Luciano A. Masullo

@lumasullo.bsky.social

Physicist | single molecules, biotech, nanotech, optics, fluorescence, glycans, immunology, cell signalling | Group Leader at Glycoscience Program IBYME

Honoured to receive the Young Fluorescence Investigator Award at #BPS2026! Huge thanks to the selection committee and to all the mentors and colleagues who supported me. Excited to start new projects and keep using fluorescence to uncover molecular biology!

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We are happy to share our latest work, 4Pi-SIMFLUX, which combines structured illumination with interferometric detection to achieve near-isotropic 3D localization precision of 2–3 nm and resolve sub-10 nm structural features across whole mammalian cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eQVxt

4Pi-SIMFLUX: 4Pi single-molecule localization microscopy with structured illumination - Nature Methods

4Pi-SIMFLUX is a single-molecule localization microscopy approach that achieves a near-isotropic resolution below 10 nm in whole mammalian cells.

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Thrilled to announce some big news! Excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award to establish my research as a Group Leader in the Glycosciences Program at the Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine (IBYME) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, beginning in early 2026.

Within this neuronal atlas we can reveal the three synapse classes, excitatory, inhibitory and the recently discovered mixed synapse. Organelle imaging of Peroxisomes (Pmp70) and the Golgi Apparatus (Golga5) reveals rare contact sides and even fused particles. (5/6)

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To show the power of the technique, we acquired a 13-plex 200 x 200 µm2 neuronal atlas in 3D. With this atlas we map the interaction architecture of three neurons, resolving organelles, cytoskeleton, vesicles and synapses at single-protein resolution. (4/6)

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We demonstrate speed-optimized left-handed DNA-PAINT by characterizing the sequence binding kinetics and resolving three main microscopy benchmarking targets, mitochondria, microtubules and nuclear pore complexes with <5 nm localization precision. (3/6)

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The mirrored design of left-handed oligonucleotides allows the extension of the common 6 speed-sequences R1-R6 with their analogs L1-L6, enabling 12 target multiplexing with a standard secondary label-free DNA-PAINT workflow. (2/6)

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Highly efficient 12-color multiplexing with speed-optimized DNA-PAINT. We are excited to share our latest paper in @natcomms.nature.com, using left-handed DNA to extend speed-optimized DNA-PAINT to 12 targets in a simple and straightforward way! 🧬👈🚀https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64228-x

Very excited to present our latest work: SPINNA, an analysis framework and software package for single-protein resolution data! 🖥️🤩 We can directly quantify stoichiometry and oligomerization from super-res (DNA-PAINT, RESI) images!! 🧬🎨

JungmannLab@jungmannlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Spatial and stoichiometric in situ analysis of biomolecular oligomerization at single-protein resolution We are excited to present our latest work published in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I had a blast visiting the lab of Prof. Peng Xi at Peking University!! Prof. Xi and his team are doing amazing work on various type of SIM and other imaging modalities! Thanks so much for the warm welcome, the stimulating discussions, and the campus tour!!

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Amazing visit to the lab of Prof. Wei Ji at the Institute of Biophysics (CAS) in Beijing today! They’re doing top-notch research, including awesome interferometric single-molecule localization methods (ROSE) thanks so much for the invitation, warm welcome and hospitality!! 😍🤩

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Check-out this powerful application of DNA-PAINT and RESI: imaging ligand-receptor interactions at molecular resolution! Project led by my extremely talented colleagues Monique Honsa, Larissa Heinze and Isabelle Pachmayr Very happy to have contributed to this beautiful work! 🤩

Monique Honsa@moniquehonsa.bsky.social · last yr.

IMAGING LIGAND-RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS AT SINGLE-PROTEIN RESOLUTION WITH DNA-PAINT🔬 Ever wonder how cells "talk"? It starts when ligands bind to receptors on cell surfaces. We have cracked the challenge of imaging small ligands on cell surfaces. #DNAPAINT #celltalk 💬 doi.org/10.1002/smtd...