Workshop on advanced fluorescence spectroscopy

Summary

The seventh US-workshop, held for the second time in Los Angeles was a very successful event. Finally, nearly 60 researches participated in this event and enjoyed 12 lectures that covered a broad range of current research topics and techniques ranging from nucleic acid-protein interactions at the single-molecule level to the usage of FCS to extract information about anisotropic rotational diffusion and lensfree microscopy and tomography on a chip."

Invited speakers

David Bensimon (ENS Paris)
"Single Cell Physiology: Optical control of protein expression and activity at the single cell level; applications to morphogenesis in zebrafish"
Xavier Michalet (UCLA)
"Parallel multispot smFRET analysis using an 8-pixel SPAD array"
Robert Ros (Arizona State University)
"Tip induced fluorescence quenching for nanometer optical and topographical resolution"
Everett Lipman (UC Santa Barbara)
"Tracking Molecular Motors with Single-Molecule Encoders "
Ingo Gregor (University of Göttingen)
"FCS in Biophysics: Advanced Methods and Applications "
Ryan Colyer (UCLA)
"Phasors and FLIM with Widefield Photon Counting "
Serhan Isikman (UCLA)
"Lensfree Microscopy and Tomography On a Chip "
Le A. Trinh (California Institute of Technology)
"Probing the heterogeneity of protein kinetics during vertebrate organogenous"
David Millar (Scripps Research Institute)
"Nucleic Acid-Protein Interactions at the Single-Molecule Level"
Samuel Burri (EPFL)
"Towards Large Format, High Performance CMOS SPAD Image Sensors"
Felix Koberling (PicoQuant GmbH)
"Next Generation TCSPC Detection for Confocal Microscopy "
Rainer Erdmann (PicoQuant GmbH)
"Fluorescence Lifetime: a new dimension for confocal imaging and FCS"

Time schedule

Time	Speaker	Title
09:00 am	Registration
09:45 am - 10:05 am	Shimon Weiss, Laurent Bentolila	Welcome and introduction to the CNSI
10:05 am - 10:25 am	Rainer Erdmann	Welcome and introduction to PicoQuant and PicoQuant products
10:25 am - 11:00 am	David Bensimon	Single Cell Physiology: Optical control of protein expression and activity at the single cell level; applications to morphogenesis in zebrafish
11:00 am - 11:25 am	Felix Koberling	Next Generation TCSPC Detection for Confocal Microscopy
11:25 am - 11:50 am	Xavier Michalet	Parallel multispot smFRET analysis using an 8-pixel SPAD array
11:50 am - 12:15 pm	Le A. Trinh	Probing the heterogeneity of protein kinetics during vertebrate organogenous
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	Lunch break
1:15 pm - 1:50 pm	David Millar	Nucleic Acid-Protein Interactions at the Single-Molecule Level
1:50 pm - 2:15 pm	Rainer Erdmann	Fluorescence Lifetime: a new dimension for confocal imaging and FCS
2:15 pm - 2:40 pm	Ingo Gregor	FCS in Biophysics: Advanced Methods and Applications
2:40 pm - 3:05 pm	Ryan Colyer	Phasors and FLIM with Widefield Photon Counting
3:05 pm - 3:35 pm	Coffee break
3:35 pm - 4:10 pm	Everett Lipman	Tracking Molecular Motors with Single-Molecule Encoders
4:10 pm - 4:35 pm	Robert Ros	Tip induced fluorescence quenching for nanometer optical and topographical resolution
4:35 pm - 5:00 pm	Serhan Isikman	Lensfree Microscopy and Tomography On a Chip
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm	Samuel Burri	Towards Large Format, High Performance CMOS SPAD Image Sensors
5:15 pm - 5:30 pm	Rainer Erdmann	Summary
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm	Laurent Bentolila	Guided tour of the CNSI (for all interested participants)