A Microfluidic System for Studying Ageing and Dynamic Single-Cell Responses in Budding Yeast
Condensed Matter journal club
A Microfluidic System for Studying Ageing and Dynamic Single-Cell Responses in Budding Yeast
- Event time: 11:30am
- Event date: 22nd April 2016
- Speaker: Daniel Taylor (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Abstract
Recognition of the importance of cell-to-cell variability in cellular decision-making and a growing interest in stochastic modeling of cellular processes has led to an increased demand for high density, reproducible, single-cell measurements in time-varying surroundings. We present ALCATRAS (A Long-term Culturing And TRApping System), a microfluidic device that can quantitatively monitor up to 1000 cells of budding yeast in a well-defined and controlled environment. Daughter cells are removed by fluid flow to avoid crowding allowing experiments to run for over 60 hours, and the extracellular media may be changed repeatedly and in seconds. We illustrate use of the device by measuring ageing through replicative life span curves, following the dynamics of the cell cycle, and examining history-dependent behaviour in the general stress response.PLoS one 9(6) e100042 (2014)
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Authors
Matthew M. Crane , Ivan B. N. Clark , Elco Bakker, Stewart Smith, Peter S. Swain
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