Section: Overall Objectives

Organization and collaborations

In collaboration with UMR 144 CNRS Institut Curie (“Subcellular Structure and Cellular Dynamics” Unit) and PICT-IBiSA (Cell and Tissue Imaging Facilities), the members of the serpico team participate several projects (PhD and post-doc supervision, contracts...) with biologists in the field of cell biology and microscopy. We have promoted and designed non-parametric methods since prior knowledge cannot be easily taken into account for extracting unattended but desired information from image data. We have proposed user-friendly algorithms for processing 3D or 4D data.

To reinforce the interactions between cell biology, imaging instrumentation and applied mathematics and to improve visibility, the serpico team was created in 2010 at Inria Rennes with the aim to settle an EPC in 2013 in collaboration with CNRS-INSB and Institut Curie. The scientific projects are complementary to the other on going and planned projects of the UMR 144 CNRS Institut Curie Unit; a subset of projects is related to instrumentation in electronic and photonic microscopy (PICT-IBiSA platform) including computational aspects on the reconstruction and enhancement of images related to sub-diffraction light microscopy and correlative approaches with electronic microscopy. Our projects rely partially on the results and advances of these instrumental projects and a positive synergy is foreseen.