 👏 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/acsp...
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A Dispersive Image Scanning Microscope for Multi-color High-resolution Imaging
Fluorescence confocal microscopy is a fundamental and widely used tool for biological, medical, and chemical research. It enables color-coded visualization of sample components, enhancing our understa...
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Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New preprint out! In this study, we introduce NanoFLex, a strategy that combines #HaloTag variants with #nanobodies -based immunolabeling to enable rapid, OneStep-IF #lifetime #multiplexing. Possible due to SmartSecondaries fused to #HaloTag from @nanotag.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Technische Universität München @tum.de · 24/02/2026
Get to know Thomas Schlichthärle, our newly appointed professor of #AI-guided #ProteinDesign, in the latest NewIn episode. He wants to use custom-designed #proteins to advance the development of new #medicines: go.tum.de/484027 #HightechAgendaBayern ▶️ youtu.be/G-pt28HJpA8 📹& 📷ProLehre
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Designing proteins for targeted cell activation
Prof. Thomas Schlichthärle spricht über seine Arbeit als Professor für AI-guided Protein Design.
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Samrat Basak @samratb.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Super cool work !
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Sebastian Kruss @krusslab.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Congrats to Juliana! She measures in ACS Nano the rate constants of nanosensors on the single molecule level. She found two kinetic pathways and one can use this knowledge for Kinetically Improved Sensor Selectivity (KISS). @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de tinyurl.com/738ypxf9
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Kinetic Insights Into Carbon Nanotube-Based Neurotransmitter Sensors by Single Molecule Experiments
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are powerful building blocks for near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent biosensors. They can be chemically tailored to detect specific biomolecules. Their performance ...
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Anna-Karin Gustavsson @gustavssonlab.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Excited that our work on Single-objective lattice light sheet microscopy with microfluidics for single-molecule super-resolution imaging of mammalian cells is now published in ACS Photonics! doi.org/10.1021/acsp... @pubs.acs.org #soTILT3D #soLLS #microscopy #nanoscale #imaging
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Single-Objective Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy with Microfluidics for Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Imaging of Mammalian Cells
Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) has redefined optical imaging by enabling imaging beyond the diffraction limit, allowing for nanoscale investigation into cellular architecture and molec...
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Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
✨ Blinking #nanobodies that work for single-molecule localization 🔬 Our new preprint shows that the self-blinking dye JF635b restores robust, buffer-free blinking in #nanobodies, enabling reliable #dSTORM, #MINFLUX, and more, without chemical-switching buffers. Opening new possibilities for #ExM!
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Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Self-blinking dye restores efficient use of nanobodies in single-molecule localization microscopy. Link ot he @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Self-blinking dye restores efficient use of nanobodies in single-molecule localization microscopy.
Direct STORM relies on robust fluorophore blinking; observations suggest that AlexaFluor647 underperforms when coupled to nanobodies, thereby undermining the advantages of nanobodies. We show that the...
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Heilemann Lab @heilemannlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A cool thing was the FRET-based diffusion analysis that allowed a separate analysis of MET receptor monomers and dimers👇🏻
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Dedecker Lab @dedeckerlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Excited to share our latest work! We introduce FRET-SOFI, a new method for super-resolved imaging of molecular interactions. By combining SOFI with FRET, we achieve subdiffraction resolution in live cells using standard wide-field microscopy. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Super-resolved Imaging of Molecular Interactions Using FRET-SOFI
Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is a powerful method to image molecular processes that occur beyond the diffraction limit of light. Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is widely used to ...
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NanoTag Biotechnologies @nanotag.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This #Halloween 🦙🧛‍♂️ Alpacula brewed up #SMLM treat! No more horror stories of no blinking & black holes ⚫️🔬Our single-domain anti-BOOdies 👻 #FluoTags and #SmartSecondaries now glow with self-blinking JF635b✨, delivering frightfully precise and simple #dSTORM imaging. 👉 bit.ly/4ffIkdB
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Roman Tsukanov @romantsukanov.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We present a versatile microfluidics platform that makes multiplexed super-resolution imaging more accessible, reproducible, and high-throughput. 👉 BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #SuperResolution #DNApaint #Microfluidics #SMLM #OpenScience #multiplexing
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Leonhard Möckl @lmoeckl.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
NEW PREPRINT: Spatial mapping of cell-surface protein glycosylation at molecular resolution 🍭🍬🔬 For the first time, we can analyze the spatial architecture of the cell-surface glycoproteome at single-protein and single-sugar resolution. #glycotime www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatial mapping of cell-surface protein glycosylation at molecular resolution
Cell-surface protein glycosylation is a fundamental post-translational modification that plays a crucial role in membrane protein function and cellular behavior. However, elucidating the molecular spa...
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🧬Yuval Ebenstein🧬 @hagenom.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Fiery kickoff for the 30th Single Molecule Workshop! I’m super excited to see so many great scientists and big names in the field gathered here in Berlin. Let’s go #WS30 🚀 #WS30 #SingleMolecule #Spectroscopy #Microscopy
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Heilemann Lab @heilemannlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Soo on stage presenting self-labeling enzymes with weak-affinity fluorophore labels for (1) high-density live SMLM using DeepSTORM (doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...) and (2) molecular counting ... great collaboration with @kjohnsson.bsky.social @juliankompa.bsky.social 🙏 #PQ30 @picoquant.bsky.social
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧵1/11
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Erdinc Sezgin @sciezgin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Previous preprint is now published in RSC Chemical Biology. If you are interested in plasma membrane labeling, see the paper! 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Plasma membrane labelling efficiency, internalization and partitioning of functionalized fluorescent lipids as a function of lipid structure
Labeling the plasma membrane for advanced imaging remains a significant challenge. For time-lapse live cell imaging, probe internalization and photobleaching are major limitations affecting most membr...
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Happy to contribute to this new work from @micoxscopy.bsky.social et al, helping apply SSQUASH to analyse the shape of spectrin rings along axons. Data analysis is the next frontier in SMLM, and I'm always up for chatting, sharing data and see how we can push things further!
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Sauer Lab @sauer-lab.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🚨 New Preprint! Ex-dSTORM resolves fine details of the molecular architecture of CCPs, the 8-nm periodicity of microtubules, and the docking site of synaptic vesicles at the presynapse of hippocampal neurons. ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hannah Heil @hannah-superres.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨 New preprint on bioRxiv! 🚨 Smart microscopy🔬 is reshaping life sciences—but progress is slowed by fragmentation. @lhinderling.bsky.social & the Smart Microsopy Working Group maps the field & proposes a path toward an open, interoperable future. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Samrat Basak @samratb.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Proud to see this preprint out! First time demonstrated Confocal MIET DNA-PAINT and has been a challenging but rewarding journey, and I’m excited about the possibilities it opens for 3D multiplexed nanoscopy in cells.
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Samrat Basak @samratb.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Excited to share — our project from @labtinnefeld.bsky.social with Heinrich Grabmayr from @jungmannlab.bsky.social has been selected for the CeNS Investment Fund from @cens-lmu.bsky.social ! www.cens.lmu.de/en/research/...
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Sonja Schmid @scisonja.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
💥 We have 3 positions open in my lab in Basel, Switzerland🇨🇭: #nanopores #smFRET #biomolecular #dynamics #singleMolecules We’re looking for talented & ambitious new colleagues enthusiastic about biomolecular dynamics & single-molecule tech. Please share broadly, thank you!🤝 schmid.chemie.unibas.ch
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Home | Research Group Schmid | University of Basel
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Samrat Basak @samratb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Great lab and great PI to start with ...!
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Florian Schueder @florianschueder.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🔬🧬 New in @natcomms.nature.com‬: Nanoscale 3D DNA tracing in non‑denatured cells maps the #3Dgenome at nm‑resolution and reveals Cohesin‑dependent dynamic loops! 🚀 #OpenAccess  www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ellenberglab.bsky.social @jungmannlab.bsky.social #Genomics #SuperResolution
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Nanoscale 3D DNA tracing in non-denatured cells resolves the Cohesin-dependent loop architecture of the genome in situ - Nature Communications
A nanoscale 3D DNA tracing workflow visualizes Cohesin-dependent loops in single, structurally well-preserved cells. Computer simulations based on the tracing data give further insight into how Cohesi...
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Viktorija Glembockyte @glembockyte.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A "Small" update on studying the coating of single DNA nanostructures with a fluorescence lifetime sensor! 🧬🔬 Was a fun project at the interface of DNA nanotech and single molecule photophysics working in a great team! 🤓 🙌 @ameliehj.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It's here! ✨ The #ExSRRF protocol paper is out 😍. Full details for merging Expansion Microscopy with our eSRRF analysis. From cells to tissue. A partnership with @puellesv.bsky.social's lab. Lead by Dominik Kylies and @hannah-superres.bsky.social + colleagues. #ExM #eSRRF ➡️ Open link: rdcu.be/euvEw
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LMU München @lmu.de · 22/05/2025
🎉 Major achievement for #LMU in the Excellence Strategy: All seven proposed Clusters of Excellence have successfully passed the review process and will be funded for seven years as of 2026. An outstanding result! 🎉 #ExcellenceCluster #LMUMunich #research Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 22/05/2025
The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence
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JungmannLab @jungmannlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Spatial and stoichiometric in situ analysis of biomolecular oligomerization at single-protein resolution We are excited to present our latest work published in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial and stoichiometric in situ analysis of biomolecular oligomerization at single-protein resolution - Nature Communications
Extracting quantitative information on biomolecular oligomerisation with high resolution remains a significant challenge. Here, the authors propose SPINNA, a framework that compares nearest-neighbour ...
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VicidominiLab @vicidominilab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚨 Join us in shaping the future of #SmartMicroscopy! We're hiring PhD & fellowship positions at the intersection of #photonics, electronics & #AI. Check out our works in this field doi.org/10.1038/s414... www.nature.com/articles/s41... doi.org/10.1101/2024... Please share! #SPADarray #Microscopy
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Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
#newPI and time is running. It has already been a month since I officially joined the University of Warwick as Assistant Professor. I am excited to announce and build the Fluorescence and Membrane Dynamics (FMD) Lab: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...
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Martin Grininger @m-grininger.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
📢 The University of Frankfurt (Germany) is hiring a Full Professor in Organic Synthesis -->Cutting-edge research in an open, collaborative environment? Check out the call and join one of Germany’s leading research universities. #AcademicJobs #FacultyPosition www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professor (W3) in Organic Synthesis - Frankfurt am Main, Hessen (DE) job with Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt | 12838450
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main invites applications for the position of Professor (W3) in Organic Synthesis at the Faculty of Biochemistry, Ch...
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Anna-Karin Gustavsson @gustavssonlab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Collaborative work with the Shechtman Lab and @heilemannlab.bsky.social. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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One-click image reconstruction in single-molecule localization microscopy via deep learning
Deep neural networks have led to significant advancements in microscopy image generation and analysis. In single-molecule localization based super-resolution microscopy, neural networks are capable of...
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Xin Shi @xinshi-o.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚨We have a 4-year ERC-funded PhD position available in the beautiful city of Leuven, Belgium, for building artificial nanomachines in lipid membranes. Check out the details and apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Feel free to email me for more information!
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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜 Our new SAFe platforms now feature automated spectral demixing—a breakthrough that: ✅ Enhances accuracy ✅ Eliminates bias ✅ Delivers clearer, more reliable data effortlessly 🚀 Coming soon! #SMLM #SuperResolution #Bioimaging #imaging #Microscopy
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We have a new review out! In this Microscopy & Microanalysis piece, Louisa Mezache and I survey some of the latest commercially available microscope technologies: Nikon NSPARC, Re-scan Gaia, CSR Biotech MI-SIM, refinements to STED, SMLM from Bruker and Abbelight… Check it out with free access:
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Advancing Super-Resolution Microscopy: Recent Innovations in Commercial Instruments
Abstract. Super-resolution microscopy techniques have accelerated scientific progress, enabling researchers to explore cellular structures and dynamics wit
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A comprehensive review on covalent chemical strategies for protein self-labeling from @kjohnsson.bsky.social's lab: HaloTag, SNAP-tag et al. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Zach Marin @zacsimile.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
By putting a donut between our faces and each article we read, we were able to extract more information than ever before about MINFLUX. You can read the new review article from @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social by Lukas Scheiderer, myself, and @jonasries.bsky.social at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MINFLUX achieves molecular resolution with minimal photons - Nature Photonics
The authors review MINFLUX super-resolution microscopy, outlining its advantages and limitations, recent progress, and an outlook for future developments.
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Sandrine Lévêque Fort 🔬 @slfort.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🔬Happy to share our new preprint, where brightness is used to identify single molecule emission in 2D/3D, with a single camera ! Part of the PhD work of @laurent-le.bsky.social and Surabhi, great collaboration with @emmanuelfort.bsky.social from @instlangevin.bsky.social @ismolab.bsky.social #SMLM
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Maja Klevanski @majaklevanski.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We've just published a new scientific preprint that dives into the spatial glycome using super-resolution microscopy. Discover the critical role of sugars and take a look at our visualizations revealing their cell-wide presence. -> www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #dSTORM #SMLM #glycobiology
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Institut Fresnel @institutfresnel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓 #Recrutement #These #PhD La campagne de recrutement de l'ED Physique et Sciences de la matière est ouverte @univ-amu.fr Infos sur nos postes & les pièces à fournir 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 : www.fresnel.fr/wp/offres/of... Contactez au + vite le(s) chercheur(s) référent(s) du sujet qui vous intéresse ! 📸 Eléa Ropiot
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Ignacio Izeddin @izeddinresearch.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Come work with us on new approaches for single-molecule microscopy! -PhD offer in collaboration with Christian Specht: Synuclein diffusion analysis in neurons using event-based super-resolution microscopy - Short software engineer contract to work on EveSMLM 🧪 #AcademicSky #SMLM #Super-resolution
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Erdinc Sezgin @sciezgin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New paper out💥 in Nano Letters @pubs.acs.org High throughput single particle profiler with simple confocal imaging. We used this new method to study protein-lipid interactions, drug membrane interactions and biophysics of small particles from human donors: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Imaging Single Particle Profiler to Study Nanoscale Bioparticles Using Conventional Confocal Microscopy
Single particle profiling (SPP) is a unique methodology to study nanoscale bioparticles such as liposomes, lipid nanoparticles, extracellular vesicles, and lipoproteins in a single particle and high t...
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Cees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New discovery from our #CDlab reported in Cell @cp-cell.bsky.social today: SMC motor proteins have a left-right ‘gearbox’ and can switch direction in DNA loop extrusion! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
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Heilemann Lab @heilemannlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Tracking ER proteins _continously_ in living cells using reversible protein labels ... the #MicroscopyMonday edition ...
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Zach Marin @zacsimile.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Incredible new work from Yongdeng Zhang demonstrating live 4Pi SIM--and in two colors! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Elucidating subcellular architecture and dynamics at isotropic 100-nm resolution with 4Pi-SIM - Nature Methods
The 4Pi-SIM microscope combines the benefits of structured illumination microscopy with 4Pi geometry for improved axial resolution, offering isotropic, multicolor super-resolution imaging of dynamic p...
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Claire Deo @clairedeo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We made a photoswitchable HaloTag (psHaloTag), which can reversibly turn-on fluorogenic dyes upon illumination 💡. Congrats to Franzi, Bego and all co-authors, check out our preprint below 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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