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Markus Sauer is a researcher affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany, with a focus on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Structural Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Cell Biology.

Their research contributions cover a range of specialized topics such as:

  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Markus Sauer has published extensively in a variety of scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Blood
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Communications Biology

Recent notable papers include:

  • Single-molecule localization microscopy, 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Molecular resolution imaging by post-labeling expansion single-molecule localization microscopy (Ex-SMLM), 2020, Nature Communications
  • Confocal Fluorescence-Lifetime Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Super-resolving Microscopy in Neuroscience, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Siglec-6 is a novel target for CAR T-cell therapy in acute myeloid leukemia, 2021, Blood

Throughout their career, Markus Sauer collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Gerti Beliu
  • Sören Doose
  • Dominic A. Helmerich
  • Patrick Eiring
  • Sebastian Reinhard

Their scientific output includes a significant number of publications, specifically 256 in the general field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and 105 in Medicine. The subfields reflect particular emphasis on Molecular Biology (100 publications), Biophysics (86), and Structural Biology (30), alongside Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (26) and Cell Biology (25).

Best Publications

  • FSP1 is a glutathione-independent ferroptosis suppressor

    Sebastian Doll;Florencio Porto Freitas;Ron Shah;Maceler Aldrovandi

  • Subdiffraction-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging with Conventional Fluorescent Probes†

    Mike Heilemann;Sebastian van de Linde;Mark Schüttpelz;Robert Kasper

  • NUCLEOBASE-SPECIFIC QUENCHING OF FLUORESCENT DYES. 1. NUCLEOBASE ONE-ELECTRON REDOX POTENTIALS AND THEIR CORRELATION WITH STATIC AND DYNAMIC QUENCHING EFFICIENCIES

    Claus A. M. Seidel;Andreas Schulz and;Markus H. M. Sauer

  • A Reducing and Oxidizing System Minimizes Photobleaching and Blinking of Fluorescent Dyes

    Jan Vogelsang;Robert Kasper;Christian Steinhauer;Britta Person

  • Fluorescence quenching by photoinduced electron transfer: a reporter for conformational dynamics of macromolecules.

    Sören Doose;Hannes Neuweiler;Markus Sauer

  • Imaging cellular ultrastructures using expansion microscopy (U-ExM).

    Davide Gambarotto;Fabian U. Zwettler;Maeva Le Guennec;Marketa Schmidt-Cernohorska;Marketa Schmidt-Cernohorska

  • Carbocyanine dyes as efficient reversible single-molecule optical switch

    Mike Heilemann;Emmanuel Margeat;Robert Kasper;Markus Sauer

  • Super-resolution imaging with small organic fluorophores.

    Mike Heilemann;Sebastian van de Linde;Anindita Mukherjee;Markits Sauer

  • Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy in Eukaryotes.

    Markus Sauer;Mike Heilemann

  • Live-cell super-resolution imaging with trimethoprim conjugates

    Richard Wombacher;Meike Heidbreder;Sebastian van de Linde;Michael P Sheetz

  • Inter- and intramolecular fluorescence quenching of organic dyes by tryptophan.

    Nicole Marmé;Jens-Peter Knemeyer;Markus Sauer;Jürgen Wolfrum

  • Probes for Detection of Specific DNA Sequences at the Single-Molecule Level

    Jens-Peter Knemeyer;and Nicole Marmé;Markus Sauer

  • Branching Out of Single‐Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Challenges for Chemistry and Influence on Biology

    Philip Tinnefeld;Markus Sauer

  • Handbook of fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging : from single molecules to ensembles

    Markus Sauer;Johan Hofkens;Jörg Enderlein

  • Spectroscopic Study and Evaluation of Red-Absorbing Fluorescent Dyes

    Volker Buschmann;Kenneth D. Weston;Markus Sauer

  • Live-Cell Super-Resolution Imaging with Synthetic Fluorophores

    Sebastian van de Linde;Mike Heilemann;Markus Sauer

  • Live-cell dSTORM with SNAP-tag fusion proteins.

    Teresa Klein;Anna Löschberger;Sven Proppert;Steve Wolter

  • Photoswitches: Key molecules for subdiffraction-resolution fluorescence imaging and molecular quantification

    Mike Heilemann;Peter Dedecker;Johan Hofkens;Markus Sauer

  • Photoinduced electron transfer between fluorescent dyes and guanosine residues in DNA-hairpins

    Thomas Heinlein;Jens-Peter Knemeyer;and Oliver Piestert;Markus Sauer

  • Photoinduced formation of reversible dye radicals and their impact on super-resolution imaging

    Sebastian van de Linde;Ivan Krstić;Thomas Prisner;Sören Doose

  • Multistep Energy Transfer in Single Molecular Photonic Wires

    Mike Heilemann;Philip Tinnefeld;Gabriel Sanchez Mosteiro;Maria Garcia Parajo

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Tinnefeld
Philip Tinnefeld Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Mike Heilemann
Mike Heilemann Goethe University Frankfurt
Jürgen Wolfrum
Jürgen Wolfrum Heidelberg University
Johan Hofkens
Johan Hofkens KU Leuven
Jörg Enderlein
Jörg Enderlein University of Göttingen
Hermann Einsele
Hermann Einsele University of Würzburg
Klaus-Peter Lesch
Klaus-Peter Lesch University of Würzburg
Georg Krohne
Georg Krohne University of Würzburg
Karl-Josef Dietz
Karl-Josef Dietz Bielefeld University
Armin Gölzhäuser
Armin Gölzhäuser Bielefeld University

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