
Confirmed Speakers
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.
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.
​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.
Prof. Philip Tinnefeld
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Technical Expertise: Single-molecule sensing and biophysics, super resolution microscopy-dSTORM, DNA-PAINT, MINFLUX.
Research Interests: Single-molecule sensing with DNA origami, development and application of new super resolution techniques.
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.
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.
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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​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.
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).​​​​