Frontiers of Imaging
Biological systems are extremely complex and have emergent properties that cannot be explained or even predicted by studying their individual parts alone. We must integrate across biological levels of investigation to gain a deeper mechanistic understanding of biological systems and build better theories and models of the factors that influence health and disease states, as well as design more effective therapies. We are driving the discovery of new imaging technologies through multiple grant programs that span the full range of molecular to organismal imaging, focusing on integrating between scales giving us unprecedented views of biological systems. Read more.

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Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 3
to develop differential dynamic light-field microscopy, a novel computational microscopy technique to quantify 3D dynamics applicable to scales spanning organism-wide to intracellular
Lei Tian, PhD
Boston University
Ryan McGorty, PhD
University of San Diego
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 2
Johannes Schoeneberg, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Alex Walsh, PhD
Texas A&M University
Cryo-CLEM Labels
to deliver all-in-one SNAP-tag labels containing a fluorophore and a gold nanoparticle to live cells to elucidate protein structures by cryo-CLEM and cryo-ET
Johannes Broichhagen
Leibniz-FMP Berlin
Daniel Roderer
Leibniz-FMP Berlin
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD
Columbia University
Dynamic Imaging
to develop a highly multiplexed, quantitative, orthogonal, and automated fluorescence imaging technique for spatiotemporal RNA/protein profiling in single living cells
Mingxu You
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Tingyi Liu
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Sallie Schneider
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Baystate
Deep Tissue Imaging
Peter Lee, DPhil (Oxon), FREng
University College London
Paul Tafforeau, PhD
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Rebecca Shipley, PhD
University College London
Deep Tissue Imaging
Mikhail Shapiro, PhD
California Institute of Technology
Dynamic Imaging
to develop a computational mid-infrared photothermal microscope, a deep-learning algorithm, and nitrile probes for 3D bond-selective imaging of live cells and multicellular organisms
Ji-Xin Cheng
Boston University
Lei Tian
Boston University
Bing Xu
Brandeis University
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Jennifer Prescher, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Xiaoyu Shi, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 1
Aseema Mohanty, PhD
Tufts University
Srigokul Upadhyayula, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Daniela Nicastro, PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Cryo-CLEM Labels
to evaluate a cloneable fluorescent zinc-selenide quantum dot in cellular light and electron microscopy, and to develop a cloneable bismuth quantum dot as a significantly smaller cloneable quantum dot
Christopher Ackerson
Colorado State University
Deep Tissue Imaging
Sylvain Gigan, PhD
Sorbonne Université
Robert Prevedel, PhD
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Claire Deo, PhD
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Dynamic Imaging
to develop a computational mesoscope combining miniature freeform optics, a metasurface diffuser, an event-based camera, and deep-learning algorithms to enable ultrafast multiscale 3D fluorescence imaging
Lei Tian
Boston University
Abdoulaye Ndao
Boston University
Sixian You
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Deep Tissue Imaging
Laura Waller, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Shwetadwip Chowdhury, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Justin Taraska, PhD
National Institutes of Health
Jenny Hinshaw, PhD
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Naoko Mizuno, PhD
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Lucy Collinson, PhD
Francis Crick Institute
Paul French, PhD
Imperial College London
Ricardo Henriques, PhD
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and University College London
Cryo-CLEM Labels
to provide a tagging system for unambiguously localizing proteins at endogenous levels by cryo-light microscopy and cryo-electron tomography with minimal impact on protein function and low background
Florian Fäßler
Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire / Centre Europeen de Recherche en Biologie et en Medecine
Cryo-CLEM Labels
to optimize EMcapsulins, a set of multiplexable EM labels based on capsids engineered to enzymatically sequester electron-dense matter for high contrast-to-background, low invasiveness cryo-CLEM
Felix Sigmund
Technical University of Munich
Marion Jasnin
Helmholtz Munich
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Johann Danzl, PhD, MD
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Florian Schur, PhD
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 1
Allison Dennis, PhD
Boston University
Carolyn Bayer, PhD
Tulane University
Deep Tissue Imaging
Oliver Bruns, Dr. rer. nat.
Helmholtz Zentrum München
Ellen Sletten, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Christopher Rowlands
Imperial College London
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 2
Joshua Brake, PhD
Harvey Mudd College
Kevin Cash, PhD
Colorado School of Mines
Cryo-CLEM Labels
to design and develop chemo-genetically controlled, self-assembling, asymmetric, readily recognizable, and alignable fiducial tags for cryo-ET and cryo-CLEM
Kliment A Verba
University of California, San Francisco
Tanja Kortemme
University of California, San Francisco
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 3
to develop multi-angle synthesized ultrasound tomography (MASUT) to synthesize speckle-free and large field-of-view volumetric ultrasound images from natural hand motion
Shwetadwip Chowdhury, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Heather M. Whitney, PhD
University of Chicago
*supported by the Walder Foundation
Dynamic Imaging
to develop 4D space-time imaging methods to invert dynamic tissue scattering and reconstruct time-lapse volumetric videos of living tissue samples at kilohertz-scale frame-rates
Shwetadwip Chowdhury
University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan Tamir
University of Texas at Austin
Cryo-CLEM Labels
to develop the next generation of genetically encoded cryo-CLEM labels with AI-driven de novo protein design to achieve target-specific and conditionally self-assembling, asymmetric, fluorescent tags
Julia Mahamid
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
David Baker
University of Washington
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Grant Jensen, PhD
California Institute of Technology
Dynamic Imaging
to enable label-free spatiotemporal mapping of neural activity with sub-millisecond and subcellular resolution through developing a new method called dual-comb scattering-matrix tomography
Chia Wei Hsu
University of Southern California
Mengjie Yu
University of Southern California
Andrew Hires
University of Southern California
Dynamic Imaging
to develop a comprehensive set of probes allowing cell biologists to observe and monitor the morphological and functional dynamics of contact sites between organellar membranes in real time
Arnaud Gautier
Sorbonne University
Riccardo Filadi
National Research Council Neuroscience Institute, Padua
Dynamic Imaging
to develop a novel, high-definition and high-speed mid-infrared 3D and hyperspectral imaging technology for the real-time visualization of dynamical processes with chemical contrast
Dmitry Fishman
University of California, Irvine
Eric Potma
University of California, Irvine
Deep Tissue Imaging
Randy Bartels, PhD
Colorado State University
Jeffrey Field, PhD
Colorado State University
Christian Puttlitz, PhD
Colorado State University
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 1
Benjamin Bartelle, PhD
Arizona State University
Lu Wei, PhD
California Institute of Technology
Ulugbek Kamilov, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Martin Beck, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Gerhard Hummer, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Beata Turoňová, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 3
to capitalize on the mechanical motion of motile cilia, label-free metabolic imaging, and structural-mechanical imaging to generate a mechano-metabolic map of a ciliary array
Yi-Chih Lin, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Domenico Galati, PhD
Western Washington University
Lingyan Shi, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Cryo-CLEM Labels
to develop genetically encoded RNA-protein assemblies that serve as high-contrast, low-background labels for cryo-CLEM and that can be directly visualized in unaveraged tomograms
Alexander Dunn
Stanford University
Peter Dahlberg
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Dynamic Imaging
to develop molecular, optical, and algorithmic tools to map high-speed bioelectrical dynamics in three dimensions in intact tissue and in live specimens
Adam Cohen
Harvard University
Ahmed Abdelfattah
Brown University
Liam Paninski
Columbia University
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Julia Mahamid, PhD
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Anna Kreshuk, PhD
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Jonas Ries, PhD
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Peter Denes, PhD
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David Agard, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Paul Mooney, M.S.
Gatan, Inc.
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 2
Arnab Mukherjee, PhD
University of California, Santa Barbara
Mark Sellmyer, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Dynamic Imaging
to generate a technique able to analyze living biological samples, over hours and days, at super-resolution, followed by an analysis of important cellular events at sub-molecular scale resolution
Ilaria Testa
KTH, SciLifeLab
Silvio Rizzoli
University of Göttingen
Dynamic Imaging
to integrate single-cell multi-omics data with live cell imaging-based lineage tracing, using spatial transcriptomics as a bridge
Samantha Morris
Washington University in St. Louis
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Holger Müller, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Nikolaus Grigorieff, MSc, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Timothy Grant, PhD
Morgridge Institute for Research
Bronwyn Ayla Lucas, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 1
Carolyn Bayer, PhD
Tulane University
Paris Perdikaris, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Sapun Parekh, PhD
University of Texas at Austin
Deep Tissue Imaging
Mengxing Tang, PhD
Imperial College London
Dr. Christopher Rowlands
Imperial College London
Simon Schultz, DPhil
Imperial College London
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 1
Barbara Smith, PhD
Arizona State University
Bryan Spring, PhD
Northeastern University
Dynamic Imaging
to develop a multi-color, wide-field, single molecule tracking with fluorescence lifetime imaging platform that will provide direct access to the dynamics and interactions of biomolecules in living cells
Sabrina Simoncelli
University College London
Sergi Padilla Parra
King's College London
Giorgio Volpe
University College London
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Alberto Bartesaghi, PhD
Duke University
Dynamic Imaging
to design a new Raman imaging platform for multiplexed and dynamic profiling of activities from live neuronal co-cultures and brain slices to probe their precise subcellular coordination and regulation
Lu Wei
California Institute of Technology
Dynamic Imaging
to enable direct imaging of viruses in their native environments at very high resolution, and revolutionize the study of viruses, human health, and vaccines
Piran Kidambi
Vanderbilt University
Dynamic Imaging
to create an optical microscope that can image and infer biological details at subcellular spatial, sub-millisecond temporal and sub-10 nm spectral resolutions, and make this technology widely available to scientists
Rajesh Menon
University of Utah
Deep Tissue Imaging
Steven Chu, PhD
Stanford University
James Brooks, MD
Stanford University
Jeremy Dahl, PhD
Stanford University
Dynamic Imaging
to develop a new microscope that can observe single molecule dynamics while simultaneously providing ultrastructural context about the local microenvironment in live cells and tissues
Wesley Legant
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joerg Bewersdorf
Yale University
Deep Tissue Imaging
John Gore, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Adam Anderson, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Mark Does, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Dynamic Imaging
to develop hardware and software to implement inpainting algorithms and produce high-resolution movies of dynamic biological specimens under their near-native liquid environment
German Sciaini
University of Waterloo
Cryo-CLEM Labels
to develop a multiplexed, protein origami-based labeling system to identify and localize proteins directly in cryo-electron tomograms
Philipp S Erdmann
Human Technopole
Roman Jerala
National Institute of Chemistry/Kemijski Institut, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Deep Tissue Imaging
Vladislav Verkhusha, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Junjie Yao, PhD
Duke University
Deep Tissue Imaging
Jung-Tsung Shen, PhD, Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
Junichiro Kono, Professor
Rice University
Lihong Wang, PhD
California Institute of Technology
Dynamic Imaging
to develop a new quantum enhanced, structured illumination, localization microscopy to increase speed, volume, and resolution and to break labeling density barriers in super-resolution microscopy
Randy Bartels
Colorado State University
Ali Pezeshki
Colorado State University
Jeff Squier
Colorado School of Mines
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 3
to integrate an entangled photon approach to time-resolved fluorescence imaging microscopy enabling multiplexed and background-free fluorescence imaging
Scott Cushing, PhD
California Institute of Technology
Jing Liu, PhD
Purdue University
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 2
Shiva Abbaszadeh, PhD
University of California, Santa Cruz
Heather Whitney, PhD
University of Chicago
Visual Proteomics Imaging
Wah Chiu, PhD
Stanford University
William E. (W.E.) Moerner, PhD
Stanford University
John Pauly, PhD
Stanford University
Deep Tissue Imaging
Markita Landry, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Deep Tissue Imaging
Song Hu, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
Lan Yang, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
Adam Kepecs, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 3
to develop sketch-based retrieval algorithms for classifying biologically relevant features in large 3D image datasets
Dylan McCreedy, PhD
Texas A&M University
Meghan Driscoll, PhD
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dynamic Imaging
to develop widely accessible, fast 3D sound sheet imaging of acoustic reporters to study cellular activity, at the whole organ scale, in intact living opaque organisms to better understand health and disease
David Maresca
Delft University of Technology
Dynamic Imaging
to develop a novel optical microscopy technology that offers a combination of high sensitivity, massive multiplexing, probe generality, and compatibility with dynamic imaging
Wei Min
Columbia University
Daniela Buccella
New York University
Cryo-CLEM Labels
to develop a robust cryo-CLEM label using nucleic acids, visible as one event by advanced cryo super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, detectable in unaveraged cryo-electron tomograms
Rainer Kaufmann
University of Hamburg
Lindsay Baker
University of Oxford
Dynamic Imaging
to advance single-molecule tracking of proteins in live cells by developing accessible tools for automation, detection of protein-protein interactions, and molecular characterization of cell fate transitions
Xavier Darzacq
University of California, Berkeley
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 2
Larry Cheng, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University
Luke Mortensen, PhD
University of Georgia
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Cycle 1
Douglas Shepherd, PhD
Arizona State University
Lisa Poulikakos, PhD
University of California, San Diego
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