SFBS 2026: Discover four new speakers
Four new invited speakers have been announced for SFBS 2026, further enriching the scientific programme dedicated to super-resolution microscopy for biological imaging.
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Rainer Heintzmann
Rainer Heintzmann, studied physics and computer science in Osnabrück and finished his Dr. rer. nat. in Physics at Heidelberg University, Germany. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and as a group leader at the Randall Division, King’s College London he continued to work on developing fluorescence microscopy methods.
Currently he is a professor of Physical Chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, and heads the microscopy research unit at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena, Germany.
His research focuses on methods for imaging cellular function at high resolution and developing techniques to measure multidimensional information in small biological objects such as cells, cellular organelles or other small structures of interest.
He developed structured illumination, pointillism, image inversion interferometry and optical photon reassignment and is highly interested in computer-based reconstruction and inverse modelling methods such as deconvolution.
Bei Liu
Dr. Bei Liu joined the College of Future Technology at Peking University as an Assistant Professor in 2022. Prior to this appointment, he conducted his postdoctoral research with Professor Klaus M. Hahn at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2015, and was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in 2019.
His laboratory develops novel molecular tools and microscopy techniques to visualize and control cell behavior across scales, with a particular focus on biosensors and optogenetics.
The lab takes a multidisciplinary approach, integrating high-throughput, advanced imaging with AI-driven protein design, image analysis, and laboratory automation.
His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Cell, Nature Chemical Biology, and Nature Communications.
Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal
Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Université Laval and Deputy Director of the Cellular and Molecular Research Axis at the CERVO Brain Research Centre in Québec City, Canada.
She is Scientific Director of the AI-for-Health Platform PREDIS, and of the Canadian Optical Nanoscopy Platform.
She holds the Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Nanoscopy of Cellular Plasticity and leads interdisciplinary research at the intersection of optical microscopy, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
Her laboratory develops AI-assisted super-resolution microscopy and computational approaches to uncover how nanoscale synaptic organization and heterogeneity shape neuronal function and plasticity across biological scales.
Fan Xu
Fan Xu is a Professor in the School of Optics and Photonics at Beijing Institute of Technology (Lab website: www.xulab.cc). Fan received the PhD degree in computer science from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017 and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow and senior research associate in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University
His research focuses on the development and application of super-resolution microscopy techniques, especially in 3D super-resolution imaging and single molecule localization analysis.
He combines novel imaging instruments and physical model or data-driven approaches to investigate cellular/tissue structures and dynamics that are below the diffraction limit of light and therefore inaccessible to conventional microscopy.
His publications include Nature Methods, Cell Research, Nature Communications, Protein & cell, and Biomedical Optics Express.
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet these experts during SFBS 2026! Join us in Bordeaux from October 19 to 21, 2026!
Marine Beraud • October 1, 2026