To all,

I attended last years course and would urge anyone who was thinking about it for this year but just couldn't make up their minds in time, or just found out about it, or who wants to go but thinks 10 days is too much to take advantage of this opportunity and claim one of those 3 spots.

My microscopic and confocal background were definitely "novice" when I attended and even though some of the lecture material was over my head at the time, the notes that were provided give you a chance to catch up.  But best of all there were so many "experts" in every conceivable area there who were ALWAYS willing to provide as much individual support as needed.  This applied not only to faculty and support staff, but to the enormous variety of expertise the "students" - as well as vendors supplied. It was a wonderful experience and I think no matter what level you go in as you'll come away with more than you expected to.
(Plus all the above, you get to visit Vancouver - the most beautiful city in the world!)

ingrid northwood




On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:46:33 -0600 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As sometimes happens, some people find they can't get money to attend
> courses at the last minute while others don't hear about them until it is
> too late to apply.
>
> Now may be your chance!
>
> Three late cancellations at the UBC Live-Cell course mean three
> opportunities for those of you who have ten days free this June.
>
> We expect to have an international faculty of 15, and on-site equipment
> that includes 2-photon systems from Olympus (and maybe Leica).        There will
> also be single-photon confocals from Bio-Rad, Olympus, Noran, Nikon, Zeiss
> and Yokogawa/EG&G, deconvolution set-ups from API,
> AutoQuant/Universal-Imaging, Improvision, Intelligent-Imaging and Vaytek
> all set up for "live-cell" work. In addition, there will be was laser
> tweezers, microinjection and sundry other delights.
>
> These systems are not just to look at but to use for over 45 hours of
> organized 2D and 3D live-cell laboratory sessions, plus 20 hours of evening
> sessions for group live-cell projects.
>
> Although the eight "Groups-of-3" have already been set up and have chosen
> their "individual projects," we are able to accept 3-2 more students as
> long as their backgrounds will fit into one of these groups.
>
> If this interests you, go and find out more at:
>
> http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/ladic/course/bulletin.html
>
> which has the rest of the story, including a preliminary program.
>
> Then fill out the Registration Form from the site to tell us about you, Fax
> it to me ASAP and we will see if we can fit you in.  (I will be away the
> week of April 9-18)
>
> Hope that you can join us in Vancouver this June 16-27.
>
> Jim Pawley, Organizer
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> Room 223, Zoology Research Building,             FAX  608-265-5315
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> but one who can question answers."
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Ingrid C. Northwood, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Teaching and Research Services
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, V4X 2P4  Canada
(phone) (604) 291-4090
(fax) (604) 291-5583
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