Are you interested in cell biochemistry, but in single living cells, organoids or tissues? Is there a Western blot or IP you wished to do on a living sample? Or did you wish to see where in a cell a protein-protein interaction occurs.
Well, if you are interested in quantifying a ligand concentration, a post-translational modification, a protein-protein interaction, chromatin states, oligomerization of proteins, you might be interested in FLIM or FRET, but you might not be in your comfort zone to set-up or execute such assays.
The specialist expertise and instrumentation required to perform fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is often a barrier to adoption of quantitative biochemical imaging techniques. The same can be true, although at a lesser extent, for intensity-based measurements of FRET.
Well, we have the expertise and we have the instrumentation. Not just this, but today, instrumentation and data analysis is becoming simpler and simpler. During 2019, we are going to trial a system by which we can support you for setting-up and test FLIM/FRET experiments. We have limited resources and, therefore, we will open only a few experimental sessions to start with, but there will be no strings attached. No fees, no authorship to include in that paper you really care.
Although we still have to setup the “Sharing is caring” trial, feel free to inform us about your interest. Initially, projects will be selected at our discretion, with priority given (but not confined) to cancer-related work and work with a potential to impact public health in the short or long period.
