Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce this year's run of Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy, held at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA. The course will run May 3 - May 12, 2017.
AQLM is a comprehensive and intensive course in light microscopy for researchers in biology, medicine, and material sciences. This course provides a systematic and in-depth examination of the theory of image formation and application of digital methods for exploring subtle interactions between light and the specimen. This course emphasizes the quantitative issues that are critical to the proper interpretation of images obtained with modern wide-field, confocal microscopes and new emerging technologies.
Laboratory exercises, demonstrations, and discussions include:
• geometrical and physical optics of microscope image formation including Abbe's theory of the microscope and Fourier optics;
• phase contrast, polarization and interference microscopy;
• fluorescence microscopy, quantification of fluorescence, and fluorescent proteins;
• principles and application of digital imaging and quantitative digital image deconvolution;
• digital image processing and object identification and tracking;
• live cell and ratiometric imaging for FRET and ion concentration imaging;
• confocal microscopy and specialized methods such as TIRF and FLIM; and
• new advances in light microscopy such as FCS, PALM, STORM, SIM and Light Sheet.
The course web site is at http://www.mbl.edu/aqlm.
Within the course, we often refer to AQLM as "Microscopy Boot Camp". We cover every topic with a lecture and an in-depth hands-on lab. It's intense, it's hardcore, and it's really fun.
Why not join us for AQLM (or recommend one of your lab members or core facility users)? You'll never forget it.
Applications due January 27, 2017.
Directors: Justin Taraska (National Institutes of Health), Jagesh Shah (Harvard Medical School)
Course Laboratory Director: Wendy Salmon (Whitehead Institute/MIT)
Cheers,
Jagesh, Justin and Wendy
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Follow us on Twitter: @BeadsinMay
Wendy
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Wendy Salmon
Light Microscopy Specialist
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
W.M. Keck Imaging Facility
9 Cambridge Center, Rm 447
Cambridge, MA 02142
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