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  • Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy

    Senior Ph.D. student Alexander Jügler works in the Heintzmann Lab, which studies super-resolution imaging applications such as single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM), and works on improving the phototoxicity and resolution of such techniques while making them easier to work with.

  • High Flux Plasma Spectroscopy

    With the transition to sustainable energy and new energy technologies, research into controlled nuclear fusion is being carried out. In a worldwide collaboration, the tokamak ITER is being developed and built in Cadarache, France. This is one of the first steps for realizing power plants that can generate clean and reliable energy for the future.

  • Voltage Imaging at the University of Porto

    Dr. Miguel Aroso is a researcher involved in the functional assessment of neuronal populations using multi-electrode arrays (MEAs) and voltage imaging. This work is done in order to characterize neuronal circuits and how they communicate, how to control this activity, and how this can be used as a model for studying epilepsy and predicting seizures.

  • Super-Resolution Expansion Light Sheet

    The lab of Prof. Ulrich Kubitscheck works to analyze living as well as cleared biological cell systems, developing novel quantitative light microscopy techniques. A combination of tissue clearing with light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) is especially well suited to the fast analysis of complex arrangements of large cleared cell clusters and thus allows fast light microscopic access into the complex 3D architecture of neuronal tissue.

  • Multi-Patch Clamp Electrophysiology

    Dr. Maurizio Pezzoli works in the Neural Microcircuitry Laboratory, performing whole-cell patch clamping in acute slices in order to analyze local microcircuitry. The main approach is through multiple patch-clamp, as Dr. Pezzoli says “the lab has the first 12 patch system so we can put 12 pipettes in one slice and see how close neurons talk to each other”.

  • Sub-cellular Oblique Plane Microscopy

    Dr. James Manton develops new microscopy techniques in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. A recent development project involves an oblique plane microscope (OPM) with a Mr. Snouty solid-immersion objective, which combines the speed and efficient illumination of light-sheet with the ease of use of a traditional inverted microscope.

  • Single Molecule DNA Imaging

    The NanoBioPhotonix Lab of Tel-Aviv University is led by Prof. Ebenstein and focuses on single-molecule genomics research and development of novel imaging techniques. Jonathan Jeffet is a PhD student and physicist from this highly multidisciplinary lab and works with their imaging systems performing optical genome mapping.

  • Live Cell Spinning Disk Confocal

    The Center for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg has set the goal of researching organismal biology beyond the boundaries of the biological organizational stages. Research and teaching at the COS are devoted to the biology of organisms from the molecular basis to cell biology, developmental biology and physiology to evolution and biodiversity as well as system biology and biotechnology in plant and animal systems.

  • Plant Bioluminescence

    Dr. Matt Jones leads a group of circadian biologists working at the University of Glasgow, who research internal circadian rhythms in plants and how they respond to light at different times of day, with an aim to manipulate these responses and improve plant growth and crop yields.

  • Optical Fiber Photometry

    Dr. Priya Rajesethupathy and colleagues in the Rockefeller University Laboratory of Neural Dynamics and Cognition are interested in the process of memory. Integrating approaches ranging from genomics, transcriptomics, optogenetics and imaging, they aspire to address memory formation and recall at scales ranging from the synapse through to collections of hundreds to thousands of neurons and finally animal behavior.

  • Gene Expression via Bioluminescent Reporters

    The research performed by the Locke Group at the University of Cambridge focuses on developing a quantitative understanding of gene circuit dynamics. One of the gene circuits of particular interest is the circadian clock, the biological timekeeper.

  • High-Throughput Spinning Disk Confocal

    Dr. Tom Lummen is a microscopy engineer at ETH Zürich University, and spoke to us about the imaging facility he works with, “I’m part of the microscopy team that operates the imaging core facility, we provide 20 high-end automated microscopes for the imaging needs of the users of our department