Practical Course

European Molecular Biology Organization


ADVANCED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY

 

 

 

 

 



25 March - 4th April | 2009 |Plymouth |United Kingdom

Programme (outline)

 

Each day, there will be two lectures in the morning (probably 9.00 and 11.00), then practical work, and a lecture in early evening,

probably 6 pm.


Wednesday 25 March 

Student Registration + Evening Mixer

Thursday  26th March

Brad Amos

3 introductory lectures:  Overview of Optical Microscopy, Ray and Wave Optics,
Polarization and Interference.

   

Friday 27th March

Martin Thomas

Light Sources

David Becker 

Loading optical probes into cells: triumphs and pitfalls

Larry Cohen 

Voltage and Calcium Imaging in Neurobiology

   

Saturday 28th  March

Sandrine Leveque-Fort 

Introduction to Photophysics: fluorescence, fluorescence polarisation and FRET

Gail McConnell

Pulsed lasers and nonlinear optics

Noah Russell 

Plasmon Resonance Microscopy

   

Monday 30th March

Stefanie Reichelt

Laser Scanning Microscopy

Rainer Heintzmann 

STED and super-resolution

Iwan Schaap

 Laser traps and their uses in nanobiology

   

Tuesday 31st March

Graham Dunn

Interference Microscopy and advanced fluorescence methods

Christian Merrifield

Fluorescent photoproteins

Tony Campbell

Bioluminescence

   

Wednesday 1st April

David Wokosin

Multiphoton Techniques (Hill Lecture)

David Ogden 

Applications and techniques using caged compounds

Bob Chow

Endocytosis and TIRF

   

Thursday 2nd April

John Dempster

Image Processing and Software

Klaus Suhling

Detectors

Godfrey Smith

Physiological and ionic optical
Probes.  (Keynes Lecture)

   

Friday  3rd April

Peter Shaw 

Deconvolution Methods in Microscopy

Jerome Mertz

Royal Microscopical Society Lecture:   New techniques to reduce out-of-focus background.

Gerard Marriott 

Molecular Switches

   

Saturday 4th April

Jim Haseloff

Optical studies of plant development

Boris Vojnovic

Practical Applications of Lifetime Imaging in Biomedicine

 


 


 

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