Prof. Dr. Christian Eggeling

Christian Eggeling

Image: Christian Eggeling

Institute for Applied Optics and Biophysics
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology
Biophysical Imaging
Max-Wien-Platz 1
07743 Jena
Phone: + 49 3641 9 47 670
Fax:      + 49 3641 9 47 672
christian.eggeling@uni-jena.de
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Functions

  • W3 Professor of Superresolution Microscopy
  • Director Institute of Applied Optics and Biophysics
  • Head of Department Biophysical Imaging

Research

  • Superresolution optical microscopy
  • Biophysics of the cellular membrane
  • Receptor and lipid organization in the cellular membrane

Publications (selected 5 most recent)

  1. B. T. L. Vogler, D. A. De Angelis, Z. Zhao, C. Eggeling, F. Reina, "Parameter Optimization for Iterative MINFLUX 1 Microscopy enabled Single Particle Tracking", Biorxiv 2025.
  2. F. Reina, L. A. Saavedra, C. Eggeling, F. J. Barrantes, "Concurrent diffusion of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and fluorescent cholesterol disclosed by two-colour sub-millisecond MINFLUX-based single-molecule tracking", Nat. Commun.  2025, 16, 6336.
  3. C. Feng, J. Lorenz, S. Dreissig, V. Schubert, B. Wang, F. Hartmann, M. Cuacos, N. Fernandez-Jimenez, Z. Zhao, C. Eggeling, A. S. Camara, A. Himmelbach, S. Heckmann, "The synaptonemal complex central element SCEP3 interlinks synapsis initiation and crossover formation in Arabidopsis thaliana", Nat. Plants  2025, 11, 1353-1366.
  4. K. Prakash, D. Baddeley, C. Eggeling, R. Fiolka, R. Heintzmann, S. Manley, A. Radenovic, C. Smith, H. Shroff, L. Schermelleh, "Resolution in super-resolution microscopy - definition, trade-offs and perspectives", Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell. Biol.  2024.
  5. A. Dasgupta, A. Koerfer, B. Kokot, I. Urbancic, C. Eggeling, P. Carravilla, "Effects and avoidance of photoconversion-induced artifacts in confocal and STED microscopy", Nat. Methods  2024, 21, 1171–1174.