Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Light Microscopy
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3400-19-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 14/12/2018

Date and time	14.01.2019, at: 00:00 - 01.02.2019, at: 16:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	15,480.00 kr.
Lecturers	Clara Prats
ECTS credits	8.00

Contact person	Ida Marie Bergman Rasmussen E-mail address: ida.mbr@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: This course in Light Microscopy follows the series of successful courses in Light Microscopy, Confocal and Fluorescence Microscopy and Electron Microscopy. This course consists of two modules and is suitable not only for beginners in microscopy, but also for those who already use the microscope in their work and now want to extend their knowledge of basic principles and more specialized techniques. The course is run in collaboration with The Royal Microscopical Society. Content Module 1 (first week) provides an essential grounding in the basic principles of microscopy, including: the limitations of the eye; resolution, contrast and magnification; refraction; lenses and images; conjugate planes; methods of illumination; diffraction, aperture and resolution; generation of contrast; introduction to bright-field, dark ground, phase contrast, polarised light, differential interference contrast and fluorescence; principles of image recording. The module also covers the basic principles of electron microscopy. Module 2 (second week) covers the characteristics and alignment of the fluorescence and confocal microscopes; the selection of fluorophores and corresponding filter sets; immunofluorescent and fluorescent affinity staining of biological specimens. Consideration will also be given to the use of cooled-CCD cameras. The principles of FRET and FLAP will be covered and demonstrated in practice. In addition, methods for producing images representing two- and three-dimensional data sets from computer-based data sets and deconvolution techniques will be described and demonstrated in practice. CFIM (www.cfim.ku.dk) will furnish state-of-the-art fluorescence and personal confocal microscopes to give students an opportunity to get hands-on experience. Since the course is in high demand, the registrants are expected to attend all lectures and practicals and will be ask to submit a letter of motivation, stating the reasons why the course is relevant for their PhD project (1/2 A4). Participants PhD students who use light microscopes Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language English Form Lectures, exercises Course director Clara Prats, Associate Professor, MD, PhD; cprats@sund.ku.dk Teachers Peter Evennett, Andrew Scott, Thomas Braunstein, Clara Prats, Daniel Zicha, Klaus Qvortrup. Course secretary Ida Marie Rasmussen; idambr@sund.ku.dk Dates 14.01.19 - 18.01.2019 and 28.01.19 - 01.02.2019 Course location Panum Building 15.2 and CFIM Nørre Allé 20 2200 Kbh. N. Registration Please register before 14 December 2018 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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