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    Joerg Bewersdorf, PhD

    Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Cell Biology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Physics
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    Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Cell Biology

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    Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Cell Biology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Physics

    Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Cell Biology

    Biography

    Joerg Bewersdorf is the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Physics at Yale University. He received his Master's degree (Dipl. Phys., 1998) and his doctoral degree in physics (Dr. rer. nat., 2002) from the University of Heidelberg training with Dr. Stefan W. Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany. Since 2009, after 4 years at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, he has been leading a research group at Yale University focusing on the development of new light microscopy techniques and their application to biomedical research. An optical physicist/biophysicist by training, Dr. Bewersdorf has been a long-time contributor to the field of super-resolution light microscopy development and the application of these techniques to cell biological questions.

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    Other Departments & Organizations

    • Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS)
    • Cell Biology
    • Cell Biology Research
    • Diabetes Research Center
    • Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
    • Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
    • Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
    • Yale Ventures
    • YCCEH

    Education & Training

    Postdoctoral fellow
    Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (2005)
    PhD
    University of Heidelberg (2002)

    Research

    Overview

    Our laboratory develops super-resolution Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy, Single-molecule Localization Microscopy (FPALM/PALM/STORM/DNA-PAINT, etc.) and pan-Expansion Microscopy (pan-ExM) techniques. We are actively developing these methods to improve the capabilities (speed, 3D resolution, robustness, multicolor labeling) of these imaging techniques and thereby expand the application range and impact of super-resolution microscopy. In collaboration with a diverse set of research groups at Yale University and outside, we apply our new techniques to current biomedical questions, in particular related to the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi complex, and the cell nucleus.

    Medical Research Interests

    Cell Nucleus; Cellular Structures; Endoplasmic Reticulum; Microscopy, Confocal; Microscopy, Fluorescence

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Joerg Bewersdorf's published research.

    Publications

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    2024

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    Cell Biology

    PO Box 208002, 333 Cedar Street

    New Haven, CT 06520-8002

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