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The 18th International Workshop on "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences" takes place in Berlin, Germany from September 5 to 7, 2012.
We are pleased to welcome seven renowned invited speakers to this years workshop, who will present their recent findings and developments.
You are welcome to participate in the workshop by giving a talk, presenting a poster or without any presentation. A special prize of 750 Euro will be awarded for the "Best Student Talk".
A welcome reception and a workshop dinner give you the opportunity to meet the invited speakers and the other workshop attendees.
The aim of this workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for users as well as developers from physics, chemistry and biology to share their experience, exchange information and report their recent findings and developments in the field of ultra sensitive optical detection and microscopy down to the single molecule level.
Ultra sensitive spectroscopic techniques evolve to become standard tools in fundamental biological and biomedical research, as they allow the study of function, structure and interaction of individual single biomolecules. Since the first report of the detection of a single molecule in solution in 1976, the range of techniques and methods has constantly grown. Today, single molecules can be detected using widefield and confocal fluorescence microscopy, Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscopy (SNOM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) or Raman scattering. Time-resolved methods such as Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) or Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) and even multidimensional fluorescence methods are used on a daily basis in imaging facilities. Even superresolution measurements below Abbe's classical diffraction limit have become possible with techniques such as Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy (STED), localization microscopy (PALM, STORM, dSTORM, GSDIM) or fluctuation microscopy (SOFI).
Nowadays, not only improving and extending the existing arsenal of single molecule techniques and methods are still of paramount interest, but also the beneficial usage of the existing and already established techniques is a major challenge for applications ranging from chemical analysis to biophysics, biological and biomedical research, medical diagnostics and material research.
Abstract submission will open in Spring 2012.
PicoQuant especially wants to encourage young scientists. As in the previous years a special prize of 750 Euro for the "Best Student Talk" will be awarded by PicoQuant GmbH.
Information on the participation at the studend award contest will be available in Spring 2012.
The registration will open in Spring 2012.
The workshop will be held in the south-east of Berlin: in Berlin-Adlershof.
Send us your most beautiful application data, taken with PicoQuant equipment, and take the chance to win a valuable prize including a registration fee waiver for the 18th Single Molecule Workshop, coverage of the hotel costs and the opportunity to present a contributed talk. For information on our application gallery contest, please see the dedicated website.
The workshop on "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences" is an annual event since 1995. For further details about each year's event, please select the year from the list below.
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Workshop coordinator: Jana Bülter
Phone: +49-30-6392-6929
Fax: +49-30-6392-6561
e-mail:
workshoppicoquant.com
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