Welcome to the FRET community

A hub for joint scientific efforts in the field of Förster resonance energy transfer

The FRET community provides a platform for discussions and exchange and represents the field within the scientific community.

The FRET community provides dissemination through freely-available resources and the organization of regular workshops on methods, instrumentation and analysis procedures.

The FRET community will work towards standardizing experimental and analysis procedures by organizing experimental and computational community challenges.

We are happy to announce that the Satellite Meeting at the Methods and Applications Conference returns in 2025 in Montreal, Canada. The meeting will take place before the start of MAF2025 on August 23 to 24 at McGill University.

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In 2021, many members of the FRET community came together to assess the state of the field.

The resulting position paper is a combination of the history of smFRET, a review of techniques, an assessment of experimental challenges and their solutions, an appeal for open science, and a perspective for the field and – most importantly – the community.

Read the position paper here

Over the past decades, Förster resonance energy transfer has evolved into a routine tool in the life sciences. Inspired by our recent joint study on the precision and accuracy of FRET, we hope to channel the efforts of community to advance the field within the scientific community.
To the right: The number of publications per year containing the keywords “FRET” or “single molecule FRET” in the title or abstract (Source: Web of Science).

Read the multi-laboratory benchmark studySee the bylaws of the community

Announcement: PicoQuant 29th International Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy

From October 8-10, 2024, PicoQuant are hosting their 29th International Workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy[…]

FRET satellite workshop at MAF2022

The FRET community will host a Satellite Meeting at the Methods and Applications in Fluorescence[…]

Announcement: PicoQuant 26th International Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy

PicoQuant invites the Single Molecule and Microscopy Community to one of the first in-person meetings[…]

Announcement: Protein Folding and Dynamics seminar – November 16

Dear friends, We are happy to announce the next talk of our bi-weekly series of Zoom seminars[…]

The community is just getting started. If you have ideas, feedback, or would like to get involved by organizing activities within the community, please use the contact form below.