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CENTRE FOR BIOPHOTONICS

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRE-PRINTS

Time-lapse mesoscopy of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus dual-species biofilms reveals a structural role for the hyphae of C. albicans in biofilm formation

Baxter KJ, Sargison FA, Fitzgerald JR, McConnell G, Hoskisson PA. Biorxiv, 2023

Construction and Characterisation of a Structured, Tuneable, and Transparent 3D Culture Platform for Soil Bacteria

Rooney LM, Dupuy LX, Hoskisson PA, McConnell G. Biorxiv, 2023.

Multimodal optical mesoscopy reveals the quantity and spatial distribution of gram-positive biofilms in ex vivo tonsils

Clapperton M, Kunanandam T, Florea CD, Douglas CM, McConnell G. Biorxiv, 2023

FISHtoFigure: An easy-to-use tool for rapid, multi-target partitioning and analysis of sub-cellular mRNA transcripts in smFISH data

Bentley-Abbot C, Heslop R Pirillo C, Sinton MC, Chandrasegaran P, McConnell G, Roberts E, Hutchinson E, MacLeod A, Biorxiv. 2023

The murine meninges acquire lymphoid tissue properties and harbour autoreactive B cells during chronic Trypanosoma brucei infection

Quintana, J, Sinton, MC, Chandrasegaran, P, Dubey, LK, Ogunsola, J, Al Samman, M, Haley, M, McConnell, G, Swar NRK, Ngoyi, M, Mabbott, NA, MacLeod, A. PLOS Biology, 2023

Mesoscale standing wave imaging

Foylan, S. Schniete, JK, Kölln, LS, Dempster, J, Hansen, CG, Shaw, M, Bushell, TJ, McConnell, G. Journal of Microscopy, 2023

Whole-brain imaging of freely-moving zebrafish

Hasani, H. Sun, J, Shuyu, ZI, Rong, Q, Willomitzer, F, Amor, R, McConnell, G, Cossairt, O, Goodhill, GJ. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023

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Addressing multiscale microbial challenges using the Mesolens

Rooney, LM, Bottura, B, Baxter, K, Amos, WB, Hoskisson, PA, McConnell, G. Journal of Microscopy, 2023

A simple image processing pipeline to sharpen topology maps in multi-wavelength interference microscopy

Tinning, PW. Schniete, J, Scrimgeour, RC, Kölln, LS, Rooney, LM, Bushell, TJ, McConnell, G. Optics Letters, 2023

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MesoTIRF: a Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence illuminator for axial super-resolution membrane imaging at the mesoscale

Foylan, S, Amos, WB, Dempster, J. Kölln, LS, Hansen, CG, Shaw, M, McConnell, G. Applied Physics Letters, 2023

Intra-colony channel morphology in Escherichia coli biofilms is governed by nutrient availability and substrate stiffness

Bottura, B, Rooney, LM, Hoskisson, PA, McConnell, G. Biorxiv, 2022

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Light-sheet mesoscopy with the Mesolens provides fast sub-cellular resolution imaging throughout large tissue volumes

Battistella, E, Schniete, J, Wesencraft, K, Quintana, JF, McConnell, G. iScience, 2022

Application of Light-Sheet Mesoscopy to Image Host-Pathogen Interactions

Battistella, E, Quintana, JF, McConnell, G. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022

Challenges and advances in optical 3D mesoscale imaging

Munck, S, Cawthorne, C, Escamilla-Ayala, A, Kerstens, A, Gabarre, S, Wesencraft, K, Battistella, E, Craig, R, Reynaud, EG, Swoger, J, McConnell, G, Munck, S. Journal of Microscopy, 2022

Enhanced fluorescence from semiconductor quantum dot-labelled cells

McFarlane, M, Hall, N, McConnell, G. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, 2022

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Label2label: training a neural network to selectively restore cellular structures in fluorescence microscopy

Kolln, LS, Salem, O, Valli, J, Hansen, CG, McConnell, G. Journal of Cell Science, 2022

Optical mesoscopy, machine learning, and computational microscopy enable high information content diagnostic imaging of blood films

Shaw, M, Claveau, R, Manescu, P, Elmi, M, Brown, BJ, Scrimgeour, R, Kolln, LS, McConnell, G, Fernandez-Reyes, D. Journal of Pathology, 2021

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An evaluation of multi-excitation-wavelength standing-wave fluorescence microscopy (TartanSW) to improve sampling density in studies of the cell membrane and cytoskeleton

Schniete, JK, Tinning, PW, Scrimgeour, RC, Robb, G, Kolln, LS, Wesencraft, K, Paul, NR, Bushell, TJ, McConnell, G. Scientific Reports, 2021

Three-dimensional in situ morphometrics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection within lesions by optical mesoscopy and novel acid-fast staining

Francis, RJ, Robb, G, McCann, L, Khatri, B, Keeble, J, Dagg, B, Amos, B, Salguero, FJ, Ho, MM, Bullen, A, McConnell, G, MacLellan-Gibson, K. Scientific Reports, 2021

Characterisation of a deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diode emission pattern via fluorescence.

McFarlane, M, McConnell, G. Measurement Science and Technology, 2020

Intra-colony channels in E. coli function as a nutrient uptake system

Rooney, LM, Amos, WB, Hoskisson, PA, McConnell, G. ISME Journal, 2020

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Three-Dimensional Observations of an Aperiodic Oscillatory Gliding Behavior in Myxococcus xanthus Using Confocal Interference Reflection Microscopy

Rooney, LM, Kolln, LS, Scrimgeour, R, Amos, WB, Hoskisson, PA, McConnell, G, mSphere, 2020

Fast Optical Sectioning for Widefield Fluorescence Mesoscopy with the Mesolens based on HiLo Microscopy

Schniete, J, Franssen, A, Dempster, J, Bushell, TJ, Amos, WB, McConnell, G. Scientific Reports 2018

Application of the Mesolens for subcellular resolution imaging of intact larval and whole adult Drosophila

McConnell, G, Amos, WB. Journal of Microscopy, 2018.

Widefield standing wave microscopy of red blood cell membrane morphology with high temporal resolution

Tinning, PW, Scrimgeour, R, McConnell, G. Biomedical Optics Express, 2018.

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A 340/380 nm light-emitting diode illuminator for Fura-2 AM ratiometric Ca2+ imaging of live cells with better than 5 nM precision

Tinning, PW, Franssen, AJPM, Hridi, SU, Bushell, TJ, McConnell, G. Journal of Microscopy, 2018.

A novel optical microscope for imaging large embryos and tissue volumes with sub-cellular resolution throughout

McConnell, G, Tragardh, J, Amor, R, Dempster, J, Reid, E, Amos, WB. eLife, 2016

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