Molecule-scale Resolution and Dynamics in Fluorescence Microscopy
The Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture
- February 07, 2025
- 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
- Caspary Auditorium
Event Details
- Type
- Friday Lecture Series
- Speaker(s)
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Stefan Hell, Ph.D., director, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research; director, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
- Speaker bio(s)
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Dr. Stefan Hell will show how a description of the principles of diffraction-unlimited fluorescence microscopy has spawned MINFLUX. Providing 1–3 nanometer resolution as well as localization precisions in the Angström range, MINFLUX is being established for routine applications. Relying on fewer fluorescence photons than other methods, MINFLUX is poised to characterize dynamic processes at the single protein level, as already demonstrated by tracking the unhindered stepping of the motor protein kinesin-1 on microtubules at up to physiological ATP concentrations.
Stefan W. Hell is a director at both, the Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. He is credited with having conceived, validated and applied the first viable concept for breaking Abbe’s diffraction-limited resolution barrier in a light-focusing microscope. He has received several awards, including the 2014 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Open to
- Tri-Institutional