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 |
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Thursday 26th March |
Brad Amos 3 introductory lectures: Overview of Optical Microscopy, Ray and Wave Optics, |
Friday 27th March |
Martin Thomas Light Sources |
David Becker Loading optical probes into cells: triumphs and pitfalls |
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Larry Cohen Voltage and Calcium Imaging in Neurobiology |
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Saturday 28th March |
Sandrine Leveque-Fort Introduction to Photophysics: fluorescence, fluorescence polarisation and FRET |
Gail McConnell Pulsed lasers and nonlinear optics |
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Noah Russell Plasmon Resonance Microscopy |
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Monday 30th March |
Stefanie Reichelt Laser Scanning Microscopy |
Rainer Heintzmann STED and super-resolution |
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Iwan Schaap Laser traps and their uses in nanobiology |
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Tuesday 31st March |
Graham Dunn Interference Microscopy and advanced fluorescence methods |
Christian Merrifield Fluorescent photoproteins |
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Tony Campbell Bioluminescence |
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Wednesday 1st April |
David Wokosin Multiphoton Techniques (Hill Lecture) |
David Ogden Applications and techniques using caged compounds |
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Bob Chow Endocytosis and TIRF |
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Thursday 2nd April |
John Dempster Image Processing and Software |
Klaus Suhling Detectors |
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Godfrey Smith Physiological and ionic optical |
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Friday 3rd April |
Peter Shaw Deconvolution Methods in Microscopy |
Jerome Mertz Royal Microscopical Society Lecture: New techniques to reduce out-of-focus background. |
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Gerard Marriott Molecular Switches |
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Saturday 4th April |
Jim Haseloff Optical studies of plant development |
Boris Vojnovic Practical Applications of Lifetime Imaging in Biomedicine |
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