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October 2025

Soohyen and Yunqing are currently presenting their work with talk and poster at the “Seeing is Believing” in Heidelberg.

September 2025

Mike Heilemann, Ashwin Balakrishnan and Soohyen Jang attend the PicoQuant in Berlin from 23. to 26. September 2025
(30th International Workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy”)

Congratulations to Yunqing for her successful defence!!

August 2025

"You will find many of us this week at the SMLMS Meeting in Bonn."
Together with the Müller McNicoll Lab in Frankfurt, we investigated the architecture of a membrane-less organelle directly in cells. Congratulations to all! https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf713 

July 2025

Alexandra will join the EBSA Meeting in Rome and present her work on EGFR/Grb2 signaling (EBSA link)

June 2025

We are excited that the Graduate School iMOL — Interfacing Image Analysis and Molecular Science — will be funded for a second round! https://imol.uni-frankfurt.de/

May 2025

We are incredibly happy that SCALE - SubCellular Architecture of LifE” - was successul in the DFG Excellence initiative!
More here: https://scale-frankfurt.org/

April 2025

Congratulations to Claudia for her successful defence!!

March 2025

Annabelle joined our group -- Welcome to the team!

February 2025

Alicija and Vincent have joined the group for their Master´s thesis -- Welcome, you two!!

December 2024

Two more manuscripts are now published that both increase observation times in live-cell super-resolution microscopy: long-term single-protein tracking in living cells using the HaloTag/xHTL system in Angewandte Chemie (collaboration with Kai Johnsson lab), and long-term STED microscopy using a neural network for denoising in Small Science.  

November 2024

Our study on MET receptor early activation, a great collaboration with the Roberto Covino group, is now published in Nature Communications

September 2024

Merne joined the group for her Bachelor thesis -- Welcome!!

July 2024

Robert joined the group for his Bachelor thesis -- Welcome!!

June 2024

Our manuscript on self-quenched fluorophore-DNA labels for STED and DNA-PAINT is now published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

May 2024

We are incredibly happy to announce that Dr. Christoph Spahn has started his research group at the Julius-Maximilian-University Würzburg. Whole-hearted congratulations, and all the best wishes for the start!

April 2024

Quantitative SMLM of membrane receptors: we contributed to two recent studies that are now published (EpoR and Channelrhodopsin-2)

March 2024

Laurell and Ash present our latest work at the Focus on Microscopy conference in Genoa 

February 2024

Annabelle joined the group for her Master thesis -- Welcome!!

Philipp joined the group for his Master thesis -- Welcome!!

January 2024

Catarina joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher and Alexandra started her PhD thesis – Welcome to the team!

December 2023

Ashwin and Marius contributed to Single-molecule imaging reveals nano-clustering of ER-phagy receptors, a collaboration headed by Alexandra Stolz – now published in Nature Communications

October 2023

Marko joined the group for his Master thesis -- Welcome!!

September 2023

Soo, Yunqing and Ashwin are presenting their work at the 28th Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy in Berlin (link)

August 2023

Combining weak-affinity fluorophore labels and a neural network for high-density SMLM prediction enables fast live-cell imaging – great collaboration with the Kai Johnsson & Yoav Shechtman groups now published in Biophysical Reports

Our work on Self-quenched Fluorophore Dimers for DNA-PAINT and STED Microscopy is now published in Angewandte Chemie

Congratulations to Tanja for winning the Poster Prize at the EBSA Meeting in Stockholm.

July 2023

Soohyen, Dongni, Tanja & Mike will present our latest work at the EBSA Meeting in Stockholm.

Great work by our colleagues in the Yoav Shechtman lab reporting fast live-cell super-resolution imaging with single-molecule data from Soohyen

June 2023

In a collaboration with Ivan Dikic (lead) and Gerhard Hummer, Marius and Ashwin quantified ER-phagy receptor nano-clustering in situ – this study is now published in Nature.

Non-covalent fluorophore labels are great tools in fluorescence microscopy. Together with our colleague Lorenzo Albertazzi, we published a Mini-Review in Angewandte Chemie that is now online.

May 2023

Our work on Biased activation of the receptor tyrosine kinase HER2 is now published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Maximilian joined the group for his Master thesis -- Welcome!!

February 2023

Led by our colleague Dylan Owen and now published: A collaborative effort to evaluate cluster analysis for single-molecule super-resolution microscopy 

January 2023

We contributed to an article reporting protein labelling with exchangeable fluorophores for multi-modal super-resolution microscopy in a collaboration with the Kai Johnsson group (lead)

Combining weak-affinity fluorophore labels expands multi-color super-resolution imaging – we show 6-color STED imaging in our study that is now published in ACS Nano (link)

December 2022

Fast DNA-PAINT imaging using a neural network to predict super-resolution data from high-density single-molecule data now published in Nature Communications