NanoNerds | QSTORM: Ge Yang at Woods Hole - March 2012 @NanoNerds | Uploaded October 2012 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
Ge shows his preliminary microscopy data tracking nerve cell vesicle transport along microtubules in Drosophila, and discusses possible roles of the tau protein in regulating and sometimes disrupting that traffic, leading to neurodegenerative disease. We see his first efforts to get around microinjection of quantum dots by culturing them in growth solution along with mouse hippocampal cells, and early STORM imaging efforts.
See the team website at qstorm.org.
QSTORM is an NSF-funded collaborative research venture with the goal of making a major breakthrough in biological imaging and visualization. The team is harnessing switchable quantum dots, histochemistry, and STORM super-resolution microscopy to provide unprecedented visual detail on the molecular machinery of life inside living cells. The team's Principal Investigators are Jessica Winter of Ohio State University, Peter Kner of University of Georgia --Athens, Beth Brainerd of Brown University, Ge Yang of Carnegie-Mellon, and Carol Lynn Alpert of the Museum of Science, Boston. Supported provided by NSF #(Award No. MCB-1052733).
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Ge shows his preliminary microscopy data tracking nerve cell vesicle transport along microtubules in Drosophila, and discusses possible roles of the tau protein in regulating and sometimes disrupting that traffic, leading to neurodegenerative disease. We see his first efforts to get around microinjection of quantum dots by culturing them in growth solution along with mouse hippocampal cells, and early STORM imaging efforts.
See the team website at qstorm.org.
QSTORM is an NSF-funded collaborative research venture with the goal of making a major breakthrough in biological imaging and visualization. The team is harnessing switchable quantum dots, histochemistry, and STORM super-resolution microscopy to provide unprecedented visual detail on the molecular machinery of life inside living cells. The team's Principal Investigators are Jessica Winter of Ohio State University, Peter Kner of University of Georgia --Athens, Beth Brainerd of Brown University, Ge Yang of Carnegie-Mellon, and Carol Lynn Alpert of the Museum of Science, Boston. Supported provided by NSF #(Award No. MCB-1052733).
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
