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Confirmed Speakers

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Prof. Masahiro Ueda

Osaka University, Japan

Technical Expertise: Single-molecule imaging and tracking in live cells, mathematical modeling

Research Interests: Intracellular information processing, cell motility, Concentration gradient sensing and the taxis of Dictyostelium discoideum.​

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Dr. Mahipal Ganji

 IISc Bangalore, India

Technical Expertise: DNA-PAINT

Research Interests: DNA base-stacking energetics, DNA nanotechnology, Stability of dinucleotide interactions

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Prof. Deepak Nair

IISc Bangalore, India

Technical Expertise: Single Molecule Super Resolution Imaging

Research Interests:Understanding synaptic nanodomains as building blocks of synaptic architecture,Mapping Molecular onset underlying probabilistic origin of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)

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Dr. Adish Dani

TIFR Hyderabad India

Technical Expertise: Single molecule super-resolution microscopy, STORM

Research Interests: Molecular and cellular biology of sensory systems as well as neuronal synapses. Neuronal synapse dysfunction related to psychiatric disorders

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Prof. Padmaja Prasad Mishra

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India

Technical Expertise: smFRET, 

Research Interests: Nucleic Acid-Protein Interactions, Secondary Structures of Nucleic Acids and DNA Repair Mechanisms

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Dr. Abhishek Mazumder

DBT-Wellcome Fellow, IICB Kolkata, India

Technical Expertise: Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy

Research Interests: Development of therapeutic agents and diagnostic methods against the emerging threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Liquid-liquid phase separation in biology

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Prof. Kazuhiro Maeshima

National Institute of Genetics, Mashima, Shizuoka, Japan

Technical Expertise: live-cell single molecule imaging, superresolution imaging

Research Interests: 3D organization of genome in the cell, and how the human genome is read out for cellular proliferation, differentiation and development

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​Dr. Hiroko Bannai

Waseda University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Japan

Technical Expertise: Quantum-dot single particle tracking (QD-SPT), a single molecule imaging technique

Research Interests: Mechanisms of memory and learning and the pathogenesis of neurological diseases such as epilepsy, and Alzheimer's disease

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Dr. Mitsuhiro Iwaki

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

Technical Expertise: Single-molecule fluorescence imaging

Research Interests: 3D DNA Origami as Single-Molecule Biophysical Tools for Dissecting Molecular Motor Functions

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Dr. Tsuyoshi Terakawa

Kyoto University, Japan

Technical Expertise: Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging, simulations, and machine learning,

Research Interests: Molecular-level dynamics-chromatin-based processes such as transcription, replication, and repair

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​Prof. Rahul Roy

IISc Bangalore, India

Technical Expertise: Single molecule biophysics, Metagenomics, Diagnostics, Microfluidics and Virology

Research Interests: Biosensing, Biomolecular Self Assembly, Host-pathogen interactions  and Cellular Heterogeneity

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Prof. Dibyendu Kumar Sasmal

IIT Jodhpur, India

Technical Expertise: smFRET,

Research Interests: Single molecule imaging of T cell receptor conformation dynamics, Single molecule patch-clamp FRET and T cell receptor interaction kinetics and signalling

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Dr. Sung Hyun Kim

Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea 

Technical Expertise: iMAX FRET (Information Maximized FRET) for Multipoint Single-Molecule Structural Analysis

Research Interests: Full-length single-molecule protein fingerprinting, Kinetics of DNA looping

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Prof. Naoki Watanabe

Kyoto University, Japan

Technical Expertise: Ultra-multiplexed high-density labeling super-resolution microscopy IRIS

Research Interests: Cytoskeletal remodeling, cell signaling, mechanical forces, mechanotransduction, drug discovery.

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Dr. Nitin Mohan

IIT Kanpur, India

Technical Expertise: (STORM), Photo-activated Localization Microscopy (PALM)

Research Interests:molecular interactions and dynamics in cellular processes related to nutrient sensing, intracellular trafficking, viral transport, neurodegenerative disorders and lysosomal storage disorders

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TIFR Hyderabad India

Technical Expertise: Single molecule FRET (smFRET) and Super resolution Optical Microscopy 

Research Interests: Study of Protein Amyloids and Liquid-liquid Phase Separation (LLPS) using Single Molecule Techniques, Alpha-synuclein and Islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) or Amylin

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Dr. Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe

McGill University , Canada

Technical Expertise:  Live cell single-molecule fluorescence microscopy

Research Interests: Replisome architecture, dynamics, a mutation avoidance, chromosomes, DNA replication the cell cycle and cell size control

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Dr. Dibyendu Kumar Das

IIT Kanpur, India

Technical Expertise:  Single molecule fluorescence energy transfer (smFRET) imaging microcopy

Research Interests: Conformational dynamics of enveloped viral glycoprotein during cellular entry, Mechanical basis of viral fusion machine mediated membrane fusion

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IISER Tirupati, India

Technical Expertise: Single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET)

Research Interests: DNA nanostructures, Non-canonical DNA structures and Viral Membrane Proteins

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Dr. Satomi Matsuoka

Osaka University, FBS, Japan

Technical Expertise: Super resolution microscopy, STORM

Research Interests: Chemotactic signaling networks, Ras family small GTPases  and cell migration

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Prof. Noriyuki Kodera

Kanazawa University, WPI Nano Life Science Institute, Japan

Technical Expertise:High-speed atomic force microscopy

Research Interests: In-situ and real-time visualization of biomolecular dynamics of myosin, dynamics of molecular cargo transporter in cells

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​Dr. Masataka Yanagawa

Kyoto University, Japan

Technical Expertise: Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging

Research Interests: Single-molecule Pharmacology of GPCRs, signal transduction upon drug stimulation

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Dr. Michio Hiroshima

Osaka University, Japan

Technical Expertise: Automated single-molecule imaging, EGFR signaling, SMT-based drug screening

Research Interests:  Intracellular signaling system, analysis of the singularity phenomenon in neurodegenerative diseases

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​Prof. Chayan Kanti Nandi

IIT Mandi, India

Technical Expertise: Single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM), STORM, and SRRF

Research Interests: Structure-function relationship of carbon nanodots, single-molecule fluorescence blinking behavior in fluorescent nanomaterials, Cellular dynamics in cancer

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Dr. Barun Maity

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India

Technical Expertise: Single Molecule Imaging, Single Particle Tracking (SPT), Super-resolution microscopy (STORM, PALM, and Peptide-PAINT)

Research Interests: Oncogenic Fusion Proteins, Transcription Regulation, Liquid-liquid Phase Separation (LLPS),  

Website created by Dr. Farhan Anjum, DBT-SAHAJ Facility for Single-Molecule and Super-Resolution Imaging, IIT Hyderabad. Last updated: 05-06-2025

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