Miniaturized parallel microscopy for system biology - Innovation in miniature

Area of relevance:

Health

Duration:

1 January 2007 - 31 December 2010

Affiliation:

University of Heidelberg, Germany

Funded by:

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany

Abstract:

High throughput microscopy is a key technology for system biology. To investigate e.g. the effect of viral infection in living cells, genome wide screens of human cells are required. The present limitation is given by the rate of microscope data that can be recorded and processed in a given time. In our miniaturized parallel microscopy project, this bottleneck is addressed by constructing an array of miniaturized imaging systems, which enable a speed-up of several orders of magnitude.

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