Consortium

Istituto Italiano di Technologia

Istituto Italiano di Technologia (Italian Institute of Technology, IIT), was established by the Italian government in 2003 and started to work in October 2005. It has been listed as one of the top 100 rising stars scientific institutes in the world by the journal Nature in 2016 and ranked as the leading national scientific research centre for computer science - mathematics, biology, industrial engineering, and psychology by the scientific evaluation agency Anvur of Italy’s Ministry of Education in 2017.

IIT@Center for Life Nano and Neuro-Science

IIT@Center for Life Nano and Neuro-Science (CLN2S) was born in 2010 and coordinated by the supervisor Prof. Giancarlo Ruocco, who focuses on developing new technologies to investigate neurosciences, from molecular to systems. The laboratory has provided research facilities for 7 ERC project recipients and more than 20 research projects in the national research foundation of Italy and European Commission H2020. It hosts different state-of-the-art facilities and development labs, such as different types of microscopes, in-vivo Brillouin microscopy instrumentation, a wet lab (about 500 square meters), biochemistry fluorophores development, cells, and tissues culture labs, etc.

Giancarlo Ruocco (PI)

IIT RNA Systems Biology Lab

The lab is part of the Lifetech domain of IIT that is devoted to developing advanced genetic, molecular, electrophysiological, computational, imaging, and perturbation tools for dissecting the biological processes underlying brain function and RNA physiology. Our RNA Systems Biology Lab investigates interactions of transcripts with proteins as well as their roles in liquid-to-liquid phase separation and liquid-to-solid phase transition.

Gian Gaetano Tartaglia (PI)

Istituto Italiano di Technologia

Università di Trento

The University of Trento (UniTrento) is a dynamic, middle-size University (with over 16.600 students enrolled in 2020-2021 and 733 professors/researchers), located in the North East of Italy. Founded in 1962, it has constantly pursued the improvement of the quality of research and teaching and the strengthening of its international dimension, networking with qualified universities and research centres, making its campuses international and encouraging the presence in Trento of foreign visiting professors, researchers and students from all over the world. UniTrento is an active key player in the local community and in its innovation system, with very close links to the regional industry and society.

Alessio Zippo (PI)

Università di Trento

Nunilo Cremades (PI)

Universidad de Zaragoza

The University of Zaragoza is the main centre of technological innovation in the Ebro Valley and has great prestige among the group of both Spanish and European universities it has relations with.

Through the Vice-Rectorship for Internalization and Cooperation, the University of Zaragoza participates in various exchange programmes, collaborating with universities and research centres from Europe, Latin America and the USA, thereby strengthening its international standing.

Universidad de Zaragoza

Université D’Angers

ImHorPhen at Université d'Angers is a Bioimaging research group headed by Prof. David Rousseau. ImHorPhen develops imaging and image processing solution for challenge life science population phenotyping problems. The group is skilled with physics background, instrumentation, computer vision, machine learning and data analysis.

David Rousseau (PI)

Université D’Angers

Emanuele Pontecorvo (PI)

Crestoptics

CrestOptics is a leading company in the development and manufacture of advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy. Thanks to our strength in R&D and engineering, our technology supports the life and material science research with highly customized solutions. With more than 10 years’ experience in designing and manufacturing core optomechanical subassemblies for our Partners we can adhere to the most demanding production timetables while maintaining the highest quality levels.

Moreover, Crestoptics has a long standing collaboration with the CLN2S (Center for Life Nano-&Neuro-Science ) at IIT@Sapienza University of Rome, based on a Joint Lab for the development of newly conceived microscopes, among which the one of the first Brillouin Microscope prototypes.

Crestoptics