Lecture

Bacteria GFP Expression

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BIO-695: Image Processing for Life Science

Registration details will be announced via email. It takes place yearly from Sept./October to December & intends to teach image processing with a strong emphasis of applications in life sciences. The idea is to enable the participants to solve image-proces ...

Description

This lecture presents data consisting of bacteria images acquired in phase contrast and fluorescence under three different conditions (A, B, and C), with five replicates per condition. The fluorescent channel shows a GFP-tagged protein expressed in the bacteria's protoplasm. The experimenter aims to obtain per-bacteria measurements and investigate the expression level change of the fluorescent protein across the conditions.

Instructors (4)

Olivier Burri

Expertise Development of bioimage analysis workflows and algorithms to extract quantitative data from microscopy imagesTools & Software: ImageJ/Fiji, CellProfiler, ilastik, Imaris, Arivis, Matlab, RStudio, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Jupyter NotebooksProgramming languages:Java, Groovy, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, R, C, C , Matlab, Bash Expertise Development of bioimage analysis workflows and algorithms to extract quantitative data from microscopy imagesTools & Software: ImageJ/Fiji, CellProfiler, ilastik, I

Arne Seitz

04/1996-06/2000 Scientific co-worker at Philipps-University of Marburg, Dep. of Physical Chemistry 07/2000-10/2002 Post Doc at Max-Planck Unit for Structural Molecular Biology in Hamburg 11/2002-11/2005 Post Doc at European Molecular Biolohy Laboratory (EMBL), Cell Biology and Cell Biophysics Programme 11/2005-03/2009 Staff Scientist at Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, EMBL 04/2009- Head of Bioimaging and Optics platforme (BIOP), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Romain Guiet

Expertise Development of BioImage Analysis workflows and algorithms to extract quantitative data from microscopy images.BioSample Preparation : in vitro cell, organoid, time-lapse, fixation, staining strategies, actin, mitochondria, fluorescent protein expressionBioImage Acquisition : Widefield, Confocal, Whole Slide Imaging, Super-resolution (SIM, STORM, STED), FRET, FRAP, FLIMBioImage Analysis: Colocalisation analysis, Deconvolution, Time-lapse , Whole Slide ImagingTools & Software: ImageJ/Fiji, QuPath, i

Nicolas René Chiaruttini

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Related concepts (21)

Phase-contrast imaging

Phase-contrast imaging is a method of that has a range of different applications. It measures differences in the refractive index of different materials to differentiate between structures under analysis. In conventional light microscopy, phase contrast can be employed to distinguish between structures of similar transparency, and to examine crystals on the basis of their double refraction. This has uses in biological, medical and geological science.

Phase-contrast microscopy

NOTOC Phase-contrast microscopy (PCM) is an optical microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in light passing through a transparent specimen to brightness changes in the image. Phase shifts themselves are invisible, but become visible when shown as brightness variations. When light waves travel through a medium other than a vacuum, interaction with the medium causes the wave amplitude and phase to change in a manner dependent on properties of the medium.

Phase-contrast X-ray imaging

Phase-contrast X-ray imaging or phase-sensitive X-ray imaging is a general term for different technical methods that use information concerning changes in the phase of an X-ray beam that passes through an object in order to create its images. Standard X-ray imaging techniques like radiography or computed tomography (CT) rely on a decrease of the X-ray beam's intensity (attenuation) when traversing the sample, which can be measured directly with the assistance of an X-ray detector.

Quantitative phase-contrast microscopy

FORCETOC Quantitative phase contrast microscopy or quantitative phase imaging are the collective names for a group of microscopy methods that quantify the phase shift that occurs when light waves pass through a more optically dense object. Translucent objects, like a living human cell, absorb and scatter small amounts of light. This makes translucent objects much easier to observe in ordinary light microscopes. Such objects do, however, induce a phase shift that can be observed using a phase contrast microscope.

Gene expression

Gene expression is the process by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product that enables it to produce end products, proteins or non-coding RNA, and ultimately affect a phenotype. These products are often proteins, but in non-protein-coding genes such as transfer RNA (tRNA) and small nuclear RNA (snRNA), the product is a functional non-coding RNA.

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