Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Tutzing 2026

Single-Molecule FRET: The Next 30 Years

Daily Schedule

14:00 – 14:20

Nils Walter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. USA* Flux and Function: Watching RNA-Protein Complexes Assemble to Control Gene Expression Nusrat Qureshi, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany* , PQ-ECA Sync or Sink: The Extent of Transcription-Translation Coupling Determines Transcription Factor Recruitment to Regulate Gene Expression Johannes Hohlbein, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany* DNA FRET Sensors: From Probing DNA Synthesis in Nanofluidic Devices to Quantifying Complex Interactions Between DNA Transcription Factors Andreas Hartmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany* Different Personalities of Phase-Separating Proteins Reveal Multiple RNA Binding Modes

14:20 – 14:40

14:40 – 15:00

15:00 – 15:20

Mariska Haas, Ulm University, Germany* , PQ-ECA Quantitative smFRET of Low-Affinity Complexes in Nanoholes

15:20 – 15:40

15:40 – 16:00

Yale Goldmann, University of California, Davis, USA* Nanometer-Scale RNA Protein Clusters (RPCS) Foster Helicase Activity of Dead Box Helicase EIF4A

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Session & Coffee Break

Seminarraum/Medienraum/Musiksaal

18:15 – 21:00

Boat Tour & Banquet Dinner

MS Starnberg on Lake Starnberg

21:00

Music and Dance: TUM Old's Cool Combo

Schlossdiele & Salons

Friday, September 25, 2026 8:30 – 13:00

Registration & Information

Foyer

Session XIV

New Directions in FRET I Chair: Georg Krainer, University of Graz, Austria

9:00 – 9:30

Sebastian Deindl, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Sweden From Sequence to Function: Bridging Single-Molecule Kinetics with Molecular Identity Sonja Schmid, University of Basel, Switzerland Breaking the Photobleaching Limit in Single-Molecule FRET by Dyecycling Tim Schröder, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany* Microtime-Gated Photon Statistics: From Fast FRET Dynamics to Exciton Colliders

9:30 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:20

10:20 – 10:50

Coffee Break

Foyer

Session XV

New Directions in FRET II Chair: Victoria Birkedal, Aarhus University, Denmark

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