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Lectures are held in Rock Hall 102 from 10-11:30 am on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Schedule (subject to change; slides will be linked here as they become available):
April 2: Lecture 1: What is light; the transmitted light microscope (Kurt Thorn)
April 4: Lecture 2: Resolution and objective corrections (Kurt Thorn)
April 9: Brightfield contrasting; Phase / DIC (Orion Weiner)
April 11: Fluorescence and fluorescence optics (Nico Stuurman)
April 16: Cameras, detectors, and light sources (Nico Stuurman)
April 23: Immunofluorescence, small molecule dyes, Qdots, etc. (Kurt Thorn)
April 25: Fluorescent proteins (Kurt Thorn)
May 7: Special techniques: FRAP, FRET, FLIM, etc. (Holly Aaron)
May 16: Super-resolution: Localization Microscopy (Bo Huang)
May 21: Fluorescent reporters and probes (Mark von Zastrow)
May 28: Optical Control of Living systems (Orion Weiner)
May 30: Intravital microscopy and 2 photon (Max Krummel)
June 4: Image Analysis (Nico Stuurman)
June 6: Electron Microscopy (Yifan Cheng)
For the image analysis lab, you will need to download and install the Fiji distribution of ImageJ. Fiji is free and available for both Macs and PCs. The download the manual and files below.
