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We are an interdisciplinary group that brings solutions to life science problems by combining our expertise in physics, engineering, mathematics and biology.
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- March 23-25, 2025
Francisco will present our work at the Keystone Symposium Imaging Biomolecules Across Scales: From Atoms to Tissues
News
- Our lab at SMLMS 2024
The Balzarotti lab was at SMLMS 2024 in Lisbon! Alba and Alessandro had posters presentations, while Francisco had an invited talk! The conference was exciting and it was a good … - PhD defense of Max!
The Balzarotti lab had its first PhD defense! Max presented his thesis “Interferometric Beam Shaping for Three Dimensional MINFLUX Localisation Microscopy”, and celebrated afterwards a big achievement for him, and … - BIF fellowship for Paul!
We are very happy to announce Paul was awarded a BIF fellowship! Paul is a PhD student we share with the Plaschka lab at the IMP, and we are very … - Francisco presented at the Janelia & EMBL BioImaging Seminar Series
Hosted by Brian English and Mark Kittisopikul, Francisco visited Janelia Research Campus and presented our latest MINFLUX research at Janelia in the context of Janelia’s Optical Interest group, which hosts … - Alba and Francisco at the GRC “Single Molecule Approaches to Biology”
In July, Alba presented a poster, and Francisco had a talk, at the GRC “Single Molecule Approaches to Biology” in Newry, Maine. Alba showed her advances in MINFLUX tracking, while … - Frontiers of Science Award for Francisco!
We are happy to announce Francisco was awarded the Frontiers of Science award for the first MINFLUX paper! The award is given at the International Congress of Basic Sciences (ICBS), … - Our lab at FOM 2024
Many of the Balzarotti lab were present at FOM 2024, in Genoa, Italy. Between focaccia, coffee, and focaccia with coffee, we also presented posters (Alessandro, Max) and had a talk … - New preprint out!
We are very excited to share our first preprint, just out in bioRxiv! Take a look at what the first authors, Max and Alba, have to say about it on … - Francisco presented at the Erice School of Biophysics “Antonio Borsellino”
Francisco presented the latest advances of the group at the biophysics school held to the stunning location of Erice, Sicily as part of the Italian Biophysics Society.
- Balzarotti lab on retreat at Gustav’s castle
The Balzarotti lab went on retreat to Gustav’s castle in Rax for two days of science presentations by the members and fun! - Alba presents at SMLMS 2023
Alba presented her work on MINFLUX tracking in the Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy Symposium (SMLMS) 2023, hosted at the IMP in Vienna! - Welcome Juan!
One of the three new members joining simultaneously during SMLMS 2023, Juan is a new postdoc in the lab. Learn more about him in our Team tab.
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