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  • Calcium Imaging at Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne

    Professor Rod O’Connor and Dr. David Moreau work together to develop flexible, conductive polymer electrode devices to record electrical activity and optical measures of physiology from neurons to study the bioelectrical basis of diseases like epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer.

  • Spinning Disk Expansion Microscopy

    The laboratory of Prof. Ewers moves in a number of different research directions, one of these deals with the septin cytoskeleton. Septins are a family of essential, conserved GTP-binding proteins that form heteromeric, non-polar complexes that further assemble into filamentous structures.

  • PLIF Combustion Imaging

    The group of Prof. Dirk Geyer, including Ph.D. students Martin Richter and Adrian Breicher, work towards the decarbonization of energy conversion. They told us about their research, “Our main research field is the combustion of promising new fuels for the future such as hydrogen and ammonia, which, unlike methane, contain no carbon in their molecular structure and therefore produce no CO2 emissions in the combustion process.

  • 3D Axially Swept Light-Sheet Microscopy

    The lab of Prof. Reto Fiolka develops new, transformative technologies to image across scales: from sub-cellular imaging to imaging of whole organs. In the Fiolka Lab, Dr. Stephan Daetwyler is a postdoctoral researcher who builds, programs and applies advanced light-sheet microscopy systems to image dynamic processes in live biological organisms.

  • Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

    The lab of Prof. Enrico Gratton at the University of California, Irvine, is interested in the dynamics of the cell interior. The group investigates this using microscopy combined with mathematical approaches such as fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.

  • Simultaneous Multichannel SMLM

    Both Dr Ian Dobbie and Dr Jingyu Wang work with advanced optics and imaging systems at the University of Oxford. One of their projects aims to achieve the maximum possible 3D imaging resolution in multicolour single-molecule localisation microscopy (SMLM).

  • iSCAT and TIRF

    Dr. Francesco Reina is a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Christian Eggeling, taking part in quantitative imaging research. The lab of Prof. Eggeling is known for the application of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and STED-FCS to life sciences research, and Dr. Reina is building an imaging system that combines imaging techniques involving single-molecule tracking, namely interferometric scattering (iSCAT) and total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy.

  • Cleared Tissue Light Sheet Microscopy

    Dr. Fei Peng’s lab at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology is interested in the development of new technologies for life science. Some of the fields that they focus on include developmental biology, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

  • 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.