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Neural Vascular Imaging
The Attwell lab is interested in understanding the interactions that occur between neurons, glial cells and the vasculature of the brain through the use of electrophysiology and imaging techniques.
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Dynamics of Complex Fluids
The Bäumchen lab is researching the physics underlying interfaces of soft and biological matter. In particular, they want to understand how those interfaces can alter the dynamics of soft and living matter. To achieve this, a multitude of techniques including micro- and nanofluidics, lab-on-a-chip technologies and force spectroscopy methods are employed.
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Neuroscience and Calcium Imaging
Dr. Geoffrey Murphy, professor of physiology at the University of Michigan’s Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute studies the how the mammalian brain encodes, stores and retrieves information.
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Optogenetics of Living Biofilms
Bioprinting is an increasingly applied technique that facilitates the precise placement of biological substances – such as living cells, DNA, proteins, and growth factors – for the computer-aided fabrication of biologically active materials with a prescribed organization.
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Liquid Beam Observation and Fluorescence
Dr. Andreas Hans is the subgroup leader of the Spectroscopy and Physics with Synchrotron Radiation group within Experimental Physics. This group is performing studies on x-ray interactions with samples and the effects on a molecular level, using x-rays to irradiate biomolecules in a vacuum and detecting the resulting emission of photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles.
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High Content Imaging
Jonathan Rocheleau is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. His laboratory uses high content imaging to study pancreatic islet biology.
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High-Speed FRET
The Plested lab investigates the characterization of receptors relevant to neuronal systems. They apply multiple techniques to image isolated neurons, including a combination of electrophysiology and fluorescence live-cell imaging.
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Spinning Disk Confocal at University of Manchester
The research being performed at the University of Manchester has a real-world impact beyond the lab. The team is at the forefront of the search for solutions to some of the most pressing issues in biology, medicine and health
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Spinning Disk Confocal at University of Edinburgh
The group of Professor Seth Grant are interested in whole-brain synaptome mapping with an aim to understand more about how synaptic proteins are distributed and the role the molecular heterogeneity of synapses plays in health and brain disease.There are more than 1000 genes encoding proteins in the excitatory postsynaptic density alone, and the group aims to catalog as many synaptic proteins and protein subtypes in both excitatory and inhibitory pre and post-synaptic densities.
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STORM & Photonics
The Photonics Group in the Physics Department at Imperial College London develops instrumentation for multidimensional fluorescence imaging – spanning a wide range of applications, from super-resolved microscopy through automated fluorescence lifetime imaging for high content assays to endoscopy and optical tomography.The availability of Scientific CMOS cameras has been transformative for their research because the technology provides unprecedented imaging performance with high resolution and high frame rates. The team particularly uses Scientific CMOS cameras for localization and light sheet microscopy.
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Live Cardiac 3D Spinning-Disk
Prof. Francesco Pasqualini is a Harvard-trained bioengineer leading the synthetic physiology laboratory at the University of Pavia, currently researching cardiac development using engineered cell culture platforms.
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Calcium Imaging at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Dr. Wiktor Phillips is primarily interested in observing the pattern generation of respiratory rhythms in mammals through the study of the pre-Bötzinger complex in the medulla of the brainstem, and whether these patterns are affected by birth and related to respiratory dysfunction in newborns.