Welcome to the FRET community
A hub for joint scientific efforts in the field of Förster resonance energy transfer
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The Mission of the FRET Community
Community
The FRET community provides a platform for discussions and exchange and represents the field within the scientific community.
Dissemination
The FRET community provides dissemination through freely-available resources and the organization of regular workshops on methods, instrumentation and analysis procedures.
Standardization
The FRET community will work towards standardizing experimental and analysis procedures by organizing experimental and computational community challenges.
Latest News
Satellite meeting at MAF2024
The FRET community is organizing a Satellite Workshop after the Methods and Applications in Fluorescence Meeting in Valencia, Spain, on September 11th and 12th, 2024.
The workshop will cover tutorials and application examples presented by experts in the field. For details and a tentative program please check the workshop site. To participate register here (registration opens 17.06.2024).
For more information, check the MAF2024 website.
Join the FRET community
After discussions with many colleagues, we are excited to take the next step and announce the launch of the FRET community (https://www.fret.community/). The aims of the community are:
● to advance the presence of FRET studies in spectroscopy and imaging among the scientific community
● to serve as a hub for the dissemination of news, developments and activities within the community
● to organize joint community-driven experimental and computational challenges
● to promote sharing of data and tools and to encourage community-driven development of analysis tools
● and to establish guidelines for documentation and validation of experiments, analyses and simulations.
We hope that you will join us in working towards these goals and become a part of the growing community.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in the FRET community. Register today and stay tuned for future activities.
Sincerely yours,
Anders Barth, Thomas Peulen, Hugo Sanabria and Claus Seidel
The position paper – Quo vadis, smFRET?
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.
THE NEED FOR A COMMUNITY
FRET – a growing field
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 study→
See the bylaws of the community
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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.