Final announcement of the "Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences" course, MBL, Woods Hole, Aug 20-30 2018 - deadline is May 15th!

[Alison J. North]

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Hi all,

The deadline for applying to the popular OMIBS course is just one week
away now!  Get your application in before you miss out on a fabulous
opportunity (if we say so ourselves!).

Please see the announcement below,

Thanks,

Alison North and Joerg Bewersdorf


"We are excited to announce the *2018 "Optical Microscopy and Imaging in
the Biomedical Sciences" (OMIBS) course at the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, USA*.The course will run this year from
Aug 20th-30th.The new Course Directors are Dr. Alison North (Rockefeller
University) and Dr. Joerg Bewersdorf (Yale University).This course is
challenging, intensive and may leave you exhausted, but the instructors
are enthusiastic and fun and are looking forward to teaching you!

*Applications *must be completed by *Tuesday* *May 15th* and should be
submitted via the course website
at:http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/optical-microscopy-imaging/

*Cost*:Tuition: $3,500 (Includes text, handouts, supplies).Room and
board: $722.50.The course is limited to 24 students.

*Course overview*:The course takes participants all the way from the
fundamentals of optical microscopy through to state-of-the-art,
multi-dimensional wide field fluorescence, confocal, multiphoton,
multispectral, deconvolution, super-resolution and light-sheet
microscopy systems.Participants will learn through lectures, hands-on
exercises, problem sets, demonstrations and discussions, specifically
designed to drive home the principles and applications of modern microscopy.

In this year's course a new emphasis will also be placed on *sample
preparation*, including fluorophore selection, tissue clearing and
expansion microscopy.Students will learn to obtain and interpret
microscope images of high quality, to assess data for common errors and
artifacts, and to perform quantitative optical measurements. In the
problem sets, small groups of students will acquire, analyze, interpret
and present imaging data, thereby demonstrating their progress toward
mastering microscopy and imaging skills.

*Who will benefit?*The course is designed primarily for research
scientists, postdoctoral trainees and graduate students in the
biological sciences. Facility Directors and non-biologists seeking a
comprehensive introduction to microscopy and digital imaging in the
biomedical sciences will also benefit greatly from this course.

*Specimens*: Live and fixed specimens will be provided for use in
laboratory exercises and demonstrations. However, students are
encouraged to bring their own biological (cell cultures, prepared
slides, etc.) and material specimens to use in exercises throughout the
course, where appropriate. Cell culture facilities are available for
student use. Students are also encouraged to make appointments with our
highly experienced Commercial Faculty outside of scheduled classes to
acquire data from their specimens using the state-of-the-art equipment
available, and to discuss their individual research problems with both
the academic and commercial faculty.

*Academic Faculty for 2018 include:*

Allen, John (MBL/Nikon)

Bewersdorf, Joerg (Yale University)

Brunt, Peter (AVR Optics)

Coleman, Steven (VisiTech)

Day, Richard (Indiana University)

Digman, Michelle (University of California, Irvine)

Elliott, Amicia (NIH)

Fullerton, Stephanie (Hamamatsu)

Goodwin, Paul (GE Healthcare)

La Riviere, Patrick (University of Chicago)

Lavis, Luke (Janelia Research Campus)

Lessard, Mark (Yale University)

Leung, Jacqueline (Indiana University)

McCall, Andrew (SUNY Buffalo)

McIlvain, Jim (MBL/Zeiss)

Palmer, Amy (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Murphy, Douglas (formerly Janelia Research Campus)

North, Alison (The Rockefeller University)

Richardson, Douglas (Harvard University)

Shaw, Sidney (Indiana University)

Shroff, Hari (NIH/NIBIB)

Vaughan, Joshua (University of Washington, Seattle)

Winfree, Seth (Indiana University)

--
Alison J. North, Ph.D.,
Research Associate Professor and
Senior Director of the Bio-Imaging Resource Center,
The Rockefeller University,
1230 York Avenue,
New York,
NY 10065.
Tel: office ++ 212 327 7488
Tel: lab     ++ 212 327 7486
Fax:         ++ 212 327 7489