Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Tutzing 2026

Single-Molecule FRET: The Next 30 Years

Daily Schedule

Single-Molecule FRET: The Next 30 Years Tutzing, Germany September 21-25, 2026 All scientific sessions will be held in Musiksaal unless otherwise noted.

Monday, September 21, 2026

13:30 – 20:00

Registration & Information

Foyer

14:30 – 16:30

Introductory Workshops for FRET Tools 1. Deriving Theory for FRET 2. Understanding Analysis Tools

Seminarraum Musiksaal Kavaliersgewölbe

3. From the Design of FRET Assays to Structure Modelling

and Database Deposition

16:30 – 18:00

Welcome Reception

Foyer

Session I

Welcome Remarks & Keynote Talks Chair: Don C. Lamb, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Victoria Birkedal, Aarhus University, Denmark; Don C. Lamb, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Claus Seidel, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Welcome & History of FRET Taekjip Ha, Harvard Medical School, USA Conformational Control: From Single-Molecule FRET to Novel Biotechnologies Philip Tinnefeld, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany From Scaling Laws of Energy Transfer to FRET Sensing of Brownian DNA Computing

18:00 – 18:40

18:40 – 19:25

19:25 – 20:10

20:10 – 20:30

Networking Break

20:30 – 21:30

Piano Concert by Antonio Acunto

Musiksaal

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 8:30 – 18:00

Registration & Information

Foyer

Session II

Application of FRET in Biophysics Chair: Maria Ott, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Edward Lemke, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Decoding Molecular Plasticity in the Dark Proteome Jelle Hendrix, Hasselt University, Belgium Kinetic Modelling of Multi-State Protein Systems Using smFRET

9:00 – 9:30

9:30 – 10:00

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