Equipment

Equipment

Advanced optical microscopy

  • Phase contrast microscopy
  • Confocal (multiphoton) microscopy
  • Wide-field fluorescence microscopy
  • Super-resolution microscopy (STED)
  • Fluorescence correlation microscopy
  • Fluorescence life time imaging microscopy
  • Total internal reflection imaging microscopy
  • Upright zoom microscope
  • High-speed and CCD-EM digital imaging

Micromanipulation of Giant Vesicles (GUVs)

  • Micropipette aspiration
  • Optical trapping
  • Electroporation
  • Electrofusion
  • Pico- and femtoliter injection

Physico-chemical characterization

  • Isothermal titration calorimetry
  • Differential scanning calorimetry
  • Zeta potential
  • Dynamic light scattering
  • UV spectroscopy
  • Surface tensiometry
  • Osmometry

Microfluidic chip fabrication

  • Microfluidic chip design
  • Chean hood for assembly and fabrication
  • Spin coater and UV exposure for SU-8 masters
  • Plasma cleaner for assembly of glass-PDMS chips

Microfluidic experiments

  • Pumps for fluidic control (pressure and syringe)
  • Microfluidic generation of water-in-oil droplets
  • High-speed camera for droplets
  • Microfluidic generation of GUVs
  • Microfluidic trapping of GUVs and cells

Compute Cluster

  • Compute nodes (~ 500 nodes with 5000 CPU core)
  • GPU accelerators (~ 500 NVidia Geforce GTX 780Ti, 980Ti)
  • Infiniband network, Omnipath network
  • File server (~ 1PB disk space)
  • Software (gromacs, amber, gaussian, mathematica, matlab, vmd, R)
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