Impetux at Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology N4M 2024

Impetux at Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology N4M 2024

7th Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology Conference to Showcase Cutting-Edge Research in Mechanobiology

Camogli, Genova, Italy – Calling all mechanobiology enthusiasts! Get ready for the 7th edition of the Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology Conference (N4M2024) scheduled to take place from March 3rd to 7th in the picturesque setting of Camogli, Genova, Italy.

DATE: 3rd to 7th March 2024

Featuring a vibrant mix of presentations, lectures, poster sessions and networking, N4M2024 is poised to be a hub of innovation and collaboration, showcasing the latest advancements in mechanobiology.

IMPETUX is thrilled to announce its participation, where we’ll be spotlighting our cutting-edge SENSOCELL optical tweezers. Discover how our technology extends force measurements and mechanical characterization across in vitro, ex-vivo, and in-vivo samples, offering insights into cell membrane mechanics, intracellular microrheology, and stress-relaxation tests.

Mark your calendars for March 4th as we dive deep into the capabilities and applications of SENSOCELL optical tweezers during our talk at the Nanomechanics and Mechanosensing session.

Don’t forget to also swing by our exhibition booth or attend to live demonstrations of SENSOCELL optical tweezers throughout the conference. We will be providing a chande to witness our groundbreaking Technology in action and an opportunity to engage directly with our team.

Ready to explore the future of mechanobiology? Sign up for our demo here

 

For more details about the conference, visit the conference website here.

Join us at N4M2024!

 

 

In the mean time: Want to know how SENSOCELL optical tweezers enables unprecedented experiments in Mechanobiology research? Check our applications page or contact us and let’s have a quick chat!

Impetux at Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology N4M 2022

Impetux at Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology N4M 2022

We will be at Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology N4M 2022 edition

If you are a researcher in Mechanobiology or an enthusiast of Engineering and Cell Biology, you cannot miss the conference Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology N4M 2022 edition organized by Massimo Vassalli (Glasgow University) and that will take place in the beautiful town of Camogli (Italy).

📅DATE: 27 to 31 March 2022 (CEST)

The scientific program is incredible and the list of experts attending amazing!

You will find more information on the meeting here

Planning to attend?

We invite you to join our talk on Monday 28th March 2022 at 12:00h:

“Extending Optical Tweezers from extracellular to intracelular Cell Mechanics”

to learn more about SENSOCELL unique capabilities and especial applications.

You are also very welcome to stop by at our booth to discuss more about how can our technology be of help in your research!

Lets meet there!

 

📌In the mean time: Want to know how SENSOCELL optical tweezers enables unprecedented experiments in Mechanobiology research? Check our applications page or contact us and let’s have a quick chat!

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IMPETUX at BPS 2022

IMPETUX at BPS 2022

Join us at BPS 2022!

66th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

February 19-23, 2022 | Sant Francisco, California, USA

 

We are looking forward to participating in the Biophysical Society’s 66th Annual Meeting in San Francisco .

→You can find us at Axiom Optics booth  #502 (our USA distributor booth)

 

Join our presentation to discover how SENSOCELL platform and its exclusive technology provide a flexible, easy and speedy manner to perform  state-of-the-art experiments in Mechanobiology.

SAVE THE DATE !

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

ESPLANADE, ROOM 158

 

Join Impetux CEO, Oriol Nos Aguilà, for a presentation on the SENSOCELL: Optical Tweezers integrating direct force spectroscopy & correlated fluorescence imaging for extra- and intracellular mechanobiology. The talk will introduce the key distinctive features of the technology and show examples and results obtained by customers & scientific collaborators for applications in living cells.

Meet us and discover how to take further your research !

You can download the summary of the talk here.

📌If you are interested in how our SENSOCELL optical tweezers system can help you in your Mechanobiology research projects check our applications page or contact us any time!

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IMPETUX at AQV days 2022

IMPETUX at AQV days 2022

Approches Quantitatives du Vivant

 

IMPETUX will participate at the conference: AQV DAYS 2022 : QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO LIVING SYSTEMS organized by the Institute Jacques Monod (France).

The conference is open to all members of the AQV network as well as to all researchers tackling biological questions with methods coming from physics, chemistry, engineering or other sciences.

 

The event will take place from 19 to 21 January 2022 (CEST)

The IMPETUX agenda will be as follows:

 

📅On Wednesday 19, at 16:45h.  we will be giving a talk to show the potential of an innovative instrument like SENSOCELL, the only optical trapping platform in the market combining multiple optical traps control at high speed with direct force spectroscopy enabling direct force measurements, even inside cells and tissues. In this occasion we will be focusing on applications like Cell membrane tension studies, Intracellular mechanics or micro-rheology inside cells.

📅On Thursday 20, at 14:30h. Severall SENSOCELL live demos will be carried out upon  previous time slot reservation at the Actin Dynamics Lab, the Guillaume Romet-Lemonne Lab at the Institute Jacques Monod

Join us and discover how to take further your research !

 

AQV days 2022 Flyer

📌If you are interested in how our SENSOCELL optical tweezers system can help you in your Mechanobiology research projects check our applications page or contact us any time!

IMPETUX at MBI 3M 2021

IMPETUX at MBI 3M 2021

IMPETUX at MBI 3M 2021

The next event in which IMPETUX will be present will be virtual and will be the conference: Materials, Mimics and Microfluidics: Engineering Tools for Mechanobiology (MBI 3M 2021) organized by the Mechanobiology Institute of the National University of Singapore.

If you are attending the event, join us at our exhibitor showcase talk:

SENSOCELL: A multiple optical trapping platform combining direct force spectroscopy & fluorescence imaging

📅DATE: Thursday 22th July at 1:00 PM (Singapore time)

We will show the advantages of our patented direct force spectroscopy technology and explain how we overcome the classical limitations of optical tweezers turning them into a high-level tool for mechanobiology.

You can head over to the event website to check out the complete program  here.

 

📌If you are interested in how our optical tweezers system: SENSOCELL can push your research forward in applications such as the measurement of cell membrane forces, the study of nucleus mechanics, the measurement of cell-cell interaction forces among others, do not hesitate to join us or contact us any time!

 

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Sensing force from outside and inside cells | EMBO Workshop

Sensing force from outside and inside cells | EMBO Workshop

EMBO workshop: Physics of living systems: From molecules to tissues

📅DATE: June 07-11, 2021

The next event in which IMPETUX will be present will be virtual and will be the EMBO workshop:  Physics of living systems: From molecules to tissues

We will be participating with a talk to show how our patented cutting-edge technology can be a fundamental tool to reveal new understanding in this amazing field.

📅June 17, at 14:40 h. CET  we will be on line with the talk:

SENSOCELL Optical tweezers: sensing force from outside and inside cells

A great opportunity to meet comfortably for discussion and feedback!.

You can head over to the event website to check out the program and register here.

📌If you are interested in how our optical tweezers system: SENSOCELL can push your research forward in applications such as the measurement of cell membrane forces, the study of nucleus mechanics, the measurement of cell-cell interaction forces among others, do not hesitate to join us or contact us any time!

 

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Sensing Membranes with Optical Tweezers | EMBO Workshop

Sensing Membranes with Optical Tweezers | EMBO Workshop

EMBO workshop: Cell polarity and membrane dynamics

📅DATE: May 16-21, 2021

The next event in which IMPETUX will be present will be virtual and will be the EMBO workshop: Cell polarity and membrane dynamics.

This EMBO Workshop will explore the intersection between polarity, cytoskeleton and cellular membrane networks in the context of polarized cells and tissues. It will bring together researchers from around the globe and across career stages to identify and highlight new principles of cellular organization and how these concepts impact our understanding of the role of polarity and membrane dynamics in human development and disease.

We will be participating with a talk and a Q&A session to show how our patented cutting-edge technology can be a fundamental tool to reveal new understanding in this amazing field.

The talk will be 🎥 pre-recorded and made available to registered participants.

📅May 17, at 15:30 h. CET  we will be on a live discussion session to answer all your questions.

A great opportunity to meet comfortably for discussion and feedback!

You can head over to the event website to check out the program and register here.

📌If you are interested in how our optical tweezers system: SENSOCELL can push your research forward in applications such as the measurement of cell membrane forces, the study of nucleus mechanics, the measurement of cell-cell interaction forces among others, do not hesitate to join us or contact us any time!

 

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IMPETUX AT BIONANOMECHANICS CONFERENCE

IMPETUX AT BIONANOMECHANICS CONFERENCE

Join us at the BIONANOMECHANICS CONFERENCE.

Arnau Farré, our CTO , will be giving an interesting scientific talk:

📅DATE: May 6, 2021 | 17:25h CET  | ONLINE

If you are interested in new cutting edge mechanobiology technology  can’t miss it. Join us online for the exciting talk:

Cell nucleus indentation, micro-rheology, tether pulling & other cell mechanobiology applications of the SENSOCELL optical tweezers platform.

Abstract:

Optical tweezers (OT) were first applied to biology research questions in the early 90s, and since then they have been primarily used for molecular biology applications. Conversely, their use on cell biology research has been greatly limited to trapping experiments intended for moving or manipulating living cells. The sparsity of quantitative experiments using OT in living cells is mainly due to the difficulties in measuring readily and accurately the forces applied by OT onto the probed samples. Here we present our distinctive patented technology (SENSOCELL) for mechanobiology research, which allows users to carry out direct force measurements in vitroin vivo or in situ. Forces are applied either via exogenous spherical particles or directly to endogenous trappable cellular structures such as lipid vesicles, membranes, nuclei or whole cells. Forces are measured based on the ‘light momentum method’ and via our unique technology which allows the detection in our sensor of all light scattered off the trap. Using this approach, the readout from our light sensor yields directly the force applied by the OT via a constant that is unique, permanent and calibrated at factory. Measurement protocols are thus unhindered by recurrent trap stiffness calibrations, allowing measurements to be carried out in an easy and speedy manner by non-expert users. Furthermore, the flexibility offered by individual force measurements of simultaneous multiple traps (up to 256) increases throughput and allows advanced protocols such as trapping of large objects, cell stretching or the measurement of cell-cell interaction forces. SENSOCELL is also capable of performing active micro-rheology experiments in biological samples and scaffolds, such as soft hydrogels, up to the kPa range in stiffness and kHz range in probing frequency. Additional applications include cell nucleus indentation, measurement of membrane tension, membrane tether pulling or cell-cell interactions. Importantly, all applications can be combined with simultaneous fluorescence imaging. In our presentation, we will shortly introduce the key distinctive features of our technology and show examples and results obtained by our customers and scientific collaborators for the aforementioned applications in living cells.

Looking forward meeting you there!

If you haven’t done it yet, you can register here.

 

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WEBINAR | Light as a tool for mechanobiology, with Dr Krieg from ICFO

WEBINAR | Light as a tool for mechanobiology, with Dr Krieg from ICFO

Join us for the webinar: Light as a tool for mechanobiology-Introducing SENSOCELL optical tweezers

📅DATE: March 24, 2021 | 4 PM CET  | ONLINE

If you are interested in new cutting edge mechanobiology technology  can’t miss the webinar series organized by Massimo Vassalli  from the Cellular Mechanobiology Lab at the University of Glasgow and N4M:Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology.

Join us online for the exciting talk:

Light as a tool for mechanobiology : Introducing SENSOCELL optical tweezers

IMPETUX will participate introducing SENSOCELL optical tweezers and Dr. Krieg  from the Neurophotonics and Mechanical Systems Biology Research Group at ICFO will show the photonic solutions applications to the field of Mechanobiology.

 

 

During my talk, I will highlight recent progress to understand the interplay between cellular and molecular nanomechanics and their role in regulating cellular physiology. I focus on work on the nervous system of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, which is a popular experimental system to combine engineering, biophysics and cell biology, due to its stereotyped body plan, known structural connectome and amenable genetics. C elegans uses a set of different sensory neurons to navigate its habitat which endow the animals to process chemical and mechanical stimuli in a changing environment. Some of these neurons respond to minute mechanical forces delivered to the skin of the animal, while others respond to stresses generated within the animals that originate from muscle contraction during locomotion. How these stresses are borne by molecular mechanics, transmitted within biological tissues and activate biochemical pathways is one of the last challenges in mechanosensory biology. This lack of understanding is largely due in part to the absence of appropriate techniques to investigate the effect of mechanical properties of cells and neurons within living organisms at the level of a single molecule. In this webinar, I will highlight some recent efforts from our lab to further our understanding of how mechanical stresses distribute within cells and enable mechanosensory behavior such as touch and proprioception.

Dr Krieg

ICFO

 

Looking forward meeting you there! You only need to register here.

 

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WEBINAR | SENSOCELL: OPTICAL TWEEZERS FOR MECHANOBIOLOGY

WEBINAR | SENSOCELL: OPTICAL TWEEZERS FOR MECHANOBIOLOGY

Join Axiom Optics and Impetux for a demo of the SENSOCELL optical tweezers and force measurement platform.

📅DATE: March 12, 2021 | 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST | 7 PM CET 

 

SENSOCELL is an optical tweezers system with multiple trap generation capability including a force measurement module, and is designed for mechanobiology studies in living cells and 3D tissues.

During this webinar we will introduce the technology of optical tweezers, present the SENSOCELL platform and show some application examples including the latest data acquired with SENSOCELL.

We will conclude with an open Q&A session.

The webinar will last 45 minutes.

Who Should Attend this Webinar?

Scientists and researchers interested in mechanobiology studies, pattern morphing applications including organic or non-organic particles and liquid crystals, or just curious scientists interested in optical tweezing and manipulation of really tiny things.

A great opportunity to meet comfortably from wherever you want!

You can register here.

 

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EMBO | EMBL Symposium : Life at the Periphery

EMBO | EMBL Symposium : Life at the Periphery

 

EMBO|EMBL Symposium: Life at the Periphery: Mechanobiology of the Cell Surface 

📅DATE: March 2-3, 2021

The first event of this 2021 in which IMPETUX will be present will be virtual and will be the EMBO|EMBL Symposium.: Life at the Periphery: Mechanobiology of the Cell Surface 

We will be participating with a talk and a virtual booth.

The talk will be 🎥 pre-recorded and made available to registered participants 10 days before the start of the conference.

📅March 3, at 13:40 we will be on live discussion session to answer all your questions.

The virtual booth webpage will available soon!

A great opportunity to meet comfortably from wherever you want!

You can head over to the event website to check out the program and register here.

📌If you are interested in how our optical tweezers system: SENSOCELL can be combined with spinning disk confocal technology for cell nucleus indentation experiments, neuron mechanosensation studies or cell micro-rheology measurements among others applications,  do not hesitate to join us!

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CONFERENCES: Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology

CONFERENCES: Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology

IMPETUX will be present at the Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology symposium, hold on November 30- December 3, 2020  on-line.

We will be participating with an interesting talk on Monday the 30th of November:

 SENSOCELL: a novel optical tweezers concept for cell and tissue mechanobiology

There we will be answering all your questions during the Q&A scheduled Zoom sessions and at our virtual booth.

 If you are interested in our latest developments an applications of SENSOCELL, and how our distinctive technology can boost your research, do not hesitate to join us!

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