The Alsace node regroups 6 Life Sciences imaging facilities in Strasbourg, Illkirch and Mulhouse and six highly visible R&D teams expert in microscopy techniques and image analysis tools. The Alsace node offers a high level of technical and innovative methodological expertises in multi-scale imaging at the interface between biology, chemistry, optics and physics. The node aims to offer a fully integrated biological imaging portfolio from the molecule to the small animal/plant within the FBI infrastructure, based on its innovative chemical, optical and biocomputational developments, as well as on its already established network of state-of-the-art imaging instruments (super-resolution and quantitative fluorescence microscopies, confocal microscopies, F-techniques, small animal imaging systems (SPIM, macroscopes, OCT…)).

2022 in Numbers

  • 336 hosted projects
  • 90 publications
  • 15 training programs
  • 17 patents since 2011

Technological Innovations

  • Tomographic diffractive microscopy (TDM) has been developed for 3D label-free imaging at cellular level, with an improved resolution compared to conventional microscopes, and, not being limited by possibly weak fluorescence, potentially at high speed (several 3D images/s).
  • Single particle tracking and time-resolved luminescence microscopies have been developed to image upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs). Due to their anti-Stokes emission, UCNPs allow imaging applications with exceptional signal to noise ratio.
  • Single-shot full-field optical coherence tomography combines FF-OCT with off-axis interferometry. It extracts an FF-OCT image from a single interference acquisition, enabling single-shot high-resolution imaging within turbid media such as biomedical samples.
  • Development of an integrated software for image reconstruction, correction, co-localization, resolution estimation, segmentation and clustering of labelled complexes (SharpViSu & ClusterViSu), including 3D analysis and segmentation of SMLM data using Voronoi diagrams.
  • Molecular and supramolecular complexes have been developed for anti-Stokes imaging at the molecular level.

Tech transfer

  • Single particle tracking and time-resolved luminescence microscopy of UCNPs
  • Ultrabright lanthanide-based nanoparticles for diagnostic
  • Plasma membrane probes (Membright) & Polarity-sensitive membrane probes (NR12S, NR12A, NR4A)
  • Transmission Tomographic diffractive microscopy
  • Integrated software for image reconstruction, correction, co-localization, resolution estimation, segmentation and clustering of labelled complexes (SharpViSu & ClusterViSu)

Most Innovative Systems Available for Booking

  • Lightsheet microscope
  • Super-Resolution (SMLM, STED)
  • Electron Microscopy (Serial Block Face, Tomography, Cryo)
  • Molecular Imaging (FCS, FLIM, anti-stokes)
  • Live Imaging (Spinning disk)
Facility

QuESt (Quantum Efficiency Strasbourg)

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Facility: QuESt (Quantum Efficiency Strasbourg)

Head: Ludovic RICHERT

groupe-mic-photon@igbmc.fr , quest-piq@unistra.fr
Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France

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Microscopy Technologies

Facility

Cellular Imaging platform – IBMP

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Facility: Cellular Imaging platform – IBMP

Head: Jerome MUTTERER & Matthieu ERHARDT

jerome.mutterer@cnrs.fr & mathieu.erhardt@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr & ibmp-cnrs@unistra.fr
Plateforme d’Imagerie Cellulaire Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes 12, rue du Général Zimmer 67084 STRASBOURG Cedex

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Microscopy Technologies

Facility

In Vitro Imaging platform – INCI

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Facility: In Vitro Imaging platform – INCI

Head: Sylvette CHASSEROT-GOLAZ (LM) & Frank PFRIEGER (EM)

chasserot@inci-cnrs.unistra.fr & Frank.Pfrieger@unistra.fr
8 Allée du Général Rouvillois, 67000 Strasbourg, France

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Microscopy Technologies

Facility

Imaging platform PI2 – I2CT

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Facility: Imaging platform PI2 – I2CT

Head: Jean-Daniel FAUNY

jd.fauny@ibmc-cnrs.unistra.fr & pi2-microscopy@unistra.fr
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire 2, Allée Konrad Roentgen - 67 084 Strasbourg Cedex - France

Services on this Facility

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Microscopy Technologies

Facility

PIC-STRA (Imaging platform at CRBS – STRAsbourg)

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Facility: PIC-STRA (Imaging platform at CRBS – STRAsbourg)

Head: Pascal KESSLER

Pascal.Kessler@unistra.fr & crbs-picstra-ums38@unistra.fr
Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine de Strasbourg 1 rue Eugène Boeckel - CS 60026 - 67084 Strasbourg Cedex

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Microscopy Technologies

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Confocal Microscopy platform – IS2M

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Facility: Confocal Microscopy platform – IS2M

Head: Tatiana PETITHORY

tatiana.petithory@uha.fr
15 Rue Jean Starcky, Mulhouse, France

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Microscopy Technologies

R&D team

Microscopic Imaging & Image Treatment team – IRIMAS

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R&D team: Microscopic Imaging & Image Treatment team – IRIMAS

Head: Olivier HAEBERLE

olivier.haeberle@uha.fr
Institut de Recherche en Informatique, Mathématiques, Automatique et Signal IRIMAS UR UHA 7499 Equipe IMTI - IUT de Mulhouse, 61 rue Albert Camus, 68093 Mulhouse Cedex
R&D team

Synthesis for analysis (SynPA) team – IPHC

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R&D team: Synthesis for analysis (SynPA) team – IPHC

Head: Aline NONAT

aline.nonat@unistra.fr
25 Rue Becquerel, Strasbourg, France
R&D team

Biophotonics of molecular and cellular interactions team – LBP

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R&D team: Biophotonics of molecular and cellular interactions team – LBP

Head: Yves MELY

yves.mely@unistra.fr
Faculté de Pharmacie - Université de Strasbourg, 74 Route du Rhin, Illkirch, France
R&D team

Nanochemistry and Bioimaging team – LBP

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R&D team: Nanochemistry and Bioimaging team – LBP

Head: Andrey KLYMCHENKO

andrey.klymchenko@unistra.fr
Faculté de Pharmacie - Université de Strasbourg, Route du Rhin, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France
R&D team

Photonic Instruments and Processes – ICube laboratory

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R&D team: Photonic Instruments and Processes – ICube laboratory

Head: Sylvain LECLER

sylvain.lecler@unistra.fr
300 Boulevard Sébastien Brant, Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France
R&D team

Large complexes involved in transcription and translation team – IGBMC

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R&D team: Large complexes involved in transcription and translation team – IGBMC

Head: Bruno KLAHOLZ

klaholz@igbmc.fr
Institute of Genetics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), 1 rue Laurent Fries, Illkirch, France.

Key publications in 2022

  • Manko, H., Mély, Y. & Godet, J. Advancing Spectrally-Resolved Single Molecule Localization Microscopy with Deep Learning. Small e2300728 (2023) doi:10.1002/smll.202300728.
  • Andronov, L., Genthial, R., Hentsch, D. & Klaholz, B. P. splitSMLM, a spectral demixing method for high-precision multi-color localization microscopy applied to nuclear pore complexes. Commun Biol 5, 1–13 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04040-1
  • Abbessi, R. et al. Multimodal image reconstruction from tomographic diffraction microscopy data. Journal of Microscopy 288, 193–206 (2022). doi.org/10.1111/jmi.13131
  • Aparin, I. O. et al. Fluorogenic Dimers as Bright Switchable Probes for Enhanced Super-Resolution Imaging of Cell Membranes. J Am Chem Soc 144, 18043–18053 (2022). doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c07542
  • Knighton, R. C. et al. Upconversion in a d-f [RuYb3] Supramolecular Assembly. J Am Chem Soc 144, 13356–13365 (2022). doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c05037