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IMPETUX will be at BPS 2025 Meeting in Los Angeles

IMPETUX will be at BPS 2025 Meeting in Los Angeles

Sponsoring BPS 2025 in Los Angeles, California. 

IMPETUX is thrilled to sponsor the Annual Biophysical Society Meeting (BPS 2025) in Los Angeles! Dates: February 15th – 19th, 2025

Join us at Booth #201

Come by and explore our cutting-edge optical tweezers solutions for cellular and molecular biophysics.

Don’t miss our Sponsor Talk

️ Monday, Feb 17
⏰ 5:30–7:00 PM
Room 404AB

Oriol Nos from Impetux will be delivering an sponsor talk on Monday, February 17 at 17:30h (room 404AB). Our presentation, titled “Force Spectroscopy and Micro-Rheology Assays in Cells, Organisms, and Biomolecular Condensates with SENSOCELL Optical Tweezers: An Applications Review” will demonstrate how SENSOCELL enables precise quantification of mechanical properties in a variety of biological contexts, from biomolecular condensates and isolated cells to more complex systems such as embryos, Zebrafish and C. elegans organisms.

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Fig. 1

Time dependence of trap position (top), force signal (middle) and Ca2+ fluorescence signal (bottom) recorded during a membrane tether pulling experiment. The force and Ca2+ ion channel activity signals exhibit negative correlation.

Fig. 2

Force and displacement data for two beads stimulated at frequencies of 4 Hz and 0.25 Hz. The progressive reduction of the beads displacement is in concomitancy with an increase of the applied force and loading rate.

Fig. 1

Schematic representation of the optical tweezers experiment. A fibronectin-coated bead is trapped, brought into contact with the cell membrane and stimulated with oscillations at different frequencies.

Fig.2

Time dependence of trap 1 and trap 2 position (top) and force (bottom) data along the different steps of the described dual tether pulling experiment.

Fig.1

Confocal video of the described dual tether pulling assay performed on a neuron axon. Courtesy of M. Krieg lab (ICFO).

Fig. 1

Time dependence of trap position (top), force signal (middle) and Ca2+ fluorescence signal (bottom) recorded during a membrane tether pulling experiment. The force and Ca2+ ion channel activity signals exhibit negative correlation.

Video 1

Confocal video showing a DVA neuron Ca2+ ion channel activity in a dynamic optical trapping assay. The pulling rate applied to the membrane tether is progressively increased. Scale bar = 5µm. Acquired at 10Hz.