Speakers
Prof. Dr. Martin Pilhofer
Associate Professor at ETH Zurich, DBIOL, IMBB
Prof. Dr Pihofer and his group focus on understanding microbial cell-cell interactions and their evolution via cryo-ET. His group focuses also extensively on method development, such as automation of cryo-FIB milling.
Dr. José Maria Mateos Melero
Project Manager at Centre for Microscopy and Image Analysis at University of Zurich.
Dr. Mateos Melero has extensive experience in light- and electron microscopy, with special focus on correlative and large volume imaging, clearing and 3D electron micrscopy.
Dr. Bettina Zens
Former doctoral student in the Schur lab at IST Austria
Dr. Bettina Zens is an expert on high-pressure freezing, cryo-correlative light microscopy and cryo-FIB SEM lift-out and has developed novel protocols to study cellular ultrastructure.
https://schurlab.pages.ist.ac.at/team/bettina-zens_8948_srgb/
Dr. Kar Ho Herman Fung
Postdoctoral fellow in Müller and Mahamid groups at EMBL Heidelberg
Dr. Fung is using cryo-ET to study molecular structures inside cells. He is developing methods to streamline and automate the preparation of thin lamella specimens for cryo-correlative tomography for specific structure targeting.
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Radenovic
Professor and group leader at Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology (LBEN) at EPFL
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Radenovic's work focuses on development of instrumentation and methodology for single-molecule techniques (single molecule localization microscopy, optical tweezers, nanopores) to understand the behaviour of biomolecules on a single-molecule level.
Dr. Matthew Domenic Lycas
Postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics (LEB) at EPFL
Dr. Lycas uses a combination of expasion microscopy with dSTORM, STED, and iSIM to understand ultrastructural changes in cells, to improve the understanding of specific protein-protein interactions and to understand their role in organelle function.
Dr. Arne Seitz
Head of BioImaging and Optics Core Facility and Co-Chair and Web Content Manager of WG6
Dr. Seitz is an expert on confocal, 3D and super-resolution light imaging modalities, with a mission on solving interdisciplinary questions.
Dr. Jemima Burden
Head of Electron Microscopy, Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London
Dr. Burden is an expert in electron microscopy, with a main research focus on developing protocols and workflows for correlative and electron microscopy and 3D electron microscopy, to investigate multiple asapects of cell biology.
Dr. Daniel Sage
Head of Software Development at Biomedical Imaging (BIG), School of Engineering (STI), Scientific Asvisor at EPFL Centre of Imaging (ECI)
Dr. Sage is involved in numerous research projects in computational bioimaging including super-resolution microscopy, tracking, deconvolution, and image quantification. He is engaged in the open-source software development for the life science community, using both engineering and machine learning methods. He is also involved in the teaching of image processing and image analysis, including the development of methods for computer-assisted teaching.
Samuel Mendes Leitão
Graduate Student at Laboratory of Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation (LBNI), EPFL
Samuel Mendes Leitão studied bioengineering and nanosystems for his bachelor's and master's degrees. He is working with non-contact scanning probe microscopy (SPM) combined with super-resolution (SR) optical microscopy for live cell imaging. His Ph.D. focuses on developing scanning ion conductance microscopy (SICM) to study processes on eukaryotic cell membranes. Beyond imaging, he devised a new nanopore sensing method for single-molecule detection based on SICM, dubbed scanning ion conductance spectroscopy (SICS), that can be combined with optical methods.
https://people.epfl.ch/samuel.mendesleitao?lang=en
Dr. Marcos Penedo Garcia
Scientist at Laboratory of Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation (LBNI), EPFL
Marcos Penedo Garcia earned his degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the Universidad de Vigo (Spain). He received his Ph.D in Applied Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) in 2013 for developing new actuation techniques in liquid for the atomic force microscope (AFM). Then he moved to the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA-ETH domain, Zurich) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the next 5 years, In 2019, he joined the WPI Nano Life Science Institute (Kanazawa University) as an Assistant Professor, focused on the development of the nano-endoscopy AFM technique for the generation of 3D/2D maps of living cells and their internal structures, which he continues to further develop at the LBNI in EPFL since August 2020.
Dr. Venera Weinhardt
Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Heidelberg
Dr. Weinhardt is interested in the development of new imaging techniques, particularly with X-rays. She works on the optimization of absorption contrast for the imaging of small model animals. She is also developing phase contrast techniques, mainly propagation-based and grating interferometry, for in vivo imaging. Presently, her focus is on correlative light and soft X-ray microscopy for 3D imaging of single cells.
Dr. Adrian Wanner
Group Leader at Paul Scherrer Institut
Dr. Wanner has worked on combining in vivo multiphoton calcium imaging with dense, electron microscopy-based neuronal circuit reconstruction. During his Ph.D., he co-founded the biomedical image analysis company ariadne.ai ag. He also investigated the structure of neuronal circuits involved in the working memory of mice in collaboration with the labs of David Tank and Sebastian Seung. Presently he is exploring synchrotron imaging applications for neuronal circuit reconstruction.
Dr. Valentina Loconte
Post Doctoral Fellow at UCSF and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
She has worked extensively towards using Soft -X-ray tomography to characterize single-cell organelle morphology. Presently she is developing soft x-ray microscopy to answer key questions pertaining to the coupling between metabolism and mesoscale morphology of organelles.
Dr. Ana Diaz
Senior Scientist at Paul Scherrer Institut
Ana Diaz has dedicated her entire career to developing X-ray characterization methods using synchrotron radiation. She has enormously contributed to the implementation of hard X-ray ptychography at the cSAXS beamline, in particular for ptychographic tomography. Her notable work on high-resolution 3D hard X-ray microscopy is widely appraised.
https://www.psi.ch/en/coherent-x-ray-scattering/people/ana-diaz
Dr. Benjamin Watts
Beamline Scientist at Paul Scherrer Institut
Benjamin Watts is a beamline scientist at the PolLux scanning transmission soft X-ray spectro-microscope (STXM) specializing in the materials analysis of the soft matter. Details of the interactions between soft X-ray light and organic materials have been a continuing theme throughout both his university research and later career.
Dr. Serguei Sekatski
Scientist at Laboratory of Biological Electron Microscopy (LBEM), EPFL
Serguei Sekatski is currently a scientist at LBEM, EPFL specializing in Scanning Probe Microscopy especially in Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy and optical label-free biosensing based on surface electromagnetic waves. Physics of the fundamentals of scanning probe microscopy and broadening their applications has been his research theme. He was previously working with Prof. Giovanni Dietler, a renowned Scanning Probe Microscope expert, for extending its use in cryo-conditions.