Paul Brannon
Platform Support Officer - Advanced Fluorescence Imaging
Paul leads the Advanced Fluorescence Imaging node of the MCFP and can assist with super-resolution imaging of a wide range samples, including tissues, live cells, and nanoparticles.
Paul has previously worked at the University of Chicago and in the Biological Imaging Facility at Northwestern University. He has a background in molecular biology and optical microscopy, with a focus on confocal microscopy. Paul is responsible for the Advanced Fluorescence Imaging node of the MFCP. He has experience in imaging a wide range of samples, including live cells and nanoparticles.
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Recent and Featured Publications
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Patient-Specific Nanoparticle Targeting in Human Leukemia Blood
Y. Ju et al. with Paul Brannon in ACS Nano
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Paul can provide expertise in these areas
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Zeiss Elyra 7 Lattice SIM
The Elyra is a fast and flexible super-resolution microscope for live cell imaging beyond the diffraction limit
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Nikon A1R+ Confocal Microscope (CLSM)
Capturing high-quality confocal images at ultrahigh-speed and enhanced sensitivity with a resonant scanner and large incubation chamber, the Nikon A1R+ is a powerful tool for the imaging and visualisation of intracellular dynamics and interaction
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STORM (Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy): Nikon N-STORM
The N-STORM uses stochastic illumination approach to illuminate only a sub-set of the total fluorophores and blink them on and off across thousands of frames
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Olympus IX71 Fluorescence Microscope
The Olympus IX71 is an inverted widefield microscope fitted with a sensitive camera and a broad range of objectives
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NanoSight Pro
The Malvern NanoSight Pro instrument provides an easy-to-use, reproducible platform for nanoparticle characterisation
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Halo
The Halo Element is a next-generation imaging tool for easy, non-destructive sample characterisation
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Fourier Transform Infrared Microscopy
The Bruker LUMOS FTIR spatially maps absorption in the infrared spectrum