C06 - Optimal transport based colocalization
PIs: Prof. Dr. Stefan Jakobs; Prof. Dr. Axel Munk; Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmitzer
Biological cells are highly organized complex entities. For instance, it is hypothesized that cells regulate metabolic activity by controlling the dynamic assembly of the involved proteins. This concept is called substrate channeling and perturbations thereof are associated with various diseases. Past and ongoing developments in super-resolution microscopy techniques allow increasingly detailed images of cells and protein distributions far below the conventional diffraction limit. In this project we seek to develop tools based on optimal transport theory for the analysis of the acquired images to understand to what extent cells can control the relative spatial distribution of proteins.PhD students:
Hancheng Bi
Jan-Niklas Dohrke
Giacomo Thomas Nies