How can we see what's going on inside a cell?
A new approach to super-resolution imaging
Inside all cells is a dense and complex mixture of proteins who switch partners as if at a Ceilidh. I will describe how Mathew Horrocks (School of Chemistry) and I combined our skills to invent a new way to visualise proteins inside cells.
The challenges we had to overcome included devising a way to image live cells, rather than dead, fixed cells and devising a strategy to label a protein without perturbing its behaviour.
Professor Lynne Regan
Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology
School of Biological Sciences
I will explain how we were able to combine our expertise to invent such a method and will show some examples of what this new method enables us to do.