Nanoscopy User Group

New group name! The STED User Group has become the Nanoscopy User Group. 

The focus of the Nanoscopy User Group is to create a collaborative space where researchers of all career stages can share their expertise using the latest super-resolution technologies. Sessions will be held on a variety of topics tailored to the needs of the audience, including best practices in experiments and data processing.

Meetings will be held on the second Thursday of the month at 11 am CT every other month

Next Meeting : 2026.06.11 – “Decoding Nanoscale Protein Organization in NK Cells Using DNA-PAINT” – Hijab Fatima, Columbia University Irving Center

Bio: Imaging scientist working in Dr. Emily Mace’s lab at Columbia University. Using microscopy to unveil human natural killer (NK) cell architecture, function and development in the context of cancer and tumor micro-enviroment.

Past meetings:

• 2026.04.09- “STED workflows for synaptic nanoarchitecture in brain” – Thomas A. Blanpied, University of Maryland
• 2026.02.12 – “MINFLUX Microscopy in a Core Facility: Early Experience and Considerations” presentation by Christina Pyrgaki  & “Nanoscopic imaging of structural synaptic changes linked to endogenous hormonal secretion rhythms in the rodent hypothalamus” presentation by Thomas Stroh 
• 2025.12.11 – Ready, STED, Go: A full-stack workflow from fluorophore to feature extraction” Presentation by Priyam Banerjee
• 2025.09.11 – “A community approach to STED resolution benchmarking using Fourier Ring Correlation (FRC)” Presentation by Henrietta “Henny” Bennett, followed by panel discussion with Joel Ryan & James Jonkman
• 2025.06.12 – “STED, MINFLUX, and their combinations” Presentation by Zachary Connerty-Marin (University of Vienna)
• 2025.04.10 – “Expanding Insights: Magnified Analysis of the Proteome Across Imaging Platforms.” Presentation by Mathias Delhaye & Jeffrey LeDue
• 2025.02.13 – “Investigating Caveolin-1 Endocytosis in Response to Osmotic Shock Using STED Super-Resolution Microscopy” presentation by Timothy Wong
• 2024.12.12 – “Implementing Super Resolution in Core Facilities: Challenges and Opportunities” presentation by Pina Colarusso
• 2024.10.10 – “Multicolor STED Nanoscopy” presentation by Andréanne Deschênes
• 2024.08.08 – Community-Run Discussion
• 2024.06.13 – Kick-off and presentation from Dr. Guang Gao