研究セミナー High-throughput image analysis for studies of microbial motility

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.