2025 OMIBS Schedule
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This is a draft schedule and will likely be updated.
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DAY 1 - Tuesday, August 12, 2025 |
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM |
Swope |
Walk around Woods Hole (optional; meet in front of Swope) |
Course Staff |
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5:00 PM-6:00 PM |
Speck |
Welcome and orientation |
Michelle Itano, Wes Legant |
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6:00 PM-7:00 PM |
Swope Terrace |
Pizza Party |
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7:30 PM-8:30 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Grand overview of the course |
Michelle Itano, Wes Legant |
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DAY 2 - Wednesday, August 13, 2025 |
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8:15 AM-9:30 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Foundations of microscopy 1 - geometrical optics |
Wes Legant |
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9:30 AM-9:45 AM |
Break |
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9:45 AM-10:45 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Foundations of microscopy 2 - lenses and optical systems |
Wes Legant |
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10:45 AM - 11:00 |
Speck |
Break |
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11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Speck |
Lab: Build basic Microscopes |
Wes Legant, Course Staff |
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12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
Swope |
Lunch |
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1:00 PM-2:30 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Build basic microscopes |
Wes Legant, Course Staff |
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2:30 PM-3:00 PM |
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Break |
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3:00 PM-6:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Practice with commercial microscope stands |
Michelle Itano, Course Staff |
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6:00 PM-7:00 PM |
Swope |
Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) |
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7:00 PM-8:30 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Foundations of microscopy 3 - wave optics |
Wes Legant |
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8:30 PM-9:30 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Demonstration: Abbe diffraction apparatus (Thor Labs Kit) |
Wes Legant |
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DAY 3 - Thursday, August 14, 2025 |
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8:15 AM-9:30 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Transmitted light 1 |
Sharon King |
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9:30 AM-9:45 AM |
Break |
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9:45 AM-11:15 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Cameras |
Stephanie Fullerton |
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11:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Phase contrast microscopy |
Sharon King, Course Staff |
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12:15 PM-1:15 PM |
Swope |
Lunch |
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1:15 PM-2:15 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: ImageJ basics and saving/reporting images |
Michelle Itano |
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2:15 PM - 3:15 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Use of cameras and light sources |
Stephanie Fullerton, Jim Sims, Course Staff |
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3:15 PM-3:45 PM |
Break |
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3:45 PM-5:00 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Transmitted light 2 |
Sharon King |
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5:00 PM-6:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: DIC and polarization (part 1, Fixed) |
Sharon King and Course Staff |
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6:00 PM-7:00 PM |
Swope |
Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) |
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7:00 PM - 9:30 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: DIC and polarization (part 2, Sample mounting and live imaging) |
Sharon King and Course Staff |
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9:30 PM - 11:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Commercial faculty appreciation event |
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DAY 4 - Friday, August 15, 2025 |
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8:15 AM-9:00 AM |
Speck |
Discussion of lab exercises |
Sharon King |
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9:00 AM-9:45 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Photophysics of fluorescence and dye chemistry |
Luke Lavis |
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9:45 AM-10:45 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Introduction to the fluorescence microscope |
Michelle Itano |
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10:45 AM-11:00 AM |
Break |
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11:00 AM-12:30 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Fluorescence microscopy (part 1) |
Michelle Itano, Course Staff |
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12:30 PM-1:30 PM |
Swope |
Lunch |
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1:30 PM-2:00 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Chemical tags for functional imaging |
Luke Lavis |
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2:00 PM-3:00 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Sample preparation techniques |
Michelle Itano |
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3:00 PM-3:30 PM |
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Break |
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3:30 PM-4:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd Floor |
Lab: Cleaning optical filters |
Mark Lessard |
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4:00 PM-6:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd Floor |
Lab: Fluorescence microscopy (part 2) |
Michelle Itano, Course Staff |
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6:00 PM-7:00 PM |
Swope |
Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) |
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7:00 PM-10:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Build widefield fluorescence microscope |
Wes Legant, Course Staff |
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DAY 5 - Saturday, August 16, 2025 |
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8:15 AM-8:30 AM |
Speck |
Discussion of lab exercises |
Michelle Itano, Wes Legant |
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8:30 AM-9:30 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Fluorescent proteins |
Mathew Tantama |
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9:30 AM-10:00 AM |
Break |
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10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Imaging dynamics (incl. FRET, FLIM, FCS) |
Mathew Tantama |
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11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Biosensors |
Mathew Tantama |
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12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
Swope |
Lunch (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of lunch) |
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1:00 PM-3:15 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: FRET, FLIM, photoactivation/bleaching |
Mathew Tantama, Wes Legant, Course Staff |
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3:15 PM-4:00 PM |
Speck |
Discussion of FRET, FLIM, photoactivation/bleaching lab exercises |
Mathew Tantama, Wes Legant, Course Staff |
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Tissue Clearing |
Doug Richardson |
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5:00 PM-5:15 PM |
Break |
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5:15 PM-6:00 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Principles of digital imaging 1 |
Kasia Kedziora |
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6:00 PM-7:00 PM |
Swope |
Dinner |
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7:00 PM-8:00 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Principles of digital imaging 2 |
Kasia Kedziora |
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8:00 PM - 9:30 PM |
Loeb 2nd Floor |
Lab: Digital imaging |
Kasia Kedziora, Course Staff |
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DAY 6 - Sunday, August 17, 2025 |
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8:15 AM-9:15 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Evaluating optical performance using PSFs |
Lynne Turnbull |
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9:15 AM-9:30 AM |
Break |
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9:30AM - 10:30AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Deconvolution |
Wes Legant |
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10:30 AM-10:45 AM |
Break |
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10:45 AM-12:00 PM |
Speck |
Lab: Confocal Microscopy |
Sid Shaw |
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12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
Swope |
Lunch (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of lunch) |
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1:00PM-1:30 PM |
Loeb courtyard |
Group Photo |
Mark Lessard |
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1:30 PM-3:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Resolution measurements |
Wes Legant, Course Staff |
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3:00 PM-9:00 PM |
Afternoon Off |
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DAY 7 - Monday, August 18, 2025 |
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8:15 AM-9:15 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Multiphoton microscopy |
Cristina Rodriguez |
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9:15 AM-12:15 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Deconvolution |
Wes Legant, Kasia Kedziora, Course Staff |
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12:15 PM-1:15 PM |
Swope |
Lunch |
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1:15 PM-4:15 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Confocal (part 1) |
Sid Shaw, Doug Richardson, Course Staff |
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4:15 PM-4:45 PM |
Break |
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4:45 PM-5:45 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Confocal (part 2) |
Sid Shaw, Doug Richardson, Course Staff |
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5:45 PM-6:45 PM |
Swope |
Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) |
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6:45 PM-8:15 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Multiphoton (part 2) |
Cristina Rodriguez, Course Staff |
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8:15 PM-9:30 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Discussion of Lab Exercises |
Sid Shaw, Kasia Kedziora, Wes Legant, Doug Richardson, Cristina Rodriguez |
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DAY 8 - Tuesday, August 19, 2025 |
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8:30 AM-10:00 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Instrumentation for live-cell imaging |
Michelle Itano |
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10:00 AM-10:15 AM |
Break |
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10:15-11:15 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Light sheet microscopy |
Wes Legant |
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11:15-11:30 AM |
Break |
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11:30 AM-12:30 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Adaptive optics |
Cristina Rodriguez |
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12:30 PM-1:30 PM |
Swope |
Lunch |
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1:30-2:30 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Super-resolution 1 - SIM methods |
Alison North, Joerg Bewersdorf |
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2:30 - 2:45PM |
Break |
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2:45-3:45 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Super-resolution 2 - Expansion Microscopy |
Joerg Bewersdorf |
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3:45 - 5:45PM |
Loeb 2nd Floor |
Lab: Light-sheet microscopes, SIM, iSIM (part 1) |
Joerg Bewersdorf, Alison North, Course Staff |
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5:45 PM-6:45 PM |
Swope |
Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) |
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6:45 PM-8:45 PM |
Loeb 2nd Floor |
Lab: Light-sheet microscopes, SIM, iSIM (part 2) |
Joerg Bewersdorf, Alison North, Course Staff |
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8:45 - 10:15 PM |
Speck |
Tech Bites |
Commercial Faculty |
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DAY 9 - Wednesday, August 20, 2025 |
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8:15 AM-9:15 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Super-resolution 3 - STED |
Joerg Bewersdorf |
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9:15 AM-9:30 AM |
Break |
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9:30 AM-10:30 AM |
Speck |
Lecture: Super-resolution 4 - Single-molecule localization techniques |
Joerg Bewersdorf |
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10:30 AM-10:45 AM |
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Break |
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10:45 AM-12:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: STED & single-molecule localization (part 1) |
Wes Legant, Joerg Bewersdorf, Course Staff |
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12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
Swope |
Lunch |
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1:00 PM-2:30 PM |
Loeb 2nd Floor |
Lab: STED & single-molecule localization (part 2) |
Wes Legant, Joerg Bewersdorf, Course Staff |
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2:30 PM-2:45 PM |
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Break |
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2:45 PM - 3:45 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Picking the right microscope |
Alison North |
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3:45 PM - 6:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Rotations on specialized instruments/demos |
Commercial Faculty, Course Staff |
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6:00 - 7:00 PM |
Swope |
Dinner (NO vendor meeting) |
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7:00-10:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd Floor |
Lab: Time on instruments/demos (part 1) |
Commercial Faculty, Course Staff |
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DAY 10 - Thursday, August 21, 2025 |
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8:30 AM-12:00 PM |
Loeb 2nd floor |
Lab: Time on instruments / demos (part 2) |
Commercial Faculty, Course Staff |
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12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
Swope |
Lunch |
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1:00 PM-2:00 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: How do you teach microscopy? |
Feather Ives |
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2:45 PM-3:45 PM |
Speck |
Lecture: Ethics and good practices in microscopy |
Alison North |
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3:45 PM-4:45 PM |
Speck |
Career Panel |
Alison North, Joerg Bewersdorf |
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4:45 PM-5:00 PM |
Break |
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5:00 PM-6:00 PM |
Speck |
Horizons Lecture |
Dan Fletcher |
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6:00 PM-6:30 PM |
Break |
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6:30 PM-9:00 PM |
Swope Terrace |
Banquet |
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DAY 11 - Friday, August 22, 2025 |
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Morning |
Check-out after Breakfast |
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