Nanoscopy at 40 nm resolution!

Dear All

I will discuss a recent paper by Stefan Hell's group claiming a PSF fluorescence spot of 40 nm. Now they have started calling it "nanoscopy" instead of "microscopy" that I think is right terminology for the 21st century optical micronanoscopy.

Cheers

Shakil

Nature Methods - 5, 539 - 544 (2008)
Published online: 18 May 2008; | doi:10.1038/nmeth.1214

Spherical nanosized focal spot unravels the interior of cells

Roman Schmidt¹, Christian A Wurm¹, Stefan Jakobs¹, Johann Engelhardt², Alexander Egner¹ & Stefan W Hell^{1, 2}

Journal Club, 5th March 2008

It's journal club, again. I'll be discussing a paper previously sent to all of you yesterday. Enjoy what you can of it.

Journal Club on 27th Feb

HILO Microscopy
Dear all,

I will be discussing about HILO microscopy which claims better resolution than fluorescence microscopy. It is based on a special illumination technique.


Date : 27th Feb
Time : 3pm onwards
Abstract : http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v5/n2/abs/nmeth1171.html

Regards,
Naveen

Journal Club Roster

Hi all,

The following is the final roster for this semester:

Jan 30 Wai Teng
Feb 13 Si Ke
Feb 20 Dr. Shakil
Feb 27 Naveen
Mar 5 Elijah
Mar 12 Shalin
Mar 19 Gong Wei
Mar 26 Shan Shan
Apr 2 Dr. Zheng

Please let me know one week in advance if you want to shift to another slot.

Best,
shan

Next Journal Club Meeting

Dear Colleagues
I will discuss about Digital Holography and Scanning Optical Holography in our next Journal Club meeting.
Shakil

Nature Photonics Highlights

Dear all,

Nature Photonics Magazine is opening up highlights articles from year 2007.

http://www.nature.com/nphoton/focus/1st_anniversary/index.html

Cheers,
shan

Regarding journal club schedule for new semester

Dear all,

It seems that people are having some seminar or conference throughout next week - so we will cancel JC for next week and resume on 29th Jan (tue) 3pm at pantry area. Our schedule for journal clubs in this new sem will be temporarily on Tues afternoons unless there is further change.

The person leading next discussion will be Wai Teng.

Best regards,
SS

28/1/08 It seems that Wednesday is a better date.