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  1. Near-infrared MINFLUX imaging enabled by suppression of fluorophore blinking

    Article • Science Advances, December 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Alexander Egner

  2. Click Chemistry with Cell-Permeable Fluorophores Expands the Choice of Bioorthogonal Markers for Two-Color Live-Cell STED Nanoscopy

    Article • Cells, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Alexander Egner

  3. Towards Unbiased Fluorophore Counting in Superresolution Fluorescence Microscopy

    Article • Nanomaterials, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Alexander Egner

  4. Pixel hopping enables fast STED nanoscopy at low light dose

    Article • Optics Express, February 2020, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  5. Statistical Molecule Counting in Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy: Towards Quantitative Nanoscopy

    Article • Statistical Science, February 2020, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

    Dr Alexander Egner

  6. Chromatin swelling drives neutrophil extracellular trap release

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexander Egner

  7. Superresolution reflection microscopy via absorbance modulation: a theoretical study

    Article • Optics Express, February 2018, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  8. Complement triggers relocation of Mortalin/GRP75 from mitochondria to the plasma membrane

    Article • Immunobiology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Alexander Egner

  9. Comment on “Extended-resolution structured illumination imaging of endocytic and cytoskeletal dynamics”

    Article • Science, April 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Alexander Egner

  10. Special Section Guest Editorial:Protein Photonics for Imaging, Sensing, and Manipulation: Honoring Prof. Osamu Shimomura, a Pioneer of Photonics for Biomedical Research

    Article • Journal of Biomedical Optics, November 2015, SPIE

    Dr Alexander Egner

  11. Drift estimation in sparse sequential dynamic imaging, with application to nanoscale fluorescence microscopy

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B Statistical Methodology, July 2015, Wiley

    Dr Alexander Egner

  12. Höchstauflösende optische Mikroskopie am Corti-Organ

    Article • HNO, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexander Egner

  13. Drift estimation for single marker switching based imaging schemes

    Article • Optics Express, March 2012, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  14. Cohesin acetyltransferase Esco2 is a cell viability factor and is required for cohesion in pericentric heterochromatin

    Article • The EMBO Journal, November 2011, Wiley

    Dr Alexander Egner

  15. Flexible Microdomain Specific Staining of Block Copolymers for 3D Optical Nanoscopy

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  16. Formation of Nanopore-Spanning Lipid Bilayers through Liposome Fusion

    Article • Langmuir, September 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  17. Nanoscale distribution of mitochondrial import receptor Tom20 is adjusted to cellular conditions and exhibits an inner-cellular gradient

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alexander Egner

  18. A readily retrievable pool of synaptic vesicles

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, June 2011, Nature

    Dr Alexander Egner

  19. A Few Immobilized Thrombins Are Sufficient for Platelet Spreading

    Article • Biophysical Journal, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Alexander Egner

  20. Two-color nanoscopy of three-dimensional volumes by 4Pi detection of stochastically switched fluorophores

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, March 2011, Nature

    Dr Alexander Egner

  21. Bassoon and the Synaptic Ribbon Organize Ca2+ Channels and Vesicles to Add Release Sites and Promote Refilling

    Article • Neuron, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Alexander Egner

  22. Automatic deconvolution in 4Pi-microscopy with variable phase

    Article • Optics Express, April 2010, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  23. Sample Preparation for STED Microscopy

    Article • October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexander Egner

  24. Diffraction-unlimited three-dimensional optical nanoscopy with opposing lenses

    Article • Nature Reports Climate Change, July 2009, Nature

    Dr Alexander Egner

  25. Mitochondrial Cristae Revealed with Focused Light

    Article • Nano Letters, June 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  26. Block Copolymer Nanostructures Mapped by Far-Field Optics

    Article • Nano Letters, June 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  27. Correlation of 4Pi and Electron Microscopy to Study Transport Through Single Golgi Stacks in Living Cells with Super Resolution

    Article • Traffic, April 2009, Wiley

    Dr Giuseppe Perinetti, Dr Alexander Egner

  28. Tuning of synapse number, structure and function in the cochlea

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, March 2009, Nature

    Dr Alexander Egner

  29. Nanoscale separation of molecular species based on their rotational mobility

    Article • Optics Express, December 2008, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  30. Isotropic 3D Nanoscopy based on single emitter switching

    Article • Optics Express, December 2008, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  31. Generation of Monomeric Reversibly Switchable Red Fluorescent Proteins for Far-Field Fluorescence Nanoscopy

    Article • Biophysical Journal, September 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Alexander Egner

  32. Photoswitchable fluorescent proteins enable monochromatic multilabel imaging and dual color fluorescence nanoscopy

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, August 2008, Nature

    Dr Alexander Egner

  33. Multicolor Far-Field Fluorescence Nanoscopy through Isolated Detection of Distinct Molecular Species

    Article • Nano Letters, August 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  34. Spherical nanosized focal spot unravels the interior of cells

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, May 2008, Nature

    Dr Alexander Egner

  35. Fluorescence Nanoscopy with Optical Sectioning by Two-Photon Induced Molecular Switching using Continuous-Wave Lasers

    Article • ChemPhysChem, February 2008, Wiley

    Dr Alexander Egner

  36. Fluorescence Nanoscopy in Whole Cells by Asynchronous Localization of Photoswitching Emitters

    Article • Biophysical Journal, November 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Alexander Egner

  37. Photochromic Rhodamines Provide Nanoscopy with Optical Sectioning

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2007, Wiley

    Dr Alexander Egner

  38. Resolution of λ /10 in fluorescence microscopy using fast single molecule photo-switching

    Article • Applied Physics A, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexander Egner

  39. Reversible photoswitching enables single-molecule fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy at high molecular concentration

    Article • Microscopy Research and Technique, January 2007, Wiley

    Dr Alexander Egner

  40. Hair cell synaptic ribbons are essential for synchronous auditory signalling

    Article • April 2005, Nature

    Dr Alexander Egner

  41. Fluorescence microscopy with super-resolved optical sections

    Article • Trends in Cell Biology, April 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Alexander Egner

  42. 4Pi-microscopy of the Golgi apparatus in live mammalian cells

    Article • Journal of Structural Biology, July 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Alexander Egner

  43. Spatial and temporal dynamics of budding yeast mitochondria lacking the division component Fis1p

    Article • Journal of Cell Science, April 2003, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Alexander Egner

  44. Comparison of the axial resolution of practical Nipkow-disk confocal fluorescence microscopy with that of multifocal multiphoton microscopy: theory and experiment

    Article • Journal of Microscopy, April 2002, Wiley

    Dr Alexander Egner

  45. Fast 100-nm resolution three-dimensional microscope reveals structural plasticity of mitochondria in live yeast

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2002, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alexander Egner

  46. Time-multiplexed multifocal multiphoton microscope

    Article • Optics Letters, January 2001, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  47. Fluorescence microscopy with diffraction resolution barrier broken by stimulated emission

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2000, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alexander Egner

  48. Time multiplexing and parallelization in multifocal multiphoton microscopy

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, July 2000, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Alexander Egner

  49. Equivalence of the Huygens-Fresnel and Debye approach for the calculation of high aperture point-spread functions in the presence of refractive index mismatch

    Article • Journal of Microscopy, March 1999, Wiley

    Dr Alexander Egner

  50. Refractive index mismatch induced intensity and phase variations in fluorescence confocal, multiphoton and 4Pi-microscopy

    Article • Optics Communications, August 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Alexander Egner