The Weiss lab is an interdisciplinary group in the Department of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montreal. We develop tools that have broad applications ranging from probing the physical properties of biomaterials to biomedical diagnostics.
Le labo Weiss est un groupe interdisciplinaire du Département de génie physique de Polytechnique Montréal. Nous développons des outils qui ont de larges applications allant de l'étude des propriétés physiques des biomatériaux au diagnostic biomédical.
Monitoring DNA double-strand break repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae at high throughput and high resolution. Y Shalev Ezra, A Saguy, G Levin, LE Weiss, O Alalouf, Y Shechtman. Scientific Reports (2025).
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-17538-5- 3D imaging flow cytometry -
- PSF engineering -
α-Synuclein driven cell susceptibility in Parkinson's disease. J Breiter & JS Beckwith et al. BioRxiv (Submitted 2025).
doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.19.670819
- Localization microscopy -
Sticking to green: sustainable solutions for next-generation microelectronic packaging with plant-derived and bacterial adhesives. C Berne et al. Submitted (2025).
- Bioadhesives -
Condition-dependent, amorphous protein agglomerates control cytoplasmic rheology. J Losa et al. BioRxiv (Submitted 2025).
doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.17.660151
- Trajectory analysis -
Patch deconvolution for Fourier light-field microscopy. B Fu et al. BioRxiv (Submitted 2025).
doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.13.659385
- Fast 3D reconstruction -
Fast analytical method to integrate multivariate Gaussians over hidden variables. FC Simon, J Cardona, S Molesky, LE Weiss. HAL (Submitted 2025).
hal.science/hal-04692487v2
- Statistical analysis framework -
- Trajectory analysis -
Detecting directed motion and confinement in single-particle trajectories using hidden variables. F Simon et al. eLife (2024). doi.org/10.7554/eLife.99347.1
- Operates on single tracks or populations of tracks -
- Classifies motion type and performs statistical likelihood tests -
Large-scale visualisation of α-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson's disease brain tissue. Andrews, Fu, & Toomey et al. BioRxiv (Accepted 2025).
doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.17.580698
- Co-localization -
- High-throughput pipeline -