Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Tutzing 2026

Single-Molecule FRET: The Next 30 Years

Daily Schedule

11:40 – 12:00

Nam Ki Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea* Direct Quantification of Protein-Protein Interactions in Living Bacterial Cells by Accurate FRET Measurement Greta Schmidt, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA* , PQ-ECA Uncovering Novel G-Protein Pathways Using Live Cell Imaging Yunqing Li, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany* , PQ-ECA Resolving MET Receptor Activation in Cells by Single-Molecule FRET

12:00 – 12:20

12:20 – 12:40

12:40 – 14:00

Lunch

Restaurant Evangelische Akademie

Session VIII

Theory and Analysis of FRET I Chair: Daniel Nettels, University of Zurich, Switzerland

14:00 – 14:30

Irina Gopich, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA Photon-by-Photon Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Freely Diffusing Single Molecules Hagen Hofmann, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Model-Free Photon Analysis of Diffusion-Based Single-Molecule FRET Experiments Hoi Sung Chung, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD USA* Characterizing Ultrafast Barrier Crossing Dynamics of Protein Folding Using Two- and Three-Color Single-Molecule FRET in Zero-Mode Waveguides Lars Dingeldein, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany* , PQ-ECA A Photon-by-Photon Likelihood for Continuous Free-Energy Landscapes and Diffusion Coefficients from Single-Molecule FRET Theory and Analysis of FRET II Chair: Tomoaki Yagi, RIKEN, Wako Campus, Saitama, Japan Gilad Haran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Direct Observation of Translocation by a AAA + Machine Richard Börner, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Germany From FRET-Guided RNA 3D Structures to Conformational Ensembles Keynote Talks: smFRET, Back to the Future Chair: Don C. Lamb, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Don C. Lamb, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Summary of Round Table Discussions Ben Schuler, University of Zürich, Switzerland Probing the Rapid Interaction Dynamics of Charged Disordered Proteins Shimon Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles, USA spFRET/smFRET - A Story of Tools Making (and Their Utilization) Coffee & Networking Break Dinner

14:30 – 15:00

15:00 – 15:20

15:20 – 15:40

15:40 – 17:00

Foyer

Session IX

17:00 – 17:30

17:30 – 18:00

18:00 – 19:20

Restaurant Evangelische Akademie

Session X

19:20 – 19:40

19:40 – 20:25

20:25 – 21:10

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