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| Title | Microscopy: improve your imaging skills |
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| Course number | 2871 |
| Programme | Utveckling och regeneration (DevReg) |
| Language | English |
| Credits | 4.5 |
| Date | 2020-01-21 -- 2020-02-07 | Responsible KI department | Institutionen för biovetenskaper och näringslära |
| Specific entry requirements | The participants to this course must have used a microscope to acquire digital images of fluorescently labelled samples within the past 1 year. |
| Purpose of the course | The aim for this course is to improve the microscopy skills of students and researchers who have already used a microscope to acquire digital images of fluorescent samples and want to improve their skills. |
| Intended learning outcomes | At the end of the course, the participants will be able to: 1- Describe the difference between wide field and confocal microscopes as well as the different types of confocal microscopes 2- Pick the best combination of fluorophores for their experiment by matching their spectra with the microscope light source and filters, identify and eliminate bleed-through and cross-excitation problems 3- Explain objective specifications and limitations 4- Explain the theory behind settings the following parameters on a confocal or a wide field system to best match the requirements of their sample and reliably answer their scientific question: resolution, pixel size, averaging, scan speed, illumination power, detector gain and offset, camera readout rate, exposure time and camera binning 5- Explain which applications require a hardware or a software autofocus, a spectral detector, a resonance scanner, light sheet or two-photon microscopy or super resolution 6- Explain the advantages in using the automation of a microscope system to collect multidimensional data 7- Explain how to deal with images before publication in scientific journals 8- Run a simple image analysis on freeware (ImageJ/FIJI, Cell Profiler) and describe the imaging requirements for automated image analysis |
| Contents of the course | The students will learn the theory about the parameters and hardware used in in wide field and confocal imaging, how to identify and avoid imaging artefacts, deal with the challenges of imaging fluorescent volumes, as well as how to handle scientific images for publication. They will also learn about more advanced techniques. |
| Teaching and learning activities | Lectures, videos, peer review, image troubleshooting in groups. |
| Compulsory elements | Attendance to all sessions is compulsory. Any absence must be reported to the course leader in advance by e-mail. Absence from any part of the course (lectures, laboratory sessions, discussion sessions and exam) is generally not accepted but could in exceptional cases be compensated by a written additional assignment to ensure the learning outcomes of the day have been reached. If it is not possible to compensate, the student will be given a chance to complete the course by attending the missing sessions the following year. |
| Examination | The final mark (pass or fail) will depend on the results of: 1. The weekly assignments 2. The skills shown in each workshop 3. The written examination at the end of the course. The student has to show that all intended learning outcomes of the course have been reached. |
| Literature and other teaching material | Handbook of Biological confocal microscopy, James Pawley Springer Editions 2006 |
| Number of students | 1 - 20 |
| Selection of students | The selection will be made based on the application text. The application must describe the student's research project, their past experience using fluorescence microscopy and how useful this technique is to their research project. We aim to improve the skills of people who have already done microscopy. It is mandatory that students have acquired images on a microscope within the past 1 year. The participants will be selected based on the usefulness of the course to their research project. |
| More information | The detailed program of the course can be found on the LCI website (https://ki.se/en/bionut/welcome-to-the-lci-facility). Presence at the course is mandatory 3 days per week during 3 consecutive weeks, mostly (with exceptions) from 10:00 to 15:00 (see detailed program), as well as for the examination, on the last day of the 3rd week. The rest of the time is used in preparing assignments. The course counts for 4 weeks because some time before, during and after these 3 weeks is used for assignments. The venue is the Live Cell Imaging facility at KI Flemingsberg campus in the Neo building. This course is run in parallel with course 2870 ”Microscopy: improve your imaging skills - from sample preparation to image analysis”. |
| Additional course leader | |
| Latest course evaluation | Course evaluation report |
| Course responsible |
Sylvie Le Guyader Institutionen för biovetenskaper och näringslära Sylvie.Le.Guyader@ki.se |
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