Julia Lazzari-Dean

@jlazzaridean.bsky.social

I'm a microscopist | I like everything from fluorescent sensors to custom microscope hardware | I also do my best to garden in a Bay Area apartment

Hi microscopy folks! I'm looking for your advice 💡 We're shopping for cyclic immunofluorescence instruments to increase throughput and multiplex-ability of tissue IF. Have you worked with cyclic IF platforms (Comet, CellScape, Cell DIVE)? Thoughts? Pain points? Alternatives to consider? Thanks!

Want to measure protein-protein interactions? We recently did some dreaming about how you can do this with a single fluorescent tag using molecular "tumbling." We simulated how you'd do this on a lightsheet, a flow cytometer, or a cheap handheld device. We even took prelim data on a commercial rig:

Data from an unmodified commercial confocal instrument that we jerry-rigged into taking tumbling measurements. A proof of principle & far from what you could do with a custom rig!