Basic concepts on imaging tools and data analysis

Date: Monday, September 30 – Friday, October 4, 2019
Location: CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Organizers: Luísa Cortes – CNC, PT; Monika Marx – ZEISS, DE

Aims: This course goals are to provide the students with state-of-the-art techniques in Microscopy (Multiphoton, High Speed Imaging, Fluorescence, Optical Sectioning, Live-cell, Super-resolution, Electron). The course combines talks by researchers experts in the techniques, with hands-on sessions in microscopy and image analysis. The students will learn to integrate the different techniques available with their applications.

Day 1 – Monday, September 30

09:30 Welcome

10:00 Fluorescence Microscopy – Basic Concepts
Luisa Cortes – CNC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Optical Sectioning Microscopy
Soren Prag – Carl Zeiss Microscopy, Jena, Germany

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Live cell Imaging: F-techniques
José Rino – iMM, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal

15:00 Coffee Break

15.30 Introduction to Super-resolution Microscopy
Monika Marx – Carl Zeiss Microscopy, Jena, Germany

16:30 Network School Photo

17:30 End


Day 2 – Tuesday, October 1

09:00 Multiphoton Microscopy
Monika Marx

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 MICROSCOPY HANDS-ON
LSM900

12:30 Lunch

13.30 High speed imaging
Soren Prag

14.30 MICROSCOPY HANDS-ON
LSM710 NLO

16:30 Coffee Break

17:00 MICROSCOPY HANDS-ON
Cell Observer SD

19:00 End


Day 3 – Wednesday, October 2

09:00 Introduction to Image analysis with FIJI
José Rino & Luisa Cortes

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 MICROSCOPY HANDS-ON
Imager Z2

12:30 Lunch

13.30 Macro Design in FIJI
Jorge Valero – Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Leioa, Spain

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Dendritic spine dynamics
Ana Luisa Carvalho & Ângela Inácio – Department of Life Sciences and CNC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

16:30 IMAGE ANALYSIS HANDS-ON
An overview of Fiji software

18:30 End


Day 4 – Thursday, October 3

09:00 Deconvolution
Telmo Pereira – CEDOC, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 IMAGE ANALYSIS HANDS-ON
Deconvolution using Huygens Software

12:30 Lunch

14.00 IMAGE ANALYSIS HANDS-ON
FRAP analysis in Fiji

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 IMAGE ANALYSIS HANDS-ON
Macro design in Fiji

18:30 End


Day 5 – Friday, October 4

09:30 How to write a great research paper, and get it accepted by a good journal – tutorial
Anthony Newman – Life Sciences Department, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands

12:00 Lunch

13:30 CNC Seminar: Receptors dynamics and nano-organization: new facets of NMDAR functions 
Joana Ferreira – IINS, University of Bordeaux, France

14.30 Electron Microscopy in Biomedicine
Mónica Zuzarte – iCBR, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal

15:30 IMAGE ANALYSIS HANDS-ON
Image analysis with Imaris software, Analysis of organelle tracking

17:30 Evaluation

18:00 Final remarks