Any microscopy coures in Boston area?

[SUBSCRIBE CONFOCALMICROSCOPY Sara Smith]

Dear listers,
 
I am currently working at a biological lab and very interested in learning microscopy techniques (from hardware to analysis), I am wondering is there any good microscopy course in Boston area that I can attend?
I've attended a few free courses at Nikon Imaging Center of Harvard Medical School given by Dr. Jennifer Waters. Those were really good and I learned a lot from there. However I am looking for more intensive and detailed courses now. Since my department offers tuition reimbursement programs for employees, I would like to find more microscopy course for the very beginner of part-time graduate program. 

 
Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
 
Thanks,
 
Sara

[Sam's Mail]

Sara,

There are two well-known week long courses in the northeast in the spring each year, AQLM and QFM.  Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy is held at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory May 6 - 15, 2009, and Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy is held at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine May 30 - June 5th, 2009 .  Much is known about both of these solid courses as they have been around for a while.  Feel free to contact me off list if you are curious about them both.

http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/aqlm.html

http://www.cbi.pitt.edu/qfm

Kind Regards,

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Samuel A. Connell
Director of Light Microscopy
Cell & Tissue Imaging Center
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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On 2/5/09 7:22 PM, "yee sarah" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Dear listers,

I am currently working at a biological lab and very interested in learning microscopy techniques (from hardware to analysis), I am wondering is there any good microscopy course in Boston area that I can attend?
I've attended a few free courses at Nikon Imaging Center of Harvard Medical School given by Dr. Jennifer Waters. Those were really good and I learned a lot from there. However I am looking for more intensive and detailed courses now. Since my department offers tuition reimbursement programs for employees, I would like to find more microscopy course for the very beginner of part-time graduate program.

Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Sara


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[Chris Tully]

Sara,

I would suggest that you apply to take the AQLM (Advanced Quantitative
Light Microscopy) course, taught in early to mid June at the Marine
Biological Labs in Woods Hole, MA.  About a 3 hour bus ride from
Boston.  AQLM is a ten day intensive course covering both theoretical
and practical aspects of optical microscopy from brightfield to
multiphoton confocal microscopy.  There are usually six or mor
software vendors at the course as well as the "usual suspect" from the
Microscopy vendors (i.e. Leica, Nikon, Olympus and Zeiss), plus
vendors of related hardware.  The vendors are there primarily to
suport the use of their software or hardware and to help the students
complete the hands on lab exercises.  Although I have never been a
student at AQLM, I have been there several times as industrial faculty
and highly recommend it to anyone intersted in microscopy.

Chris

Chris Tully
Microscopy and Image Analysis Expert
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:22 PM, yee sarah <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear listers,
>
> I am currently working at a biological lab and very interested in learning
> microscopy techniques (from hardware to analysis), I am wondering is there
> any good microscopy course in Boston area that I can attend?
> I've attended a few free courses at Nikon Imaging Center of Harvard Medical
> School given by Dr. Jennifer Waters. Those were really good and I learned a
> lot from there. However I am looking for more intensive and detailed courses
> now. Since my department offers tuition reimbursement programs for
> employees, I would like to find more microscopy course for the very beginner
> of part-time graduate program.
>
> Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sara