In the Lab with Dr Sabrina Sofia Burgener

Live Cell Imaging of Inflammasome Signalling

In this webinar, Dr Burgener shares how Agilent technologies, including the Cytation 5 Cell Imaging Multimode Reader, have advanced her inflammasome research by enabling high-throughput live-cell imaging over time – providing dynamic insights into inflammasome activation and signalling outputs.

What you’ll learn:

  • The role of the NLRP3 inflammasome in immune defence and sterile inflammation
  • Key mechanisms: CASP1 activation, cytokine release, gasdermin D cleavage, and pyroptosis
  • Limitations of single-endpoint assays in inflammasome research
  • How live-cell imaging enables temporal analysis of ASC speck formation, cytokine secretion, and cell death
  • Newly established, standardised assays for tracking inflammasome activation in real-time