This year, PicoQuant will hold the annual workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences” for the 20th time. It will take place from September 2 to 5, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. On the occasion of the anniversary, the workshop will have an extended schedule including a public keynote lecture by Stefan W. Hell, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, and winner of the Otto Hahn Medal and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.
Lecture during the single molecule workshop in September 2013.
The annual workshop provides an interdisciplinary platform for experienced and young scientists to share their research in ultrasensitive optical detection down to the single molecule level and below the classical diffraction limit. Along with lectures from some of the most renowned scientists in the field, a number of oral presentations will be selected from among the received abstracts. The program will be completed by poster sessions and a special social event. During an open afternoon Stefan W. Hell will present his latest results using nanoscopy with focused light. Further high-ranking speakers including Joerg Enderlein, Atsushi Miyawaki, W.E. Moerner, Markus Sauer, Claus Seidel, Toshio Yanagida, and Xiaowei Zhuang have confirmed their attendance and will give talks on their recent findings and developments.
In 1995, the first single molecule workshop was held with 70 participants. Within the last twenty years, it has evolved to the leading venue in the field of single molecule detection and superresolution microscopy. “The meeting is an outstanding opportunity to meet not only famous scientists but also to discuss latest results with many bright students,” explains Rainer Erdmann, managing director of PicoQuant GmbH. “With a dedicated 'student award' we encourage students to submit their work not only in posters but also as contributed talks.”
For the upcoming anniversary workshop, the organizers expect up to 200 participants. Abstracts can be submitted until May 16, 2014. Registration is open until August 15, 2014.
Date:
September 2-5, 2014
Location:
WISTA Campus, Berlin-Adlershof, Germany
Contact:
PicoQuant GmbH
Nicole Bornemann, Jana Bülter, Rainer Erdmann
http://www.single-molecules.org
[email protected]
Further details
Invited speakers
- Manfred Auer (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland)
“Confocal Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Scanning and Imaging in Chemical Systems Biology”
- William A. Eaton (NIH Bethesda, USA)
“Microsecond protein folding kinetics and dynamics studied by single molecule fluorescence”
- Jörg Enderlein (Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany)
“The electrodynamics of single molecule fluorescence”
- Stefan Hell (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)
“Far-field optical nanoscopy: principles and recent advancements”
- Johan Hofkens (KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
“The power of one: what did we learn from single molecule studies?”
- Atsushi Miyawaki (Riken Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan)
title: tba
- W.E. Moerner (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
“Single-molecule insights for super-resolution imaging and for biomolecular dynamics in solution”
- Michel Orrit (Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands)
“Optical Single-Molecule Detection, from Fluorescence to Absorption and Refraction”
- Markus Sauer (Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany)
“Localization microscopy coming of age: from concepts to biological impact”
- Thomas Schmidt (Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands)
“Cell Biology by Single-Molecules”
- Gerhard Schütz (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria)
“Single molecule microscopy of plasma membrane proteins”
- Ben Schuler (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
“Single-molecule spectroscopy of intrinsically disordered proteins”
- Claus Seidel (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany)
“A dynamic view on biomolecules by high-precision FRET”
- Shimon Weiss (UCLA, Los Angelos, CA, USA)
“Voltage sensing nanoparticles”
- Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
“Life at the single molecule level”
- Toshio Yanagida (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
“Single molecule imaging towards the whole cell modeling”
- Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
“Single-molecule and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy“
Call for papers
Abstracts can be submitted until May 16, 2014.
Registration
until May 16, 2014 for early bird fees
until August 15, 2014 for regular fees
Student award
PicoQuant will award the best student talk with a prize of 1000 Euro.