Biophotonics course, BMB207 May 2024

Flyer

Level: PhD course
Time: May 27-31, 2024
Locations: DaMBIC, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Language: English

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The course program and schedule can be found here: Biophotonics Program 2024

Course description

Bioimaging plays an important role in modern biosciences not only as a tool for research but also as a means to improve medical treatments. The main objective of this course is to provide the theoretical basis of bioimaging together with some “hands on” laboratory practice. The goal of the course is to teach the students general principles of fluorescence and light microscopy as well as to demonstrate principles behind advanced fluorescence and imaging techniques as well as a short introduction to image processing and analysis.

There will be practical demonstrations and hands on exercises on all topics. The course is a five-day intensive course taking place within one week. The course is relevant for PhD students within medicine, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, nano-bioscience, pharmaceutical sciences, agricultural science or biology. The course corresponds to 5 ECTS points.

Included in the course:

Lectures (3 days, 10 lessons)
Seminars on application of technique (3 seminars)
Hands on practical exercises
Individual experimental projects
The students prepare a presentation of the results
Students presentations

Learning objectives:

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be familiar with:

Widefield microscopy
Laser scanning confocal microscopy
Two-photon microscopy
Spinning disk confocal microscopy
Fluorescence Correlation- and Raster Image Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS and RICS)
Super resolution microscopies; STED, SIM, localization microscopies STORM and Minflux
Automated image acquisition and analysis
Coherent anti Raman scattering microscopy (CARS)
Image deconvolution and analysis

Evaluation:

The students will conduct their own mini-project on a chosen topic within one the presented techniques and at the examination day give a short presentation of their results. The student will thus be evaluated via oral examination with internal evaluation by the teachers on a pass/fail basis.

Course information

STADS ID: N220009101
For the official course description, please refer to the SDU study board course page: BMB207 course.
Number of contact hours: 37
Capacity limits: 15

Teaching method:
Intro phase: 12 hours
Skills training phase: 25 hours, hereof:
- Tutorials: 8 hours
- Laboratory exercises: 17 hours

Course administration and registration

General course information: www.dambic.dk

Course materials will be published on the "Its Learning" platform (SDU). A user profile will be generated for those who are not yet registered here.

Course responsible: Jonathan R. Brewer brewer@memphys.sdu.dk

Registration and questions can be directed to Morten Frendø Ebbesen: mfe@bmb.sdu.dk (kindly provide information on your institution, department, supervisor, project topic at registration)