A microfluidic photobioreactor for simultaneous observation and cultivation of single microalgal cells or cell aggregates

• Christoph Westerwalbesloh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Westerwalbesloh, Carl Brehl

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3064-7425

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• Carl Brehl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Westerwalbesloh, Carl Brehl

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Aachener Verfahrenstechnik (AVT.BioVT), Aachen, Germany

  Affiliation Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Sophie Weber,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Christopher Probst,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Fraunhofer-Institut für Grenzflächen und Bioverfahrenstechnik IGB, Stuttgart, Germany

  Affiliation Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Janka Widzgowski,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Alexander Grünberger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Multiscale Bioengineering, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Christian Pfaff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Ladislav Nedbal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Dietrich Kohlheyer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: d.kohlheyer@fz-juelich.de

  Affiliations Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, RWTH Aachen University, Aachener Verfahrenstechnik (AVT.MSB), Aachen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6215-1857

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