Damir,

It almost sounds more like you need a microscopy course with a bit of
confocal tagged on at the end.

Two suggestions:
Our book, "Optimizing Light Microscopy" is easy to read and full of little
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Secondly, we specialize in customized on-site courses and could put
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At 12:14 PM 2/17/01 -0800, Damir Sudar wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am running a small microscopy facility at Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab.
>in Life Sciences. We have a steady stream of new users that want to use
>our Zeiss LSM410 and very limited resources for training. Can you point
>me to basic training materials to get these new people going on our
>system? Most new users tend to have no or very limited microscopy
>experience.
>
>My main concerns are (in order of importance):
>1) How not to cause harm to the instrument (e.g. oil on dry lenses,
>powering on/off arc lamps, scratching objectives, etc.)
>2) Basic operation of the instrument and how to get reasonable data out.
>
>3) Teaching them enough about microscopy so together we can design the
>experiments properly for optimal usage of the instrument.
>
>I was thinking of a combination of:
>1) Once a month a brief introductory tutorial/workshop.
>2) Hand-out with do-it-yourself hands-on training (with supervision).
>3) List of books for in-depth understanding for the serious users.
>
>I appreciate your help.
>Thanks,
>- Damir
>
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>Damir Sudar - Staff Scientist
>Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory / Life Sciences Division
>One Cyclotron Road, MS 84-171, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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