Winners of the DIM ELICIT 2020 calls for proposals: Dissemination & Co-development

DIM ELICIT 2020 Calls : Results announcement

Earlier this year, the DIM ELICIT announced two calls for projects, aimed to support :

1. the co-development of interdisciplinary collaborative research projects that combine first application of technologies or innovative instruments or new methods to biology

2. the dissemination of competitive technology platforms and introduction of relevant prototypes in biological research environments.

The projects had to exhibit a clear impact and transformative potential in Life Science ; with an emphasis on tech transfer or start-ups creation.

In this frame, we are happy to announce that 12 projects were selected within the DIM ELICIT core technologies.

The selected projects:

WASCO – WAve front Shaping for Circuit Optogenetics

Principal investigator: Valentina Emiliani
Location: Wavefront Engineering Microscopy team – Institut de la Vision
Core technology: Biophotonics and waves
End-user application: Technologies for in vivo biology on animal models

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**UltraPath – Pipeline for in cellulo ultrastructure determination of dynamic host-pathogen interactions**

Principal investigator: Jost Enninga
Location: Dynamics of host-pathogen interactions – Institut Pasteur
Core technology: Biophotonics and waves
End-user application: Single cell / single molecule

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E²AO-LSFM – Excitation/emission adaptive optics light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for in depth high resolution functional neuro-imaging

Principal investigator: Alexandra Fragola
Location: Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etude des matériaux (LPEM) – ESPCI/PSL University
Core technology: Biophotonics and waves
End-user application: Technologies for in vivo biology on animal models

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Light-SABR – Environmental Bioengineering by Means of Laser Photoablation

Principal investigator: Samy Gobaa
Location: Biomaterials and Microfluidics laboratory – Institut Pasteur
Core technology: Microfluidics, Biophotonics and waves, Image analysis
End-user application: Organs-on-chips, High Tech / Low Cost technologies

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C. elegans development, perturbed in space and time using microfluidics

Principal investigator: Wolfgang Keil
Location: Quantitative Developmental Biology team – Institut Curie
Core technology: Microfluidics
End-user application: Technologies for in vivo biology on animal models

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DC chip – Study of dendritic cell-cancer cell interaction on a microfluidic chip

Principal investigator: Oliver Kepp
Location: Cell Biology Platform – Gustave Roussy Cancer Center (GRCC)
Core technology: Microfluidics, Image analysis
End-user application: Organs-on-chips

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isoModLoc – Isotropic Modulated localization to decipher multiple proteins 3D organization at the nanoscale

Principal investigator: Sandrine Lévêque-Fort
Location: Biophotonics group – ISMO – Paris Saclay University
Core technology: Biophotonics and waves
End-user application: Single cell / single molecule

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RAFALE – Realtime image analysis for the quantification of single-cell kinetic bioassays in microfluidic droplets

Principal investigator: Thibault Lagache
Location: BioImage Analysis Unit – Institut Pasteur
Core technology: Image analysis
End-user application: Single cell / single molecule

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3D-NEUROMIC – Whole-brain single-cell assessment of neurodevelopmental gene function with novel universally applicable genome-integrating vectors and large-scale multicolor imaging

Principal investigator: Jean Livet
Location: Neurogenesis and circuit development team – Institut de la Vision
Core technology: Biophotonics and waves, Image analysis
End-user application: Technologies for in vivo biology on animal models, Single cell / single molecule

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DeepMetaboFLIM – Deep learning methods for the Metabolic characterization of brain function and aging by label-free Fluorescence Lifetime IMaging

Principal investigator: Pierre-Yves Plaçais
Location: BioImage Energy and Memory team – Brain Plasticity Unit – ESPCI
Core technology: Image analysis
End-user application: Technologies for in vivo biology on animal models

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CortOcyte – Cortical tension: a predictor of oocyte fitness

Principal investigator: Marie-Emilie Terret
Location: Oocyte Mechanics and Morphogenesis team – CIRB – Collège de France
Core technology: Microfluidics
End-user application: Single cell / single molecule

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ImQuantID – Improved quantification of Optical Imaging Data

Principal investigator: Nathalie Mignet
Location: Chemical and Biological Technologies for Health Unit (UTCBS) – Université de Paris
Core technology: Image analysis
End-user application: Technologies for in vivo biology on animal models

The DIM ELICIT warmly congratulates all the winners and wishes them a successful start to their project.