BasicsCoursePhDprog-PeterEvennett - schedule March 2014

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Revision as of 12:09, 4 March 2014

Contents

PhD Program: Basics of Light Microscopy - Peter Evennett / LMF - Course March 2014

SETUP - Thu 13th and Fri 14th March

Prepare day boxes and teaching stations (microscopes with cameras etc) on tables in LMF on Thu
Setup of all needed course material in Galeria on Fri starting 12PM

Equipment needed

  • Microscopes
  • Optical bench
  • Spinning disk gadget
  • Polarizing sheets
  • Diffraction Grids
  • Sample map for each teaching station with: diatomes, liver tissue, convolaria, Benzocain crystals
  • First day handout for students
  • Light torches
  • Cameras and labtops for teaching stations
  • Cleaning stations for each system containing: cover slips, slides, Qtips, water, 70% EtOH, lens cleaning tissue
  • Waste and glass waste for each table
  • Box with screw drivers, telescope, eye pieces, ruler, mirror slide, DIC objective and wollaston prism for each microscope
  • 2 polarization filters for each microscope
  • Box with red, green, blue, black board marker, pen, pencil, sharpener, ruler, calculator for each microscope

DAY ONE - Mon 17th March

FROM TO ACTIVITY TOPICS Responsible person(s) Materials needed
8:30 09:00 FINAL PREP Test everything works BioDIP TEAM
9:00 9:35 INTRODUCTION COURSE INTRO
WHO is WHO? Round table
BioDIP TEAM White board and pen
9:35 10:32 Session 1
Theory
PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT MICROSCOPY
Historical aspects
Very basic components and principles (incl. refraction-basics)
PETER EVENNETT (BioDIP TEAM) students shortly watch airy pattern from hole in mirror at the teaching microsopes (~10:05 - 10:10)
10:32 10:45 BREAK BREAK
10:45 11:20 SESSION 1
Practice
2 groups, 15min Rotation
capillary/plastic (Huisken) in oil demo
Coin-in-cup demo
red, green, blue laser through milky water bath -
measure angles, calculate refraction;
show immersion objectives
JAN
BRITTA
*capillaries, oil
* coin-in-cup, water
* red/green laser pointer with holder stand, plastic refraction demo setup with protractor and milky water
*water, glycerol, oil immersion objectives
11:20 12:10 SESSION 1
Theory
Introduction to lenses (Lens demo fun)
Lens aberrations (see colour fringes of lighting image with simple lens)
Resolution, Numerical aperture
Magnification
PETER EVENNETT little lenses (did not do it this time)
12:10 13:00 LUNCH LUNCH
13:00 13:55 SESSION 1
Practice
15min (!) Rotation (Isa watched the time)
Milky Glass Block demo
Show and discuss microscope parts (upright and inverted)
NA measurements
JAN
BRITTA
BERT
*milky glass block, teaching microscope, coloured filters for microscope, iris objective
*slides with arrows, simple upright and inverted microscope
*horizontal protractor on stand, objective holder, 2 air objective with different (!) NAs (and maybe an iris objective), calculator, pencils, rubber
13:55 14:45 SESSION 2
Theory
Magnification: lateral vs angular
Microscope illumination
Conjugate planes
PETER EVENNETT
14:45 15:05 BREAK BREAK
15:05 16:10 SESSION 2
Practice
(30min Rotation)
conjugate planes on Peters microscope
conjugate planes on optical bench
PETER EVENNETT
JAN
*Peters microscope setup
*optical bench demonstrating a transmitted light microscope, incl. light source
16:10 16:45 SESSION 3
Theory
Koehler illumination
Epi illumination
(Microscope alignment)
PETER EVENNETT
16:45 17:45 SESSION 3
Practice
Koehler illumination
(Microscope alignment)
BioDIP TEAM students manual microscopes, screwdrivers, nice brightfield sample
17:45 18:00 SESSION 4
Theory & Practice
Eyepieces
Depth of field
Depth of focus
PETER EVENNETT
BioDIP TEAM
students microscopes with 10x/0.25 and 40x/0.65 objectives
Stereoscope with a "sample"

DAY TWO - Tue 18th March

FROM TO ACTIVITY TOPICS Responsible person(s) Materials needed
9:00 10:10 Recap day 1 BioDIP TEAM Questions
10:10 11:05 SESSION 1a
DEMONSTRATION
Diffraction and Diffraction slide fun
Diffraction string show
PETER EVENNETT diffraction slides, torch, "dashed" string, fabric, funny glasses
11:05 11:25 BREAK COFFEE BREAK


11:25 11:55 SESSION 1b
Demo and Theory
ABBE's diffraction demonstration BERT Dan's ABBE Diffraction demo setup
11:55 12:15 SESSION 1b
Practice
Diffraction hands on on student microscopes BioDIP TEAM gratings, sieves, place holder for objective Nomarski prism, piece of card board, microscopes without condenser, closed field diaphragm
12:15 12:50 SESSION 1b
Demo and Theory
Peter's Diffraction video (w/o parts on Dark field and Phase contrast!) JAN
(PETER EVENNETT)
video
12:50 14:00 BREAK LUNCH
14:00 14:10 SESSION 1b
Theory
Wrap - up Diffraction PETER EVENNETT
JAN
14:10 15:10 SESSION 2
Theory and Demo
Lens abERRations and corrections PETER EVENNETT
JAN
magnetic lens + laser suitcase on white board
(15:05 - 15:10)
15:10 15:35 SESSION 3
Theory
Introduction to contrast PETER EVENNETT
15:35 16:00 BREAK COFFEE BREAK
16:00 16:10 SESSION 3a
Video
Peter's Dark Field diffraction video part JAN
(PETER EVENNETT)
video
16:10 16:15 SESSION 3a
Theory
Dark Field microscopy PETER EVENNETT
16:15 16:40 SESSION 3a
Practice
Dark Field microscopy BioDIP TEAM diatom slides; cells from Gaia
16:40 16:50 SESSION 3b
Video
Peter's Phase contrast diffraction video part JAN
(PETER EVENNETT)
video
16:50 17:00 SESSION 3b
Theory
Basics of Phase Contrast microscopy PETER EVENNETT
17:00 17:10 SESSION 3b
Demonstration
Cheek cell prep JAN Q-tips, slides, cover slips, PBS, plastic pipette, nail polish
17:10 17:50 SESSION 3b
Practice
Phase Contrast microscopy BioDIP TEAM cheek cell samples; you tube phase contrast video

DAY THREE - Wed 19th March

FROM TO ACTIVITY TOPICS Responsible person(s) Materials needed
9:00 10:10 Recap day 2 BioDIP TEAM Questions, pair of sieves, torches, microscopes
10:10 10:30 SESSION 1
Theory
Objective reading PETER EVENNETT
JAN
objectives, eyepieces, overhead projector
10:30 10:55 BREAK BREAK BREAK
10:55 12:10 SESSION 1
Practice
Group rotation
Cover glasses, sample mounting, Objective cleaning and
infinity optics bench demo
Objective reading
JAN

BRITTA
Coverglasses (High preciscion), different oils, slides, different cleaning reagents, cover glass thickness measure meter
bench demo of infinity optics
box with broken objectives + two 160 tube lens objectives
12:10 12:50 SESSION 2
Theory
Polarized light microscopy PETER EVENNETT
12:50 13:55 BREAK LUNCH
13:55 14:40 SESSION 2
Practice
Polarized light microscopy PETER EVENNETT
BioDIP TEAM
overhead projector, hair, stone samples, benzocain crystals, rulers, gummy bears, plastic dishes, ...
14:40 15:05 SESSION 3
Theory
Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) PETER EVENNETT
15:05 15:45 SESSION 3
Practice
Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) BioDIP TEAM
JAN
cheek cell samples, diatoms
DIC video from web (15:40 - 15:45)
15:45 16:00 BREAK BREAK BREAK
16:00 16:20 Question round Questions to Peter Evennett PETER EVENNETT
BioDIP TEAM
16:20 17:00 SESSION 3
Theory
Fundamental concepts of fluorescence JAN fluorescent liquids in bottles plus laser pointer (blue, green, red)
17:00 18:00 SESSION 4
Theory
Introduction to fluorescence microscopy
and light sources
DAVIDE
JAN
• Light sources
• Lamp houses

DAY FOUR - Thu 20th March

FROM TO ACTIVITY TOPICS Responsible person(s) DEMO Activities Materials needed
9:00 10:05 Recap day 3 BioDIP TEAM - Questions
10:05 10:50 SESSION 1
Theory
2nd part Fluorescence Microscopy DAVIDE
JAN
- Spectra
Filters
Filter cubes
10:50 11:00 SESSION 1
Practice
Filters BioDIP TEAM - laminated sheets with grids for spectra drawing
red, green, blue, black board markers
EtOH spray bottles, tissue
11:00 11:20 BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK
11:20 12:15 SESSION 1
Practice
Fluorescence imaging at microscopes BioDIP TEAM - laminated sheets with DAPI/FITC/TRITC Spectra
red, green, blue, board markers
EtOH spray bottles + tissue
Fluorescent labeled samples (Convallaria)
12:15 12:55 SESSION 2
Theory
Detectors BRITTA - CCD chip paper weight
example cameras showing different chip sizes
• RGB Slider Spot Camera setup
Demo: CCD chip under stereo microscope (for later)
12:55 13:50 BREAK LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
13:50 14:20 SESSION 2
Demo & Theory
Detectors BRITTA bench show
advacned detectors lecture
RT spot with slider and camera objective
PC
nice sample for binning
14:20 14:25 SESSION 2
Practice
Detectors
"QE" show
JAN students count times of laser pointer blinking blinking laser pointer
14:25 14:50 SESSION 3a
Theory
Digital images BERT Nyquist-Shannon
what is a pixel
spatial calibration
-
14:50 15:05 SESSION 3
Practice
calculating dexel/pixel size BioDIP TEAM practice calculating needed dexel size for given optical setup calculator
text with given optical setup
15:05 15:25 SESSION 3b
Theory
Quantitative Imaging BERT digitization in space, time & intensity
aliasing
-
15:25 15:45 BREAK BREAK
15:45 16:55 SESSION 4a+b
Practice
camera discussion on student microscopes BioDIP TEAM check out basic camera vocabulary
discussing spec sheets of student microscope cameras
spatial calibration with ruler and FIJI
camera spec sheets
Hamamatsu camera comparison list
camera vocabulary checklist
microscope ruler
16:55 18:00ish
open end
SESSION 4c
Practice
Imaging with CCD cameras using LMF systems JAN
DAN
BRITTA
BERT
DAVIDE
to whole group:
BioDIP Wiki with pages for all systesms

at single stations:
camera spec sheet of respective cameras
LUT, saturation, histogram etc
Microscopes:
pDV of OMX (DAN, 2 students)
N-Storm (BRITTA, 3 students)
Oly-TIRF (BERT, 3 students)
self-built-system (JAN, 3 students)
DVcore (DAVIDE, 3 students)
Fluorescence Sample slides (Kidney / Cells...)
camera spec sheets of respective camera
19:00 open end Dinner with Peter BioDIP TEAM good mood, time

DAY FIVE - Fri 21st March

FROM TO ACTIVITY TOPICS Responsible person(s) Materials needed
9:00 10:00 Recap day 4 BioDIP TEAM Question sheets with the real case problem
calculators, pens
10:00 10:30 SESSION 1a
Theory
OPTICAL SECTIONING
introduction
widefield & deconvolution
chromatic aberration & correction
JAN labtop
10:30 10:45 BREAK BREAK BREAK
10:45 11:30 SESSION 1b
Theory & Demo
OPTICAL SECTIONING
Laser Scanning Confocal
2PM
JAN
BRITTA
"confocal equipment":
laser pointer, mirror, broken scanning mirror
dual laser pointer (blue, green, red) to demonstrate penetration of diff. wavelength
11:30 12:15 SESSION 1c
Theory & Demo
OPTICAL SECTIONING
Spinning disc confocal
TIRF
SPIM
BRITTA
JAN
DAN's "spinning-disc-on-a-bench"
small glass cube with olive oil over milky water plus
5mW blue laser pointer (CRTD)
glass block with brain/scull and red light sheet laser from ZEISS
12:15 12:30 SESSION 1c
Demo
OPTICAL SECTIONING
SPIM
PETE PETE's SPIM-in-a-suitcase (on a bench this time)
glass block with whole scull
PETE's light sheet laser from whicked laser
12:30 12:40 SESSION 1d
Theory
OPTICAL SECTIONING
Apotome
final remarks
JAN
12:40 12:50 SESSION 1e
Theory
SUPER-RESOLUTION
SIM
STORM
BERT
12:50 13:45 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH Optional: LMF tour
13:45 14:00 SESSION 2 Planning your Imaging Experiment DAVIDE + introduction to new user project questions
14:00 15:00 SESSION 3
Project discussion
Three volunteer users present their imaging problems shortly and discuss it with the whole group BioDIP TEAM NOTE: did ask for volunteers already on Monday, than again on Wednesday; this time input from student group was rather low
15:00 16:00 SESSION 3 Course evaluation BioDIP TEAM Gummy bear bags (last time it was apples :-))
white board + marker
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