Research seminars High-throughput image analysis for studies of microbial motility
Seminar or Lecture |
Laurence Wilson [University of York] |
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Date and Time | Monday, April 9, 2018, 13:30-14:30 |
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Contact |
Keiichi Namba |
The study of microbial motility is the meeting point of many disciplines, from microbiology to fluid mechanics. My group specialises in developing high-throughput image analysis routines for the study of motility in freely-swimming microorganisms, as well as some of the larger motility-related appendages such as eukaryotic flagella. Our goal is to understand the complicated relationship between cells' internal structures and chemical states, and their outward motion. I will briefly review a few developments from my lab over the last few years, including high-speed imaging for bacterial swimming in complex fluids, and holographic imaging for long-range cell tracking studies in three dimensions.