Welcome Angélique to the team

After having worked in the lab for its M1 and M2 master internships, today we’re happy to welcome Angélique Jimenez in the team as an assistant engineer. Angélique will work on various project, including bridging live-cell imaging with super-resolution microscopy to study axonal actin.

New preprint: NanoJ-SQUIRREL

A new preprint is out today on bioRxiv. This collaboration with the Ricardo Henriques and Jason Mercer labs proposes a new metric to measure the quality of super-resolution images. Simply put, it compares the image to a reference diffraction-limited image, allowing to detect  artefacts and missing features in the super-resolved image. We used it to determine when to stop a STORM acquisition when visualizing axonal actin rings, and to optimize the dye concentration in a DNA-PAINT experiment. The method, called NanoJ-SQUIRREL (Super-resolution Quantitative Image Rating and Reporting of Error Locations), is available as an easy to use, open-source plugin for the ImageJ/Fiji plugin software. Try it!