12th international workshop on single molecule spectroscopy and ultrasensitive analysis in life sciences will focus on most recent research in the field of single molecule spectroscopy and detection
The 12th international workshop on single molecule spectroscopy and ultrasensitive analysis in life sciences, to be held 20-22 September 2006 in Berlin, will focus on the most recent research in the field of single molecule spectroscopy and detection.
Topics will include two-photon excitation, new and robust fluorophores such as quantum dots, metalfluorophore interactions, analysis of living cells, applications in HTS, investigation of protein folding and biological function studies of macromolecules, and Fret.
Invited speakers and their tentative contributions:.
Achillefs N Kapanidis (University of Oxford, UK), Dissecting molecular machines using alternating-laser excitation (Alex) spectroscopy.
W E Moerner (Stanford University, USA), tbc.
Uli Nienhaus (University of Ulm, Germany), tba.
Michel Orrit (Leiden University, Netherlands), New methods and labels for single-molecule microscopy.
X Sunney Xie (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA), Single molecule approach to biology: from in vitro to in vivo studies.
Andreas Zumbusch (University College London, UK), Imaging the intracellular dynamics of single gene transfer nanoparticles.
Student award.
To encourage especially young students in single molecule spectroscopy research a special award in the amount of euro750 will be donated.
Call for papers.
Picoquant would like to invite all researchers working in the field to submit contributions on new and relevant topics in single molecule spectroscopy, either as a talk or a poster.
Deadline for abstracts is 1 June 2006.
