OMIBS optical microscopy course at the MBL, 17-27 August 2020, Woods Hole, USA

Course Date: August 17 – August 27, 2020 Apply Here

Deadline: May 13, 2020

2019 Course Schedule (PDF)

Directors: Joerg Bewersdorf, Yale University; and Alison North, The Rockefeller University   Course Description

This course is designed primarily for research scientists, postdoctoral trainees, core facility directors/staff and graduate students working in the biological sciences. Biologists and physicists alike seeking a comprehensive introduction to microscopy and digital imaging will benefit greatly from the course. This 9-day course is limited to 24 students to ensure a truly interactive, hands-on experience. It consists of interrelated lectures, laboratory exercises, demonstrations, and discussions that will enable the participants to obtain and interpret high quality microscope data, to understand and assess potential artifacts, to perform quantitative optical measurements, and to generate digital images for documentation and analysis that accurately present the data. The course also places a strong emphasis on appropriate sample preparation, including choice of fluorescent probes and fluorescent proteins, and tissue clearing and refractive index matching. Particular emphasis will be placed on ‘picking the right tool for the job’.

Topics to be covered include:

• Fundamental principles of microscope design, image formation, resolution and contrast;
• Transmitted light and fluorescence microscopy techniques;
• Cameras, signal to noise ratio, digital image recording, processing and analysis, multispectral imaging;
• Advanced fluorescence – fluorescent probes, fluorescent biosensors, TIRF, FRET, FLIM, FRAP, polarization of fluorescence, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy;
• Digital image restoration/deconvolution, and 3-D imaging principles;
• Confocal and multiphoton laser scanning microscopy and light-sheet microscopy;
• Super-resolution techniques including localization microscopy, stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED), and structured illumination microscopy.

For additional information please check the course page.