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Collaborative development and dissemination of workflows and techniques for using Correlative Light, Electron and X-ray Microscopy to progress research into the understanding and treatment of diseases

Descrizione del progetto

Comprendere le malattie attraverso la microscopia correlativa a luce e raggi X

I ricercatori nel campo delle malattie hanno bisogno di una comprensione completa dei cambiamenti cellulari che vanno dalla micro alla nano scala. Anche se la microscopia correlativa a luce ed elettroni può raggiungere questo obiettivo, la sua complessità e la sua lentezza pongono delle sfide. Con il sostegno del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto CLEXM mira a diffondere i vantaggi dell’integrare la tomografia a raggi X morbidi (SXT) insieme ad altre modalità di imaging nella ricerca sulle malattie e sulla terapia farmacologica. Il progetto faciliterà la dimostrazione dei vantaggi dell’uso dell’SXT in concomitanza ad altre tecniche di imaging, rendendolo accessibile ed efficiente per i ricercatori agli inizi della carriera per correlare rapidamente la struttura cellulare con la funzione. La sinergia della microscopia correlativa a luce, elettroni e raggi X offre numerosi vantaggi.

Obiettivo

Correlative multimode imaging is the only way to reveal a composite view of a biological sample with the multidimensional information about its macro-, meso- and microscopic structure, dynamics, function and chemical composition that is required in order to understand biomedical processes and diseases.

Project CLEXM addresses an urgent need to demonstrate, promote and disseminate the benefits of this technique in the fields of disease and drug therapy research and especially to early-career researchers.

The premise of project CLEXM is that there is a growing need for disease and drug therapy researchers to understand the linkages between structural and functional changes that occur in a cell and to be able to observe these from the cellular (micrometre) to the molecular (nanometre) scale. Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) is the current state-of-the-art for achieving this, but the technique is extremely complex and slow. CLEXM postulates that the integration of a third imaging modality, Soft X-ray Tomography (SXT), into CLEM will make it easier and faster for researchers to correlate cellular structure with cellular function.

Correlative Light, Electron and X-ray Microscopy (CLEXM) can be combined in a number of ways and the benefits will be demonstrated in a number of different use cases. This would be too difficult and too much to achieve as a single research project or as a single MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, however, it lends itself to be most easily achieved as a network of complementary individual projects, under an MSCA Doctoral Network action.

The overarching objective of project CLEXM is to provide high-level training in the field of correlative multimode imaging to a new generation of doctoral candidates to provide them with the transferrable skills necessary for thriving careers in a high-growth area that will aid researchers in their quest to understand disease and to develop effective therapies.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.

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Coordinatore

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 572 976,00
Indirizzo
BELFIELD
4 Dublin
Irlanda

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Regione
Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
Nessun dato

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