Links to AFM /SPM scientific groups

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Live cell studies

• Bone and Mineral Centre at the Medical Devision of the University College London. Skeletal biology and endocrinology of mineral metabolism.
• Cellular Machines Group at BIOTECH, Dresden Technical University. Function, assembly and interactions of membrane proteins, cellular mechanics.
• Frank Lafont´s Group at the Institute of Biologie of Lille. Biophysical characterization of molecular complex or single molecules interaction, membrane structure for living cells.
• Yves Dufrene´s Group at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Nanoscale properties of biointerfaces.
• Jan Hoh´s Group at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Cellular biophysics, intelligent subsrates, cell matrix interaction.
• Joachim Spatz´s Group at the University of Heidelberg. Cytomechanics and cellular adhesion.

Single molecule imaging including biopolymers, membranes

• Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis at the University of Nottingham
• Claudia Steinem´s Group at the University of Göttingen. Protein- membrane interaction, suspending membranes.
• Zoya Leonenko's Group at the University of Waterloo. Biophysics of lipids and lipid-protein interactions, the role of structural changes and physical properties of lipid template in controlling biological processes and diseases, application of lipid films in biomedical nanotechnology; fluorescence and atomic force microscopy, Kelvin probe force microscopy, single molecule force spectroscopy.
• Cynthia Goh´s Group at the University of Toronto. Biological systems, polymers, colloids and minerals.
• Tom Jovin´s Group at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen. Structural studies of nucleic acids: complexes with proteins and ligands.
• Andreas Engel's Group at the M.E. Müller Institute in Basel. Structure and dynamics of membrane proteins.
• Adam Simonsen´s Group at the University of Southern Denmark. Physics of biological interfaces.
• Thomas Heimburg´s Group at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Biophysics of membranes, transitions in biomembranes, artificial lipid membranes and proteins.
• Simon Scheuring's Group at the institute Curie in Paris. Structure and assembly of membrane proteins in native membranes by atomic force microscopy.
• Christian Le-Grimellec´s Group at the CNRS in Montpellier. Structure of biological membranes.

Method and instrument development

• Bristol SPM Group of the department of physics at Bristol University. Studies of biopolymers and biological systems, liquid crystals and polymers; SPM instrumentation development and theory.
• Dario Anselmetti´s Group Single Molecule BioPhysics & Systems NanoBiology
• Peter Grütter´s Group at the Mc Gill University. BioPhysics/Bionanoelectronics, Force spectroscopy, nanomechanics, nanomanipulation.
• Herrman Gaub´s Group at the LMU in München. Single molecule biophysics, cellular biophyscics.
• Toshio Ando´s Group at the University of Kanazawa. High speed AFM development.
• Takeshi Fukuma´s Group at the University of Kanazawa. Development of Video-Frame Atomic Force Microscopy with true atomic resolution in liquid.
• Suzi Jarvis Group at the UCD in Dublin. Liquid-environment low-noise AFM capable of achieving atomic and molecular scale resolution. See paper.
• Bart Hoogenboom´s Group at the UCL. High-resolution atomic force microscopy in liquid, single-molecule biophysics.

Force spectroscopy

• Cellular Machines Group at BIOTECH, Dresden Technical University. Function, assembly and interactions of membrane proteins.
• Matthias Rief´s Group at the TU München. Single molecule force spectroscopy, protein folding, molecular motors.
• Yuri Lyubchenko´s Group at the University of Nebraska. Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, DNA structure and dynamics, protein misfolding and protein nanotubes.
• Julio Fernandez' Group at the Columbia University. Single Protein Mechanics and Engineering.
• Peter Hinterdorfer´s Group at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. SMFS, AFM on biological samples.
• Hongbin Li´s Group at the University of British Columbia. Single-molecule biophysical chemistry, mechanical properties and conformational dynamics of elastic proteins.

NanoOptics groups

• Magneto-optics Group at the Freie Universität Berlin. Structure and magneto-optic properties of thin films; near-field optics.
• SNOM Group at the ETH Zürich. Scanning near-field fluorescence imaging of dye-labelled polymers and biological samples.
• Volker Deckert's Group at the IPHT in Jena. Nano Biophotonics, SERS, TERS applications.
• Alfred Leitenstorfer's Group at the University of Konstanz. Modern Optics and Quantum Electonics.
• François Lagugné-Labarthet Group. Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Nanomaterials.
• Niek van Hulst's Group. Biophotonics and molecular nanophotonics.
• Lucas Eng's Group at the Technical University in Dresden. SPM and NanoOptics, SNOM TERS; SERS, AFM.
• Christoph Lienau´s Group at the University of Oldenburg. Ultra fast NanoOptics, SNOM, SPM.

Polymer including biopolymers research groups

• Polymer Physics Group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Mainz. Topics are, e.g., microdrops on AFM micro-cantilevers, confined liquids, particle-bubble interaction, polymer melts in confined spaces.
• Robert Magerle´s Group at the TU Chemnitz. Structure and properties of polymeric materials on the nanometer scale are main research topic.
• Physics of Macromolecules at the Humboldt University at Berlin. Fabrication and study of molecular nanostructures; development of methods for STM, SFM and SNOM.
• Group of nanostructured materials at the IPF in Dresden. The main area of activity is directed to the physical chemistry of nanomaterials, polymer materials with some emphasis on polymer interfaces and scattering techniques.

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Links to Optical Tweezers scientific groups

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Single-molecule biophysics

• Steven Block's Group at Stanford University. Molecular motors.
• Carlos Bustamante's Group at the University of California in Berkeley. DNA-based molecular motors.
• Remus Dame's group at Leiden University. DNA organization.
• Marileen Dogterom's Group at AMOLF Amsterdam. Cytoskeleton organization.
• Martin Hegner's Group at the Trinity College Dublin. Single-molecule manipulation and biosensing.
• Jan Liphardt's Group at the University of California in Berkeley. DNA biophysics.
• Berenike Maier's Group at the University of Münster. Molecular motors.
• Justin Molloy's Group at the NIMR London. Myosin motors.
• Stephen Quake's Group at Stanford University. Single-molecule DNA sequencing.
• Christoph Schmidt's Group at the University of Göttingen. Molecular motors.
• Jon Sleep’s group at King’s College London. Myosin motors.
• James Spudich's Group at Standford University. Myosin motors.
• Ron Vale's Group at the University of California in San Francisco. Molecular motors.
• Michelle Wang's Group at Cornell University. DNA nanomechanics.
• Mark Williams' Group at the Northeastern University in Boston. DNA-ligand interactions.
• Gijs Wuite's Group at the VU University Amsterdam. DNA-based molecular motors.

Cell-biological applications

• Ove Axner's Group at the Umeå University. Cell signalling.
• Jochen Guck's Group at the University of Cambridge. Optical stretcher.
• Josef Käs' Group at the University of Leipzig. Optical stretcher.
• Berenike Maier's Group at the University of Münster. Molecular mechanics of bacterial infection.
• Lene Oddershede's Group at the Niels Bohr institue in Copenhagen. Mechanics of cell membranes and division.
• Alexander Rohrbach's Group at IMTEK, University of Freiburg. Photonic force microscopy, mechanical properties.
• Christoph Schmidt's Group at the University of Göttingen. Mechanosensing of bone cells.

Methods and instrumentation

• Kirstine Berg-Sørensen's Group at the Technical University of Denmark. Calibration, brownian motion.
• Steven Block's Group at Stanford University. Ultra-sensitive optical tweezers.
• Ernst-Ludwig Florin's Group at the University of Texas in Austin. Photonic force microscopy.
• Heinrich Hörber's Group at the University of Bristol. Photonic force microscopy.
• Ulrich Keyser's Group at the University of Cambridge. Nanopores.
• Jan Liphardt's Group at the University of California in Berkeley. Nanowire manipulation.
• Lene Oddershede's Group at the Niels Bohr institue in Copenhagen. Trapping of metal nanoparticles.
• Miles Padgett’s group at University of Glasgow. Development of holographic optical tweezers.
• Dmitri Petrov's Group at the ICFO in Barcelona. Combinations such as Raman spectroscopy.
• Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop's Group at the University of Queensland. Rotation with optical tweezers.
• Erik Schäffer's Group at BIOTECH, Dresden Technical University. High-res detection, calibration.
• Ernst Stelzer's Group at the Cell Biology and Cell Biophysics Unit, EMBL Heidelberg. Photonic force microscopy.
• Michelle Wang's Group at Cornell University. Rotation with optical tweezers.

Optical phenomena and fundamental applications

• Paul Bartlett’s group at University of Bristol. Self assembly and micro rheology.
• Kishan Dholakia's Group at the University of St Andrews. Novel light fields, particle dynamics.
• Phil Jones' Group at University College London. Microbubbles, and carbon nanotubes.
• Josef Käs' Group at the University of Leipzig. Soft matter and polymer physics.
• Alexander Rohrbach's Group at IMTEK, University of Freiburg. Photonic force microscopy, mechanical properties.
• Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop's Group at the University of Queensland. Microviscosity.
• Erik Schäffer's Group at BIOTECH, Dresden Technical University. Trapping of core-shell particles.
• Christoph Schmidt's Group at the University of Göttingen. Microrheology.

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Links to other related web sites

• Foresight Institute Organization founded to help prepare for nanotechnology and other important future technologies
• IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Interesting information about IBM research, concerning SPM and beyond
• Nanotechnology.com Nanotechnology information provider; news about current results in Nanotech research, new products and business news
• nanoforum.org European nanotechnology gateway; comprehensive source of information on all areas of Nanotechnology to the business, the scientific and social communities
• Azonanotechnology The A to Z of Nanotechnology
• nanowerk Nanotechnology and nanoscience resources
• Yahoo! Nanotechnology Link to the Nanotechnology Yahoo! category

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