4th Course on Optical Microscopy Imaging for Biosciences

The 4th Course on Optical Microscopy Imaging for Biosciences is an intensive course destinated to researchers that want to get the basis of modern light microscopy, so the course will explore the principles of light microscopy including the theory of image formation, the anatomy of an optical microscope, light contrast techniques, fluorescence wide-field microscopy and laser scanning confocal microscopy. It will focus also on digital imaging and image processing. Live cell imaging and advanced applications for molecular analysis as Fluorescence Recovering After Photobleaching (FRAP), PhotoActivation (PA) or Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), intravital imaging and high-throughput analysis will be topics also covered by the course. The program will include lectures and practical sessions with equipment provided by sponsor companies.

IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal
18th - 22nd June 2012

Topics:
Basics of optical microscopy
Light transmission contrast techniques
Fluorescence microscopy
Laser scanning confocal microscopy
Live cell imaging
Fluorescent proteins and probes
Molecular imaging
Super-resolution
Digital image processing and analysis
Intra-vital imaging
High Content Cellular Imaging

Lectures by:
Rodrigo Almeida (Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Ana Carvalho (IBMC, Universidade do Porto , Portugal)
David Castrillo (Hamamatsu, Spain)
Delisa Garcia (Bitplane, UK)
Nathalie Garin (Leica Microsystems, Switzerland)
Mark Harvey (GE Healthcare, UK)
Elsa Logarinho (IBMC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
André Marçal (Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Gabriel Martin (Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Rainer Peperkkok (EMBL, Germany)
Claudia Pereira(Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
António Pereira (IBMC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Ulf Rädler (Ibidi, Germany)
Diana Rodrigues (IBMC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Paula Sampaio (IBMC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Monica Sousa (IBMC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Joana Tavares (Institute Pasteur, France )
Stefan Terjung (EMBL, Germany)

Sponsors:
Bitplane
GE Healthcare
Ibidi
Leica Microsystems

Registration fee:
Lectures only €120
Lectures plus practicals €150

Registration deadline: 3rd of June 2012
For more informations and registration see Micro2012 website at www.ibmc.up.pt/micro12/