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Program details for this year’s SMLMS meeting:

Day 1 – Monday 28 August 2023
Time (Europe / Vienna)
Title
12:30 – 13:30
Registration and light refreshments
13:30 – 13:40
Opening remarks by scientific organisers
Session 1: New approaches to 3D SMLM Session chair: Mark Bates
13:40 – 14:10
Time Modulated single molecule localization microscopy Sandrine Lévêque-Fort – Université Paris-Saclay, France
14:10 – 14:40
Multidimensional Super-resolution Imaging: Wasting Light to Learn New Things Steven F. Lee – University of Cambridge, UK
14:40 – 15:00
Universal inverse modelling of point spread functions for microscope characterization and SMLM localization Jonas Ries – EMBL, Germany
15:00 – 15:20
Large-FOV 3D localization microscopy by spatially variant point spread function generation Dafei Xiao – Technion, Israel
15:20 – 15:50
Coffee break
Session 2: Fluorescent probes for SMLM Session chair: Philip Tinnefeld
15:50 – 16:20
Applications of blinking fluorophores beyond super-resolution microscopy Pablo Rivera-Fuentes – University of Zurich, Switzerland
16:20 – 16:50
Efficient labeling of biomolecules in living cells and organisms Gražvydas Lukinavičius – Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences, Germany
16:50 – 17:10
Reversible Live-Cell Labeling with Retro-engineered HaloTags Enables Long-Term High- and Super-Resolution Imaging Michael Holtmannspötter – University of Osnabrück, Germany
17:10 – 17:30
PaX Dyes: Caging-group Free Photoactivatable Fluorophores for Live-cell and Multicolor Nanoscopy Richard Lincoln – Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany
17:30 – 17:45
Flash talk session 1 Ezra Bruggeman (P012), Inês Cunha (P014), Jonas Euchner (P022), Montserrat Lopez Martinez (P048), Daniel Nieves (P062), Lancelot Pincet (P072)
17:45 – 18:10
Break
18:10 – 19:00
Keynote Ralf Jungmann – Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and LMU, Germany. Introduction by Francisco Balzarotti.
19:00 – 19:30
Reception with light dinner
19:30 – 21:00
Poster Session 1 (EVEN NUMBERS)
Day 2 – Tuesday 29 August 2023
Time (Europe / Vienna)
Title
08:30 – 09:00
Coffee and light refreshments
Session 3: Single molecule tracking and MINFLUX Session chair: Ralf Jungmann
09:00 – 09:30
Mechanism and function of Smc5/6-mediated DNA loop extrusion Eugene Kim – Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Germany
09:30 – 10:00
Fluorescence lifetime benefits in p-MINFLUX Philip Tinnefeld – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
10:00 – 10:20
Multi-emitter MINFLUX tracking in 2D and 3D Alba Gomez-Segalas – Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
10:20 – 10:40
Mapping photon counts into shape descriptors – molecular density optical nanoscopy Santiago Nicolas Rodriguez Alvarez – EPFL, Switzerland
10:40 – 11:10
Coffee break
Session 4: New methods in nano-imaging I Session chair: Francisco Balzarotti
11:10 – 11:40
Advances in Localization Atomic Force Microscopy George Heath – University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
11:40 – 12:00
Zero-mode waveguide nanowells for single-molecule detection in living cells Sora Yang – Hubrecht institute, Netherlands
12:00 – 12:20
Single-Molecule Analysis of DNA Base-Stacking Energetics Using Patterned DNA Nanostructures Mahipal Ganji – Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
12:20 – 12:40
Docking-site Mediated Photostabilization for Super-Resolution Imaging Cindy Close – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
12:40 – 14:00
Lunch
Session 5: New methods in nano-imaging II Session chair: Jörg Bewersdorf
14:00 – 14:30
ONE microscopy Silvio Rizzoli – University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
14:30 – 14:50
Fluorescence Nanoscopy in the Intra-Molecular Distance Range Steffen Sahl – Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences, Germany
14:50 – 15:10
Angstrom-resolution fluorescence microscopy Susanne Reinhardt – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
15:10 – 15:30
COMET – Cost-function Optimized Maximal overlap drift EsTimation Lenny Reinkensmeier – Institute for Nanophotonics Göttingen, Germany
15:30 – 15:45
Flash talk session 2 Laetitia Bettarel (P007), Jose Ignacio Gallea (P025), Eszter Kozma (P043), Alessandro Passera (P067), Barbara Platzer (P073), Eli Slenders (P089)
15:45 – 17:15
Poster Session 2 (ODD NUMBERS)
17:15 – 18:05
Keynote Ilaria Testa – KTH, SciLifeLab, Stockholm, Sweden. Introduction by Mark Bates.
18:05 – 18:30
Transport to gallery reception
18:30 – 20:00
Belvedere gallery reception and visit of the exhibition
20:00 – 23:00
Dinner at Stöckl im Park
Day 3 – Wednesday 30 August 2023
Time (Europe / Vienna)
Title
08:30 – 09:00
Coffee and light refreshments
Session 6: Chromatin imaging and Expansion microscopy Session chair: Johann Danzl
09:00 – 09:30
Super-resolution Imaging of Molecules in Their Nanoscale Cellular Context Jörg Bewersdorf – Yale University, USA
09:30 – 10:00
Investigating the genome at the nanoscale Irene Farabella – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
10:00 – 10:20
Mammalian oocytes store proteins on cytoplasmic lattices Ida Marie Astad Jentoft – Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences, Germany
10:20 – 10:40
Super Resolved and Single-molecule study of the distribution and diffusion of Angiotensin II type 1 receptor in the plasma membrane Eva Arnspang Christensen – University of Southern Denmark
10:40 – 11:10
Coffee break
Session 7: Super-resolution imaging of neurons Session chair: Irene Farabella
11:10 – 11:40
Uncovering brain tissue architecture with super-resolution light microscopy Johann Danzl – Institute of Science and Technology Austria
11:40 – 12:00
Conserved and divergent nanocolumn architecture at excitatory synapses onto different cell types Thomas Blanpied – University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
12:00 – 12:20
Minimal genetically encoded tags for fluorescent protein labelling in living cells Ivana Nikic-Spiegel – University of Tuebingen, Germany
12:20 – 12:40
3D MINFLUX for the quantitative study of postsynaptic sites Elisa D’Este – Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany
12:40 – 14:00
Lunch
Session 8: New methods in nano-imaging III Session chair: Ricardo Henriques
14:00 – 14:30
Mass photometry: From localisation to quantification of single molecules Philipp Kukura – University of Oxford, UK
14:30 – 14:50
AO-SOLEIL: A Single Objective Light-Sheet and Adaptive Optics for Single Molecule Localization Microscopy in Tissue Carlas Smith – Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
14:50 – 15:10
Optimal Performance in DNA-PAINT Philipp Steen – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
15:10 – 15:30
Coffee break
Session 9: Live-cell Super-resolution imaging Session chair: Sandrine Lévêque-Fort
15:30 – 16:00
Surviving photodamage, a quantitative analysis Ricardo Henriques – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
16:00 – 16:20
Super-resolution Microscopy Inside Living Cells Using Reversible Peptide-protein Interactions Mathew Horrocks – University of Edinburgh, UK
16:20 – 16:40
Live cell superresolution imaging of mitochondrial ATP synthase Karin Busch – University of Münster, Germany
16:40 – 17:00
Poster award presentations and Closing remarks