Dear All,

First Announcement:

The Advanced Light Microscopy Facilities in the School of Biological Sciences 
at the University of Leicester (UK) is organising, in collaboration with GENIE 
and industrial partners, three microscopy workshops: 

From Basic to Advanced Microscopy

24th August 2009: Immunolabelling
25th - 27th August 2009: Fluorescence Microscopy 
28th August 2009: Quantitative Fluorescence Based Screening

The academic rate for the full week of three workshops is £600 (non-academic 
£1200). The fees include lecture printouts, consumables for the 
immunolabelling workshop, coffee, lunches and a dinner during the 
fluorescence microscopy workshop, sponsored by Olympus UK.

All workshops include hands-on sessions. The equipment confirmed for the 
Fluorescence Microscopy workshop:

- Olympus FV1000 confocal laser scanning microscope
- Olympus FV1000 confocal laser scanning microscope with FCS/FLIM
- Olympus FV10i, Olympus new compact confocal laser scanning microscope
- Olympus cell^R imaging systems
- Olympus BX61 automated microscope with Applied Spectral Imaging's 
scanning platform
- Nikon A1 confocal laser scanning microscope with TIRF
- Nikon BioStation IM
- Leica TCS SP5 confocal laser scanning microscope
- Agilent Technologies iMIC 2000 microscope system
- PerkinElmer UltraVIEW VoX spinning disk confocal microscope
- Volocity, Improvision's high performance 3D imaging software package
- Imaris, the cutting-Edge 3D and 4D Imaging Software for Life Sciences from 
Bitplane
- Huygens deconvolution software from Scientific Volume Imaging (SVI)


For the program, the prices of individual workshops and registration please 
visit: http://www.le.ac.uk/biochem/microscopy/workshop2009.html
or contact GENIE at + 44 (0)116 2523479

Dr. K.R. Straatman
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Senior Experimental Officer
School of Biological Sciences
http://www.le.ac.uk/biochem/microscopy/home.html

Postal address:
Department of Biochemistry
Henry Wellcome Building
University of Leicester
Lancaster Rd.
Leicester LE1 9HN
UK
tel.: + 44 (0)116 229 7085/252 2263
fax: + 44 (0)116 229 7031 

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