Interdisciplinary research of the Laboratory of Biophysics aims to gain insight in the understanding of how physical factors influence the processes that drive cell behaviour and functionality. The Czech Academy of Sciences supported the laboratory by providing funds for the CytoFLEX Beckman Coulter flow cytometer.
Interdisciplinary research of the Laboratory of Biophysics aims to gain insight in the understanding of how physical factors influence the processes that drive cell behaviour and functionality. The Czech Academy of Sciences supported the laboratory by providing funds for the CytoFLEX Beckman Coulter flow cytometer.
In addition to unprecedented speed, the cytometer also generates multiparametric data. Multidisciplinary studies require fast and reliable analysis of different biological outcomes, for example, the cell cycle, apoptosis, proliferation, viability, signalling, and DNA damage.
The extension of the Laboratory of Biophysics portfolio with flow cytometry will create a base for cooperation between research groups dealing with the effects of materials, structures, interfaces, particles and other physical cues on biological systems. In addition, the cytometer will become the basis for further scientific cooperation outside the Institute of Physics.
"This device also expands the possibilities of advanced research, for example in the field of biochip technologies, which are actively being developed by the Laboratory of Functional Biointerfaces under the leadership of Dr. Hana Lísalová," adds Dr. Oleg Lunov, head of the Laboratory of Biophysics.
This equipment will certainly speed up routine and advanced cell functional analysis and stimulate further research in the Department of Optical and Biophysical Systems of the Institute of Physics. We are thankful to the Czech Academy of Sciences for approving our fund request.