BioMachines Nanoscopy Lab

The Weiss lab is an interdisciplinary group in the Department of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montreal. We develop tools that have broad applications ranging from probing the physical properties of biomaterials to biomedical diagnostics.

Le labo Weiss est un groupe interdisciplinaire du Département de génie physique de Polytechnique Montréal. Nous développons des outils qui ont de larges applications allant de l'étude des propriétés physiques des biomatériaux au diagnostic biomédical.

An animation reading Weiss Lab in bioluminescent fluid.

A bioluminescent media flowing through a microfluidic channel (Thanks Omer!)

Just out!

A guide to single-particle tracking. F Simon, LE Weiss, S van Teeffelen. Nature Reviews Methods Primers (2024).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-024-00341-3
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-024-00341-3
- Experimental and analysis guide -

"The nuclear basket regulates the distribution and mobility of nuclear pore complexes in budding yeast," J Zsok, F Simon, G Bayrak  L Isaki, N Kerff, Y Kicheva, A Wolstenholme, LE Weiss, E Dultz. Molecular Biology of the Cell (2024).
doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E24-08-0371
- Single-molecule tracking -


Coming soon

Monitoring DNA double-strand break repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae at high throughput and high resolution. Y Shalev Ezra, A Saguy, G Levin, LE Weiss, O Alalouf, Y Shechtman. BioRxiv (2024).
doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.23.609327
- 3D imaging flow cytometry -
- PSF engineering -

Vortex light field microscopy: 3D spectral single-molecule imaging with a twist. Zhang et al. BiorXiv (2024, Accepted @Optica). doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.18.604091
- Localization in 4D (x, y, z, λ) at video framerates -

Detecting directed motion and confinement in single-particle trajectories using hidden variables. F Simon et al. eLife (2024). doi.org/10.7554/eLife.99347.1
- Operates on single tracks or populations of tracks -
- Classifies motion type and performs statistical likelihood tests  -

Large-scale visualisation of α-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson's disease brain tissue. Andrews, Fu, & Toomey et al. BioRxiv (2024).
doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.17.580698
- Co-localization -
- High-throughput pipeline -

Lab Fun

Lab BBQ, 2024

Lab bowling, 2023

Bombardier handball, 2023

Power-outage foosball, 2023

Aligning a new setup, 2022

Custom sample incubator by Elham, 2022

Lab-practice event, 2021