We are pleased to invite you to the Dioscuri Symposium on Frontiers in Biophysics and Advanced Microscopy, featuring invited talks by leading experts. The programme will highlight recent developments and emerging directions in biophysics and biotechnology.
Venue: A. Kochanovská Hall, Institute of Physics of the CAS
Confirmed speakers include:
• Prof. Holger Stark (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen)
• Prof. Maria Garcia-Parajo (Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona)
• Prof. Stefan Diez (Technical University Dresden)
• Prof. Joachim Heberle (Freie Universität Berlin)
Program:
8:30 – Open door
9:00 – Opening remarks (Dr. Michael Prouza, Director of Institute of Physics of the CAS)
9:30 – Pushing the Limits of Cryo-EM: What’s Left to Improve? (Dr. Holger Stark, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences and Professor at the University of Göttingen)
10:15 – Optical imaging nanotools to interrogate the plasma membrane of living cells (Dr. Maria Garcia-Parajo, Head of Single Molecule Biophotonics at the Institute of Photonic Sciences and Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona)
11:00 – Coffee Break
11:30 – Nano-optical Approaches for and with Molecular Motors (Dr. Stefan Diez, Professor at Technical University Dresden and Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)
12:15 – Label-free IR Nanoscopy and Tomography of Intracellular Structures (Dr. Joachim Heberle, Head of Experimental Molecular Biophysics and Professor at Freie Universität Berlin)
13:00 – Closing remarks (Dr. Barbora Špačková, Leader of the Dioscuri Centre for Single-Molecule Optics)
