REALLY SMART MICROSCOPES FOR CANCER CELL BIOLOGY

Reto Fiolka Lab, Project Mentor: Stephan Daetwyler

The Fiolka lab at UT Southwestern develops state-of-the art microscopy to study biological processes such as the behavior of cancer cells in circulation. Many of our projects involve computational challenges from advanced hardware control, GPU real-time processing of microscopy data, or neuronal network-based analysis and reconstruction of acquired data. If you are interested in microscopy and its computational aspects, we are happy to discuss with you potential projects in detail. Specifically, we aim to improve current multi-photon raster scanning microscopes to increase their acquisition speed by an order of magnitude. This project will be part of a group effort and involve systematic analysis of acquisition parameters, hyper-parameter optimization, 3D visualization, programming in Python, and advanced reconstruction algorithms including neuronal networks.

For more information about this project email Stephan Daetwyler.