2nd Hands-On Workshop on
"Making Single Molecule Fluorescence (Lifetime) Measurements Simple"

Summary

The second workshop of its kind was a real success and the registration had to be closed fairly in advance. Finally, more than 50 researches participated in this event and enjoyed 11 lectures as well as hands-on experimentation on a MicroTime 200, a FluoView 1000 from Olympus upgraded to FLIM & FCS capabilities as well as a LIFA System for widefield FLIM measurements from Lambert Instruments. As in the last year, up-to-date research topics in single molecule spectroscopy were covered and new exciting methods were discussed. This workshop was again the perfect event to start networking and for many nice discussions about new interesting ideas and concept.

Invited speaker and their titles

• W.E. Moerner (Stanford University, Stanford, USA),
  "Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging Reports on Biomolecular Dynamics"
• Shimon Weiss (University of California Los Angeles),
  "Single molecule probing of dynamic conformation, molecular interactions and dynamic localizations in-vitro, in live cells and in organisms"
• Paul Wiseman (McGill University, Montreal, Canada),
  "Cellular cartography using image correlation methods: Mapping protein flows and interactions in living cells"
• Haw Yang (University of California, Berkeley, USA),
  "Optical Spectroscopy on Single Nanoprobes Freely Moving in 3D"
• Jörg Enderlein (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany),
  "Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
• David Kleinfeld (University of California, San Diego, USA),
  "The relation between cortical blood flow dynamics and vascular topology revealed by nonlinear optical imaging and ablation"
• Stephen Kowalczykowski (University of California, Davis, USA),
  "Visualization and Analysis of Protein-DNA Complexes at the Single-Molecule Level"
• Samantha Fore (UC Davis, Sacramento, USA),
  "Single molecule measurements inside nanometer-size apertures - working at biologically relevant concentrations"
• Thomas Huser / Sonny Ly (UC Davis, Sacramento, USA),
  "A combined multiphoton fluorescence lifetime and coherent Anti-Stokes Raman microscope"
• Felix Koberling (PicoQuant GmbH, Germany),
  "The MicroTime 200 - An All In One Solution For Time-Resolved Confocal Microscopy"
• Uwe Ortmann (PicoQuant GmbH, Germany),
  "FLIM and FCS Upgrade Kit for Laser Scanning Microscopes"

Program

The program of this workshop is still available for download.

• Program of the Single Molecule Workshop USA in 2007

Archive

The following international workshops or courses have been organized by PicoQuant GmbH along with a local research institute in the recent years.