ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2018
Monitoring microbial communities using light sheet fluorescence microscopy.
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- Successful 3D imaging of cleared biological samples with light sheet fluorescence microscopy.The Journal of cell biology · 2023Review
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- Optical imaging of the small intestine immune compartment across scales.Communications biology · 2023Article
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- BCM3D 2.0: accurate segmentation of single bacterial cells in dense biofilms using computationally generated intermediate image representations.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2022Article
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Abstract
Microbes often live in dense, dynamic, multi-species communities whose architecture and function are intimately intertwined. Imaging these complex, three-dimensional ensembles presents considerable technical challenges, however. In this review, I describe light sheet fluorescence microscopy, a technique that enables rapid acquisition of three-dimensional images over large fields of view and over long durations, and I highlight recent applications of this method to microbial systems that include artificial closed ecosystems, bacterial biofilms, and gut microbiota. I comment also on the history of light sheet imaging and the many variants of the method. Light sheet techniques have tremendous potential for illuminating the workings of microbial communities, a potential that is just beginning to be realized.
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