@OMM_lab

Twitter account for the Optical Microscopy in Medicine lab. Under the direction of Dr. Melissa Skala at Morgridge Institute for Research.Tweets by @GINA_GALLEGO

 UW-Madison
morgridge.org/multiscale-imaging-medicine-laboratory/
Joined September 2016
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A short video about our lab: vimeo.com/199197462

Melissa Skala: Pancreatic Cancer Research

This is "Melissa Skala: Pancreatic Cancer Research" by Morgridge Institute on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Congratulations @rupsa Datta for her new paper that unravels neutrophil metabolism on a single-cell level 🎉 She showed early metabolic changes (<15 minutes) with stimulation and used machine learning to identify activation states. frontiersin.org/journals/imm…
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Congratulations to Amani Gillette for her paper, which identified accessible hardware and sensitive analysis methods to classify patient tumor organoids by mutation status and drug response. @UWCarbone @UWMadEngr @Morgridge_Inst @AACR 1/2 aacrjournals.org/cancerres/a…
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Researchers are using advanced metabolic imaging to identify ways to improve CAR T cell therapy against solid tumors. Their findings were recently published in @natBME. @melissa_skala @sahakris @UWCarbone @UWMadEngr morgridge.org/story/research…

Researchers look to advanced metabolic imaging to improve cancer immunotherapy - Morgridge Instit...

Researchers at the Morgridge Institute and UW–Madison are using advanced metabolic imaging to identify ways to improve CAR T cell therapy against solid tumors.

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Are you searching for an end-to-end GUI to analyze single-cell data from fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM)? Wenxuan Zhao, @rupsa Datta, and Kayvan Samimi made FLIM Playground for you! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… github.com/skalalab/flim_pla… allanware.quarto.pub/flim-pl… (1/2)
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.@melissa_skala develops biomedical optical imaging technologies for cancer research, cell therapy and immunology. #WARF100 @uwchancellor @UWMadison_BME @UWMadEngr @Morgridge_inst warf.org/commercialize/uw-ma…
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Congratulations to Dan Pham for her paper published today! Dan showed that autofluorescence lifetime imaging can monitor single cell metabolism to improve CAR T cell metabolic fitness. @sahakris @UWCarbone @Morgridge_Inst @UWMadEngr rdcu.be/eGExD nature.com/articles/s41551-0…
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"Neutrophils have been understudied, and our specific technique is underused — most people don't know about it yet. But our lab loves collaborating. It's exciting to share our technology with so many different branches of research." @rupsa @melissa_skala morgridge.org/story/advanced…
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My favorite team of scientists and engineers! 🔬 @Morgridge_Inst @UWMadison_BME
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Morgridge #postdoc Amani Gillette took the international stage @Falling_Walls to present her work on #CARTcell therapy, using imaging technology to screen the health of patients’ cells before manufacturing them into #cancer-fighting cells. morgridge.org/story/morgridg… #FearlessScience

Morgridge postdoc breaks down barriers of cancer therapy at Falling Walls Lab Competition -...

Morgridge postdoc Amani Gillette took center stage at the international Falling Walls Lab Competition, presenting a pitch for SeLight, LLC, her startup focused on CAR T cell therapy research.

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We are grateful to share with our colleagues at the 3rd annual @Morgridge_Inst scientific conference.
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In a paper in @ActaBio, @UWMadison_BME’s Paul Campagnola and @melissa_skala show how the alignment of collagen fibers accelerates the movement of clusters of pancreatic cancer cells. engineering.wisc.edu/news/co…
Paul Campagnola, Sophie Mancha and Melissa Skala

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Congratulations Sophie 👏👏👏
Acta Biomaterialia@ActaBio28 Aug 2024
Professor Paul Campagnola: Multiphoton excited polymerized biomimetic models of #collagen fiber morphology to study single cell and collective migration dynamics in pancreatic cancer @UWMadEngr @UWMechEngr @melissa_skala @Morgridge_Inst @UWMadison_BME sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Congratulations again to Sophie Mancha who is a recent PhD graduate @UWMadison_BME for her fantastic work on pancreatic cancer! She made exciting discoveries in cell migration and tumor microenvironment. @UWMadEngr @Morgridge_Inst Story here 👇 engineering.wisc.edu/news/co…
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Congratulations to Dr. Sophie Mancha who successfully defended her PhD thesis @UWMadison_BME today 👩‍🎓 Go take on the world ! 🥳🏆🎉
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Congratulations to Dr. Mancha in her successful PhD defense! 🎓🎉⁦@UWMadison_BME⁩
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"We have a first-hand scenario of what is happening at the level of redox biology in cells infected with #Toxoplasma gondii.” @GINA_GALLEGO in the @melissa_skala @OMM_lab uses advanced #imaging to study the how the parasite affects host cell #metabolism. morgridge.org/story/advanced…

Advanced imaging reveals how a parasitic ‘kiss’ alters cell metabolism - Morgridge Institute for...

Morgridge researchers harness the power of optical metabolic imaging to study how the parasite Toxoplasma changes host cell metabolism over the course of infection.

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Happy to share our new preprint and Congratulations to @rupsa !🎉 Single cell autofluorescence imaging reveals immediate metabolic shifts of neutrophils with activation across biological systems biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Single cell autofluorescence imaging reveals immediate metabolic shifts of neutrophils with...

Neutrophils, the most abundant leukocytes in human peripheral circulation, are crucial for the innate immune response. They are typically quiescent but rapidly activate in response to infection and...

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Meet @melissa_skala, professor of @UWMadison_BME @UWMadEngr & @Morgridge_Inst, who is developing biomedical optical imaging technologies for cancer research, cell therapy and immunology. warf.org/commercialize/uw-ma…

Meet UW-Madison’s Melissa Skala

“Melissa’s work will support and foster additional scientific research as well as have an impact on the discovery and manufacturing of life saving cell therapies.”

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Morgridge researchers harness the power of optical metabolic #imaging to study how the parasite #Toxoplasma changes host cell metabolism over the course of infection. morgridge.org/story/advanced…

Advanced imaging reveals how a parasitic ‘kiss’ alters cell metabolism - Morgridge Institute for...

Morgridge researchers harness the power of optical metabolic imaging to study how the parasite Toxoplasma changes host cell metabolism over the course of infection.

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Congratulations @GINA_GALLEGO for her paper published today: "Metabolic changes in Toxoplasma gondii-infected host cells measured by autofluorescence imaging" journals.asm.org/eprint/TAWX…
GINA GALLEGO@GINA_GALLEGO8 Jul 2024
Happy to share our publication on host changes induced by Toxoplasma gondii and measured by single cell, label-free autofluorescence imaging @OMM_lab @Morgridge_Inst @mbiojournal journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

Metabolic changes in Toxoplasma gondii-infected host cells measured by autofluorescence imaging |...

This study sheds light on previously unexplored changes in host cell metabolism induced by T. gondii infection using noninvasive, label-free autofluorescence imaging. In this study, we use optical...

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