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.

5th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing

Dear all,

There is a conference on nanomanufacturing next week, and there are some interesting talks.
Here is the link:
http://isnm2008.org/

Best,
WT

Journal club 17, Jan, 2008

Hi all,

Now it is a new semester and our Journal club begins again.
This week I will be presenting a paper on inverse problem and high resolution OCT.
The title of the paper is:

"Nonparaxial vector-field modeling of optical coherence tomography and interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy"

Date: 17, Jan
Time: 10.30am
Venue: pantry area

Best Wishes,
Gong Wei

8th European Light Microscopy Initiative Conference

Dear Friends,
This conference seems to focus mainly on practical aspects and involves many workshops.
The conference is in May and the submissions are in January end. The website is: http://www.elmi08.unibas.ch/index.html. To get flavor of topics of interest look at last year's programme: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/tf/ELMI/programme.htm.

Cheers,
Shalin

CFP: Focus on Microscopy 2008

Sorry Folks,
I didn't post this in time. The deadline is January 15 (This Tuesday). Following announcement came from confocal list.

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FOCUS ON MICROSCOPY 2008 - Osaka, Awaji Island, Japan - April 13-16, 2008
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21th International Conference on 3D Image Processing in Microscopy
20th International Conference on Confocal Microscopy

Dear Colleagues,

January 15, 2008, the deadline for abstract submission for the Osaka, Awaji Island FOM2008 conference, is nearing. Please submit your abstract by that date.

Abstracts for oral and poster presentations can now be submitted preferably through the conference website: http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org where also the conference registration has opened and hotel booking information is available.

The program for the conference will be finalized and available on our website on Feb. 6, 2008. Authors will be informed individually by E-mail on the placement of their contribution in the program.

After the successful FOM2007 conference held in Valencia in April last year, the next conference: Focus on Microscopy 2008 will take place in Osaka, Awaji Island, Japan from Sunday, April 13 to Wednesday, April 16, 2008. As the next in a series of unique interdisciplinary meetings on advanced multidimensional light microscopy and image processing, the conference will be hosted by the University of Osaka.

Focus on Microscopy 2008 is the continuation of a yearly, well attended conference series presenting the latest innovations in optical microscopy and their application in biology, medicine and the material sciences. Key subjects for the conference are the theory and practice of 3D optical imaging, related 3D image processing, together with reporting on the ever increasing spatial resolutions and sophisticated imaging modes coming available in sectioning microscopy.

The conference series is in addition known for covering the rapid development of advanced fluorescence labeling techniques for the confocal and multi-photon 3D imaging of -live- biological specimens. Laser light in combination with 3D microscopy is starting to play an increasingly important role as a tool at sub-micrometer scales in cell biology for dissection and isolation of structures of interest for subsequent analysis.

Important dates:
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: January 15, 2008
Acceptance of contributions, draft program: February 6, 2008
Deadline for early registration: February 26, 2008

We would like to welcome you to Osaka, Awaji Island for the FOM2008
conference and exhibition. To stay informed about the conference please
leave your name and email at: http://www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org/stayinformed

On behalf of the organising committee,

- Satoshi Kawata and Katsumasa Fujita, Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, RIKEN, Wako City, Japan
E-mail: fom2008@ap.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
- Fred Brakenhoff, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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E-mail: info2008@FocusOnMicroscopy.org
Web: www.FocusOnMicroscopy.org