2026 OMIBS Schedule
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This is a draft schedule and will likely be updated.
| Time | Location | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAY 1 - Tuesday, August 11 | |||
| 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Swope | Walk around Woods Hole (optional; meet in front of Swope) | Course Staff |
| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM | Speck | Welcome and orientation | Michelle Itano, Wes Legant (Course staff and commercial faculty for intros!) |
| 6:00 PM-7:00 PM | Swope Terrace | Pizza Party | |
| 7:30 PM-8:30 PM | Speck | Lecture: Grand overview of the course | Michelle Itano, Wes Legant |
| DAY 2 - Wednesday, August 12 | |||
| 8:15 AM-9:30 AM | Speck | Lecture: Foundations of microscopy 1 - geometrical optics | Wes Legant |
| 9:30 AM-9:45 AM | Break | ||
| 9:45 AM-10:45 AM | Speck | Lecture: Foundations of microscopy 2 - lenses and optical systems | Wes Legant |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 | Speck | Break | |
| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | Loeb 207 | Lab: Build basic Microscopes | Wes Legant, Course Staff |
| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Swope | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM-2:30 PM | Loeb 207 | Lab: Build basic microscopes | Wes Legant, Course Staff |
| 2:30 PM-3:00 PM | Break | ||
| 3:00 PM-6:00 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Practice with commercial microscope stands | Michelle Itano, Course Staff |
| 6:00 PM-7:00 PM | Swope | Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) | |
| 7:00 PM-8:00 PM | Speck | Lecture: Foundations of microscopy 3 - wave optics | Wes Legant |
| 8:15 PM-9:00 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Demonstration: Abbe diffraction apparatus (Thor Labs Kit) | Wes Legant |
| DAY 3 - Thursday, August 13 | |||
| 8:15 AM-9:30 AM | Speck | Lecture: Transmitted light 1 | Sharon King |
| 9:30 AM-9:45 AM | Break | ||
| 9:45 AM-11:15 AM | Speck | Lecture: Cameras | Stephanie Fullerton |
| 11:15 AM-12:15 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Phase contrast microscopy | Sharon King, Course Staff |
| 12:15 PM-1:15 PM | Swope | Lunch | |
| 1:15 PM-2:15 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: ImageJ basics and saving/reporting images | Michelle Itano |
| 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Use of cameras and light sources | Stephanie Fullerton, Jim Sims, Course Staff |
| 3:15 PM-3:45 PM | Break | ||
| 3:45 PM-5:00 PM | Speck | Lecture: Transmitted light 2 | Sharon King |
| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: DIC and polarization (part 1, Fixed) | Sharon King and Course Staff |
| 6:00 PM-7:00 PM | Swope | Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) | |
| 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 |
| 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Commercial faculty appreciation event | |
| DAY 4 - Friday, August 14 | |||
| 8:15 AM-9:00 AM | Speck | Discussion of lab exercises | Sharon King |
| 9:00 AM-9:45 AM | Speck | Lecture: Photophysics of fluorescence and dye chemistry | Luke Lavis |
| 9:45 AM-10:45 AM | Speck | Lecture: Introduction to the fluorescence microscope | Michelle Itano |
| 10:45 AM-11:00 AM | Break | ||
| 11:00 AM-12:30 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Fluorescence microscopy (part 1) | Michelle Itano, Course Staff |
| 12:30 PM-1:30 PM | Swope | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM-2:00 PM | Speck | Lecture: Chemical tags for functional imaging | Luke Lavis |
| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Speck | Lecture: Sample preparation techniques | Michelle Itano |
| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 3:30 PM-4:00 PM | Loeb 2nd Floor | Lab: Cleaning optical filters and MRC and AAF tours | Mark Lessard |
| 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Loeb 2nd Floor | Lab: Fluorescence microscopy (part 2) | Michelle Itano, Course Staff |
| 6:00 PM-7:00 PM | Swope | Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) | |
| 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Loeb 207 | Lab: Build widefield fluorescence microscope | Wes Legant, Course Staff |
| DAY 5 - Saturday, August 15 | |||
| 8:15 AM-8:30 AM | Speck | Discussion of lab exercises | Michelle Itano, Wes Legant |
| 8:30 AM-9:30 AM | Speck | Lecture: Fluorescent proteins | Mathew Tantama |
| 9:30 AM-10:00 AM | Break | ||
| 10:00 AM-11:00 AM | Speck | Lecture: Imaging dynamics (incl. FRET, FLIM, FCS) | Mathew Tantama |
| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | Speck | Lecture: Biosensors | Mathew Tantama |
| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Swope | Lunch (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of lunch) | |
| 1:00 PM-3:15 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: FRET, FLIM, photoactivation/bleaching | Mathew Tantama, Wes Legant, Course Staff |
| 3:15 PM-4:00 PM | Speck | Discussion of FRET, FLIM, photoactivation/bleaching lab exercises | Mathew Tantama, Wes Legant, Course Staff |
| 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Speck | Lecture: Tissue Clearing | Doug Richardson |
| 5:00 PM-5:15 PM | Break | ||
| 5:15 PM-6:00 PM | Speck | Lecture: Principles of digital imaging 1 | Kasia Kedziora |
| 6:00 PM-7:00 PM | Swope | Dinner | |
| 7:00 PM-8:00 PM | Speck | Lecture: Principles of digital imaging 2 | Kasia Kedziora |
| 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM | Loeb 2nd Floor | Lab: Digital imaging | Kasia Kedziora, Course Staff |
| DAY 6 - Sunday, August 16 FALMOUTH ROAD RACE - EXPECT ROAD CLOSURES! | |||
| 8:15 AM-9:15 AM | Speck | Lecture: Evaluating optical performance using PSFs | Lynne Turnbull |
| 9:15 AM-9:30 AM | Break | ||
| 9:30AM - 10:30AM | Speck | Lecture: Deconvolution | Wes Legant |
| 10:30 AM-10:45 AM | Break | ||
| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM | Speck | Lecture: Confocal Microscopy | Sid Shaw |
| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Swope | Lunch (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of lunch) | |
| 1:00PM-1:30 PM | Loeb courtyard | Group Photo | Mark Lessard |
| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Resolution measurements | Wes Legant, Course Staff |
| 3:00 PM-9:00 PM | Afternoon Off | ||
| DAY 7 - Monday, August 17 | |||
| 8:15 AM-9:15 AM | Speck | Lecture: Multiphoton microscopy | Doug Richardson |
| 9:15 AM-12:15 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Deconvolution | Wes Legant, Kasia Kedziora, Course Staff |
| 12:15 PM-1:15 PM | Swope | Lunch | |
| 1:15 PM-3:15 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Confocal (part 1) | Sid Shaw, Doug Richardson, Course Staff |
| 3:15 PM-3:45 PM | Break | ||
| 3:45 PM-5:45 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Confocal (part 2) | Sid Shaw, Doug Richardson, Course Staff |
| 5:45 PM-6:45 PM | Swope | Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) | |
| 6:45 PM-8:15 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Multiphoton (part 2) | Doug Richardson, Course Staff |
| 8:15 PM-9:30 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Discussion of Lab Exercises | Sid Shaw, Kasia Kedziora, Wes Legant, Doug Richardson, Cristina Rodriguez |
| 9:30 PM-10:30 PM | Stoney Beach | Viewing phosphorescent algae | |
| DAY 8 - Tuesday, August 18 | |||
| 8:30 AM-9:30 AM | Speck | Lecture: Instrumentation for live-cell imaging | Michelle Itano |
| 9:30 AM-10:15 AM | Break and MRC/MBL Library Tours | ||
| 10:15-11:15 AM | Speck | Lecture: Light sheet microscopy | Wes Legant |
| 11:15-11:30 AM | Break | ||
| 11:30 AM-12:30 PM | Speck | Lecture: Adaptive optics | Wes Legant |
| 12:30 PM-1:30 PM | Swope | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:30 PM | Speck | Lecture: Super-resolution 1 - SIM methods | Alison North, Joerg Bewersdorf |
| 2:30 - 2:45PM | Break | ||
| 2:45-3:45 PM | Speck | Lecture: Super-resolution 2 - Expansion Microscopy | Joerg Bewersdorf |
| 3:45 - 5:45PM | Loeb 2nd Floor | Lab: Light-sheet microscopes, SIM, iSIM (part 1) | Joerg Bewersdorf, Alison North, Course Staff |
| 5:45 PM-6:45 PM | Swope | Dinner (meeting for vendors: last 15 min of dinner) | |
| 6:45 PM-8:45 PM | Loeb 2nd Floor | Lab: Light-sheet microscopes, SIM, iSIM (part 2) | Joerg Bewersdorf, Alison North, Course Staff |
| 8:45 - 10:15 PM | Speck | Tech Bites | Commercial Faculty |
| DAY 9 - Wednesday, August 19 | |||
| 8:15 AM-9:15 AM | Speck | Lecture: Super-resolution 3 - STED | Joerg Bewersdorf |
| 9:15 AM-9:30 AM | Break | ||
| 9:30 AM-10:30 AM | Speck | Lecture: Super-resolution 4 - Single-molecule localization techniques | Joerg Bewersdorf |
| 10:30 AM-10:45 AM | Break | ||
| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: STED & single-molecule localization (part 1) | Wes Legant, Joerg Bewersdorf, Course Staff |
| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Swope | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM-2:30 PM | Loeb 2nd Floor | Lab: STED & single-molecule localization (part 2) | Wes Legant, Joerg Bewersdorf, Course Staff |
| 2:30 PM-2:45 PM | Break | ||
| 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | Speck | Lecture: Picking the right microscope | Alison North |
| 3:45 PM - 6:00 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Rotations on specialized instruments/demos | Commercial Faculty, Course Staff |
| 6:00 - 7:00 PM | Swope | Dinner (NO vendor meeting) | |
| 7:00-10:00 PM | Loeb 2nd Floor | Lab: Time on instruments/demos (part 1) | Commercial Faculty, Course Staff |
| DAY 10 - Thursday, August 20 | |||
| 8:30 AM-12:00 PM | Loeb 2nd floor | Lab: Time on instruments / demos (part 2) | Commercial Faculty, Course Staff |
| 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Swope | Lunch | |
| 2:00 PM-3:15 PM | Speck | Lecture: Ethics and good practices in microscopy | Alison North |
| 3:15 PM-3:45 PM | Break | ||
| 3:45 PM-4:45 PM | Speck | Career Panel | Alison North, Joerg Bewersdorf |
| 4:45 PM-5:00 PM | Break | ||
| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM | Speck | Horizons Lecture | Dan Fletcher |
| 6:00 PM-6:30 PM | Break | ||
| 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Swope Terrace | Banquet | |
| DAY 11 - Friday, August 21 | |||
| Morning | Check-out after Breakfast | ||