Summary	Aims and Purposes	Course Lecturers	Program
Program	Hands-on Instrumentation	Previous Courses	Information and Correspondance

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Summary

This course was held for the first time and was considered by all participants as a great and inspiring event. Altogether more than 40 people from universities and industrie from 15 different countries participated. They attended 6 lectures and 6 hands-on experiment sessions with 4 different instruments from 3 companies, covering different methods and procedures in (time-resolved) fluorescence microscopy such as FLIM, FLIM-FRET, FCS (auto- and cross correlation), FLCS, single molecule spectroscopy and data analysis. Due to the big success, a second course is planned for early 2010.

Aims and Purpose

The course is intended for individuals wishing an in-depth introduction to the principles of time-resolved fluorescence microscopy and its applications to the Life Sciences. Attendees are typically professionals who are using or intend to use fluorescence microscopy in their research. Most attendees have some knowledge of fluorescence, typically in a specialized area. However, other individuals, from totally different research areas and industry, get the opportunity to enter this exciting field in a very effective way and benefit especially from the experimental section.

Course instructors

• Jörg Enderlein, Professor at the University of Göttingen, Germany
• Paul French, Head of the Photonics group at the Imperial College London, UK
• Johan Hofkens, Head of the single molecule and fluorescence microscopy group in the laboratory for photochemistry and spectroscopy, devision for molecular and nanomaterials, department for chemistry, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Jens Rietdorf, Head of the Microscopy and Imaging Core Facility of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
• Fred Wouters, Professor at the University Medicine Göttingen, Germany
• Rainer Erdmann, Managing Director of the R&D company PicoQuant GmbH

Hands-on Experimentation

Several hands-on experiments were offered during the course, including:

Program

The time schedule is still available for download as a pdf document:

• The time schedule (28 KB)

Previous Courses

The European short course on "Time-Resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy" is an annual event since 2009. For further details about each year's event, please select the year from the list below.

2009

2010

Information and Correspondence

Course Coordinator: Jana Grünig

PicoQuant GmbH
Rudower Chaussee 29 (IGZ)
12489 Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49-30-6392-6560
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