The ImageStreamX: Imaging Cytometer
Characterise and observe cell populations 05 31 54 79 11 The ImageStreamX is interdisciplinary equipment combining cytometry and imaging. It brings together the advantages of these two technologies, thereby providing the power of cytometry statistical data applied to a large number of cellular morphological parameters. This system generates […]
Marie-Bernadette Delisle decorated
Professor Marie-Bernadette Delisle, an anatomopathologist specialising in neuropathology and head of the electron imaging platform (CMEAB) at the Toulouse Purpan University Hospital, has just received the Legion of Honour for her work. The TRI network welcomes this proof of recognition. Read the article in La Dépêche. Contact email: Marie-Bernadette Delisle
Imaging, a catalyst for discovery
Ideas form the driving force of research. However, without the technique to back them up, they would remain wishful thinking. In the breakthrough published on 21 May in the prestigious journal Cell, which highlights the molecular tricks used by a model plant, Arabidopsis, to evade one of its main attackers, portable imaging [...]
Collaborations and imaging techniques…
In April 2015, a multi-year collaboration between the photon microscopy platforms of the CPTP and the IPBS, both of which are an integral part of TRI-Genotoul, enabled the publication of a technical article in the journal MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE. High Accuracy 4D Cell Tracking Into Explanted Skin Using Two-Photon Excitation Microscopy – I. EL […]
A new gene regulation pathway
MicroRNAs have long been considered molecules playing a role in the regulation of gene expression. In contrast, the molecules from which they originate, the primary transcripts, apart from constituting an intermediate step in the production of these microRNAs, have always been deemed devoid of any function. By revealing the role of [...]
CONFOCAL VIDEO-MICROSCOPY AND LASER NANO-SURGERY
The coupling of confocal imaging with live micromanipulation techniques enables a multi-scale approach to studying all the laws that determine the shape and structure of tissues, namely morphogenesis. The study of the forces locally exerted by a cell can thus be integrated and analysed in relation to the dynamics of the cells making up the whole [...]
Region: imaging takes centre stage
The Midi-Pyrénées Region, a major partner of the TRI-Genotoul network, discusses in its Higher Education & Research newsletter rare resources accessible via the FRAIB imaging platform. It is indeed at the latter that the Region supported the creation of a new tool, the streak-FLIM, an instrument that exists in only 3 copies in the […]
Macro-SPIM: A new imaging tool
One of the challenges in biological imaging is to visualise biological structures and living organisms in three dimensions and at depth. After developing an initial light-sheet microscope, the SPIM (Selective Plane Illumination Microscope), the Restore imaging platform is acquiring a variant of this device, the macro-SPIM. Just like its […]
The CPTP imaging platform is being strengthened
After working within various research teams, Danièle Daviaud joined the Purpan photonic microscopy core facility under the direction of Sophie Allart. Her career, which began in Strasbourg in digestive physiopathology, made her familiar with imaging techniques. However, it was during the restructuring of research units that she seized the opportunity to join an imaging facility, […]
The Region supports imaging
Support totalling €1 million has been awarded to the PRISM Project by the Midi-Pyrénées Regional Council. This project aims in particular to strengthen Toulouse's imaging capabilities through the acquisition of new photonic microscopes, some of which are equipped to reach the fast-emerging field of super-resolution. This equipment, positioned on the platforms of the [...]