Walter Benjamin Fellowship by the German Reserach Foundation (DFG)

Project SymbioScope: Assessing the ecological diversity and dynamics of symbiotic interactions in a key phytoplankton by automated high-content 3D microscopy

Hosted by Prof. Dr. Fabien Burki, Department of Organismal Biology
Automated microscopy to elucidate unknown eukaryotic diversity

Stratégie d'attractivité durable (SAD) International Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Région Bretagne: Competitive fellowship aimed at international researchers who bring new methods and expertise to research establishments based in Bretagne

Supervised by Prof. Dr. Nathalie Simon & Dr. Colomban de Vargas,
UMR 7144 Adaptation and Diversity in Marine Environment,
CNRS/Sorbonne Université, France
Project IMASTAN: Automated imaging of phytoplankton in the SOMLIT-Astan time series

Systems Biology Imaging Platform, headed by Andrew Woehler, PhD
Max Delbrück Center (MDC) for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association

Superresolution fluorescence neuroimaging

Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technologies & Institute of Physical Chemistry
Supervised by Prof. Dr. R. Heintzmann, Nanobiophotonics Research Group
Research Project: Development of a holoscopic imaging system and applied high-resolution fluorescence microscopy

Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics
Research Project: High-resolution fluorescence microscopy with photoswitchable proteins

Research Project: Resolution improvement with structured illumination fluorescence microscopy applied to biological research

Fluorescence microscopy, automated microscopy, super-resolution microscopy, image processing & quantitative analysis, plankton sampling and filtration, plankton culturing, optical design & calibration, instrument control, fluorescent labelling & immunocytochemistry, in-situ hybridization, interferometry, 3D modelling and printing

• M. Walde, C. Camplong, C. de Vargas, A.-C. Baudoux & N. Simon (2023). Viral infection impacts the 3D subcellular structure of the abundant marine diatom Guinardia delicatula. Frontiers in Marine Science 9, 1034235.
  DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1034235
  
  
• M. M. Sandin & M. Walde (2022). oligoN-design: First beta version. GitHub Releases.
  Bioinformatic pipeline for the high-throughput design of specific probes for fluorescence in situ hybridization of only genetically known organisms.
  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7473220.
  
  
• Z. Farsi, M. Walde, A. E. Klementowicz, F. Paraskevopoulou & A. Woehler (2021). Single synapse glutamate imaging reveals multiple levels of release mode regulation in mammalian synapses. iScience, 24(1), 101909.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101909
  
  
• M. Walde & A. Woehler (2018). Spectral STORM - Multi-colour super-resolution imaging with a single excitation laser. European Light Microscopy Initiative (ELMI2018), Dublin.
  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3833716
  
  
• M. Walde, A. Jost, K. Wicker & R. Heintzmann (2017). Engineering an achromatic Bessel beam using a phase-only spatial light modulator and an iterative Fourier transformation algorithm. Optics Communications, 383, 64–68.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2016.08.050
  
  
• M. Walde (2017): Development of a holoscopic imaging system and applied high-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. PDF
  
  
• Badgaa, R. Büchler, N. Wielsch, M. Walde, R. Heintzmann, Y. Pauchet, A. Svatos, K. Ploss & W. Boland (2015). The Green Gut: Chlorophyll Degradation in the Gut of Spodoptera littoralis. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41(11), 965–974.
  DOI :10.1007/s10886-015-0636-0 PDF
  
  
• M. Walde, J. Monypenny, R. Heintzmann, G.E. Jones & S. Cox (2014). Vinculin binding angle in podosomes revealed by high resolution microscopy. PLoS ONE, 9(2).
  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088251
  
  
• K. Wicker, M. Walde, E. Oldewurtel, L. Hirvonen, O Mandula, S. Sindbert & R. Heintzmann (2010). Structured Illumination and Image Inversion Interferometry. Biophysical Journal, 98(3), 619a.