Biophotonics and applications
The quantitative analysis of biological processes is essential for fundamental reasons or in the perspective of biomedical applications (diagnosis, drug design,…). The observation of their dynamics and their orgnaizations at the molecule, cell, tissue and organism scales may be crucial to decipher these processes, but is often difficult to address through conventional biology analytical methods.
The ability to directly image living systems with light is thus a revolution for current quantitative biology, and optics is becoming a central tool for biology or biotechnologies. What are the methods allowing multi-scale biological systems optical imaging? What can we learn from these observations?
The objective of this course is thus (i) to introduce major biological imaging concepts and methods (single molecule imaging, FRET, super-resolution, non-linear microscopy, optogenetics,…), and (ii) to discuss contemporary problematics in biology and/or in biomedicine, notably regarding their quantitative and spatio-temporal aspects, in neurosciences, developmental biology, precision medicine…
The students following this course will discover and master fundamental and operative tools in Biophotonics, through actual questions in the different fields of modern biology, from molecules to organisms.
Language of the course: English
ECTS credits: 4
- Teaching coordinator: Bouzigues Cédric
- Teaching coordinator: Schanne-Klein Marie-Claire