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)