Re: Confocal and Widefield microscopy training material

Posted by Craig Brideau on
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Here at University of Calgary we offer a Basic and an Advanced microscopy
course, each taking a full semester. The Advanced class covers confocal and
related techniques. We have had very good outcomes with graduate students
who have completed these courses.

Craig

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:34 PM Phillips, Thomas E. <[hidden email]>
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> Does anybody offer their confocal training as an official grad-level
> class? In the past, offering a hands-on class was problematic for us since
> (i) no tuition dollars flow back to the core and (ii) PI's wanted their
> students using their own samples so "free class time" meant no income for
> us when those projects would normally have been done outside of class. Our
> campus is moving to a new budget model and tuition dollars may flow more
> directly back to us. We are considering combining training and supervised
> independent use as part of the class design and allow student efforts to be
> credentialed. I would be interested to know if anyone else is taking this
> approach and how many credit hours you offer and what you cover as part of
> the course.
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> I have never met a PI who would have paid for Sylvie's design and
> impressed her clients do so.
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> Thank you Neftali, Kathy, Sylvie, and Steffen for the suggestions and
> excellent training resources to go through! Much appreciated 😊
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> Hi Niyanta,
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> I have collected a few resources on our website, so that I can refer our
> users to it more easily. This is at
> https://www.bioimaging.bmc.med.uni-muenchen.de/learn/
> Have a look at "Educational Websites" and "Materials for teaching".
> Maybe you find something helpful. The listed page from Australia (was
> mentioned by others too) contains a quiz that you can take, and you can
> print out a certificate if you answer 8+ of 10 questions correct.
>
> As in terms of hands on training, we start with a 3 h introduction session
> for up to 3 people. Usually with our samples, for two reasons.
> First, we want the user to pay attention to the microscope and software,
> not on the biological content of the images we make. Second, this way we
> can be sure that the sample is all right and we don't have users with
> crappy samples blaming it on the microscope. I agree with others that after
> 3 hours it makes no more sense, brains are full.
>
> Next we do a 'guided session' with the user's sample that we accompany
> until the user is getting good results. This is 1:1. Depending on sample
> difficulty, prior knowledge and user talent we sometimes have a third
> session.
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> I am impressed by Sylvie's approach, but I doubt our group leaders would
> be willing to come up with so much money for training. Some think what we
> do now is already too time consuming (but most are happy about it).
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> Steffen
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> Am 11.10.2019 um 21:59 schrieb Niyanta Kumar:
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> > Hi all,
> > Can someone suggest any existing resources and formats to pull from
> > for designing new and advanced user trainings for confocal and
> > widefield microscopy? I need to design trainings for a Zeiss LSM 980
> > Airyscan 2 confocal and an Axio Obsever widefield scope. Interactive
> > resources or existing quizzes that can ensure users know what they
> > need to would also be helpful.
> > Thanks,
> > Niyanta
> >
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