Date/Time
Date(s) - 2023-01-23 - 2023-01-30
10:00 CET - 17:00 CET
Categories
Essentials I – Essentials of Widefield-Microscopy
Organizer: Stefan Terjung, Beate Neumann, Marko Lampe, Manuel Gunkel and Christian Tischer
Registration for EMBL staff only
The course is a beginners course with focus on teaching the essential knowledge needed to conduct a widefield microscopy-based experiment, to generate reliable data and to inspect and handle the acquired images. It will take place as a two day event and consists of a practical session on January 23rd (10 am – 5 pm) in the ALMF and an image handling and inspection session on Wednesday January 30th (2 – 5 pm) together with CBA.
Knowledge of this course will be the basis for the Essentials in Microscopy II (Confocal Microscopy) course.
For preparation of the course you will get a short list of videos covering the basics as well as a self-test questionaire
Topics covered include
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Transmission light path and Köhler illumination
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Fluorescence microscopy, filters and how to find good filter fluorophore combinations
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Light sources, Microscope objectives (magnification, resolution and brightness), Cover slips
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exposure time, bit depth and LUT, background level, remarks on sample preparation
Data handling and ispection topics:
- Using ImageJ, we will cover the following topics related to 3D image data:
- Opening images
- Image content and inspection
- Image calibration
- Image data types
- Image file formats
Bookings
This event is fully booked.