4th Annual Midwest Advanced MINFLUX and Super Resolution Workshop
July 20th-24th, 2026
The 4th Annual Midwest Advanced MINFLUX and Super Resolution Workshop will be the week of July 20, 2026. Technology and research presentations will be Monday through Wednesday morning, with hands-on sessions in the evenings and all-day Thursday and Friday. In addition to our workshop, the 7th Midwest Single Molecule Workshop will be taking place on Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday July 22nd to 24th at the Beckman Institute.
If you would like to secure a measurement session, please contact Glenn Fried at gfried@igb.illinois.edu and Kingsley Boateng at kboateng@igb.illinois.edu.
- Workshop: Agenda
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**All talks will be held in IGB 612 at 1206 West Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61801**
Monday, July 20 9:00-9:15 am CST Welcome Dr. Glenn Fried
Director of the Core Facilities
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Dr. Christian Wurm
CEO
Abberior Instruments America, Bethesda, USA9:15-10:15 am CST "Molecule-scale resolution and dynamics in fluorescence microscopy"
(not yet confirmed)Prof. Dr. Stefan Hell
Director of Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany10:15-10:30 am CST Coffee Break 10:30-11:15 am CST "MINFLUX Technicalities - From General Considerations to abberior Specifics" Dr. Jessica Matthias
Abberior Instruments GmbH, Göttingen, Germany
Abberior Instruments America, Bethesda, USA
CCO and MINFLUX Scientist11:15-12:00 pm CST "STED - Concept and Applications" Dr. Mary Grace Velasco
Abberior Instruments America
Manager Application North America12:00-1:00 pm CST Lunch 1:00-3:00 pm CST Live STED and MINFLUX demo (canned samples) 3:00-4:00 pm CST Flash talks by workshop attendees – 5 minute intervals 4:00-6:00 pm CST Reception - IGB Array Cafe Area 6:00-8:00 pm CST Measurement Sessions 8:00-10:00 pm CST Measurement Sessions Tuesday, July 21 9:00-9:45 am CST “Using 3D MINFLUX with DNA-PAINT Exchange to Reconstruct Native Synapses in Tissue Sections from the Brain” Steven DeVries, MD, PhD
David E. Shoch Chair Professor
Ophthalmology & Neuroscience
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine9:45-10:05 am CST "An Analysis Pipeline for 3D Multiplex MINFLUX Imaging of Photoreceptor Synapses" Dr Daiki Futagi
Research Associate
Ophthalmology
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine10:05-10:35 am CST “Single-Molecule Spatial Organization and Dynamics of Nuclear Speckle Components Revealed by MINFLUX Nanoscopy” Minxue Liu
PhD Candidate
Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Illinois10:35-10:50am CST Coffee Break 10:50-11:10 am CST “A MINFLUX view of bacterial gene expression” Ayesha Bhikha
Graduate Research Assistant, Golding Lab, Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign11:10 am-11:30 am CST “Nanoscale organization of encapsidated and intracellular phage genome revealed by 3D MINFLUX nanoscopy” Wenqing Zhu
Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, and Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology (QCB), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign11:30am-12:00 pm CST TBA TBD 12:00-1:00 pm CST Lunch 1:00 – 1:30 pm CST "Dynamics of eukaryotic DNA replication machinery using MINFLUX nanoscopy" Oraya J Zinder
PhD Candidate, Supriya Prasanth Lab, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign1:30 – 1:50 pm CST TBA TBD 1:50 - 2:00 pm CST Coffee Break 2:00 – 2:30 pm CST Data analysis tools TBD 2:30 – 3:00 pm CST MINFLUX Sample prep Kingsley Boateng
Assistant Director of Bioscience Research and Microscopy
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign3:00 – 3:30 pm CST “Data Analysis Tools for MINFLUX” Austin Cyphersmith
Assistant Director of Research Instrumentation
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign3:00 – 4:00 pm CST Break 4:00 – 6:00 pm CST Measurement Sessions 6:00 – 8:00 pm CST Measurement Sessions Wednesday, July 22 9:00-9:30 am CST “Dissecting the stepping dynamics of dynein using 1- and 2-color MINFLUX” Joseph Slivka
PhD Candidate
University of California, Berkeley9:30-10:00 am CST "From Condensates to Nuclear Pores: MINFLUX Tracking of Molecular Traffic" Abhishek Sau, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist, CBGN-Texas A&M University
Incoming Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, MCB, India10:00-10:30 am CST TBA TBD 10:30-10:45 am CST Coffee Break 10:45-11:45 am CST "Lifetime Imaging with STEDYCON2" & "Labels and Dyes for Multichannel Nanoscopy" Dr. Christian Wurm
CEO
Abberior Instruments America, Bethesda, USA11:45am - 12:00 pm CST Wrap up 12:00-1:00 pm CST Lunch 1:00-3:00 pm CST Measurement Sessions 3:00-5:00 pm CST Measurement Sessions 6:00-8:00 pm CST Measurement Sessions Thursday, July 23 9:00-11:00 am CST Measurement Sessions 11:00 am - 1:00 pm CST Measurement Sessions 1:00-2:00 pm CST Lunch 2:00-4:00 pm CST Measurement Sessions 4:10-6:10 pm CST Measurement Sessions 6:20-8:20 pm CST Measurement Sessions Friday, July 24 - tentative 9:00-11:00 am CST Measurement Sessions 11:10 am - 1:10 pm CST Measurement Sessions 1:20-3:20 pm CST Measurement Sessions The university plans to capture photographs of this event. Be aware that if you attend, you are consenting to the possibility that your image and likeness may be shared or published by the university for marketing-communications purposes.
- Workshop: Travel
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Airports
Willard Airport, Champaign (CMI)
Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal (BMI) 51 miles
O'Hare International Airport, Chicago (ORD) 154 miles
Indianapolis International Airport (IND) 116 miles
St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) 187 miles
Bus service from ORD, to Champaign
https://peoriacharter.com https://peoriacharter.com/storage/schedule/cu-01_2023.pdf
Urbana and University Meters
Mobile meter - https://www.parking.illinois.edu/meter-info/mobilemeter
Pay by Phone - https://www.paybyphone.com/?showDesktop=true
Parking information
https://www.parking.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/parki… Extra meters can be found in F28.
Hotel
I Hotel - https://stayatthei.com/
(Runs shuttle to/from CMI, hotel and various campus buildings. Notify staff to use shuttle to IGB)
Holiday Inn
https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/champaign/cmitc/hoteldetailHome2 Suites
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/cmiurht-home2-suites-champaign-urbana/Hyatt Place
https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-place/en-US/cmizc-hyatt-place-champaign-urbana
Workshop: Instructors
Prof. Dr. Stefan W. Hell
DireDirector of Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. Christian Wurm
CEO
Abberior Instruments America, Bethesda, USA
Dr. Jessica Matthias
Abberior Instruments GmbH, Göttingen, Germany
Abberior Instruments America, Bethesda, USA
CCO and MINFLUX Scientist
Dr. Mary Grace Velasco
Abberior Instruments America
Manager Application North America
Kingsley Boateng, PhD
Assistant Director of Bioscience Research and Microscopy
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Daiki Futagi
Research Associate
Ophthalmology
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Steven DeVries, MD, PhD
David E. Shoch Chair Professor
Ophthalmology & Neuroscience
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Austin Cyphersmith, PhD
Assistant Director of Research Instrumentation
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Minxue Liu
PhD Candidate
Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oraya J. Zinder
PhD Candidate, Supriya Prasanth Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Joseph Slivka
PhD Candidate
University of California, Berkeley
Wenqing Zhu, PhD
Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, and Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology (QCB), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Abhishek Sau, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist, CBGN-Texas A&M University
Incoming Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, MCB, India
Contacts
Kingsley Boateng, PhD
Assistant Director of Bioscience Research and Microscopy
kboateng@igb.illinois.edu
For Abberior specific questions
Dr. Jessica Matthias
Abberior Instruments GmbH, Göttingen, Germany
Abberior Instruments America, Bethesda, USA
CCO and MINFLUX Scientist
j.matthias@abberior-instruments.com