On 11.07.2023 Artur Ruszczak, our team member, defended his PhD thesis entitled: “Improvement of microbial assays in water-in-oil droplets”. Arci, mission accomplished! Who is going to be the next PhD? 😊
The paper abstract entitled On-chip Opto-hydrodynamic Tweezers for Single Cell Manipulation, authored by Shreyas Vasantham, was chosen for the 2023 Optica Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences Student Paper Award. Shreyas, congrats!
MiCoF PhD student, Shakeel Ahmad, attended prestigious EMBO Microbial Metagenomics 2023 practical course at EMBL, Heidelberg from April 17, 2023 to April 23, 2023. He had an opportunity to interact with experts in the field and got hands on experience of studying metagenome of microbes. Valuable inputs were received on his poster titled “Exploring the role of sub-MIC antibiotic exposure on bacterial hetero-resistance at single cell level”
Three significant accomplishments in a row of MiCoF’s head, professor Piotr Garstecki: He appeared on the Forbes magazine cover, he received CEBioForum “Most influencing person” award as well as Polityka Zdrowotna “Innovator” award. And all this in only one month. Piotr, you are unstoppable!
MiCoF PhD student, Shreyas Vasantham, took part in Photonics West Exhibition (SPIE) which was hold in San Francisco, between 31 January and 2 February 2023. He had a pleasure to deliver an oral talk: Speckle imaging offers sensitive detection of bacterial growth in microdroplet antibiotic susceptibility testing assays.
https://ichf.edu.pl/en/job/01-2023-microfluidic-methods-for-quantitative-antibiotic-susceptibility-assays-with-single-cell-resolution-maestro-10-no-2018-30
The article “High throughput monitoring of bacterial cell density in nanoliter droplets: label-free detection of unmodified Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria” authored by the members of our Team won IPC PAS Best Work Competition in the reporting year 2021. Congratulations to the Authors. We are super proud of you!
In October 2022 MiCoF representatives paid a working visit to TALTECH Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology. It was a busy and productive time. We thank our Estonian friends for their warm hospitality.
The article co-authored by the members of our Team is featured as the cover article in the newest edition of Soft Matter. Eye-catching, isn’t it? 😊
Hot news😊 Scope Fluidics, the biotechnological spin-off founded by the Head of MiCoF, Piotr Garstecki, sold its daughter company, Curiosity Diagnostics, to Bio-Rad Laboratories. Bio-Rad Laboratories is the American Nasdaq company working in the field of life science research and clinical diagnostics.
Piotr, though success has many fathers, we know it is you who made it happen. We are proud to be working with you!
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220803005823/en/Bio-Rad-Acquires-Curiosity-Diagnostics
