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Organic solar cells have great potential to become a low-cost and clean alternative to conventional photovoltaic technologies based on the inorganic bulk material silicon. As a highly promising concept in the field of organic photovoltaics, bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells consist of a mixture of an electron donating and an electron withdrawing component. Their degree of intermixing crucially affects the generation of photocurrent. In this work, the effect of an altered blend morphology on polaron pair dissociation, charge carrier transport, and nongeminate recombination is analyzed by the charge extraction techniques time delayed collection field (TDCF) and open circuit corrected transient charge extraction (OTRACE). Different comparative studies cover a broad range of material systems, including polymer and small-molecule donors in combination with different fullerene acceptors. The field dependence of polaron pair dissociation is analyzed in blends based on the polymer pBTTT-C16, allowing a systematic tuning of the blend morphology by varying the acceptor type and fraction. The effect of both excess photon energy and intercalated phases are minor compared to the influence of excess fullerene, which reduces the field dependence of photogeneration. The study demonstrates that the presence of neat fullerene domains is the major driving force for efficient polaron pair dissociation that is linked to the delocalization of charge carriers. Furthermore, the influence of the processing additive diiodooctane (DIO) is analyzed using the photovoltaic blends PBDTTT-C:PC71BM and PTB7:PC71BM. The study reveals amulti-tiered alteration of the blend morphology of PBDTTT-C based blends upon a systematic increase of the amount of DIO. Domains on the hundred nanometers length scale in the DIO-free blend are identified as neat fullerene agglomerates embedded in an intermixed matrix. With the addition of the additive, 0.6% and 1% DIO already substantially reduces the size of these domains until reaching the optimum 3% DIO mixture, where a 7.1% power conversion efficiency is obtained. It is brought into connection with the formation of interpenetrating polymer and fullerene phases. Similar to PBDTTT-C, the morphology of DIO-free PTB7:PC71BM blends is characterized by large fullerene domains being decreased in size upon the addition of 3% DIO. OTRACE measurements reveal a reduced Langevin-type, super-second order recombination in both blends. It is demonstrated that the deviation from bimolecular recombination kinetics cannot be fully attributed to the carrier density dependence of the mobility but is rather related to trapping in segregated PC71BM domains. Finally, with regard to small-molecule donors, a higher yield of photogeneration and balanced transport properties are identified as the dominant factors enhancing the efficiency of vacuum deposited MD376:C60 relative to its solution processed counterpart MD376:PC61BM. The finding is explained by a higher degree of dimerization of the merocyanine dye MD376 and a stronger donor-acceptor interaction at the interface in the case of the vacuum deposited blend.
Bacterial mastitis is caused by invasion of the udder, bacterial multiplication and induction of
inflammatory responses in the bovine mammary gland. Disease severity and the cause of disease are
influenced by environmental factors, the cow’s immune response as well as bacterial traits. Escherichia coli (E. coli) is one of the main causes of acute bovine mastitis, but although pathogenic E. coli strains can be classified into different pathotypes, E. coli causing mastitis cannot unambiguously be distinguished from commensal E. coli nor has a common set of virulence factors
been described for mastitis isolates. This project focussed on the characterization of virulence-
associated traits of E. coli mastitis isolates in comprehensive analyses under conditions either
mimicking initial pathogenesis or conditions that E. coli mastitis isolates should encounter while entering the udder. Virulence-associated traits as well as fitness traits of selected bovine mastitis or faecal E. coli strains were identified and analyzed in comparative phenotypic assays. Raw milk whey was introduced to
test bacterial fitness in native mammary secretion known to confer antimicrobial effects.
Accordingly, E. coli isolates from bovine faeces represented a heterogeneous group of which some
isolates showed reduced ability to survive in milk whey whereas others phenotypically resembled
mastitis isolates that represented a homogeneous group in that they showed similar survival and
growth characteristics in milk whey. In contrast, mastitis isolates did not exhibit such a uniform phenotype when challenged with iron shortage, lactose as sole carbon source and lingual
antimicrobial peptide (LAP) as a main defensin of milk. Reduced bacterial fitness could be related to LAP suggesting that bacterial adaptation to an intramammary lifestyle requires resistance to host
defensins present in mammary secretions, at least LAP.
E. coli strain 1303 and ECC-1470 lack particular virulence genes associated to mastitis isolates. To find out whether differences in gene expression may contribute to the ability of E. coli variants to cause mastitis, the transcriptome of E. coli model mastitis isolates 1303 and ECC-1470 were analyzed to
identify candidate genes involved in bacterium-host interaction, fitness or even pathogenicity during bovine mastitis.
DNA microarray analysis was employed to assess the transcriptional response of E. coli 1303 and
ECC-1470 upon cocultivation with MAC-T immortalized bovine mammary gland epithelial cells to
identify candidate genes involved in bacterium-host interaction. Additionally, the cell adhesion and invasion ability of E. coli strain 1303 and ECC-1470 was investigated. The transcriptonal response to the presence of host cells rather suggested competition for nutrients and oxygen between E. coli and MAC-T cells than marked signs of adhesion and invasion. Accordingly, mostly fitness traits that may also contribute to efficient colonization of the E. coli primary habitat, the gut, have been utilized by the mastitis isolates under these conditions. In this study, RNA-Seq was employed to assess the bacterial transcriptional response to milk whey.
According to our transcriptome data, the lack of positively deregulated and also of true virulence-associated determinants in both of the mastitis isolates indicated that E. coli might have adapted by other means to the udder (or at least mammary secretion) as an inflammatory site. We identified traits that promote bacterial growth and survival in milk whey. The ability to utilize citrate promotes fitness and survival of E. coli that are thriving in mammary secretions. According to our results, lactoferrin has only weak impact on E. coli in mammary secretions. At the same time bacterial determinants involved in iron assimilation were negatively regulated, suggesting that, at least during the first hours, iron assimilation is not a challenge to E. coli colonizing the mammary gland. It has been hypothesized that cellular iron stores cause temporary independency to extracellular accessible iron. According to our transcriptome data, this hypothesis was supported and places iron uptake
systems beyond the speculative importance that has been suggested before, at least during early
phases of infection. It has also been shown that the ability to resist extracytoplasmic stress, by oxidative conditions as well as host defensins, is of substantial importance for bacterial survival in mammary secretions.
In summary, the presented thesis addresses important aspects of host-pathogen interaction and
bacterial conversion to hostile conditions during colonization of the mastitis inflammatory site, the mammary gland.
In this work the synthesis of dendritic macromolecules and small redox cascades was reported and studies of their energy and electron transfer properties discussed.
The chromophores in the dendrimers and the redox cascades are linked via triazoles, which were built up by CuAAC. Thereby, a synthetic concept based on building blocks was implemented, which allowed the exchange of all basic components. Resulting structures include dendrimers composed exclusively of TAAs (G1–G3), dendrimers with an incorporated spirobifluorene core (spiro-G1 and spiro-G2) and the donor-acceptor dendrimer D-A-G1, in which the terminal groups are exchanged by NDIs.
Furthermore, a series of model compounds was synthesised in order to achieve a better understanding of the photophysical processes in the dendrimers.
A modification of the synthetic concept for dendrimers enabled the synthesis of a series of donor-acceptor triads (T-Me, T-Cl and T-CN) consisting of two TAA donors and one NDI acceptor unit. The intermediate TAA chromophore ensured a downhill redox gradient from the NDI to the terminal TAA, which was proved by cyclic voltammetry measurements. The redox potential of the intermediate TAA was adjusted by different redox determining substituents in the “free” p-position of the TAA. Additionally, two dyads (Da and Db) were synthesised which differ in the junction of the triazole to the TAA or the NDI, respectively. In these cascades a nodal-plane along the N-N-axes in the NDI and a large twist angle between the NDI and the N-aryl substituent guaranteed a small electronic coupling.
The photophysical investigations of the dendrimers focused on the homo-energy transfer properties in the TAA dendrimers G1–G3. Steady-state emission spectroscopy revealed that the emission takes place from a charge transfer state. The polar excited state resulted in a strong Stokes shift of the emission, which in turn led to a small spectral overlap integral between the absorption of the acceptor and the emission of the donor in the solvent relaxed state. According to the Förster theory, the overlap integral strongly determines the energy transfer rate. Fluorescence up-conversion measurements showed a strong and rapid initial fluorescence anisotropy decay and a much slower decrease on the longer time scale. The experiment revealed a fast energy transfer in the first 2 ps followed by a much slower energy hopping. Time resolved emission spectra (TRES) of the model compound M indicated a solvent relaxation on the same time scale as the fast energy transfer.
The Förster estimation of energy transfer rates in G1 explains fast energy transfer in the vibrotionally relaxed state before solvent relaxation starts. Thereby, the emission spectrum of G1 in cyclohexane served as the time zero spectrum. Thus, solvent relaxation and fast energy transfer compete in the first two ps after excitation and it is crucial to discriminate between energy transfer in the Franck-Condon and in the solvent relaxed state. Furthermore, this finding demonstrates that fast energy transfer occurs even in charge transfer systems where a large Stokes shift prevents an effective spectral overlap integral if there is a sufficient overlap integral in before solvent relaxation.
Energy transfer upon excitation was also observed in the spiro dendrimers spiro-G1 and spiro-G2 and identified by steady-state emission anisotropy measurements. It was assumed that the energy in spiro-G1 is completely distributed over the entire molecule while the energy in spiro-G2 is probably distributed over only one individual branch. This finding was based on a more polarised emission of spiro-G2 compared to spiro-G1. This issue has to be ascertained by e.g. time resolved emission anisotropy measurements in further energy transfer studies.
Concerning the electron transfer properties of TAA-triazole systems the radical cations of G1–G2, spiro-G1 and spiro-G2 and of the model compound M were investigated by steady-state absorption spectroscopy. Experiments showed that the triazole bridge exhibits small electronic communication between the adjacent chromophores but still possesses sufficient electronic coupling to allow an effective electron transfer from one chromophore to the other.
Due to the high density of chromophores, their D-A-D structure and their superficial centrosymmetry, the presented dendrimers are prospective candidates for two-photon absorption applications.
The dyads, triads and the donor-acceptor dendrimer D-A-G1 were investigated regarding their photoinduced electron transfer properties and the effects that dominate charge separation and charge recombination in these systems.
The steady-state absorption spectra of all cascades elucidated a superposition of the absorption characteristics of the individual subunits and spectra indicated that the chromophores do not interact in the electronic ground state.
Time resolved transient absorption spectroscopy of the cascades was performed in the fs- and ns-time regime in MeCN and toluene as solvent. Measurements revealed that upon with 28200 cm-1 (355) nm and 26300 cm-1 (380 nm), respectively, an electron is transferred from the TAA towards the NDI unit yielding a CS state. In the triads at first a CS1 state is populated, in which the NDI is reduced and the intermediate TAA1 is oxidised. Subsequently, an additional electron transfer from the terminal TAA2 to TAA1 led to the fully CS2 state. Fully CS states of the dyads and triads exhibit lifetimes in the ns-time regime. In contrast for Db in MeCN, a lifetime of 43 ps was observed for the CS state together with the population of a 3NDI state. The signals of the other CS states decay biexponentially, which is a result of the presence of the 1CS and the 3CS states. While magnetic field dependent measurements of Db did not show an effect due to the large singlet-triplet splitting, T-CN exhibited a strong magnetic field dependence which is an evidence for the 1CS/3CS assignment. Further analysis of the singlet-triplet dynamics are required and are currently in progress.
Charge recombination occurred in the Marcus inverted region for compounds solved in toluene and in the Marcus normal region for MeCN as solvent. However, a significant inverted region effect was observed only for Db. Triads are probably characterised by charge recombination rates in the inverted and in the normal region near to the vertex of the Marcus parabola. Hence the inverted region effect is not pronounced and the rate charge recombination rates are all in the same magnitude. However, compared to the charge recombination rate of Db the enlarged spatial distance between the terminal TAA and the NDI in the fully CS2 states in the triads resulted in reduced charge recombination rates by ca. one order of magnitude.
More important than a small charge recombination rate is an overall lifetime of the CS states and this lifetime can significantly be enhanced by the population of the 3CS state. The reported results reveal that a larger singlet-triplet splitting in the dyads led to a CS state lifetime in the us time regime while a lifetime in the ns-time regime was observed in cases of the triads. Moreover, the singlet-triplet splitting was found to be solvent dependent in the triads, which is a promising starting point for further investigations concerning singlet-triplet splitting.
The donor-acceptor dendrimer D-A-G1 showed similar characteristics to the dyads. The generation of a CS state is assumed due to a clear NDI radical anion band in the transient absorption spectrum. Noteworthy, the typical transient absorption band of the TAA radical cation is absent for D A-G1 in toluene. Bixon-Jortner analysis yielded a similar electronic coupling in D-A-G1 compared to the dyads. However, the charge recombination rate is smaller than of Db due to a more energetic CS state, which in the inverted region slows down charge recombination. In combination a singlet-triplet splitting similar to the dyads prolongs the CS state lifetime up to 14 us in diluted solution. Both effects result in an even better performance of D-A-G1 concerning energy conversion. D A-G1 is therefore a promising key structure for further studies on light harvesting applications. In a prospective study a second generation donor-acceptor dendrimer D-A-G2 might be an attractive structure accessible by “click reaction” of 13 and 8. D-A-G2 is expected to exhibit a downhill oriented gradient of CS states as assumed from the CV studies on G1–G3.
Virulent Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains transfer and integrate a DNA region of the tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid, the T-DNA, into the plant genome and thereby cause crown gall disease. The most essential genes required for crown gall development are the T-DNA-encoded oncogenes, IaaH (indole-3-acetamide hydrolase), IaaM (tryptophan monooxygenase) for auxin, and Ipt (isopentenyl transferase) for cytokinin biosynthesis. When these oncogenes are expressed in the host cell, the levels of auxin and cytokinin increase and cause cell proliferation. The aim of this study was to unravel the molecular mechanisms, which regulate expression of the agrobacterial oncogenes in plant cells. Transcripts of the three oncogenes were expressed in Arabidopsis thaliana crown galls induced by A. tumefaciens strain C58 and the intergenic regions (IGRs) between their coding sequences (CDS) were proven to have promoter activity in plant cells. These promoters possess eukaryotic sequence structures and contain cis-regulatory elements for the binding of plant transcription factors. The high-throughput protoplast transactivation (PTA) system was used and identified the Arabidopsis thaliana transcription factors WRKY18, WRKY40, WRKY60 and ARF5 to activate the Ipt oncogene promoter. No transcription factor promoted the activity of the IaaH and IaaM promoters, despite the fact that the sequences contained binding elements for type B ARR transcription factors. Likewise, the treatment of Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts with cytokinin (trans-zeatin) and auxin (1-NAA) exerted no positive effect on IaaH and IaaM promoter activity. In contrast, the Ipt promoter strongly responded to a treatment with auxin and only modestly to cytokinin. The three Arabidopsis WRKYs play a role in crown gall development as the wrky mutants developed smaller crown galls than wild-type plants. The WRKY40 and WRKY60 genes responded very quickly to pathogen infection, two and four hours post infection, respectively. Transcription of the WRKY18 gene was induced upon buffer infiltration, which implicates a response to wounding. The three WRKY proteins interacted with ARF5 and with each other in the plant nucleus, but only WRKY40 together with ARF5 increased activation of the Ipt promoter. Moreover, ARF5 activated the Ipt promoter in an auxin-dependent manner. The severe developmental phenotype of the arf5 mutant prevented studies on crown gall development, nevertheless, the reduced crown gall growth on the transport inhibitor response 1 (TIR1) tir1 mutant, lacking the auxin sensor, suggested that auxin signaling is required for optimal crown gall development. In conclusion, A. tumefaciens recruits the pathogen defense related WRKY40 pathway to activate Ipt expression in T-DNA-transformed plant cells. IaaH and IaaM gene expression seems not to be controlled by transcriptional activators, but the increasing auxin levels are signaled via ARF5. The auxin-depended activation of ARF5 boosts expression of the Ipt gene in combination with WRKY40 to increase cytokinin levels and induce crown gall development.
Dynamic interactions and their changes are at the forefront of current research in bioinformatics and systems biology. This thesis focusses on two particular dynamic aspects of cellular adaptation: miRNA and metabolites.
miRNAs have an established role in hematopoiesis and megakaryocytopoiesis, and platelet miRNAs have potential as tools for understanding basic mechanisms of platelet function. The thesis highlights the possible role of miRNAs in regulating protein translation in platelet lifespan with relevance to platelet apoptosis and identifying involved pathways and potential key regulatory molecules. Furthermore, corresponding miRNA/target mRNAs in murine platelets are identified. Moreover, key miRNAs involved in aortic aneurysm are predicted by similar techniques. The clinical relevance of miRNAs as biomarkers, targets, resulting later translational therapeutics, and tissue specific restrictors of genes expression in cardiovascular diseases is also discussed.
In a second part of thesis we highlight the importance of scientific software solution development in metabolic modelling and how it can be helpful in bioinformatics tool development along with software feature analysis such as performed on metabolic flux analysis applications. We proposed the “Butterfly” approach to implement efficiently scientific software programming. Using this approach, software applications were developed for quantitative Metabolic Flux Analysis and efficient Mass Isotopomer Distribution Analysis (MIDA) in metabolic modelling as well as for data management. “LS-MIDA” allows easy and efficient MIDA analysis and, with a more powerful algorithm and database, the software “Isotopo” allows efficient analysis of metabolic flows, for instance in pathogenic bacteria (Salmonella, Listeria). All three approaches have been published (see Appendices).
More warning Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) will be integrated into the European vehicles in the coming years, due to the ongoing progress on the way to automated driving and Euro NCAP requirements. Furthermore, upcoming technologies like Car-2-X will extend the sensory horizon of ADAS and enable the possibility to warn drivers earlier against various hazards than today. Regarding this progress, increasing numbers of different ADAS warnings will be communicated to the driver. In this context, an important question is how multiple ADAS warnings can be integrated into the Human Machine Interface (HMI) of vehicles and which warning elements are needed to ensure warning acceptance, efficiency and understandability seen from the driver’s point of view.
Two driving simulator studies were conducted and the effects of specific warning elements examined to develop a concept for the integration of upcoming warning ADAS, which focuses on early collision warnings. The implemented early warnings were defined with a warning onset of approximately two seconds before the last possible warning onset. Main questions were whether and how drivers profit from warning direction cues and/or warning object cues for their response to a hazard, and how these cues affect the acceptance of an integrated warning ADAS approach. Furthermore, it was analyzed whether a generalized warning can be used for a cluster of different ADAS concerning the group “warning of collisions”. Therefore critical scenarios in rural and urban surroundings were evaluated, including frontal and lateral (intersections) scenarios. Unnecessary warnings and false alarms have also been taken into account.
The results indicate that early warning direction cues have a high potential to assist drivers with an ADAS warning cluster which covers warning of collisions. In contrast, warning object cues seem to be less important for the drivers’ performance and acceptance regarding early collision warnings. According to these findings, this thesis provides recommendations which warning elements should be included into future ADAS warnings in favor of an integrated warning approach.
This dissertation presents controller design methodologies for a formation of cooperative mobile robots to perform trajectory tracking and convoy protection tasks. Two major problems related to multi-agent formation control are addressed, namely the time-delay and optimality problems. For the task of trajectory tracking, a leader-follower based system structure is adopted for the controller design, where the selection criteria for controller parameters are derived through analyses of characteristic polynomials. The resulting parameters ensure the stability of the system and overcome the steady-state error as well as the oscillation behavior under time-delay effect. In the convoy protection scenario, a decentralized coordination strategy for balanced deployment of mobile robots is first proposed. Based on this coordination scheme, optimal controller parameters are generated in both centralized and decentralized fashion to achieve dynamic convoy protection in a unified framework, where distributed optimization technique is applied in the decentralized strategy. This unified framework takes into account the motion of the target to be protected, and the desired system performance, for instance, minimal energy to spend, equal inter-vehicle distance to keep, etc.
Both trajectory tracking and convoy protection tasks are demonstrated through simulations and real-world hardware experiments based on the robotic equipment at Department of Computer Science VII, University of Würzburg.
In contrast to c-Myc, a deregulated expression of the MYCN gene is restricted to human neuroendocrine tumours. In most cases, the excessive activity of N-Myc results from a MYCN amplification. In neuroblastoma, amplification of MYCN is a predictor of poor prognosis and resistance to therapy. The inability to target the N-Myc protein directly necessitates the search for alternative targets. This project aimed at identifying genes specifically required for growth and survival of cells that express high levels of N-Myc using high-throughput shRNA screening combined with next generation sequencing. The identification and analysis of these genes will shed light on functional interaction partners of N-Myc.
We screened a shRNA library containing 18,327 shRNAs and identified 148 shRNAs, which were selectively depleted in the presence of active N-Myc. In addition, shRNAs targeting genes that are involved in p53 and ARF turnover and apoptosis were depleted in the cell population during the screen. These processes are known to affect N-Myc-mediated apoptosis. Consequently, these results biologically validated the screen. The 148 shRNAs that showed a significant synthetic lethal interaction with high levels of N-Myc expression were further analysed using the bioinformatics program DAVID. We found an enrichment of shRNAs that target genes involved in specific biological processes. For example, we validated synthetic lethal interactions for genes such as, THOC1, NUP153 and LARP7, which play an important role in the process of RNA polymerase II-mediated transcription elongation. We also validated genes that are involved in the neddylation pathway.
In the screen we identified Cullin 3, which is a component of the BTB-CUL3-Rbx1 ubiquitin ligase that is involved in the turnover of Cyclin E. Depletion of cullin 3 and activation of N-Myc was found to synergistically increase Cyclin E expression to supraphysiological levels, inducing S-phase arrest and a strong DNA damage response.
Together with results from a proteomics analysis of N-Myc associated proteins, our results lead us to the following hypothesis: In a neuroblastoma cell, the high levels of N-Myc result in a conflict between RNA polymerase II and the replication machinery during S-phase. The newly identified interaction partners of N- Myc are required to solve this conflict. Consequently, loss of the interaction leads to a massive DNA damage and the induction of apoptosis. In addition, inhibition or depletion of the essential components of the neddylation pathway also results in an unresolvable problem during S-phase.
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a human-specific pathogen that causes gonorrhea. It is defined as a super bacterium by the WHO due to the emergence of gonococci that are resistant to a variety of antibiotics and a rapidly increasing infection incidence. Genome-wide investigation of neisserial gene essentiality and novel virulence factors is urgently required in order to identify new targets for anti-neisserial therapeutics. To identify essential genes and new virulence factors, a high-density mutant library in N. gonorrhoeae MS11 was generated by in vitro transposon mutagenesis. The transposon library harbors more than 100,000 individual mutants, a density that is unprecedented in gonococcal research. Essential genes in N. gonorrhoeae were determined by enumerating frequencies of transposon insertion sites (TIS) with Illumina deep sequencing (Tn-seq). Tn-seq indicated an average distance between adjacent TIS of 25 bp. Statistical analysis unequivocally demonstrated 781 genes that were significantly depleted in TIS and thus are essential for Neisseria survival. A subset of the genes was experimentally verified to comprise essential genes and thus support the outcome of the study. The hereby identified candidate essential genes thus may constitute excellent targets for the development of new antibiotics or vaccines.
In a second study, the transposon mutant library was applied in a genome-scale “negative-selection strategy” to identify genes that are involved in low phosphate-dependent invasion (LPDI). LPDI is dependent on the Neisseria porin subtype PorBIA which acts as an epithelial cell invasin in absence of phosphate and is associated with severe pathogenicity in disseminated gonococcal infections (DGI). Tn-seq demonstrated 98 genes, which were involved in adherence to host cells and 43 genes involved in host cell invasion. E.g. the hypothetical protein NGFG_00506, an ABC transporter ATP-binding protein NGFG_01643, as well as NGFG_04218 encoding a homolog of mafI in N. gonorrhoeae FA1090 were experimentally verified as new invasive factors in LPDI. NGFG_01605, a predicted protease, was identified to be a common factor involved in PorBIA, Opa50 and Opa57-mediated neisserial engulfment by the epithelial cells. Thus, this first systematic Tn-seq application in N. gonorrhoeae identified a set of previously unknown N. gonorrhoeae invasive factors which demonstrate molecular mechanisms of DGI.
Localization microscopy is a class of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques. Localization microscopy methods are characterized by stochastic temporal isolation of fluorophore emission, i.e., making the fluorophores blink so rapidly that no two are
likely to be photoactive at the same time close to each other. Well-known localization microscopy methods include dSTORM}, STORM, PALM, FPALM, or GSDIM. The biological community has taken great interest in localization microscopy, since it can enhance the resolution of common fluorescence microscopy by an order of magnitude at little experimental cost.
However, localization microscopy has considerable computational cost since millions of individual stochastic emissions must be located with nanometer precision. The computational cost of this evaluation, and the organizational cost of implementing the complex algorithms, has impeded adoption of super-resolution microscopy for a long time.
In this work, I describe my algorithmic framework for evaluating localization microscopy data.
I demonstrate how my novel open-source software achieves real-time data evaluation, i.e., can evaluate data faster than the common experimental setups can capture them.
I show how this speed is attained on standard consumer-grade CPUs, removing the need for computing on expensive clusters or deploying graphics processing units.
The evaluation is performed with the widely accepted Gaussian PSF model and a Poissonian maximum-likelihood noise model.
I extend the computational model to show how robust, optimal two-color evaluation is realized, allowing correlative microscopy between multiple proteins or structures. By employing cubic B-splines, I show how the evaluation of three-dimensional samples can be made simple and robust, taking an important step towards precise imaging of micrometer-thick samples.
I uncover the behavior and limits of localization algorithms in the face of increasing emission densities.
Finally, I show up algorithms to extend localization microscopy to common biological problems.
I investigate cellular movement and motility by considering the in vitro movement of myosin-actin filaments. I show how SNAP-tag fusion proteins enable imaging with bright and stable organic fluorophores in live cells. By analyzing the internal structure of protein clusters, I show how localization microscopy can provide new quantitative approaches beyond pure imaging.