Directors: Paolo Bianchini & Alberto Diaspro, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
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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.
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On December 3rd, 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.
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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 December 4th we will have tutorials and practical sessions.
Link to all NIC@IIT Events
Link to all NIC@IIT Events
Confirmed Faculty
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Paolo Bianchini
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Valentina Caorsi
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Francesca Cella Zanacchi
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Elisa d'Este
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Alberto Diaspro
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Marti Duocastella
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Mario Faretta
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Satoshi Kawata
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Luca Lanzanò
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Aymeric Le Gratiet
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Daniel Lin
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Danielle Love
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Luca Pesce
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Emiliano Ronzitti
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Peter Saggau
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Giorgio Tortarolo
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Giuseppe Vicidomini
Partners
We would like to thank our partners for their continued support.












Registration Fees
| Type | Fee in Euros (€) |
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PhD Student | 200€ |
Post Doc | 270€ |
Professionals or companies | 600€ |
IIT/SIOF/SIBPA/UNIGE members: PhD students and junior Post Doc | 140€ |
IIT/SIOF/SIBPA/UNIGE members: Post Docs | 220€ |
The fee will include technical and scientific material, all together dinner and packet lunch.
Tutorials and courses
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. The students, which bring their samples, could have the chance to image them.
Workstations
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N1: Nikon multicolor 3D N-STORM
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N2: IIT custom SPIM, IML-SPIM
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N3: IIT custom gSTED, image scanning microscopy (ISM)
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N4: Nikon N-SIM
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N5: Nikon A1 spectral confocal
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N6: Nikon Ti2 and Abbelight SAFe 360
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N7: Fast Confocal Nikon spinning disk
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N8: Genoa Instruments PRISM, image scanning microscopy
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N9: Nikon A1R MP, ISS fast FLIM and FCS
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N10: Expansion Microscopy
Tutorials
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a: Nikon JOBS Mattia Pesce
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b. Confocal, ISM Giuseppe Vicidomini
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c. FLIM, FRET Luca Lanzanò
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d. STED Giorgio Tortarolo
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e. STORM, PALM, GSDIM Francesca Cella Zanacchi
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f. SIM Giacomo Cozzi
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g. Fast volumetric imaging Peter Saggau
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h. Sample preparation for super-resolution microscopy Luca Pesce
Hands-on Courses
(all the students in groups (except G8) will have the chance to attend a session in each microscope)
Suggested Tutorials Hands-on (at least)
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Confocal, ISM and STED
b., d., h. N3, N5, N7, N8, N9
Group number: G1, G2 -
STORM, d-STORM
a., e., h. N1, N2, N4, N6, N7
Group number: G3, G4 -
Live cell and fast volumetric imaging
a., f., g., h. N2, N4, N6, N7, N9
Group number: G5, G6 -
2-photon and FLIM/FRET
b., d., c., h. N2, N3, N5, N8, N9
Group number: G7 -
Expansion Microscopy
b., d. f., h. N4, N5, N7, N8, N10
Group number: G8
The first day
Monday 3rd December, 09.30 to 19.00
Location: Sala delle Grida - City Center - Piazza De Ferrari, Genova
Program
Morning Tutorials
| Time | Main Room | Telegrafo Room |
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09:30 - 10:30 | a. (Time lapse) | b. (confocal)
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10:30 - 11:30 | e. (STORM) | d. (STED) |
11:30 - 12:30 | f. (SIM) | c. (FLIM, FRET) |
12:30 | Lunch Break |
Afternoon - Keynote Lectures (Open access session)
| Time | Title | Speaker/s |
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14:00 - 14:15 | Welcome and Opening remarks | Paolo Bianchini & Alberto Diaspro Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy |
14:15 - 15:15 | Raman microscopy and plasmonics: label-free nano-imaging of biomolecules in a living cell | Satoshi Kawata Osaka University, Japan |
15:15 - 15:45 | Into the nanoworld | Valentina Caorsi Abbelight, Paris, France |
15:45 - 16:15 | LEDs: More than just a light sourceì | Danielle Love Coolled, Andover, UK |
16.15 - 16:45 | Coffee break | |
16:45 - 17:30 | Optical nanoscopy reveals unprecedented cytoskeletal features in the nervous system | Elisa d'Este Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany |
17:30 - 18:15 | Neuronal circuits manipulation by wavefront shaping | Emiliano Ronzitti Paris Descartes University, France |
18:15 - 19:00 | The Intelligent Microscope: a scalable resolution approach to high content and resolution imaging in cancer research | Mario Faretta Department of Experimental Oncology European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy |
19:00 - 20:00 | Closing remarks | Alberto Diaspro Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy |
20:00 | Social Dinner, for registered students and speakers |
Hands-on
Tuesday 4th to Thursday 6th December 09.40 to 19.00
Please note that this is a closed session for registered students.
Location: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, Genova
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Tuesday 4th
| Time | Montlacini room, IIT, Genova, Italy |
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09:40 - 10:20 | g. (Fast volumetric imaging) |
10:20 - 11:00 | h. (Sample preparation) |
11:00 - 11:40 | Daniel Lin, Sunjinlab, Taiwan |
Hands-on
| G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | G5 | G6 | G7 | G8 | |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | N2 | N4 | N5 | N8 | N1 | N3 | N7 | N10 (N9) |
| 13.00 - 14..00 | LUNCH | |||||||
| 14.15 – 16.15 | N3 | N5 | N9 | N2 | N7 | N4 | N8 | N10 (N6) |
| 16.45 – 18.45 | N5 | N7 | N2 | N4 | N8 | N6 | N9 | N10 (N3) |
Wednesday 5th
| G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | G5 | G6 | G7 | G8 | |
| 09.30 - 10.30 | N6 | N1 | N3 | N5 | N9 | N8 | N4 | N10 (N7) |
| 10.45 - 12.45 | N7 | N8 | N1 | N6 | N2 | N9 | N3 | N10 (N5) |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | LUNCH | |||||||
| 14.15 - 16.15 | N8 | N9 | N6 | N7 | N4 | N2 | N5 | N10 (N1) |
| 16.45 - 18.45 | N9 | N3 | N4 | N1 | N6 | N7 | N2 | N10 (N8) |
Thursday 6th
| G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | G5 | G6 | G7 | G8 | |
| 09.30 - 10.30 | N1 | N6 | N7 | N9 | N3 | N5 | N8 | N10 (N2) |
| 10.45 - 11.45 | N4 | N2 | N8 | N3 | N5 | N1 | N6 | N10 (N9) |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | N8 | N9 | N6 | N4 | N7 | N2 | N1 | N10 (N5) |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | LUNCH | |||||||
| 14.15 - 16.15 | N3 | N8 | N7 | N1 | N9 | N4 | N5 | N10 (N6) |
| 16.45 - 18.45 | N5 | N3 | N1 | N6 | N4 | N7 | N9 | N10 (N2) |