A big welcome to Shazia Farouq (PhD student in the van Amerongen group)! Shazia will take over some of Andy’s projects, who left the group to pursue new endeavours. Thanks to Andy’s work in the last three months, we are now able to detect single fluorescent molecules on our microscope. Hooray!
Picture: Doubly labelled DNA (dyes: Cy3B and ATTO647N) immobilised on a glass surface. The green detection channel is on the left, red detection channel (FRET channel) on the right.