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iSIM Live Cell Imaging
The Dickinson lab aims to understand the generation of polarity in cells, namely when two ends of a living cell become molecularly distinct from each other. Polarity is vital for the proper function of cells and can become disrupted in diseases such as cancer.
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Live Cell Microfluidic Platform
Mekonos Inc. is a start-up company developing a biomedical microelectromechanical system (bio-MEMS) platform based on semiconductor and microfluidic technologies, to enable single-cell transfection with high viability and a scalable workflow.
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Delayed Fluorescence Imaging
The Anthony Hall group is a world-leading lab with a focus on understanding wheat genomics. Their work seeks to bridge the gap between traditionally used model plant organisms and crop species with real-world applications.
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FRET Voltage Imaging
Prof. Jiulin Du’s group is engaged in understanding the mechanisms of how multiple sources of sensory information are integrated in our central nervous system in order to execute behaviors. They investigate neuronal activity through in vivo electrophysiological recording and optical imaging on the model organism zebrafish.
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High-Speed Voltage Imaging
The lab of Prof. Xue Han uses optical methods to probe neural circuits in awake animals. With a background in optogenetics, Prof. Han has developed many key molecular tools for optogenetics, including SomArchon, an archaerhodopsin-based voltage sensor.
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High Content Multiplex Fluorescence at Institute of Science and Technology Austria
The lab of Prof. Johann Danzl focuses on research and development of cutting-edge technology to study biological phenomena at time and length scales that would be inaccessible with existing approaches. Conventional light microscopes are limited by diffraction and achieve a resolution of approximately half the wavelength of light used for imaging.
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Whole Tissue Calcium Imaging
Dr. Marcel Hörning is a physicist and bioengineer, the Principal Investigator of the Biobased Materials Group, led by Prof. Ingrid Weiss at the University of Stuttgart. Dr. Hörning recently obtained funding from the DFG for research into electro-mechanical wave formations in cardiac tissue.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”.