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4th NIC@IIT Advanced Microscopy practical workshop

November 27 - December 1, 2017 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 fill the form at SIOF website or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., in order to book the seat or to apply for bursaries - payments can be done later - please, send an email to "This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." and "This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." with the mandatory subject "YOURSURNAME-4TH NIC at IIT-PRE". 

TypeFEE IN EUROS (€)
PhD student

180€

Post Doc
250€
Professionals or companies
600€
IIT/SIOF/SIBPA/UNIGE members: PhD students and junior Post Doc
120€
IIT/SIOF/SIBPA/UNIGE members: Post Docs
200€
The fee will include technical and scientific material, all together dinner and packet lunch.

Speakers

Monday 27th November, 14.00 to 19.00

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

Open access session

14.00
Paolo Bianchini & Alberto Diaspro, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Welcome and Opening remarks
14.15
Peter Saggau, Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA
Scalable Approaches for Encoded Optical Imaging
14.45
Emiliano Ronzitti, Paris Descartes University, France
Shaping the light for targeted interrogation of neural circuits
15.15
Thomas Huser, University of Bielefeld, Germany
High resolution and high speed imaging of living cells by multimodal optical nanoscopy
15.45
Kseniya Korobchevskaya, Kennedy Inst. of Rheumatology, UK
Structured Illumination microscopy for live super-resolution imaging
16.15
Coffee break
16.45
Matteo Bardelli, Physik Instrumente, Italy
TBD
17.00
Silvia Galiani, University of Oxford, UK
Exploring peroxisomes import process: an advance cellular microscopy study
17.30
Zeno Lavagnino, Washington University, US
diSPIM allows multidimensional characterisation of second messengers activity in intact islets of Langerhans
18.00
Matthieu Dubreuil, University of Brest, France
Polarimetric methods for linear and nonlinear microscopy
18.30
Alberto Diaspro, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
The Extraordinary Microscope
20.00
Social Dinner
For registered students and speakers

Program

Tutorials and Practical workshop

Please note that this is a closed session for registered students.
Each student should choose his favorite course and the corresponding group. We will try to satisfy all the requests. However, the maximum number of students per group is 4. Once assigned to a group, students cannot exchange them. Each group will attend eight "hands on" lessons in eight different instruments as shown in the programme.

Tutorials

  1. Time lapse (widefield and TIRF), JOBS Mattia Pesce
  2. Spinning disk / Confocal, ISM Giuseppe Vicidomini
  3. Multiphoton, FLIM, FRET Luca Lanzanò
  4. STED, STED-FCS Silvia Galiani
  5. STORM, PALM, GSDIM Francesca Cella Zanacchi
  6. SIM Kseniya Korobchevskaya
  7. Fast volumetric imaging Marti Duocastella
  8. Sample preparation for super-resolution microscopy  Luca Pesce

Courses

CourseSuggested TutorialsHands on (at least) Group number
Confocal, ISM and STED
b., d., h.
N3, N5, N6, N9, N10
G1, G2
STORM, d-STORM
a., e., h.
N1, N2, N5, N7, N8
G3, G4
Live cell imaging
a., f., h.
N2, N4, N5, N7, N8
G5
2-photon and FLIM/FRET
b., d., c., h.
N2, N3, N5, N6, N10
G6
Fast volumetric imaging and particle tracking.
a., c., g.
N1, N2, N7, N5, N11
G7
Expansion Microscopy
b., d. f., h.
N4, N8, N9, N5, N12
G8

Instruments and workstations

  • N1: Nikon multicolor 3D N-STORM
  • N2: IIT custom SPIM, IML-SPIM
  • N3: IIT custom gSTED, CARMA-Gi
  • N4: Nikon N-SIM
  • N5: Nikon A1 spectral confocal
  • N6: Nikon Time lapse
  • N7: Fast Confocal Nikon spinning disk
  • N8: IIT custom 2C 3D pulsed STED
  • N9: Nikon A1R MP, ISS fast FLIM and FCS
  • N10: single particle tracking
  • N11: Expansion Microscopy

Tuesday 28

TimeHACK room, IIT, Genova, ItalyMONTALCINI room, IIT, Genova, Italy
09.30 – 10.30
a. (Time lapse)
b. (confocal)
10.30 – 11.30
e. (STORM)
d. (STED)
11.30 – 12.30
f. (SIM)
c. (FLIM, FRET)
12.30 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00
g. (Fast volumetric imagingSample preparation)
TimeG1G2G3G4G5G6G7G8
15.30 – 17.30
N9
N1
N4
N7
N2
N5
N6
N11

Wednesday 29

TimeHACK room, IIT, Genova, Italy
09.30 – 10.30
h. (Sample preparation)
TimeG1G2G3G4G5G6G7G8
10.30 – 12.30
N8
N5
N10
N4
N3
N2
N7
N1
12.30 - 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 16.00
N2
N9
N8
N10
N1
N6
N4
N11
16:30 - 18:30
N7
N8
N6
N9
N10
N1
N2
N4

Thursday 30

TimeG1G2G3G4G5G6G7G8
09.30 – 11.30
N4
N7
N2
N5
N6
N9
N1
N8
12.00 - 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 16.00
N3
N4
N1
N6
N7
N8
N10
N15
16:30 - 18:30
N5
N3
N7
N1
N4
N10
N9
N11

Friday 31

TimeG1G2G3G4G5G6G7G8
09.30 – 11.30
N6
N10
N5
N2
N9
N3
N8
N7

Partners

We would like to thank our partners for their continued support.

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