Heilemann Lab
@heilemannlab.bsky.social
Single-molecule biophysics group at Goethe University Frankfurt/Germany. Super-resolution microscopy. Optical structural cell biology. Computational microscopy. Posts by MH.
http://www.smb.uni-frankfurt.de
#superresolution, #livecellimaging, #imageanalysis
http://www.smb.uni-frankfurt.de
#superresolution, #livecellimaging, #imageanalysis
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Heilemann Lab
@heilemannlab.bsky.social
· Dec 13
#FluorescenceFriday (we are watching vimentin (HaloTag7) in U2OS cells co-stained with Nile Red) #livecell #longterm
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In two weeks, our #qbio #Master students learned to build, from drawing to full realization, their own : confocal FCS, TIRF microscope, and optical tweezers setup ! This is hand-on #microscopy !
Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
qbio.umontpellier.fr
Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
qbio.umontpellier.fr
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
In two weeks, our #qbio #Master students learned to build, from drawing to full realization, their own : confocal FCS, TIRF microscope, and optical tweezers setup ! This is hand-on #microscopy !
Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
qbio.umontpellier.fr
Interested ? Join the qbio master next year at the Montpellier University !
qbio.umontpellier.fr
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🤯This is wow! Molecular mechanism of mRNA export. by @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @plaschkalab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🤯This is wow! Molecular mechanism of mRNA export. by @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @plaschkalab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨Curious how synthetic fluorophores simplify microscopy? Our review covers applications such as super-resolution microscopy and biosensing. 🎉👩🔬Congrats to my first PhD student, Agnese Nicoli, for the fearless deep dive! 🔬 ⚗️
D-CHAB @ethz.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
D-CHAB @ethz.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synthetic fluorophores for live-cell fluorescence microscopy and biosensing - Nature Chemical Biology
Performing live-cell microscopy experiments with high spatial and temporal resolution requires fluorophores with highly optimized properties. This Review examines the progress in developing synthetic ...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🚨Curious how synthetic fluorophores simplify microscopy? Our review covers applications such as super-resolution microscopy and biosensing. 🎉👩🔬Congrats to my first PhD student, Agnese Nicoli, for the fearless deep dive! 🔬 ⚗️
D-CHAB @ethz.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
D-CHAB @ethz.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🔬🤖 ICYMI: impressive preprint from @owenlabuob.bsky.social tackling a major bottleneck – how to systematically compare super-resolution microscopy across experiments. Novel ML framework embeds single-molecule data for cross-sample analysis. Integrated with nano-org database✨ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🔬🤖 ICYMI: impressive preprint from @owenlabuob.bsky.social tackling a major bottleneck – how to systematically compare super-resolution microscopy across experiments. Novel ML framework embeds single-molecule data for cross-sample analysis. Integrated with nano-org database✨ doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Single-molecule friends!
The prelim. program of next year's sm- #Gordon conference in Switzerland is online: www.grc.org/single-molec...
It'll be 3x fantastic: science, people, place in the alps ⛰️. Kevin & I hope to see you all next June:
Have a look, tell your friends, and register!
The prelim. program of next year's sm- #Gordon conference in Switzerland is online: www.grc.org/single-molec...
It'll be 3x fantastic: science, people, place in the alps ⛰️. Kevin & I hope to see you all next June:
Have a look, tell your friends, and register!
2026 Single Molecule Approaches to Biology Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Single Molecule Approaches to Biology will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Single-molecule friends!
The prelim. program of next year's sm- #Gordon conference in Switzerland is online: www.grc.org/single-molec...
It'll be 3x fantastic: science, people, place in the alps ⛰️. Kevin & I hope to see you all next June:
Have a look, tell your friends, and register!
The prelim. program of next year's sm- #Gordon conference in Switzerland is online: www.grc.org/single-molec...
It'll be 3x fantastic: science, people, place in the alps ⛰️. Kevin & I hope to see you all next June:
Have a look, tell your friends, and register!
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📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu
👇🏻 great opportunity for a PhD, great environment & PI!
🚨 #PhD Opportunities 🚨
🧵
How does plasma membrane structure underpin tissue development?
Let’s find out!
Opportunity to do a PhD with me, co-supervised by Darius Koester, at Warwick.
Fully funded studentship by #MIBTP.
🔬✨🐟
More info:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested? Reach out!
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How does plasma membrane structure underpin tissue development?
Let’s find out!
Opportunity to do a PhD with me, co-supervised by Darius Koester, at Warwick.
Fully funded studentship by #MIBTP.
🔬✨🐟
More info:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Interested? Reach out!
November 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
👇🏻 great opportunity for a PhD, great environment & PI!
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High-plex spatial RNA imaging in one round with conventional microscopes using color-intensity barcodes - @pku1898.bsky.social go.nature.com/47yENVJ
High-plex spatial RNA imaging in one round with conventional microscopes using color-intensity barcodes - Nature Biotechnology
The 64-plex fluorescence imaging of RNA in tissues is achieved in one imaging cycle
go.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
High-plex spatial RNA imaging in one round with conventional microscopes using color-intensity barcodes - @pku1898.bsky.social go.nature.com/47yENVJ
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Excited to share my first PhD student’s @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!
Tracking 5 dyes simultaneously Kavan Gor @embl.org tracks nascent #RNA folding during #ribosome assembly to correlate structural with functional information on single RNA molecules!
Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tracking 5 dyes simultaneously Kavan Gor @embl.org tracks nascent #RNA folding during #ribosome assembly to correlate structural with functional information on single RNA molecules!
Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Excited to share my first PhD student’s @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!
Tracking 5 dyes simultaneously Kavan Gor @embl.org tracks nascent #RNA folding during #ribosome assembly to correlate structural with functional information on single RNA molecules!
Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tracking 5 dyes simultaneously Kavan Gor @embl.org tracks nascent #RNA folding during #ribosome assembly to correlate structural with functional information on single RNA molecules!
Check it out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tracking has always been at the ❤️ of the scientific method, from planetary motion to single particles.
Weiqing’s thesis intro on tracking was so beautiful we turned it into a perspective in JCP who then selected it as a #Scilight.
Take a look! 😊
www.aip.org/scilights/tr...
Weiqing’s thesis intro on tracking was so beautiful we turned it into a perspective in JCP who then selected it as a #Scilight.
Take a look! 😊
www.aip.org/scilights/tr...
Tracing fluorescence tracking’s past, present, and future
Artificial intelligence and parallel computing could refine studies of the movement of single molecules inside cells.
www.aip.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Tracking has always been at the ❤️ of the scientific method, from planetary motion to single particles.
Weiqing’s thesis intro on tracking was so beautiful we turned it into a perspective in JCP who then selected it as a #Scilight.
Take a look! 😊
www.aip.org/scilights/tr...
Weiqing’s thesis intro on tracking was so beautiful we turned it into a perspective in JCP who then selected it as a #Scilight.
Take a look! 😊
www.aip.org/scilights/tr...
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1/ Excited to share our new study with @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social, out in @natbiotech.nature.com! P-bodies selectively sequester RNAs encoding cell fate regulators, often from the preceding developmental stage. Releasing these RNAs can drive changes in cell identity. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Selective RNA sequestration in biomolecular condensates directs cell fate transitions - Nature Biotechnology
Stem cell differentiation is controlled by manipulating RNA condensates.
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
1/ Excited to share our new study with @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social, out in @natbiotech.nature.com! P-bodies selectively sequester RNAs encoding cell fate regulators, often from the preceding developmental stage. Releasing these RNAs can drive changes in cell identity. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A new, nerdy paper. We figured out (some) of the rules underlying cell-permeability of probes and designed ligands that light up, grab, and move proteins around. Awesome @hhmijanelia.bsky.social x @uwmadison.bsky.social x @stjuderesearch.bsky.social collaboration! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A new, nerdy paper. We figured out (some) of the rules underlying cell-permeability of probes and designed ligands that light up, grab, and move proteins around. Awesome @hhmijanelia.bsky.social x @uwmadison.bsky.social x @stjuderesearch.bsky.social collaboration! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Our photoswitchable HaloTag is out in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! We now also show that this system can be used to control emitter density in SMLM. Congrats to Franzi, Bego, and our amazing collaborators. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A Photoswitchable HaloTag for Spatiotemporal Control of Fluorescence in Living Cells
Photoswitchable fluorophores are critical for advanced bioimaging. Here, we develop a photoswitchable self-labeling HaloTag that can reversibly modulate the emission of a bound fluorogenic dye via a ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Our photoswitchable HaloTag is out in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! We now also show that this system can be used to control emitter density in SMLM. Congrats to Franzi, Bego, and our amazing collaborators. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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🚀🔬 Announcing #IMS2026 at @itqbnova.bsky.social! We're assembling a #LifeSciences #Microscopy symposium packed with ✨ speakers and 🧑🔬 workshops. All about imaging cells with photons, electrons and AI! If you love microscopy, you need to be here. Join us on March 19!
ims2026.itqbnovacommunity.org
ims2026.itqbnovacommunity.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🚀🔬 Announcing #IMS2026 at @itqbnova.bsky.social! We're assembling a #LifeSciences #Microscopy symposium packed with ✨ speakers and 🧑🔬 workshops. All about imaging cells with photons, electrons and AI! If you love microscopy, you need to be here. Join us on March 19!
ims2026.itqbnovacommunity.org
ims2026.itqbnovacommunity.org
👇🏻opportunity!
🚀 Exciting Job Opportunity: Project Coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence SCALE
We’re thrilled to announce an exceptional opportunity to join the newly founded Cluster of Excellence SCALE – Subcellular Architecture of Life from the @goetheuni.bsky.social.
👉 Learn more and apply here:
We’re thrilled to announce an exceptional opportunity to join the newly founded Cluster of Excellence SCALE – Subcellular Architecture of Life from the @goetheuni.bsky.social.
👉 Learn more and apply here:
October 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
👇🏻opportunity!
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We are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3
October 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3
Very much recommended winter school!👇🏻🔬
Please repost. Only a few days left to apply to the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar. Deadline October 31th.
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
#microscopy #fluorescence #superresolution
fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com
#microscopy #fluorescence #superresolution
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Very much recommended winter school!👇🏻🔬
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And it's out!
Our paper on the optimization of smFISH to quantify cytokine mRNAs in T cells is published in EMBO Journal.
Using this protocol, we gathered interesting insights on cytokine mRNAs co-expression and localization in these teeny tiny human cells.
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Our paper on the optimization of smFISH to quantify cytokine mRNAs in T cells is published in EMBO Journal.
Using this protocol, we gathered interesting insights on cytokine mRNAs co-expression and localization in these teeny tiny human cells.
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
October 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
And it's out!
Our paper on the optimization of smFISH to quantify cytokine mRNAs in T cells is published in EMBO Journal.
Using this protocol, we gathered interesting insights on cytokine mRNAs co-expression and localization in these teeny tiny human cells.
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Our paper on the optimization of smFISH to quantify cytokine mRNAs in T cells is published in EMBO Journal.
Using this protocol, we gathered interesting insights on cytokine mRNAs co-expression and localization in these teeny tiny human cells.
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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❓What if you could peek between your tilt series ❓ We are proud to introduce cryoTIGER -- deep-learning based tilt interpolation for enhanced reconstruction in cryo-ET. A great collaboration between Turoňová lab, @becklab.bsky.social, @hummerlab.bsky.social #teamtomo www.nature.com/articles/s42...
cryoTIGER: deep-learning based tilt interpolation generator for enhanced reconstruction in cryo electron tomography - Communications Biology
Deep learning-based interpolation using cryoTIGER enhances angular sampling in cryoET, improving 3D reconstructions, particle localization, and structural recovery without increasing electron dose.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
❓What if you could peek between your tilt series ❓ We are proud to introduce cryoTIGER -- deep-learning based tilt interpolation for enhanced reconstruction in cryo-ET. A great collaboration between Turoňová lab, @becklab.bsky.social, @hummerlab.bsky.social #teamtomo www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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We are hiring ! If you want to become professor of Bioinformatics in the best city of North America, check the announcement below ! Also you do need to speak French (as long as you commit to learning it :) ) www.umontreal.ca/public/www/d...
www.umontreal.ca
October 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We are hiring ! If you want to become professor of Bioinformatics in the best city of North America, check the announcement below ! Also you do need to speak French (as long as you commit to learning it :) ) www.umontreal.ca/public/www/d...
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🚀Join Helsinki BioImaging as an Image Analysis Specialist🖥️to support cross-disciplinary image analysis projects. If you love coding and are interested in working at the crossroads of computer science and biology, apply by 🗓️ November 15, 2025⤵️
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#jobopening
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#jobopening
Image Analysis Specialist/Engineer/Coordinator, Helsinki Bioimaging
Image Analysis Specialist/Engineer/Coordinator, Helsinki Bioimaging
jobs.helsinki.fi
October 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🚀Join Helsinki BioImaging as an Image Analysis Specialist🖥️to support cross-disciplinary image analysis projects. If you love coding and are interested in working at the crossroads of computer science and biology, apply by 🗓️ November 15, 2025⤵️
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#jobopening
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#jobopening
If you happen to be at Seeing is Believing in Heidelberg
#EESImaging: Soohyen and Yunqing are presenting some of our recent work 🔬today (talk) and tomorrow (poster 116):
#EESImaging: Soohyen and Yunqing are presenting some of our recent work 🔬today (talk) and tomorrow (poster 116):
October 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you happen to be at Seeing is Believing in Heidelberg
#EESImaging: Soohyen and Yunqing are presenting some of our recent work 🔬today (talk) and tomorrow (poster 116):
#EESImaging: Soohyen and Yunqing are presenting some of our recent work 🔬today (talk) and tomorrow (poster 116):
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Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
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Job alert!
We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?
See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?
See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA
Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...
forum.image.sc
October 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Job alert!
We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?
See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?
See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...