WG 6 – Objectives
The mission of WG6 is to ensure the performance and QC of stage platforms and sample holders and the optomechanical focus of the optical system as it relates to X, Y, Z movement, stability, reproducibility, and repeatability. The goals are defining the terms typically used to address QC, providing standardization of the measurements and testing protocols, and establishing performance benchmarking levels. Though initially applying these towards confocal light microscopy, the WG will endeavor to include details for standard incident light fluorescence microscopy and more advanced techniques such as super-resolution and light-sheet microscopy.
WG 6 – Co-Chairs

Stanley Schwartz
Co-Chair of WG 6
Call: +1 512 677 3080
Email: stanley.schwartz@outlook.com

Arne Seitz
Call: +41 21 693 96 18
Email: arne.seitz@epfl.ch
WG 6 - Latest News
WG 6 - Stage and Focus released its first version of the protocol "Repeatability of the XY positioning of motorized xy-tables of light microscopes". The protocol is featured on protocols.io
We welcome our first member from Turkey. Salim Can Akçınar of Ege University joined the Working Groups 5,6 and 12. Change the Quality of Light Microscopy Imaging as member of QUAREP-LiMi join us here.
We welcome our first member from the United Arab Emirates. Rachid Rezgui of NYU Abu Dhabi joined the Working Groups 1-7, 9, 10 and 13. Change the Quality of Light Microscopy Imaging as member of QUAREP-LiMi join us here.
Last meeting: 12th March 2025, 4:00 pm
Release of Protocol “Repeatability of the XY positioning of motorized xy-tables of light microscopes“.
Memberlist WG 6
Last name | First Name | Town | Organisation Affiliation | Lab Affiliation | Country | Time Zone |
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Acevedo | Luis | Overland Park | thya | Industry | US | UTC-6 |
Acher | Olivier | Palaiseau | HORIBA France | Industry | FR | UTC+1 |
Akçınar | Salim Can | Izmir | Ege University | Univ. | TR | UTC+3 |
Ali | Rizwan | Riyadh | King Abdullah International Medical Research Center | Univ. | SA | UTC+3 |
Alshafie | Walaa | Ashburn | Janelia research campus | Univ. | US | UTC-4 |
Badrodien | Imraan | West Haven | Yale University | Univ. | US | UTC-4 |
Bagley | Steve | Manchester | University of Manch. | Univ. | GB | UTC+1 |
Banerjee | Priyam | New York | Rockefeller University | Univ. | US | UTC-5 |
Barachati | Fábio | Berlin | PicoQuant GmbH | Industry | DE | UTC+1 |
Barbu-Stevanovic | Mihaela | New York | New York Blood Center | Industry | US | UTC-6 |
Bellve | Karl | Worcester | University of Massachusetts Medical School | Univ. | US | UTC-5 |
Boczonadi | Veronika | Newcastle | Newcastle University | Univ. | GB | UTC+-0 |
Bosch | Manel | Barcelona | University of Barcelona CCITUB | Univ. | ES | UTC+2 |
Bowman | Richard | Glasgow | University of Glasgow | Univ. | GB | UTC+-0 |
Carvalho | Mariana | Braga | INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory | EU-Org | PT | UTC+-0 |
Chacko | Jenu | Madison | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Univ. | US | UTC-6 |
Chalfoun | Joe | Gaithersburg | NIST | Gov. | US | UTC-4 |
Cole | Louise | Sydney | University of Technology | Univ. | AU | UTC+11 |
Cortes | Luisa | Coimbra | Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology | Univ. | PT | UTC+0 |
Diez-Guerra | F. Javier | Madrid | CBMSO (CSIC-UAM) | Univ. | ES | UTC+2 |
Doherty | Glen | New York | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Univ. | US | UTC-4 |
Ecker | Rupert | Vienna | TissueGnostics GmbH | Univ. | AT | UTC+1 |
Eseola | Alice | Norwich | The Sainsbury Laboratory | Univ. | GB | UTC+1 |
Esner | Milan | Brno | Ceitec Masaryk University | Univ. | CZ | UTC+1 |
Ferdous | Zannatul | Sapporo | Hokkaido University | Univ. | JP | UTC+9 |
Fried | Hans | Bonn | GerBi-GMB WG 1 | Helmholtz | DE | UTC+2 |
Gascoyne | Rebecca | Birmingham | University of Birmingham | Univ. | GB | UTC+1 |
Goda | Kazuhito | Hachioji | EVIDENT | Industry | JP | UTC+9 |
Grunwald | David | Worcester | University of Massachusetts | Univ. | US | UTC-4 |
Gudavicius | Dominykas | Vilnius | Light Conversion | Industry | LT | UTC+2 |
Hadleigh | Roland | Uckfield | Scientifica | Industry | GB | UTC+1 |
Halavatyi | Aliaksandr | Heidelberg | EMBL Heidelberg | EU-Org | DE | UTC+2 |
Hannan | Riley | Charlottesville | University of Virginia | Univ. | US | UTC-5 |
Hatto | Mao | Prague | Nikon | Industry | CZ | UTC+2 |
Hemmerich | Peter | Jena | GerBi-GMB WG 1 | Leibniz | DE | UTC+2 |
Icha | Jaroslav | Erlangen | Interherence GmbH | Industry | DE | UTC+2 |
Jarvis | Stuart | Cambridge | Prior | Industry | GB | UTC+1 |
Joyal | Mathieu | Ottawa | University of Ottawa | Univ. | CA | UTC-4 |
Kadhim | Ahmed | Baghdad | University of Technology-Iraq | Univ. | Iraq | UTC+3 |
Key | Jillian | Ottawa | University of Ottawa | Univ. | CA | UTC-4 |
Kirchenbüchler | David | Chicago | Northwestern | Univ. | US | UTC-6 |
Knapper | Joe | Glasgow | University of Glasgow | Univ. | GB | UTC+-0 |
Kumar | Purnima | CAMBRIDGE | Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge | Univ. | GB | UTC+-0 |
Köning | Rainer | Braunschweig | PTB Braunschweig | Gov. | DE | UTC+1 |
Lai | Pok Yui | Oxford | University of Oxford | Univ. | GB | UTC+1 |
Laktiushkin | Viktor | Sochi | Sirius | Univ. | RU | UTC+3 |
Landua | Kalika | Houston | Nikon Instruments | Industry | US | UTC-5 |
Levitt | James | London | Nikon Imaging Centre, King’s College London, UK | Univ. | GB | UTC+-0 |
Li | Xiaoming | Shanghaitech | Shanghaitech University | Univ. | CN | UTC+8 |
Liu | Tristan | New York | Columbia University | Univ. | US | UTC-4 |