11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Calibration Methods for in vivo Microrheology with Rotational Optical Tweezers

12 Dec 2022, 14:00
15m
Room E3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room E3

Adelaide Convention Centre

Speaker

Mark Watson (The University of Queensland)

Description

Rotational Optical Tweezers provides a unique tool to perform dynamic microrheology of intracellular vesicles using an internalised vaterite microsphere. Here, we discuss the required calibration of trapping power and the probe radius for successful microviscometry.

Author

Mark Watson (The University of Queensland)

Co-authors

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