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3rd NIC@IIT Advanced Microscopy practical workshop

December 13 -16, 2016 at nic.iit.it

Info

Directors

Paolo Bianchini, Alberto Diaspro
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

A limited number of students (approx. 40) will be admitted in order to have no more than 3/4 students for each instrument or set-up. 

On November 27th, Lectures will be open access starting from 2,30 pm ending at 7,30 pm. All together dinner for invited speakers, students and instructors will be offered at 8 pm.

Basic courses will be included for students on: 

Confocal, Image scanning microscopy (ISM) and STED; STORM, d-STORM; Live cell imaging; 2-photon and FLIM/FRET; Fast volumetric imaging and particle tracking; Expansion Microscopy.

Starting from November 28th we will have tutorials and practical sessions. On December 1st we will end at lunch time. 

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Registration Fees

For registration, visit the SIOF website or contact us:  “lauretta.galeno at iit.it” (in copy to “alberto.diaspro at iit.it” and “manuela.salvatori at iit.it”) - mandatory subject “3rd NIC at IIT practical workshop”

TypeFEE IN EUROS (€)
PhD student

150€

Post Doc

200€

Professionals or companies

500€

IIT members, SIOF members: PhD students

100€

IIT members, SIOF members: Post Docs

150€

The fee will include technical and scientific material, all together dinner and packet lunch.

Speakers

Tuesday 13th, 14.00 to 19.00

Location: Sala delle Grida - City Center - Piazza De Ferrari, Genova

Open access session

  • David M. Jameson, University of Hawaii, USA
    A Nano-History of Fluorescence
  • Enrico Gratton, University of California Irvine, USA
    Mechanisms of molecular transport in live cells
  • Grace Huynh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    Expansion Microscopy for understanding complex biological systems'
  • Michelle Digman, University of California Irvine, USA
    Spatial-temporal imaging methods and fluorescence lifetime to measure p53 protein dynamics in living cell
  • Francisco J. Barrantes, UCA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Superresolution microscopy of synaptic proteins
  • Martin vandeVen, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
    Discovering Detail: Spectroscopic Rulers Bridge Nanoscale Gaps Via Förster Dependence of descriptors of coclustering and co-localization on spatial and temporal resolution.
  • Alberto Diaspro, IIT, Italy
    The Extraordinary Microscope

Practical Sessions

Location

Nikon Imaging Center, -1 floor at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Please note that this is a closed session for registered students.

Instructors and Lecturers

Practical workshop: Wednesday morning tutorials
TimeSpeaker
09:00-09:40
Michelle Digman
09.40 - 10.20
Martin vandeVen
10.20 - 11.00
David Jameson
11.00 - 11.40
Peter Saggau
11.40 - 12.00
Paolo Bianchini
Practical workshop: Hands on, the instruments
TimeSpeaker
N1
Nikon multicolor 3D N-STORM
N2
IIT custom SPIM, IML-SPIM
N3
IIT custom gSTED, CARMA-Gi
N4
Nikon N-SIM
N5
ISS ChronosFD
N6
Nikon A1 spectral confocal
N7
Nikon Time lapse
N8
Fast Confocal Nikon spinning disk
N9
IIT custom 2C 3D pulsed STED
N10
Nikon A1R MP, ISS fast FLIM and FCS

Wednesday 14

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09:00-12:00
TUTORIAL
13:30 - 16:00
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16:15 - 18:45
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Thursday 15

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09:15-12:00
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13:30 - 16:00
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16:15 - 18:45
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Friday 16

TIMEG1G2G3G4G5G6G7G8
09:15-12:00
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13:30 - 16:00
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16:15 - 17:45
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