Sam Hess
Recent Presentations
“Super-Resolution Microscopy: Illuminating Biological Functions to Cure Disease,” Science Seminar Series, Emera Astronomy Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME, September 2019.
“Localization Microscopy: Technological Advances Coupled to Biological Applications” Keynote Lecture, Molecular Biophysics Training Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 2019.
“Super-Resolution Microscopy Quantifies Interactions between Influenza Hemagglutinin, Actin, and PIP2,” Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 2019.
“Localization Microscopy: Methodological Advances for Biological Applications,” Gordon Research Conference “Single Molecule Approaches to Biology,” Mt. Snow, Vermont, July 2018.
“The Role of Probe Photophysics in Localization-Based Superresolution Microscopy,” Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, February 2018.
“Localization Microscopy: Technological Advances Coupled to Biological Advances,” National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Biotechnology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, November 2016.
“Localization-Based Superresolution Microscopy: Principles and Biological Applications,” Edinburgh Super-Resolution Imaging Consortium (ESRIC) Summer School, Edinburgh, Scotland, August, 2016.
“Localization-Based Superresolution Microscopy: Biological Applications,” lecture for the International School of Biophysics Antonio Borsellino, 43rd Course: Nanoscale biophysics: focus on methods and techniques, Directed by A. Diaspro and P. Bianchini, Erice, Sicily, April 21, 2016.
“Localization-Based Superresolution Microscopy: Principles,” lecture for the International School of Biophysics Antonio Borsellino, 43rd Course: Nanoscale biophysics: focus on methods and techniques, Directed by A. Diaspro and P. Bianchini, Erice, Sicily, April 19, 2016.
Areas of Expertise
Fluorescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Green Fluorescent Proteins
Single Molecule Fluorescence Photophysics
Education
M.S., Physics, Cornell University, 1998
B.S., Physics, Yale University, 1995

