Happy to share that I will be starting my independent research career as a Research Group Leader at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). Starting from January 2026, my group will be based at DKFZ National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT WERA), Würzburg, Germany.

👏 Congratulation to the 🏆 winners of Student Award held by #PicoQuant during 30th anniversary of our annual workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences. #WS30 We were proud to once again support the next generation of scientists. #PicoQuantStudentAward

🚨 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...

Finally out in Nature Chem Bio: SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you Steffi and Veselin.

Great news: I received ERC Advanced grant #ERCAdG @erc.europa.eu CaptuRel! It aims at intelligent nanomaterials undergoing bioinspired cycle of capture and photorelease of bioactive molecules for sensing and controlling (bio)chemical gradients. Thanks to my Team, @cnrs.fr and @unistra.fr!

De novo designed bright, hyperstable rhodamine binders for fluorescence microscopy by Bo Huang and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 New preprint! Using U-ExM + in situ cryo-ET, we show how C2CD3 builds an in-to-out radial architecture connecting the distal centriole lumen to its appendages. Great collab with @cellarchlab.com @chgenoud.bsky.social @stearnslab.bsky.social 🙌. #TeamTomo #UExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper out! Would you like to fluorescently label the plasma membrane in live, fixed or permeabilized cells? I tested different lipid structures and labelling approaches to decide what makes a good membrane labelling probe for such imaging experiments! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited to present our latest work: SPINNA, an analysis framework and software package for single-protein resolution data! 🖥️🤩 We can directly quantify stoichiometry and oligomerization from super-res (DNA-PAINT, RESI) images!! 🧬🎨

Collaborative work with the Shechtman Lab and @heilemannlab.bsky.social. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our work on lattice light-sheet TDI-DNA-PAINT and anti-CD20 immunotherapy antibodies is now featured in The Scientist magazine www.the-scientist.com. Many thanks to Sneha Khedkar for writing this fantastic piece. www.the-scientist.com/new-microsco...

🔬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

Congratulations to Rice Chemistry Prof. Anna-Karin Gustavsson for receiving the NSF CAREER. @gustavssonlab.bsky.social #NSFCAREER #RiceChemistry

Happy to share our newest paper in Ang. Chem. and big thanks to @nkaredla.bsky.social, @faldalf.bsky.social and @tao-chen.bsky.social 🙏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧪Paris Jussieu right now #standupforscience

Science, research & public health face unprecedented attacks in the U.S. We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call. Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊ 📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu 🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr #StandUpForScience

I'm thrilled to share that our review article, "Molecular Level Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging," has now been published online (www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...)! We provide a comprehensive overview of fluorescence super-res methods that push the limits towards molecular-scale imaging.

Online now! Fluorescent labeling strategies for molecular bioimaging. Marcel Streit, Made Budiarta, Marvin Jungblut, and Gerti Beliu. www.cell.com/biophysrepor...

🆕 Our new functionalized docetaxel probe enables superior visualization of dense mitotic spindle structures during cell division by expansion microscopy! ▶️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Check it out, powerful new method for optical imaging of the live ECM, from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Group Leader Kayvon Pedram #proudofalumni #glycotime www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Aaaand that’s a wrap at Asia Pacific Microscopy Congress 2025 in sunny Brisbane, attended by a big team from Single Molecule Science. Lots of exciting new 🔬 tools and translation in biomedical investigations. @ijayas.bsky.social @arindam92.bsky.social

Want to explore the world of time-resolved fluorescence #microscopy? Sign up for our online course and benefit from theoretical as well as practical sessions in an interactive format. Topics: data analysis, FCS, FRET, FLIM, and more. May 13-16, 2025. ➡️ www.microscopy-course.org

Thrilled and honored to present a plenary talk at the 13th Asia Pacific Microscopy Congress (APMC13) in Brisbane, Australia, on February 7, 2025, hosted by the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society (AMMS).

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/...

🧵Prepint alert! Optimizing Multifunctional Fluorescent Ligands for Intracellular Labeling | tinyurl.com/3n55hvsc. With Jason Vevea, Ed Chapman, and @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social, we combined dye chemistry, HaloTag, microscopy and cell biology to make protein purification and manipulation tools.

If you have a passion for single-molecule super-resolution microscopy🔬, there are great news to share: the SMLMS conference series will continue this year and will be held in Bonn/Germany Aug 27th to 29th ✨- please save the date and join us, we are looking forward to meeting you there👇🏻

How can you enhance the visibility of your next publication or increase your chances of getting your next research proposal accepted? How to get the illustration you need in just a few days? How to find an illustrator who is on the same wavelength with you?😉

I am very proud to advertise our latest publication, "Super-Resolution Goes Viral: T4 Virus Particles as Versatile 3D-Bio-NanoRulers," in Adv. Materials: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... We propose to use T4 bacteriophages for calibrating 3D super-res fluorescence microscopy. 🧵

Wow! Alexey @alexeychizhik.bsky.social, you never stop to amaze me. What a wonderful piece of sciart. Many congratulations 👏👏👏👏

Although @ritastrack.bsky.social has publicly declared that Superresolution Optical Imaging (SOFI) is dead 🤓 I am happy to share our newest review about it rdcu.be/d52ak

Lattice lightsheet two-dye imager DNA-PAINT (LLS-TDI-DNA-PAINT) example

Super happy to see the manuscript of my former PhD student and close friend Arindam Ghosh, @arindam92.bsky.social, and the Markus Sauer lab, @sauer-lab.bsky.social, being pblished in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔬 Ever wondered how therapeutic antibodies work? 3D LLS-TDI-DNA-PAINT and live-cell LLS microscopy allow decoding of the molecular interplay of endogenous CD20 on B cells with therapeutic antibodies. 📄 Read more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am super happy to share our latest article entitled "Decoding the molecular interplay of CD20 and therapeutic antibodies with fast volumetric nanoscopy", now published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... It was my postdoctoral work mit @sauer-lab.bsky.social Congrats to all the co-authors!

Glad to see this one out. It was a great interdisciplinary collaborative effort with the Das research group at Uni Bayreuth. Many congratulations to Tong Zhang, @joergenderlein.bsky.social, and all the co-authors. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Binding of an immunotherapeutic monoclonal antibody (magenta) to target receptor CD20 on B cell membrane imaged live using lattice light-sheet. Our 'Science' will appear online soon. Stay tuned for more details. #FluorescenceFriday #Latticelightsheet #TDIDNAPAINT