Martin is responsible for imaging and tracking experimental efforts with MINFLUX and will coordinate with the computational and outreach teams, as well as the director and team leaders. He and Glenn Fried are the primary contact for knowledge transfer with Abberior Instruments.
He received his B.S. in 1984, and his Ph.D. in 1988, both from UC Berkeley. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in 1992. He is theJames R. Eiszner Endowed Chair in Chemistry. His group studies virus capsids and beads ranging in size from 30-150 nm in live cells, using MINFLUX as a probe of mesoscale structure in nucleus and cytoplasm via diffusion, and will measure interactions between individual pairs of proteins in the live mammalian cell using MINFLUX, including spliceosome and other dynamic organelles where the whole-cell models need inputs. Published collaborations with Zan -Luthey-Schulten, Emad Tajkorshid and others in the center focus on whole-cell and even organismal dynamics.