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Musi-J among the top downloaded papers in April 2020 at BOE
The paper “MusiJ: an ImageJ plugin for video nanoscopy” ranked among the top 10 downloads at Biomedical Optics Express in April 2020. Congratulations to the main authors Sebastian Acuña and Florian Ströhl for this fantastic achievement! The paper can be found here.
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Prof. Ahluwalia receives a 2nd ERC-PoC grant
Congratulations to our PI, assoc. prof. Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, on his second Proof of Concept (PoC) grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The project titled “Chip-based nanoscopy: an affordable, multi-modal and high-throughput super-resolution imaging platform” in short, “ChipNano”, has been awarded € 150.000,- with the aim of exploring the industrial production of waveguide chips…
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Imaging microplastic particles inside fish cells
Wonder how microplastics interact with fish cells? Check out our UiT Nanoscopy channel on Youtube to learn more. Summary: using a Nanolive CX-F microscope, we were able to image microplastic particles inside fish skin cells. The microscope uses the different index of refraction of the cells and the plastic to create a 3D map of the cellular environment.…
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INPART project succesfully accepted
The project titled “Next Generation Optical Nanoscopy Platforms for Biological System – Symbiosis of Advanced Training, Research and Innovation” has been successfully accepted in the Programme for International Partnerships for Excellent Education, Research and Innovation (INPART) given by The Research Council of Norway. The project will generously support mobility between UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and…
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Accepted paper in CVPR
Congratulations to Arif Ahmed and Ida Opstad on their recently accepted paper in CVPR2020, a world-leading conference in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition ranking among the top 10 publication avenues across all disciplines according to the h5 index. The manuscript, titled “learning nanoscale motion patterns of vesicles in living cells”, combines the fluctuation-based super-resolution algorithm MUSICAL along with machine…
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Workshop: “Next generation live-cell microscopy” in Tromsø has been a huge success
During the last week, UiT hosted an incredible workshop: “Next generation live-cell microscopy”. The event was organized by Florian Ströhl and Krishna Agarwal, both members of the Optics group at UiT, and had a duration of 2.5 days (17, 18 and 19 of February). The workshop centered on state-of-art microscopy techniques used for live-cell and…
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SIM-on-chip paper accepted in Nature Photonics!
The paper “structured illumination microscopy using a photonic chip” has been accepted for publication in Nature Photonics. The article can be accessed through its temporary access here. Congratulations to Øystein, Balpreet and his team for their second publication in such a prestigious journal!
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Chip NanoImaging kick-started
Chip NanoImaging, a spin-off company from the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, has just kick-started operating at its headquarters in Tromsø. The company develops super-resolution microscopy techniques for applications within medicine and biology, both for research and diagnostics, using UiT’s photonic-chip technology as a main bio-imaging platform. The core members of the team…
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Marcel Lahrberg receives his Ph.D. in Science
In a magnificent closing for 2019, Marcel Lahrberg received his Ph.D. in Science after defending his doctoral thesis. The ceremony took place at the Department of Physics and Technology at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway on December 11th, 2019. The evaluation process included both a trial lecture titled “super-resolution imaging through single-molecule localization”, and…
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Best poster award for collaborator Liliana Barbieri on joint project
Congratulations to Liliana Barbieri and team for receiving the best poster award at the EMBL symposium “Seeing is Believing” for a joint project with the UiT Nanoscopy group. More information on the poster, titled “CalQTrace: Simultaneous Calculation and Quantification of 100,000 immune activation Traces at single-cell resolution using CNN,” can be found here: https://blogs.embl.org/events/2019/10/
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Nanoscopy on a chip demonstrated in video publication JoVE
We have published a video article at the Journal of Visualized Experiments demonstrating how to perform nanoscopy using a photonic chip. It shows how our waveguides can substitute a complex and expensive super-resolution optical microscope with a regular microscope and a chip as the sample substrate offering unprecedentedly large field of view TIRF imaging. Find…
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First Ph.D. from Ahluwalia’s lab
Congratulations to our team member, Øystein I. Helle, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “On-chip optical nanoscopy: towards high throughput and multi-modality”. The ceremony took place on November 07th at the Department of Physics and Technology at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Øystein showcased his knowledge and experience in the field…
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Poster Award at ePIXfab Silicon Photonics Summer School
Jean-Claude Tinguely received the Best Poster Award at this year’s ePIXfab Silicon Photonics Summer School organized by Ghent University and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. The poster, titled “Photonic integrated circuits for super-resolution microscopy,” presented an overview of the group’s research on chip-based nanoscopy.
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New affiliation with Karolinska Institute
Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia just received a new affiliation with the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Sweden. This is in addition to his ongoing appointment at UiT Physics. Well done!
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Nanoscopy course this fall
This fall we will once again host a 10-credit course on Nanoscopy for both Masters and PhD students. The course will have both theoretical and practical components, including significant time in the labs. The course is organized by Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia and will also feature lectures by Krishna Agarwal and other guest lecturers, with PhD…