OMIBS optical microscopy course at the MBL, Woods Hole, Aug 17th-27th 2020

[Alison J. North]

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Dear fellow microscopists,

We are excited to announce the *2020 "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
17th – Aug 27th.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 are accepted through Wednesday May 13th and should be
submitted via the course website
at:https://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/optical-microscopy-imaging/

Please join us or encourage your lab members or colleagues to attend the
late summer OMIBS course on beautiful Cape Cod!

*Alison North*(Rockefeller University) and *Joerg Bewersdorf* (Yale
University), Course Directors

*Cost:*Tuition: $3,700 (Includes text, handouts, supplies).Room and
board: $770.00.The course is limited to 24 students.Some limited
financial assistance may be available.

*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.

A strong emphasis is placed on sample preparation,including choice of
fluorescent probes and fluorescent proteins, and tissue clearing and
refractive index matching.Great stress will also be placed on ‘picking
the right tool for the job’.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.Students can bring their own,
fixed biological specimens and discuss individual research problems with
the faculty.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 available state-of-the-art
equipment.

*Academic Faculty for 2020*:

Allen, John (MBL/Vendor faculty)
Bewersdorf, Joerg (Yale University)
Day, Richard (Indiana University)
di Domenico, Angelique (New York Stem Cell Foundation)
Ferrand, Leanna (Vendor Faculty)
Fullerton, Stephanie (Vendor faculty)
King, Sharon (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital)
La Riviere, Patrick (University of Chicago)
Lavis, Luke (Janelia Research Campus)
Legant, Wesley (UNC Chapel Hill)
Lessard, Mark (Yale University)
Leung, Jacqueline (Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID/NIH)
McCall, Andrew (SUNY Buffalo)
McIlvain, Jim (MBL/Vendor faculty)
North, Alison (The Rockefeller University)
O’Shea, Clodagh (Salk Institute)
Palmer, Amy (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Rego, Hesper (Yale University)
Richardson, Douglas (Harvard University)
Shaw, Sidney (Indiana University)

*We are grateful to the following companies for their loyal and
enthusiastic support of the OMIBS course:*

Major support:Hamamatsu, GE, Leica, Nikon, PCO, Zeiss

Additional support:Abbelight, Abberior, Arivis, AVR Optics, Axiom
Optics, BioVision, Bitplane, Bruker/Luxendo, Caliber ID, Chroma,
Coherent, Double Helix, Ibidi, ISS, Mizar, Thermofisher, Thorlabs,
TomoCube and VisiTech and others who are yet to be confirmed!

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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