- 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. - Welcome Karina!
One of the three new members joining simultaneously during SMLMS 2023, Karina is our new research assistant/lab manager. Learn more about her in our Team tab. - Welcome Paul!
One of the three new members joining simultaneously during SMLMS 2023, Paul is a new PhD student in the lab. Learn more about him in our Team tab. - End of VBC Summer School for Anna Deputatova
Yesterday marked the end of the two months of the VBC Summer School for Anna Deputatova, physics student at TU Dresden. In these two months, with Alessandro’s supervision, Anna was … - DOC Fellowship for Alessandro!
Alessandro’s research on MINFLUX and DNA-PAINT was awarded a DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Take a look at the IMP release!
- The lab presents at FOM Porto 2023
Almost the whole lab was present at Focus On Microscopy Porto 2023, with Alessandro and Max having selected talks in the MINFLUX session on the first day, Alba and Mehrta presenting posters in one of the Single Molecule sessions, and Francisco and Jakub just enjoying the sun. An amazing experience all around, which galvanized us for the future.
- Our lab Organizes SMLMS2023
Our group in collaboration with Mark Bates is organizing the Single Molecule localization Symposium 2023, which will be hosted at IMP in Vienna!
- Alessandro and Francisco present at EMBL
In February, Francisco held his invited talk and Alessandro presented a poster at the “In situ structural biology: from cryo-EM to multi-scale modelling” workshop at EMBL in Heidelberg. - Welcome Francisco!
Francisco has started his Master’s thesis in our lab! Learn more about him in our Team tab. - Lab retreat in Brno
In December, we had our lab retreat in Brno, Jakub’s hometown. - Welcome Jakub!
Jakub has recently joined our lab and started his Master’s in Physics at the University of Vienna. - Mehrta and Alba attended the PicoQuant Single Molecule workshop in Berlin
Mehrta also presented a poster about her work on MINFLUX modelling at the workshop last month - Alessandro presented at the Single Biomolecules meeting in Cold Spring Harbor
Alessandro presented his work on fluorescent probes for MINFLUX at the Single Biomolecules conference last month in Cold Spring Harbor - Max and Francisco attended SMLMS 2022
We presented at the conference our work in scanning technology, MINFLUX modeling and fluorescent probes.
- Congrats to Alessandro on his first VBC Monday Seminar!
Every Monday three PhD students and postdocs present their work to our campus. - We attended the Enrico Fermi School for Multimodal and Nanoscal Optical Microscopy
We attended the school, where Mehrta, Alessandro and Francisco presented their work.
- Fun times at Laser World of Photonics
Alba, Max and Francisco attended Laser World of Photonics 2022 in search for lasers and optics!
- Francisco presented at Focus on Microscopy 2022
Francsico presented our work at FOM 2022 and chaired the STED session.
- We visited the Gulbenkian institute during our retreat in Lisbon
We visited the Henriques Lab at the Gulbenkian Institute during our retreat.
- IMP/IMBA Recess 2021
We had the annual recess for IMBA and IMP, full of exciting talks and fruitful interactions with our SAB members. - Francisco presented at Seeing is Believing 2021
The symposium Seeing is Believing (EMBL, virtual) brings together leading developers of imaging methods with cutting-edge applications that illustrate how imaging can answer biological questions.
- We visited the Testa Lab in Stockholm
During the visit Francisco served as opponent for the Thesis Defense of Andreas Bodén, member of the Testa Lab. We also had optics discussions and celebrations.
- Welcome Alba!
Alba Gómez-Segalàs, M.Sc. in Optics and Photonics from Karlsruher Institut für Technologie joined our lab!
- Francisco presented at SMLM2021
The conference SMLMS 2021 (Lausanne, Switzerland) puts together groups working on experimental and theoretical aspects of single molecule localization and related techniques.
- Francisco presented at M&M2021
The conference Microscopy and Microanalysis 2021 (Pittsburgh, USA – virtual) spans advances in instrumentation/technique development and applications in the analytical, biological, and physical sciences.
- Welcome Alessandro!
Alessandro Passera, M.Sc Biology from the Scuola Normale Superiore joined our lab! - Welcome Sebastian!
Sebastian Isbaner, Ph.D in physics from the Enderlein Lab, joined our lab!
- Welcome Mehrta!
Mehrta Shirzadian, M.Sc. Mathematical Modelling from the group of Joahim Hermisson, joined our lab!
- Welcome Max!
Max Geismann, M.Sc. in Microelectronics and Photonics from the Rotter lab, joined our lab!
- The lab received an ERC Starting Grant
We are very proud to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant!!
MEET US
| Date | Event |
| Spring 2022 | Multimodal and Nanoscale Optical Microscopy Varenna, Italy |
| 10 Apr 2022 | Focus on Microscopy |
| 05 Oct 2021 | Seeing is Believing EMBL, Germany (virtual) |
| 31 Aug 2021 | SMLMS 2021 Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 01 Aug 2021 | Microscopy and Microanalysis 2021 Pittsburgh, USA (virtual) |
| 25 Mar 2021 | Tomographic Reconstructions and their Startling Applications Vienna, Austria |