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  • Mechanosensitive dSTORM Imaging

    The lab of Dr. Alexandre Fürstenberg deals in the development and application of optical spectroscopic and microscopic tools, with a focus on single-molecule imaging using smart fluorescence probes.

  • Electrophysiology

    Dr Ahemaiti is a researcher in the Department of Neuroscience at Uppsala University, working for multiple research groups. Dr. Ahemaiti works with Prof. Malin Langerström researching mouse spinal cord sensory circuits responsible for sensations such as pain and itch, and with Prof. Henrik Boije researching zebrafish motor function and regulation, again focusing on the spinal cord.

  • Calcium Imaging and Electrophysiology

    The CIPMM Molecular Neurophysiology Lab studies the relationships between astrocytes and neurons, and their communication via the release of vesicles of neurotransmitters, including calcium (Ca2+). Prof. Dieter Bruns heads the lab, and researcher Dr. Yvonne Schwarz spoke about the research: “There is not much known in how astrocytes release neurotransmitters… they are prime candidates for governing neuronal function and even diminishing epileptic seizures.

  • Live Cell Time Lapse Imaging

    Prof. Anderson is the head of the Crick Advanced Light Microscopy (CALM) facility. Prof. Anderson and senior laboratory research scientist Dr. Matt Renshaw oversee over 16 advanced microscopy systems in the CALM facility, including point scanning confocal, spinning disk confocal, multi-photon, light-sheet, TIRF, and more.

  • Widefield Intrinsic Signal Imaging

    The lab of Dr. Daniel Hillier focuses on vision science and researching how vision works, using increasingly more complex model organisms and neuroscientific research methods. Organisms are stimulated with different visual stimuli and readings are taken from the primary visual cortex, in order to discover how these circuits link up, how visual information is processed, and how these systems are affected during visual impairment such as blindness.

  • Single Molecule TIRF

    The Cees Dekker lab at TU Delft works with single-molecule imaging techniques in order to explore life at the nanoscale. Roman Barth is a PhD candidate in the Cees Dekker Lab, running experiments using the two TIRF single-molecule imaging systems in the lab.

  • Imaging Live Cell Exocytosis at Saarland University

    Dr. Ute Becherer studies the regulation of exocytosis and endocytosis using several different model systems, including the release of vesicles containing adrenaline from chromaffin cells (neuroendocrine cells), synaptic transmission in neurons, and the mechanisms of immune cytotoxic T cells. Proteins involved in regulating exocytosis are also present in T cells, and learning more about the processes behind exocytosis is relevant for entire organisms. Dr. Becherer is studying this exocytosis from the molecular scale to entire in vivo animals.

  • Imaging Neurotransmitter Release

    The Volynski group are primarily interested in understanding cellular regulation of synaptic release of neurotransmitters which forms the basis of communication among neurons in the brain.The Volynski group uses fluorescent probes, such as vesicular release sensor synaptophysin-pHluorin (sypHy).

  • Single-Molecule Imaging

    The Krishnan Lab, headed by Prof. Madhavi Krishnan, is involved in the study of soft condensed matter at the nanometre scale, at the University of Oxford. This involves applied physics and photonics, physical chemistry of charged interfaces, and single-molecule imaging.

  • Super Resolution

    The Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics (LEB) at EPFL, headed by Prof. Suliana Manley, develops and uses fluorescence imaging techniques combined with live-cell imaging and single-molecule tracking to determine how the dynamics of protein assembly are coordinated.

  • Microfluidic Live Yeast Imaging

    The Rine lab at the University of California, Berkeley is working towards understanding mechanisms underlying establishment, maintenance, and epigenetic inheritance of gene silencing in yeast. The lab has developed a genetic strategy to capture transient losses of gene silencing of heterochromatin in S. cerevisiae, and translating these dynamic processes as a permanent modification of fluorescence expression.

  • Novel Hyperspectral Imaging

    The interdisciplinary laboratory led by Prof. Silas Leavesley and Dr. Thomas Rich is working to develop novel hyperspectral imaging systems for microscopy and endoscopy. Using rapidly controllable light sources with precise spectral selection they aspire to be able to increase the number of individual sensors and probes detected concurrently.