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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Roots navigate through soil integrating environmental signals to orient their
growth. The Arabidopsis root is a widely used model for developmental, physiological
and cell biological studies. Live imaging greatly aids these efforts, but the
horizontal sample position and continuous root tip displacement present significant
difficulties. Here, we develop a confocal microscope setup for vertical sample
mounting and integrated directional illumination. We present TipTracker – a custom
software for automatic tracking of diverse moving objects usable on various microscope
setups. Combined, this enables observation of root tips growing along the natural
gravity vector over prolonged periods of time, as well as the ability to induce
rapid gravity or light stimulation. We also track migrating cells in the developing
zebrafish embryo, demonstrating the utility of this system in the acquisition
of high-resolution data sets of dynamic samples. We provide detailed descriptions
of the tools enabling the easy implementation on other microscopes.
acknowledged_ssus:
- _id: M-Shop
- _id: Bio
acknowledgement: "Funding: Marie Curie Actions (FP7/2007-2013 no 291734) to Daniel
von Wangenheim; Austrian Science Fund (M 2128-B21) to Matyáš Fendrych; Austrian
Science Fund (FWF01_I1774S) to Eva Benková; European Research Council (FP7/2007-2013
no 282300) to Jiří Friml. \r\nThe authors are grateful to the Miba Machine Shop
at IST Austria for their contribution to the microscope setup and to Yvonne Kemper
for reading, understanding and correcting the manuscript.\r\n#BioimagingFacility"
article_number: e26792
article_processing_charge: Yes
author:
- first_name: Daniel
full_name: Von Wangenheim, Daniel
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last_name: Von Wangenheim
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- first_name: Robert
full_name: Hauschild, Robert
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last_name: Hauschild
orcid: 0000-0001-9843-3522
- first_name: Matyas
full_name: Fendrych, Matyas
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last_name: Fendrych
orcid: 0000-0002-9767-8699
- first_name: Vanessa
full_name: Barone, Vanessa
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last_name: Barone
orcid: 0000-0003-2676-3367
- first_name: Eva
full_name: Benková, Eva
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last_name: Benková
orcid: 0000-0002-8510-9739
- first_name: Jirí
full_name: Friml, Jirí
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last_name: Friml
orcid: 0000-0002-8302-7596
citation:
ama: von Wangenheim D, Hauschild R, Fendrych M, Barone V, Benková E, Friml J. Live
tracking of moving samples in confocal microscopy for vertically grown roots.
eLife. 2017;6. doi:10.7554/eLife.26792
apa: von Wangenheim, D., Hauschild, R., Fendrych, M., Barone, V., Benková, E., &
Friml, J. (2017). Live tracking of moving samples in confocal microscopy for vertically
grown roots. ELife. eLife Sciences Publications. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26792
chicago: Wangenheim, Daniel von, Robert Hauschild, Matyas Fendrych, Vanessa Barone,
Eva Benková, and Jiří Friml. “Live Tracking of Moving Samples in Confocal Microscopy
for Vertically Grown Roots.” ELife. eLife Sciences Publications, 2017.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26792.
ieee: D. von Wangenheim, R. Hauschild, M. Fendrych, V. Barone, E. Benková, and J.
Friml, “Live tracking of moving samples in confocal microscopy for vertically
grown roots,” eLife, vol. 6. eLife Sciences Publications, 2017.
ista: von Wangenheim D, Hauschild R, Fendrych M, Barone V, Benková E, Friml J. 2017.
Live tracking of moving samples in confocal microscopy for vertically grown roots.
eLife. 6, e26792.
mla: von Wangenheim, Daniel, et al. “Live Tracking of Moving Samples in Confocal
Microscopy for Vertically Grown Roots.” ELife, vol. 6, e26792, eLife Sciences
Publications, 2017, doi:10.7554/eLife.26792.
short: D. von Wangenheim, R. Hauschild, M. Fendrych, V. Barone, E. Benková, J. Friml,
ELife 6 (2017).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:49:21Z
date_published: 2017-06-19T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-05-07T11:12:33Z
day: '19'
ddc:
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department:
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doi: 10.7554/eLife.26792
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