Lucien Weiss
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Physics
Department of Engineering Physics
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Microfluidics-based imaging
- Rapid diagnostics
- Single-molecule spectroscopy
- Microscopy development
Expertises
- High-throughput imaging
- Single-molecule biophysics
- Super-resolution microscopy
- Ultrasensitive biosensing
- Single-particle tracking
- Instrument engineering
Affiliation(s)
- Weiss Lab - Biomachines Nanoscopy Lab, Head
- TransMedTech Institute, Researcher
- Biomedical Engineering Institute, Member
- Institut de génie biomédical, Member
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
- 1901 Biomedical technology
- 2006 Biomaterials
- 3113 Biophysics
- 3403 Spectroscopy
- 3404 Biophysical chemistry
Publications
Recent publications
Journal article
Journal article
Journal article
Journal article
Simon, F., Weiss, L., & van Teeffelen, S. (2024). A guide to single-particle tracking. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 4, 67.
Zsok, J., Simon, F., Bayrak, G., Isaki, L., Kerff, N., Kicheva, Y., Wolstenholme, A., Weiss, L., & Dultz, E. (2024). Nuclear basket proteins regulate the distribution and mobility of nuclear pore complexes in budding yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell, E24-08-037 (27 pages).
Fu, B., Brock, E. E., Andrews, R., Breiter, J. C., Tian, R., Toomey, C. E., Lachica, J., Lashley, T., Ryten, M., Wood, N. W., Vendruscolo, M., Gandhi, S., Weiss, L., Beckwith, J. S., & Lee, S. F. (2024). RASP: Optimal Single Puncta Detection in Complex Cellular Backgrounds. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128(15), 3585-3597.
Zhang, B., Daly, S., Zhu, C., Lenz, M. O., Weiss, L., Needham, L.-M., Peters, R., Lee, S. F., & O’Holleran, K. (2024). Vortex Light Field Microscopy: 3D spectral single-molecule imaging with a twist. Optica, 11(11), 1519-1519.
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Teaching
PHS6953HE - TOOLS OF BIOPHYSICS, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, 2023
PHS6910 - ENGINEERING PHYSICS SEMINAR, Fall 2023, Winter 2024
PHS3910 - EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION, Fall 2023
PHS1903 - INITIAL DESIGN PROJECT IN PHYSICAL ENGINEERING, Fall 2022
Education
- Visiting Scientist - University of Cambridge 2021
- Zuckerman Postdoctoral Fellow - Technion Israel Institute of Technology 2021
- PhD - Stanford University 2017
- BA - Harvard University 2010
Supervision at Polytechnique
COMPLETED
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Master's Thesis (1)
- Malosse, L. (2023). Toward a High-Throughput Device Able to Transport and Track Microscale Components Over Long Distances [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Malosse, L. (2023). Toward a High-Throughput Device Able to Transport and Track Microscale Components Over Long Distances [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
