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Label-Free Techniques for Probing Biomolecular Condensates

Aleksandra Radenovic, Khalid Ashraf Mohie Ibrahim, Helena Miljkovic, Wayne Yang Wen Wei, Akhil Sai Naidu

Biomolecular condensates play important roles in a wide array of fundamental biological processes, such as cellular compartmentalization, cellular regulation, and other biochemical reactions. Since their discovery and first observations, an extensive and e ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Subsurface fluorescence time-of-flight imaging using a large-format single-photon avalanche diode sensor for tumor depth assessment

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü, Yichen Feng

Significance: Fluorescence guidance is used clinically by surgeons to visualize anatomical and/or physiological phenomena in the surgical field that are difficult or impossible to detect by the naked eye. Such phenomena include tissue perfusion or molecula ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2024

3D diffractive optics for linear interconnects and nonlinear processing

Niyazi Ulas Dinç

The optical domain presents potential avenues for enhancing both computing and communication due to its inherent properties of bandwidth, parallelism, and energy efficiency. This research focuses on harnessing 3-Dimensional (3D) diffractive optics for nove ...

EPFL2024

Time-Resolved Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

Samuel Mendes Leitão

The evolution of the 3D morphology is at the center of many relevant biological processes ranging from cellular differentiation to cancer invasion and metastasis. Microscopy techniques, such as electron microscopy (EM), super-resolution (SR) optical micros ...

EPFL2023

Automated Dual-Mode Cell Monitoring To Simultaneously Explore Calcium Dynamics and Contraction-Relaxation Kinetics within Drug-Treated Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes

Gerardo Turcatti, Pierre Marquet, Benjamin Rappaz, Bokyoung Kim

This manuscript proposes a new dual-mode cell imaging system for studying the relationships between calcium dynamics and the contractility process of cardiomyocytes derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells. Practically, this dual-mode cell imaging ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Optical microscopy gets down to angstroms

Suliana Manley, Giorgio Tortarolo

Super-resolution microscopy at angstrom precision could pave the way to optical structural biology in cells. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Optical Diffraction Tomography Using Nearly In-Line Holography with a Broadband LED Source

Demetri Psaltis, Ahmed Ayoub, Abhijit Roy

We present optical tomography methods for a 3D refractive index reconstruction of weakly scattering objects using LED light sources. We are able to record holograms by minimizing the optical path difference between the signal and reference beams while sepa ...

MDPI2022

Advanced Techniques in Optical Diffraction Tomography

Ahmed Bassam Sayed Ayoub Mohamed Emam

In this thesis, we study the 3 challenges described above. First, we study different reconstruction techniques and assess the fidelity of each reconstruction results by means of structured illumination and phase conjugation. By reconstructing the 3D refrac ...

EPFL2022

High sensitivity, incoherent differential imaging

Chiara Bonati

Microscopic visualisation of optically transparent samples has been a topic of interest for several decades. Features such as density or chemical composition can influence the optical phase of transmitted light, and phase contrast can reveal these structur ...

EPFL2022

Investigating Tissue Mechanics in vitro Using Untethered Soft Robotic Microdevices

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira, Ece Özelçi

This paper presents the design, fabrication, and operation of a soft robotic compression device that is remotely powered by laser illumination. We combined the rapid and wireless response of hybrid nanomaterials with state-of-the-art microengineering techn ...

2021

Visualizing intracellular nanostructures of living cells by nanoendoscopy-AFM

Marcos Penedo Garcia

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is the only technique that allows label-free imaging of nanoscale biomolecular dynamics, playing a crucial role in solving biological questions that cannot be addressed by other major bioimaging tools (fluorescence or electron ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021

Organisation and dynamics of mitochondria and their RNA

Timo Henry René Rey

The organisation of molecules into dynamic cells, and collaboration of many of those cells over a billion years led to the evolution of human life. During the last century, biologists then began to unravel the marvels of cellular organisation with ever inc ...

EPFL2021

Seeing and Touching the Mycomembrane at the Nanoscale

John McKinney, Georg Fantner

Mycobacteria have unique cell envelopes, surface properties and growth dynamics, which all play a part in the ability of these important pathogens to infect, evade host immunity, disseminate and to resist antibiotic challenges. Recent atomic force microsco ...

American Society for Microbiology2021

Exploring optically active defects in wide-bandgap materials using fluorescence microscopy

Evgenii Glushkov

Defects in solid-state systems can be both detrimental, deteriorating the quality of materials, or desired, thanks to the novel functionality they bring. Optically active point defects, producing fluorescent light, are a great example of the latter. Natura ...

EPFL2021

Biophysical applications of correlative scanning probe and super-resolution microscopy

Vytautas Navikas

Imaging live cells in their native environment is crucial for the understanding of complex biological phenomena. Modern optical microscopy methods such as fluorescence super-resolution microscopy are increasingly combined with complementary, label-free tec ...

EPFL2021

High-throughput and adaptive super-resolution fluorescence microscopy of organelles

Dora Mahecic

Fluorescence super-resolution microscopy has allowed unprecedented insight into the workings of biological systems below the diffraction limit of light. Over the past decade, it has overcome several challenges to deliver 3D, multi-color and faster imaging ...

EPFL2020

Development of novel experimental and computational methods for three-dimensional coherent and super-resolution microscopy

Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux

Optical microscopy is one widely used tool to study cell functions and the interaction of molecules at a sub-cellular level. Optical microscopy techniques can be broadly divided into two categories: partially coherent and incoherent. Coherent microscopy te ...

EPFL2020

Time-lapse high-resolution microscopy to study the morphogenesis of microorganisms

Mélanie Thérèse Marie Hannebelle

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent for the tuberculosis disease, is a bacterial pathogen thought to infect about a quarter of the global human population. It is the first cause of death among infectious diseases, and is most prevalent in low ...

EPFL2020

High-speed multiplane structured illumination microscopy of living cells using an image-splitting prism

Theo Lasser, Aleksandra Radenovic, Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux, Tomas Lukes, Vytautas Navikas

Super-resolution structured illumination microscopy (SR-SIM) can be conducted at video-rate acquisition speeds when combined with high-speed spatial light modulators and sCMOS cameras, rendering it particularly suitable for live-cell imaging. If, however, ...

2020

Optical phase contrast imaging of human retinal cells by changing the tissue refractive index

Christophe Moser, Mathieu Künzi, Timothé Laforest, Laura Emmanuelle Kowalczuk

Purpose : Based on oblique partially coherent illumination of transparent samples, we developed a simple custom Optical Phase Imaging (OPI) microscope providing a label-free, semi-quantitative phase contrast imaging. The aim of this study was to explore th ...

ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC2020