Technique - (4) Oblique plane illumination (light-sheet) microscopy

Type: Experimental

Description: Volumetric fluorescence imaging with reduced phototoxicity using an oblique light sheet for rapid 3D imaging of biological samples.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Photonics Group (Biophotonics) @ Imperial
Summary:

Dunsby co-invented oblique plane microscopy (a single-objective light-sheet technique) and develops multidimensional fluorescence lifetime and light-sheet imaging instrumentation for live-cell and tissue imaging, applied to cancer diagnostics and cell biology.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Laboratory for the Physics of Life @ Princeton
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Gregor's Laboratory for the Physics of Life builds custom quantitative microscopes (single-objective oblique-plane light-sheet, multicolor live-imaging, single-molecule transcription imaging) to make precision, physics-style measurements of gene expression, morphogen gradients, and chromatin dynamics in living Drosophila embryos and mammalian gastruloids. He is actively recruiting PhD students and postdocs with expertise in super-resolution imaging, nonlinear/ultrafast optics, and instrumentation development.

Department(s)/lab(s): Chemistry (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry) | Klenerman Group @ Cambridge
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Klenerman develops and applies single-molecule fluorescence and scanning-probe methods (including nanopipette scanning ion-conductance microscopy and a single-objective oblique-plane light-sheet microscope) to study protein misfolding and aggregation in neurodegenerative disease, alongside his earlier work co-inventing next-generation DNA sequencing.

Department(s)/lab(s): Neurobiology | Kozorovitskiy Laboratory @ Northwestern
Summary:

Prof. Kozorovitskiy (Neurobiology) studies neuromodulation and plasticity in the striatum and basal ganglia, with a distinctive emphasis on developing and applying advanced optical imaging methods. Imaging technique innovations: (1) Oblique plane illumination (OPI / scanned oblique plane illumination, SOPi) microscopy — a single-objective light-sheet technique achieving tilt-invariant volumetric imaging for rapid 3D capture of fluorescently labeled neural structures without mechanical tilting; (2) Two-photon fluorescence imaging and two-photon glutamate/neuromodulator photorelease for single-synapse resolution in live tissue; (3) Near-infrared genetically-encoded calcium indicators (with Verkhusha group) for in vivo multi-color neural recording with reduced photobleaching. The lab's technical contributions are centered on extending the spatial and volumetric resolution of live-tissue fluorescence imaging. Irving M. Klotz Research Professor of Neurobiology; Beckman Young Investigator 2015.