Methods | Instrumentation | Applications |
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BioImage Data Analysis | Software: Matlab, Octave, FIJI | Segmentation and Quantification of Objects and Dynamics from microscopic images |
Biophysical Modeling | Software: Matlab, ComSol | Theoretical Model Design and Testing |
Single Molecule Tracking | Olympus Epifluorescence Microscope IX73 with Laser Illumination | Identification of Diffusion, Binding, Transport of individual molecules (30 nm resolution) |
Microinterferometry (RICM) | Olympus Epifluorescence Microscope IX73 with crossed polarizers | Reconstruction of thin layer topographies; quantification of biomembrane dynamics (5 nm resolution) |
Live Cell Microscopy (transfection, time-lapse microscopy) | Olympus Epifluorescence Microscope IX83 with Autofocus | Observation of Cellular dynamics (up to 24h) |
Microinjection | Eppendorf Femtojet | Injection of proteins, nanoparticles,... in cells |
Soft Lithography / Micropatterning | Alvéole (https://www.alveolelab.com/applications/high-content-screening/) | Patterning of any desired protein pattern or gradient on glass substrate |
Magnetic Nanoparticles (semisynthetic; synthesis and characterization) | E.coli Expression, Purification (Äkta), Autotitration System (Mettler Toledo) | Magnetogenetic manipulation of Nanoparticle labeled molecules |
Quantum Dots (characterization and molecular labeling) | little instrumentation needed; available in any chemistry lab | Small Fluorescent sensors (~ 5 nm) with adjustable spectroscopic properties |
Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUV) | Electroswelling Chamber | Biomimetic system to characterize molecules in a well-defined environment |
Supported Lipid Bilayers (SLB) | Langmuir Trough | Biomimetic system to characterize molecules in a well-defined environment |
Fusogenic Liposomes | little instrumentation needed; available in any chemistry lab | Liposome fusion with cell membrane to transfer lipids, proteins,... |