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Congratulations to Hamed Karimi, who defended his doctoral thesis, Development of Computational and Statistical Methods for Fluorescence-Based Diffusion Measurements, at TalTech on 12 May 2026.

Molecular diffusion is fundamental to cell physiology, but measuring it accurately in living cells is...

A Unified Platform for FCS and RICS Analysis with Advanced Statistical Inference

Hamed Karimi, Otto Gustavson, Irina Česnokova, Jelena Branovets, Rikke Birkedal, Martin Laasmaa, Marko Vendelin

ACS Omega, 2026 Mar 31; 11(12): 19201-19219.

• PMID: 41939380
• DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.5c12269

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Congratulations to three students from the Laboratory of Systems Biology who defended their master's theses in Applied Physics on 5 June.

Marten Pärg defended Implementing 3D Imaging in Single Molecule Localization Microscopy with Astigmatism. His work implemented three-dimensional super-resolut...

Statistical analysis of fluorescence intensity transients with Bayesian methods.

Hamed Karimi, Martin Laasmaa, Margus Pihlak, Marko Vendelin

Sci Adv, 2025 Apr 18; 11(16): eads4609.

• PMID: 40249821
• DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads4609

Abstract

Molecular movement and interactions at the singl...

Analysis of molecular movement reveals latticelike obstructions to diffusion in heart muscle cells

Ardo Illaste, Martin Laasmaa, Pearu Peterson, Marko Vendelin

Biophys J, 2012 Feb 22; 102(4): 739-48.

• PMID: 22385844
• DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.01.012

Significance

Molecules must move th...