Akaash Kumar
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Akaash Kumar
@akaashkumar.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary scientist interested in technology development, microscopy and biological sciences.

Multispectral live cell imaging of membrane trafficking.

MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK.
In future work, I am now using our multispectral technology to study membrane trafficking pathways in cytotoxic T cells and related immunotherapies, to decode how T cells are able to eliminate virally-infected/cancer cells and what happens in patients when these processes go wrong. Updates to come!
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We demonstrated the ability to simultaneously image trafficking of five different endogenous receptor classes using de-novo binders from David Baker's lab, by adding the multispectral technology to a state-of-the-art single objective light sheet microscope, capturing data at 3 volumes per second.
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The technology we developed is compatible with any camera-based microscope and by using polycistronic plasmids and live-cell dyes (e.g. @spirochrome.com) we can image multiple organelles in live cells simultaneously.
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Today's light sheet video of actin dynamics in cytotoxic t cells... so much fun to come!
May 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Simultaneous multispectral imaging of seven organelles in live cells using our multispectral spinning disk confocal microscope! #FluorescenceFriday
You can read more about this technology in our updated pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Some personal news: my wife and I are finally homeowners! We got the keys to our home in Cambridge today, very exciting times!
November 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Hello Bluesky! I am an engineer/scientist currently working at the MRC LMB in Cambridge UK. During my PhD I developed new imaging technologies to shed light on the dynamics of living cells e.g. here is a movie of 6 organelles in live human cancer cells. Follow for more updates! #science #biology
November 20, 2024 at 9:16 PM