Polina Kostina

Experience

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  Летняя школа / Summer School

  Jan 2019 - now

  Student Laboratory Assistant

  Subjects taught: Cell Signaling, Principles of Developmental Biology, Optics and Microscopy for Biologists;Curator of student projects dedicated to microscopy and microbiology.

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  Technische Universiteit Delft

  Jan 2022 - Jan 2022

  Teaching Assistant

  Teaching assistant for BSc Nanobiology courses Physics 1B (Electromagnetism), Optics and Microscopy, and Special Relativity for BSc Applied Physics.

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  Institut Polytechnique de Paris

  Jan 2023 - Jan 2023

  Research Intern at Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences

  Involved in a project dedicated to the optimization of a two-photon light sheet microscope for fluorescence lifetime imaging. Tasks included aligning the existing two-photon SPIM setup, interfacing FLIM camera, instrument characterization, calibration, and testing with zebrafish embryo imaging. Additionally, contributed to an article on FLUE, a Python-based GUI for interactive phasor analysis of FLIM data.

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  Institut de la Vision

  Jan 2024 - Jan 2024

  Research Intern at Wavefront Engineering Microscopy Group

  Developing a light-targeting system based on light phase modulation for high-resolution optogenetic vision restoration in humans.

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  Institut de la Vision

  Oct 2024 - now

  Doctoral Student

  Investigating the potential of computer-generated holography for advancing high-resolution optogenetic vision restoration.