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Dr. Nils Norlin - European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Light Sheet Microscopy: Current advances and future challenges

Time: Thu 2014-11-20 09.00 - 11.00

Location: FA31

Participating: Nils Norlin

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Titel: Light Sheet Microscopy:Current advances and future challenges 

Abstract:

Light sheet microscopy or selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM)  has proven to be a powerful imaging technique due to its unsurpassed acquisition speed and gentle optical sectioning. This allows for in vivo recordings of entire biological specimens, bridging the spatio-temporal scales between fast subcellular processes and organismal dynamics. In this lecture I aim to give an overview of this highly dynamic field of microscopy, from early developments to recent advances, emphasizing multi-view techniques that allows for in toto imaging of small model organisms e.g. the fruit fly embryo. Finally, I will discuss a couple of promising future applications of light sheet based fluorescence microscopy.

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Last changed: Nov 12, 2014