Light Microscopy for Biomedical Research
Workshop September 21 to 25, 2009
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

The Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility, UNC is offering a one week workshop on the use of light microscopy in biomedical research.  The workshop is intended to provide an introduction to the basic concepts of light microscopy and its application to biological research with lectures, hands on sessions and industry involvement.

Questions? Please contact:
Michael Chua   lmbr-2010@mhmf.org  919-843-3268
Neal Kramarcy   lmbr-2010-nk@mhmf.org  919-966-7051

The 2009 workshop has ended!

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Light Microscopy for Biomedical Research - September 21-25, 2009 - Room 305 Mary Ellen Jones Bldg

Monday - Sept 21 Tuesday - Sept 22 Wednesday - Sept 23 Thursday - Sept 24 Friday - Sept 25
8:45 Check in, coffee, doughnuts
9:00 Intro. - History of Light Microscopy, Modes of imaging, Parts of a Light Microscope
9:00 Talk - Fluorescence, labels, filters, dichroics, live cell imaging, cross talk. 9:00 Talk - Confocal  Microscopy I - principle, scanning. 9:00 Talk - Advanced confocal,  spinning disk, colocalization

10:15 Multiphoton Confocal - Robert Peterson

10:45 Zeiss 700 - Johnafel Crowe

11:00 Nikon Swept scan - Jim Samso

9:00 Image Processing  segmentation introduction (Metamorph) - Jim Sims
10:30  Objectives, Kohler illumination, Image formation

11:30  Cameras - CCD 1 - Hilary Hicks

10:30 Immuno labeling, cell labeling - Neal Kramarcy

11:00 Live cell imaging - FRET

11:30  Cameras - CCD 2 - Hilary Hicks

10:00 Confocal II continued - PMT, multichannel, 3D, projections.

11:15 Confocal imaging optimization - Eva Johannes

11:15 Multichannel, Fluorescence, Live Cell Imaging - Mike Meade 10:00 Colocalization - Digital images, sampling, resolution

 

13:00 Hands on
parts of a microscope, care, digital acquisition - alignment
13:00 Hands on
Widefield fluorescence
13:00 Hands on
- Confocal I - sensitivity, pinhole, filters, averaging, zoom pixel size z-series, time lapse, FRAP, simultaneous/sequential, Colocalization
13:00 Hands on
- Confocal II - multi-channel, FRAP, Rendering, 3D, projections
3-D Deconvolution
13:00 Invited Talk - Visualization and Representation - Dr. Russell Taylor

14:15 Hands on
Imaris, Image Surfer, partical tracking, static background removal,  movies, scaling compression, resizing, conversion, format for Power Point

16:00 Invited Talk
DIC/Phase Contrast - Dr. Ted Salmon
16:00 Invited Talk
- Fluorescent Biosensors for Living Cells - Dr. Klaus Hahn
16:00 Invited Talks
- Studying Cell Dynamics with Fluorescent Techniques - Dr. Ken Jacobson

16:00 Light sources for microscopy.

16:00 Decompression - Serious drinks, snacks and chat!
  18:00 Dinner - Carolina Brewery      
 

Location - room 305 Mary Ellen Jones Building, UNC, Chapel Hill     Topics & schedule are subject to change

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