Automating multimodal microscopy with NanoJ-Fluidics
Pedro Almada, Pedro M Pereira, Siân Culley, Ghislaine Caillol, Fanny Boroni-Rueda, Christina L Dix, Guillaume Charras, Buzz Baum, Romain F Laine, Christophe Leterrier, Ricardo Henriques (see publication in Journal )Abstract
Combining and multiplexing microscopy approaches is crucial to understand cellular events, but requires elaborate workflows. Here, we present a robust, open-source approach for treating, labelling and imaging live or fixed cells in automated sequences. NanoJ-Fluidics is based on low-cost Lego hardware controlled by ImageJ-based software, making high-content, multimodal imaging easy to implement on any microscope with high reproducibility. We demonstrate its capacity on event-driven, super-resolved live-to-fixed and multiplexed STORM/DNA-PAINT experiments.
