HUM-MOLGEN events: MICROSCIENCE 2002

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MICROSCIENCE 2002

February 25, 2002

Royal Microscopical Society, ExCeL, London UK
9th-11th July 2002

Tuesday 9 July 2002

Lecture Theatre 1
11 – 1 pm
Fluorescent & Molecular Markers
Organiser: Nick Read, nread@srv0.bio.ed.ac.uk, Tel nos: 0131 535 4174

Lecture Theatre 2
11 – 1 pm
Low Temperature Microscopy
Organiser: Chris Jeffree, c.jeffree@ed.ac.uk, Tel nos: 0131 650 5345
Lecture Theatre 1
1.30 – 3.30 pm
Confocal / Multiphoton Microscopy
Organiser: Nick Read, nread@srv0.bio.ed.ac.uk, Tel nos: 0131 535 4174

Session Workshops organised by:
Leica – “Using the unique Leica spectral confocal microscopy for applications such as FRAP, FRET, FLIM and spectral ‘finger printing’”
Bio-Rad
Olympus – “An overview of Olympus confocal systems”
Improvision – “Do you see life as it really is?”

Lecture Theatre 2
1.30 – 3.30 pm
Variable Pressure SEM for Biologists
Organiser: Patrick Echlin, pe13@cam.ac.uk, Tel nos: 01223 354577

Session Workshops organised by:
LEO

Lecture Theatre 1
4 – 6 pm
FLIM and FRET
Organiser: Nick Read, nread@srv0.bio.ed.ac.uk, Tel nos: 0131 535 4174

Session Workshops organised by:
Carl Zeiss – “FRAP & FLIM using the CLSM” and “FRET using fluorescence protein variants”
Nikon – “Fluorescence lifetime as contrast method in imaging”
Improvision – “Do you see life as it really is?”

Lecture Theatre 2
4 – 6 pm
Flow Cytometry
Organiser: Terry Hoy, hoy@cardiff.ac.uk, Tel nos: 029 2074 3458

Wednesday 10 July 2002

Lecture Theatre 1
11 – 1 pm
Tomographic imaging
Organiser: Paul Monaghan, paul.monaghan@bbsrc.ac.uk, Tel nos: 01483 231100

Session Workshops organised by:
FEI
Gatan
Gresham - “Presentation by SkyScan of their X-Ray Micro-CT systems using computer and screen projector”
Tietz

Lecture Theatre 2
11 – 1 pm
Low Voltage SEM
Organiser: Patrick Echlin, pe13@cam.ac.uk, Tel nos: 01223 354577

Session Workshops organised by:
LEO

Lecture Theatre 1
1.30 – 3.30 pm
Scientific Digital Imaging
Organiser: Mark Browne, mark@kineticimaging.com, Tel nos: 0151 343 0060

Session Workshops organised by:
Imaging Associates – “How to choose a camera for digital microscopy”
Improvision – “Do you see life as it really is?”
Kinetic Imaging - “Digital imaging of live cells, image processing and visualisation techniques
Leica - “Practical microscope quantification”
Nikon - “From silver to silicon”
Syncroscopy – “Infinite depth of focus optical microscopy and 300 million pixel image digitisation
on Tuesday 9 July
Hamamatsu - “New camera technologies. How they are helping biological
research and how to choose the right technology for your application”
on Thursday 11 July
Kinetic Imaging – “Histometrix – tissue analysis in a digital world”

Lecture Theatre 2
1.30 – 3.30 pm and 4 – 6pm
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Organiser: Alastair Smith, phy6das@phys-irc.novell.leeds.ac.uk, Tel nos: 0113 233 3875

Session Workshops organised by:
Asylum Research/Atomic Force
LOT Oriel
Veeco
ThermoMicroscopes
AG Electro-Optics

Lecture Theatre 1
4 – 6 pm
Image Quantification
Organiser: Patrick Echlin, pe13@cam.ac.uk, Tel nos: 01223 354577

Session Workshops organised by:
Imaging Associates – “Combined macro and micro measurements using scanning stage applications"
Improvision – “Do you see life as it really is?”
Leica – “Practical microscope quantification”

Thursday 11 July 2002

Lecture Theatre 1
11 – 1 pm
Energy Filtered Imaging
Organiser: Rik Brydson, mtlrmdb@leeds.ac.uk, Tel nos: 0113 233 2369

Session Workshops are organised by:
Gatan

Lecture Theatre 2
11 – 1 pm
Variable Pressure SEM for Materials Scientists
Organiser: Patrick Echlin, pe13@cam.ac.uk, Tel nos: 01223 354577

Session Workshops are organised by:
LEO

Lecture Theatre 1
1.30 – 3.30 pm
Focused Ion Beam Microscopy
Organiser: Beverley Inkson, beverley.inkson@materials.ox.ac.uk
Session Workshops are organised by:
FEI

Lecture Theatre 2
1.30 – 3.30 pm and 4 – 6 pm
Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction
Organiser: Valerie Randle, v.randle@swansea.ac.uk, Tel nos: 01792 295 841

Speakers: Valerie Randle, UK - “Advances in materials characterisation using EBSD”

Session Workshops will be organised by:
Oxford Instruments – “Jargon busting for EBSD”, “using EBSD to understand textures”, “Stage scanning vs beam scanning for large areas”
HKL Technology – “Maximising SEM time - getting EBSD data in the shortest time”, “Characterising deformation – different ways to process orientation maps”, “Geological applications of EBSD”
TSL/EDAX – “Advanced customisation of EBSD mapping”

Lecture Theatre 1
4 – 6 pm
Super STEM
Organiser: Rik Brydson, mtlrmdb@leeds.ac.uk, Tel nos: 0113 233 2369

Q&A Session

Organized by:

Royal Microscopical Society

Invited Speakers:

Richard Haugland, USA - “Getting more from the fluorescent detection reagents”
Mike Ormerod, UK – “Flow versus laser scanning cytometry – two complementary technologies “
Jan Ellenberg, Germany – “Nuclear envelope and chromosome dynamics in dividing mammalian cells”

Steve Fuller, UK – “Cryo-electron microscopy of viruses”
Chris Jeffree, UK – “Low-temperature FEG-SEM”
Danny Studer, Switzerland - “Theory & practice of high pressure freezing”

Alberto Diaspro, Italy – “Imaging and localisation properties of two-photon excitation of fluorescence”
Rachel Errington, UK – “Probing the action of the anticancer agent topotecan using two-photon microscopy”
Nick White, UK – “Multiphoton microscopy: seeing more by imaging less”

Debbie Stokes, UK - “Application of VPSEM to hydrated and biological systems”
Brad Thiel and Patrick Echlin, UK - “LT-SEM v LP-SEM”
David Joy, USA and Jeremy Skepper, UK – “Invasive v non-invasive preparation and microscopy”

Hans Gerritsen, The Netherlands – “FRET studied with FLIM & SPIM”
Dorus Gadella, The Netherlands – “Monitoring signalling in vivo with FRET, biosensors and uncaging of lipid second messengers”
Nick Read, UK – ‘FLIM and FRET for dummies’

Paul Robinson, USA - “Flow and Image: complementary tools for cell biology”
Paul Smith and Rachel Errington, UK – “Time lapse: spanning the gaps in multi-parametric cytometry”

Marin van Heel, UK – “Electron microscopy of single biological macromolecules: towards atomic resolution”
Jim Elliot, UK “X-ray microtomographic studies in 3D of bones, teeth and engineering materials”
Hans Tietz, Germany “Electron tomography of thin sections”

David Joy, USA - “The changing face of low voltage SEM”
Mohammed El Gomati, UK – “Application of low and ultra-low SEM to materials and semiconductors”
Patrick Echlin, UK – “Low voltage X-ray microanalysis in general and biology in particular”

Mark Browne, UK - “Digital microscopy – a review of imaging principles and practice”
Paul Sheppard, UK – “4D visualisation and measurement”
Michael van Ginkel, Netherlands – “Characterisation of food microstructures using image analysis”

Steve Badger, UK -“Introduction to scanning probe microscopy”
John Russ, USA - “Current trends in digital image processing and measurement”
Nate O’Connor, USA – “Multi-mode microscopy”
Lou Marek, USA – “Successful image quantification starts with the basics”

Christian Colliex, France – “STEM based spectral imaging”
Paul Midgley, UK – “EFTEM image spectroscopy”
Paul Thomas, UK – “Practical analysis of EELS and EFTEM spectrum-image datasets”

Jacques Casaux, France - “Insulators and the mechanisms of charging in the SEM”
Milos Toth, UK – “Role of gaseous ions in SEM charging”
Athene Donald, UK – “Application of VP-SEM to imaging polymers”

Lucille Gianuzzi, USA – “FIB specimen preparation: The lift-out method”
Simon Newcomb, UK – “FIB specimen preparation: Methods, problems and artefacts”
Phil Prewett, UK – “Optimising focused ion beam microscope performance”

Valerie Randle, UK - “Advances in materials characterisation using EBSD”

Peter Nellist, USA – “Developments in aberration corrected STEM at Nion Laboratories”
Andrew Bleloch, UK – “UK SuperSTEM-1 an update”

Deadline for Abstracts:

1st may 2002

Registration:

www.microscience2002.org.uk/registration

E-mail:

allison@rms.org.uk

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