The NorMIC series of workshops aims to teach biological researchers (PhD students, engineers, postdocs and young PIs) the principles of biological microscopes and image processing.Time and place: May 3, 2022–May 6, 2022, IBV UiO and Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway Add to calendar
Photo: Xian Hu.
Registration is Open
Schedule will be available shortly.
Schedule of Past Workshop(2019 May)
The workshop consist of 4 days from 3rd May to 6th May(Tuesday to Friday), starting from 8:30am to 4pm each day. The lunch, tea breaks and one social dinner is included. Mornings are lectures(open to public) and afternoons are hands on labs (registerants only).
Tentative Scope of Teaching and Hands On Session:
Theory of microscopic image formation, difference between different imaging modalities( different wide field contrasting methods,super resolutions, non linear, light sheet etc), principles of fluorescence and probes, detectors and filters, introduction of image processing
And hands on operation on different high end microscopes: LSM880, Olympus SpinSR, Abberrior STED, SPIM, 3D Printing
Students will assemble a simple 3D Printed Spinning Disk Microscope in one of the hands on session in this workshop (Designed by Felix Margadant)
Teaching Staff:
Professor Rainer Heintzmann, the co-inventor of Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) and Instant Structured Illumination Microscopy (iSIM). Rainer will demonstrate the powerful free deconvolution software developed in his lab.
Matthew Hartley, Team leader of BioImaging Archive, EMBL. Matthew will share with us important aspects of imaging data management and sharing.
Felix Margadant, a member of the Harald Stenmark group. Felix has devised several cellular force measurement tools. A software suite used in his UiO collaboration is https://imagej.net/PillarTracker.
PC Cheng, Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, State University of New York in Buffalo, USA and famous plant biologist. Specialist in confocal microscopy, biomedical imaging, x-ray microscopy, microtomography, and lithography.
PC Cheng and Felix Margadant are contributing authors to the book ‘Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy’ available here
Stig Ove Bøe, Group Leader and Microscope Platform Leader from Riks Hospital. Stig Ove will share with us his work on High Content Screen System.
Kay Schink, Senior Research Scientist from Radium Hospital, Norway. Kay has extensive experience in various optical microscope techniques. He will demonstrate the Light Sheet Microscope(Mr. Snouty) he has installed in Radium Hospital for our workshop.
Frode Skjeldal, Imaging Specialist working for NorMIC Imaging Platform. Frode has accumulated extensive experience of various types of cellular and tissue imaging. He is also an expert of various imaging processing softwares especially Imaris.
Ingrid Kjos, Researcher from Radium Hopspital. Ingrid has been working with the EM shared core facility in Radium for the past 3 years, she will cover the topics of CLEM for our course.
Merete Storflor, UiT PhD Candidate and application specialist of Chip NanoImaging. Chip NanoImaging is a scientist initiated starup from UiT that is specialisted in Single Molecule Localization Microscopy and TIRF on a chip microscope. Merete will share with us her experience with DNA Paint, dSTORM and the beauty of Total Internal Reflection Microscopy.
Rafael Camacho, Imaging Scientist at University of Gothenburg. Rafael is a very active imaging processing specialist in Europe. He usually teaches ImageJ in our workshops and is well-loved by our previous students.
Dominik Frei, Senior product specialist from Inter Instrument. Dominik will bring one demo instrument for the workshop, the Nikon dSTORM or the Abberior STED.
Luca Clario, Technical Support Specialist from Crest Optics. Luca will cover the topics of modern spinning microscopes.
Sebastian Beer and Linda Haals, Product Specialists from Hamamatsu Europe. Sebastian and Linda will bring the newest Hamamatsu sCMOS camera to the workshop to demonstrate how to evaluate the performance of a scientific camera.
Supporting Staff:
Xian Hu, Edna , Oddmund Bakke, Linda Haugen, Nuru Saadi, Elisa Bjørgo
Organizing Committee:
Xian Hu, Edna, Felix Margadant, Kay Schink, Frode Skjedal, Harald Stenmark, Oddmund Bakke
We will only take 20 students this year. Registration closes on the 2nd of April and you will be notified of registration status on the 7th April.
Questions? Xian Hu(Edna): xianh at ncmm.uio.no
Organizing institutes:
NCMM; NorMIC Imaging Platform, IBV ; Imaging Core Facility, Radium Hospital
This workshop receives financial support from Digital Life Norway , UiO:Life Sciences and BNMI (NordForsk Research Infrastructure Hubs).
