Metabolic Imaging & Tissue engineering Group News

We are looking for highly motivated (bio)physicist to join the team as PhD student on the collaborative Project between the Laboratory of Biophysics and Bioanalysis ( Prof. Dmitri Papkovsky ) and SFI-funded Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC, co-supervisor Prof. Stefan Andersson-Engels ). The project aims to develop new type of macro widefield PLIM-FLIM system (based on the existing prototype), optimise the data processing and analysis algorithms and demonstrate it in multi-parametric imaging of oxygenation in cells, tissues and related samples. Ideal candidate must have a good skills in physics, photo-optical instrumentation engineering, software, microscopy and of course be passionate about the emerging FLIM and PLIM methodologies. More details and the information of how to apply can be found here : Closing day for the applications - 20-Sep-2018. 

Dr. R. Dmitriev gave a plenary (invited) talk at the Sechenov International Biomedical Summit (Moscow, Russia, 21-23 May), an emerging scientific symposium focusing on biomaterials, regenerative and personalized medicine. Dr. Dmitriev's talk was on applications of FLIM-PLIM microscopy to study the stem cell niche in the intestinal organoid model.  The conference program can be assessed here . The presentation can be viewed from here .

Prof. Dmitri Papkovsky and Dr. Ruslan Dmitriev have co-authored a review article focusing on microscopy of molecular oxygen (O2) and hypoxia in cells and tissues. The article published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences journal provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the existing methodologies, fluorescence microscopy platforms, and available dyes, bio- and nanosensors allowing for quantification of hypoxia / oxygenation in cells and tissue. The review also describes available imaging instrumentation and highlights main biomedical applications of the methodology. The full text of the review can be found here . Story on Twitter