Publications by Daniel Migliozzi

Multi-well plate lid for single-step pooling of 96 samples for high-throughput barcode-based sequencing

Bart Deplancke, Daniel Migliozzi, Hüseyin Baris Atakan, Mustafa Demir, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern, Dariia Gudkova, Gilles Weder

High-throughput transcriptomics is of increasing fundamental biological and clinical interest. The generation of molecular data from large collections of samples, such as biobanks and drug libraries, is boosting the development of new biomarkers and treatm ...

Springer2024

Breaking one into three: Surface-tension-driven droplet breakup in T-junctions

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, François Gallaire, Daniel Migliozzi, Yves-Marie François Ducimetière, Jiande Zhou, Ludovic Pierre Gustave Keiser

Droplet breakup is an important phenomenon in the field of microfluidics to generate daughter droplets. In this work, a novel breakup regime in the widely studied T-junction geometry is reported, where the pinch-off occurs laterally in the two outlet chann ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Aperture-Controlled Fabrication of All-Dielectric Structural Color Pixels

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Olivier Martin, Daniel Migliozzi, Clémentine Sophie Sarah Lipp, Evgenii Glushkov, Hsiang-Chu Wang, Audrey Zoé Marie Jacquillat

While interference colors have been known for a longtime, conventionalcolor filters have large spatial dimensions and cannot be used tocreate compact pixelized color pictures. Here we report a simple yetelegant interference-based method of creating microsc ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Integration of polymeric membrane/dielectric sphere assemblies in microfluidic chips for enhanced-contrast imaging with low-magnification systems

Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Vittorio Viri

Current microscopy systems for the imaging of microorganisms are expensive because of their optimized design toward resolution maximization and aberration correction. In situations where such an optimization is not needed, for instance to merely detect the ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2021

Planar hydrodynamic traps and buried channels for bead and cell trapping and releasing

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Daniel Migliozzi, Clémentine Sophie Sarah Lipp, Jonathan Bastien Cottet

We present a novel concept for the controlled trapping and releasing of beads and cells in a PDMS microfluidic channel without obstacles present around the particle or in the channel. The trapping principle relies on a two-level microfluidic configuration: ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Phase calibration of a basic bright-field microscope for 3D metrology of transparent samples at the nanoscale

Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Bingying Zhao

Optical retrieval of the structure of transparent objects at the nano-scale requires adapted methods capable of probing their interaction with suitable light. Scattering events, for instance, depend on the content and the arrangement of the medium encounte ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

3D nanometrology of transparent objects by phase calibration of a basic bright-field microscope for multiple illumination apertures

Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Bingying Zhao

Optical retrieval of the structure of transparent objects at the nanoscale requires adapted techniques capable of probing their interaction with light. Here, we considered a method based on calibration of the defocusing with partially coherent illumination ...

2020

Structural transitions and mechanochemical coupling in the nucleoprotein filament explain homology selectivity and Rad51 protein cooperativity in cellular DNA repair

Daniel Migliozzi

The nucleoprotein filament (NPF) is the fundamental element of homologous recombination (HR), a major mechanism for the repair of double-strand DNA breaks in the cell. The NPF is made of the damaged DNA strand surrounded by recombinase proteins, and its se ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Integration of microfluidics and multimodal optics for translational bioanalytics

Daniel Migliozzi

Numerous analytical techniques for life sciences have been at the basis of the improvement of medical diagnostics and treatments. Current challenges in bioanalytics are related to the conception of methods enabling large amount of information to be extract ...

EPFL2019

High-content, cell-by-cell assessment of HER2 overexpression and amplification: a tool for intratumoral heterogeneity detection in breast cancer

Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Huu Tuan Nguyen

Immunohistochemistry and fluorescence in situ hybridization are the two standard methods for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) assessment. However, they have severe limitations to assess quantitatively intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) when mu ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Rapid high-plex staining and simultaneous imaging for immunophenotyping of tissue sections

Martinus Gijs, Diego Gabriel Dupouy, Daniel Migliozzi, Benjamin Pelz

BMC2019

Combining fluorescence-based image segmentation and automated microfluidics for ultrafast cell-by-cell assessment of biomarkers for HER2-type breast carcinoma

Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Huu Tuan Nguyen

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is one of the main clinical techniques for biomarker assessment on tissue biopsies. It consists in chromogenic labeling with specific antibodies, followed by optical imaging, and it is used for diagnosis and therapeutic targeting ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2019

Multimodal imaging and high-throughput image-processing for drug screening on living organisms on-chip

Martinus Gijs, Michaël Unser, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann, Johan Auwerx, Matteo Cornaglia, Laurent Mouchiroud, Daniel Migliozzi

A major step for the validation of medical drugs is the screening on whole organisms, which gives the systemic information that is missing when using cellular models. Caenorhabditis elegans is a soil worm that catches the interest of researchers who study ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2019

Microfluidics-assisted multiplexed biomarker detection for in situ mapping of immune cells in tumor sections

Martinus Gijs, Diego Gabriel Dupouy, Daniel Migliozzi, Benjamin Pelz

Because of the close interaction between tumors and the immune system, immunotherapies are nowadays considered as the most promising treatment against cancer. In order to define the diagnosis and the subsequent therapy, crucial information about the immune ...

2019

Microfluidic-based automated multiplex immunophenotyping and imaging

Martinus Gijs, Diego Gabriel Dupouy, Giulia Cappi, Daniel Migliozzi, Benjamin Pelz

SPRINGER2018

Microsphere-mediated optical contrast tuning for designing imaging systems with adjustable resolution gain

Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Gergely Huszka

Upon illumination, a dielectric microsphere (mu,S) can generate a photonic nanojet (PNJ), which plays a role in the super-resolution imaging of a sample placed in the mu S's immediate proximity. Recent microscopy implementations pioneered this concept but, ...

Nature Research2018

Assessing the Potential Deployment of Biosensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Developing Countries: Technological, Economic and Regulatory Aspects

Daniel Migliozzi

Infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance are major burdens in developing countries, where very specific conditions impede the deployment of established medical infrastructures. Since biosensing devices are nowadays very common in developed countrie ...

MDPI2018

A microfluidic array for high-content screening at whole-organism resolution

Martinus Gijs, Johan Auwerx, Matteo Cornaglia, Laurent Mouchiroud, Daniel Migliozzi

A main step for the development and the validation of medical drugs is the screening on whole organisms, which gives the systemic information that is missing when using cellular models. Among the organisms of choice, Caenorhabditis elegans is a soil worm w ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Cell-based quantification of biomarkers from an ultra-fast microfluidic immunofluorescent staining: application to breast cancer cell lines

Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Huu Tuan Nguyen

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is one of the main techniques currently used in the clinics for biomarker characterization. It consists in colorimetric labeling with specific antibodies followed by microscopy analysis. The results are then used for diagnosis an ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Microfluidic device, system and method for the study of organisms

Martinus Gijs, Matteo Cornaglia, Daniel Migliozzi

The invention discloses a microfluidic device for the culture, selection and/or analysis of sample organisms such as nematodes, as well as for other biological entities such as for instance animal embryos. The device features reservoirs, culture chambers a ...

2016