The latest updates from our laboratory.
Congratulations to four students from the Laboratory of Systems Biology who defended their theses in June.
In the master's programme in Applied Physics and Data Science, Heleri Melles defended Studies of diffusion in cardiac muscle cells. Her work used fluorescence microscopy and raster image...
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...
Hamed Karimi, Otto Gustavson, Irina Česnokova, Jelena Branovets, Rikke Birkedal, Martin Laasmaa, Marko Vendelin
ACS Omega, 2026 Mar 31; 11(12): 19201-19219.
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...
Congratulations to Kaarel Beljaev on defending his bachelor's thesis, Diffusion in fixed cardiomyocytes.
Supervised by Martin Laasmaa and Hamed Karimi, Kaarel's work investigated diffusion and diffusion restrictions in fixed cardiomyocytes using raster image correlation spectroscopy.
We congra...
Congratulations to four students from the Laboratory of Systems Biology who defended their theses in Applied Physics.
Cärolin Grahv defended her bachelor's thesis, Deconvolution of three-dimensional epifluorescence microscopy images. Supervised by Marko Vendelin and Martin Laasmaa, her work eval...
Ardo Illaste, Martin Laasmaa, Pearu Peterson, Marko Vendelin
Biophys J, 2012 Feb 22; 102(4): 739-48.
Molecules must move th...