User:Hannah

Hannah Barthel is a participant of the EMBO practical course Light sheet microscopy 2014.

I started my master's thesis in physics at BioQuant Heidelberg in the group of Christian Conrad three months ago. Up to now I have been setting up four recently purchased dual-view inverted selective plane illumination microscopes (diSPIM) [1] and I have taken some first images. Furthermore I have been gaining experience of 3D culture of the mammary epithelial cell line MCF-10A. During the next year I am going to perform long-term time-lapse imaging of different tumor spheroids under perturbation. In addition I am planning to set up and further develop intelligent imaging [2] using diSPIM.

As a physicist I have a good background in optics and some programming experience (Matlab, C++).

References:

[1] Wu, Y. et al., 2013. Spatially isotropic four-dimensional imaging with dual-view plane illumination microscopy. In Nature biotechnology. United States: Nature Publishing Group, p. 1032.

[2] Conrad, C. et al., 2011. Micropilot: automation of fluorescence microscopy-based imaging for systems biology. In Nature methods. United States: Nature Publishing Group, p. 246-249.