Incucyte

The Incucyte ZOOM system (Essen Biosciences) is a live-cell imaging and analysis platform that enables automated quantification of cell behavior over time. The system has high definition phase contrast optics  and software recognition allowing to mask, quantify and generate time based curves of cellular activities such as, but not limited to, 2D and 3D growth, migration (wound healing and chemotactic), aggregation (sphere formation), invasion, clonogenicity, spheroid outgrowth, ... In addition, fluorescence tracking allows complex co-cultures conditions, phagocytosis assays, cell viability and apoptosis monitoring. The equipment allows to study single cells as well as cell populations and is compatible for high throughput screening of different cellular processes and phenotypic assays. A main advantage of the technology is the kinetic information which is impossible to achieve using classic end-point assays.

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There are 2 IncuCyte ZOOM platforms available within the CRIG network.

• Incucyte “one” is located at the UZ campus at the Center for Medical Genetics (Medical Research Building 1, entrance 34 , ground floor).
• Incucyte “two” is located at the UZ campus at the Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research (Radiotherapy park, entrance 98 , second floor).
   

For IncuCyte "one": Justine Nuytens on behalf of prof. Frank Speleman – Center for Medical Genetics (Medical Research Building), UZ Gent, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Gent
mail: Justine.Nuytens@UGent.be 

For IncuCyte "two": prof. Olivier De Wever – Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research, UZ-Gent, Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Gent
mail: Olivier.DeWever@UGent.be