Discover the first speakers of SFBS 2026 Symposium
The SFBS 2026 Scientific Symposium, hosted in Bordeaux from October 19 to 21, 2026, will be dedicated to super-resolution and advanced microscopy. On this occasion, renowned international experts will share their latest research and exchange with attendees on their vision of the field.
Here, we introduce three of our speakers: Francisco Balzarotti, Liangyi Chen and Lydia Danglot.
Francisco Balzarotti
Francisco studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires, where he then pursued a PhD in Optics and Plasmonics. As postdoctoral researcher, he worked in the field of Super Resolution Microscopy, developing innovative microscopy concepts (e.g MINFLUX) at the Department of NanoBiophotonics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, led by Nobel Laureate Stefan W. Hell.
Since 2020, Francisco is the “Advanced light microscopy and biophysics” Group Leader at the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology (Austria) and also counts with the support of the European Research Council.
Liangyi Chen
Liangyi Chen is Boya Professor of Peking University, and a New Cornerstone Investigator. He obtained his dergraduate degree Biomedical engineering in Xi’an JiaoTong University, then majored in Biomedical engineering in pursuing PhD degree in Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
His lab focused on two interweaved aspects: the development of new imaging and quantitative image analysis algorithms, and the application of these technologies to study how glucose-stimulated insulin secretion is regulated in the health and disease at multiple levels (single cells, islets and in vivo) in the health and disease animal models.
His lab developed Hessian SIM, SR-FACT for live-cell holistic super-resolution imaging, fast High-resolution Miniature Two-photon Microscopy (FHIRM-TPM) for Brain Imaging in Freely-behaving Mice, and the Sparse deconvolution algorithm for extending spatial resolution of fluorescence microscopes limited by the optics in general.
How does hormone secretion from the pancreatic islets interact with other organs including the nervous system and blood vessels, forming a complex network that results in cyclical, functional couplings? Currently, Liangyi Chen plans to integrate fields such as mathematics, physics, and engineering to pioneer advanced super-resolution live imaging techniques to answer these questions. These innovations aim to push beyond conventional resolution boundaries and enable cross-scale imaging in vivo, thereby offering a comprehensive, panoramic view of the pathogenesis of type II diabetes.
Lydia Danglot
Dr. Danglot obtained her BSc in Biochemistry and her PhD in Neuroscience from Pierre and Marie Curie University (now Sorbonne University, Paris). She completed her doctoral training in the laboratory of Antoine Triller at the École Normale Supérieure, where she investigated the formation and maturation of inhibitory synapses in hippocampal neurons. She subsequently pursued postdoctoral research at the Institut Jacques Monod, focusing on vesicular SNARE redundancy in glutamate release.
In 2017, Dr. Danglot joined the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, where she leads a research program on vesicular trafficking between endosomes and the Golgi apparatus during synaptic remodeling associated with learning. She was appointed Scientific Director of the NeurImag imaging facility, where she defines the scientific strategy, technical development, and user access policy. She established a super-resolution imaging platform from the ground up and developed advanced microscopy approaches (SIM, STED, and 3D-STORM) to investigate membrane dynamics and the nanoscale organization of synaptic complexes (Nature Communications, 2018, 2022, 2024). Under her leadership, the facility has gained international visibility and obtained Euro-BioImaging labelling. Since 2025, she has been a Member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Psychiatry.
Dr. Danglot has demonstrated sustained leadership at both national and European levels. She served as Treasurer and subsequently as an Executive Board Member of the French Club ExoEndocytose from 2013 and is now vice-president from 2025. She received the Brain Research Foundation Award in 2018 and 2021, as well as the INSERM National Research and Education Excellence Award both in (2020–2023) and (2026-2028). She is a Board Member of the National Research Group ImaBio on advanced microscopy for biology (>2,500 members) and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of ICON-Europe Nanoscopy, a European initiative dedicated to fluorescence-based super-resolution microscopy.
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet these experts during SFBS 2026! Join us in Bordeaux from October 19 to 21, 2026!
Interested in sharing your work as well? Submit your abstract before June 1, 2026 for a chance to give a talk or present a poster.
