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Scale-free Vertical Tracking Microscopy: Towards Bridging Scales in Biological Oceanography

View ORCID ProfileDeepak Krishnamurthy, Hongquan Li, François Benoit du Rey, Pierre Cambournac, Adam Larson, View ORCID ProfileManu Prakash
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/610246
Deepak Krishnamurthy
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
3Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Hongquan Li
2Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
3Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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François Benoit du Rey
3Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Pierre Cambournac
3Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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3Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Manu Prakash
3Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Abstract

Understanding key biophysical phenomena in the ocean often requires one to simultaneously focus on microscale entities, such as motile plankton and sedimenting particles, while maintaining the macroscale context of vertical transport in a highly stratified environment. This poses a conundrum: How to measure single organisms, at microscale resolution, in the lab, while allowing them to freely move hundreds of meters in the vertical direction? We present a solution in the form of a scale-free, vertical tracking microscope based on a circular “hydrodynamic-treadmill”. Our technology allows us to transcend physiological and ecological scales, tracking organisms from marine zooplankton to single-cells over vertical scales of meters while resolving microflows and behavioral processes. We demonstrate measurements of sinking particles, including marine snow as they sediment tens of meters while capturing sub-particle-scale phenomena. We also demonstrate depth-patterned virtual-reality environments for novel behavioral analyses of microscale plankton. This technique offers a new experimental paradigm in microscale ocean biophysics by combining physiological-scale imaging with free movement in an ecological-scale patterned environment.

One sentence summary Scale-free vertical tracking microscopy captures, for the first time, untethered behavioral dynamics at cellular resolution for marine plankton.

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Scale-free Vertical Tracking Microscopy: Towards Bridging Scales in Biological Oceanography
Deepak Krishnamurthy, Hongquan Li, François Benoit du Rey, Pierre Cambournac, Adam Larson, Manu Prakash
bioRxiv 610246; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/610246
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Scale-free Vertical Tracking Microscopy: Towards Bridging Scales in Biological Oceanography
Deepak Krishnamurthy, Hongquan Li, François Benoit du Rey, Pierre Cambournac, Adam Larson, Manu Prakash
bioRxiv 610246; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/610246

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