Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Hands-on Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy of eucaryotic cells
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3555-24-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 22/03/2024

Date and time	22.04.2024, at: 08:30 - 08.05.2024, at: 15:00
Regular seats	12
Course fee	21,960.00 kr.
Lecturers	Kristine Freude Merle Fenner
ECTS credits	6.60

Contact person	Betina Wingreen Jensen E-mail address: bwj@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), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member universities. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member universities. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Plan relevant ultrastructural studies according to cell types and cell biological aspects in question. 2. Fix, dehydrate, embed, and section samples for transmission electron microscopy and for critical point drying and sputter coating for scanning electron microscopy. 3. Acquire micrographs using transmission and scanning electron microscopes. 4. Perform initial ultrastructural evaluation of the acquired images. 5. Theoretically evaluate the potential of further processing for ultrastructural immunocytochemistry, quantification, and other more advanced ultrastructural methodologies. Content Transmission (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) are specialized technologies that are often used when cell biological aspects need to be visualized at the maximum resolution. In their conventional form, TEM focuses on cell visualization in ultra-thin two-dimensional sections giving access to all internal cell components represented in a section, whereas SEM focuses on a three-dimensional representation of surface structures of cells. The two visualization principles demand different specimen preparations. This hands-on PhD course allows the students to process their own samples for TEM and SEM. They will thereby get insight to and train fixation (including primary and secondary fixation), dehydration, embedding for TEM, semi-thin sectioning and staining for light microscopy, ultra-thin sectioning and contrasting for TEM, critical point drying and sputter coating for SEM, acquisition of TEM and SEM micrographs as well as qualitative and quantitative analyses of the results. Preparation of specimens from three-dimensional tissue blocks as well as from two-dimensional cell cultures will be addressed. Hands-on exercises will, furthermore, address quantification of ultrastructural data. Finally, the students will acquire theoretical knowledge about more advanced applications in electron microscopy including immunocytochemistry and alternative visualization methodologies. The students will be contacted by the course director ahead of course start regarding preparation of sample material etc. Please do not hesitate to contact the course director in case of any questions regarding suitability of your sample material! Participants The course is designed for PhD students within any medical background, cell and molecular biology, human biology and biology/biotechnology. Participation in the course requires general knowledge in cell biology and histology. Due to the hands-on training a maximum of 12 students can be enrolled. 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 Exercises, lectures, discussions, participant presentations. Course director Merle Friederike Fenner, Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, merle.fenner@sund.ku.dk (course director) Kristine Freude, Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, kkf@sund.ku.dk (co-course director) Teachers Merle Friederike Fenner, Assistent Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen Kristine Freude, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen Maria Pihl, Laboratory Manager, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen Alexander Schulz, Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen Sebastian Kjelgaard-Nintemann, Center Manager, Center for Advanced Bioimaging Denmark, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen Catherine Anne Skrzynski Nielsen, Laboratory Technician, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen Melanie Weisser, Assistant Professor, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen Klaus Qvoutrup, Professor, Core Facility for Integrated Microsopy, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen Henriette Haukedal, Commercial Management Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Olso, Norge Max Larsson, Principal Research Engineer, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Linköping Dates 22 April – 8 May 2024 Course location Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegårdsvej 7, 1870 Frederiksberg C. Registration Please register before 22 March 2024. 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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