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The Bell Single Molecule and Fluorescence Lab
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About Us
The main goal of our Research Lab is to use advanced fluorescence techniques to investigate fundamental scientific questions spanning physics to biology. We use both confocal and widefield techniques including single molecule super resolution, live cell imaging, time correlated single photon counting, defocussed imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, and expansion microscopy. Our research includes characterizing new dyes and photophysics, revealing the underlying cellular remodeling that viruses cause, characterizing DNA damage and repair, and elucidating the dynamic conformational changes of novel proteins. Learn more about our research and areas of study below.
Single Molecules
In an effort to gain a better understanding of the world around us, our research takes a single molecule view of life, often building complex images of cells one molecule at a time, or focusing on a hand-picked individual molecule for hours at a time to fully understand its behaviour.
Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Science
With the advent of super-resolution microscopy in 2006 and the Bell labs development of our own single molecule dSTORM microscope in 2011, we have solidified our position at the intersection of scientific disciplines. We routinely collaborate with biochemists, physicists, engineers, cell and molecular biologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists.
Fluorescent Toolbox
In the Bell labs we employ a number of fluorescence techniques and are always increasing our capabilities by implementing new methods on our modular, home-built confocal and widefield microscopes.
Currently, we use single molecule super resolution microscopic techniques, such as dSTORM (fixed) and PALM (live), super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI), expansion microscopy (ExM), single molecule Forster resonance energy transfer (smFRET), single particle tracking (SPT), fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP), time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC), fluorescence (lifetime) correlation spectroscopy (F(L)CS), single molecule spectroscopy/microscopy.
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Contact Us
Toby Bell
Room G32C, Building 23
17 Rainforest Walk, Monash University,
Victoria, Australia, 3800
+61 3 9905 4566