Free

ESRIC Super-Resolution Summer School 2017

31 July – 4 August 2017 + Add to calendar Edinburgh

Free

ESRIC Super-Resolution Summer School 2017

31 July – 4 August 2017 + Add to calendar Edinburgh

The ESRIC super-resolution summer school is a five-day residential course held in Edinburgh. The course is designed to give participants a thorough grounding in super-resolution microscopy in an informal and intimate setting. It brings together leading academics and the major suppliers of super-resolution microscopes to provide expertise and guidance in the theory and practise of structured illumination microscopy (SIM), stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED), AiryScan Microscopy and single molecule localization microscopies (PALM, sptPALM and dSTORM).

The summer school will consist of informal lectures and workshops and participants will have ample time to gain project specific advice from all of the academic experts and suppliers through dedicated Q&A sessions and informal social events. The course is suitable for anyone with prior experience of fluorescence microscopy looking to exploit the benefits of super-resolution microscopy in their research.

Applications for the 2017 ESRIC Super-resolution Summer School has now closed and the course is fully booked. Register your interest to be added to the waiting list in case a space should become avaliable on the 2017 Course. If you have any queries please contact Karina Lang.

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Programme

The final 3 days of the course are workshop based in smaller groups. An individual’s timetable may vary from the specified order below as groups rotate through all the sessions.

Speakers

Scientific Organiser

Dr Alison Dun

Heriot-Watt University
Alison is the facility manager for the Edinburgh Super-Resolution Imaging Consortium (ESRIC) and is based at the Heriot-Watt University site. Alison completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2013 where she used a wide range of advanced imaging techniques to study cell membrane biology. Alison now works in an interdisciplinary environment, running the imaging facility at the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Bioengineering and Biophysics at Heriot-Watt University.
Dr Ann Wheeler

University of Edinburgh
Ann is a cell biologist and our University of Edinburgh ESRIC facility manager with expertise in advanced light microscopy in particular in Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) and Single Molecule Localisation Super-resolution microscopy (SMLM) as well as quantitative image analysis. Ann works with collaborators in the generation of new methods and methodologies for visualising structures by super-resolution.

Invited Speakers

Dr Susan Cox

King's College London
Susan works at the Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, developing fluorescence microscopy techniques and applying them to discover new cell biology at the nanoscale. In 2011 she was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, which she used to develop a substantial research program based around localisation microscopy, and methods to extract more information from super-resolution image data. SC is best known as the developer of Bayesian analysis of blinking and bleaching (3B), a method for analysing extremely dense localisation microscopy image series. Its importance has been recognised with the award of the Royal Microscopical Society light microscopy medal and the Society of Experimental Biology Presidents Medal. More recently, she has explored the limits of localisation in terms of speed and accuracy. She mathematically described the role of the size of the point spread function size in limiting information transmission speed and developed a machine learning based approach to remove poor fits from the super resolution image. Since it is obviously more desirable to avoid poor fits in the first place, she developed Haar Wavelet Kernel analysis (HAWK), an approach to localisation microscopy data analysis which avoids artifacts and ensures the results reflect the underlying structure of the sample.
Christian Eggeling

University of Oxford
Christian Eggeling holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Göttingen, where he optimized single-molecule detection. From 2000 to 2003 he was a research scientist at Evotec, Hamburg, developing advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques for high-throughput drug screening. In 2003, Christian joined the MPI of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen as a senior scientist in the department of Professor Stefan Hell (2014 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry). Here, he was focused on the field of optical super-resolution microscopy, specifically the biological applicability of stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. Since 2012, Christian has been a principal investigator in the Human Immunology Unit and the scientific director of the Wolfson Imaging Centre at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University. In 2014, as a Professor of Molecular immunology Christian’s research has been focused on advanced microscopy for the investigation of immune cells and cellular plasma membrane organization.
Professor Ricardo Henriques

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Ricardo Henriques is a Particle Physicist by training that fell in love with Biological Physics shortly after graduating. He carried out his PhD studies in both the Musa Mhlanga and Christophe Zimmer laboratories, doing research between IMM (Portugal), Institut Pasteur (France), CSIR (South Africa) and Andor Technology (UK and USA). During this time, he entered the field of Super-Resolution Microscopy, developing technologies that enable imaging of cellular and viral structures at unprecedented resolution. During his PhD and postdoc, he applied the methods he developed to study Cell Signalling, T-cell Immunology and Viral Infection. In 2013 he established his first research group at UCL, with a dual emphasis on Developing new Imaging Technologies and Cell Biology research. In 2017 he was further invited to extend my group into the Francis Crick Institute, where he established a second small laboratory. In 2019 he was promoted to full Professor at UCL and in 2020 established a new laboratory at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in Portugal. His technological developments are widely disseminated to the Cell Biology and Biomedical research community. Ricardo and his team developed algorithms, such as QuickPALM, NanoJ, SRRF and SQUIRREL, which are among the most used analytical methods in the Super-Resolution Microscopy field. His core philosophy has been to make research reproducible, transparent, and open-source.
Erik Manders

University of Amsterdam
Professor Dr Silvio Rizzoli

The Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB)

Silvio O. Rizzoli, PhD, completed a BSc in biochemistry in 2000 at the University of Bucharest, Romania. He then carried out graduate training, until 2004, in the laboratory of Dr. William Betz at the University of Colorado. Dr. Rizzoli studied synaptic function for his PhD, and then trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Reinhard Jahn at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, again focusing on synaptic function. Since 2007, he has led his own laboratory, first as a group leader and then as a professor at the University of Göttingen Medical Center.

Silvio’s laboratory has a dual focus – high-end imaging and cutting edge research in synaptic physiology. All projects that are run make use of advanced imaging techniques, including STED and electron microscopy.
Sebastian Van de Linde

University of Strathclyde
Sebastian van de Linde finished his PhD at the Department of Applied Laser Physics & Laser Spectroscopy, Bielefeld University, Germany, and worked with Markus Sauer as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg. He worked as a Junior Group Leader at the Department of Biotechnology & Biophysics at the University of Würzburg before moving to The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in 2016. Sebastian’s research interests are the development of new imaging tools and the implementation of super-resolution imaging methods in biology and medicine such as of neurobiology.

Delegate Information

Event Contact

Venue for the Course
The ESRIC Summer School is based at the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS.
For more information about the University, please visit the Heriot-Watt website.

Delegates will also visit ESRIC’s second facility at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh during the week.

Fees
The course fees are as follows
Standard rate including 5 nights' accommodation - £850
RMS Member rate including 5 nights' accommodation - £800

Standard rate non-residential - £600
RMS Member rate non-residential - £550

Optional 6th night of accommodation on Friday 4 August for just £50.

Please note: The course will run up until 5pm on Friday the 4 August, travel to either the train station or airport will take approximately 45 minutes at that time by taxi.

Travelling to the venue
Car – There is limited parking at the campus, but we advise using public transport where possible.

Train – Edinburgh Waverley is the main train station for Edinburgh. Regular buses depart from near the station to the campus. We do not recommend alighting at either Edinburgh Park or Curriehill as there is no direct transport link to the campus from these stations.

Air - Edinburgh International Airport is served by scheduled national and international flights. The campus is a short journey by taxi from the airport.

Accommodation
The accommodation is on campus in an en-suite (double bed) student room. Breakfast is included in your accommodation fee.

Delegates can check in from Sunday 30 July.

Meals
There are two evening meals included in your registration fee, one on the Monday night (The Dome) and one on the Thursday night (Scottish Café).

Lunch and refreshments are included in your registration fee.

For those who have booked accommodation, unfortunately there are no dining options on campus for the nights when meals are not provided. We therefore encourage delegates to take the opportunity to explore Edinburgh, with other delegates.

Dietary and Access requirements
The RMS is committed to our delegate’s health and wellbeing. Therefore if you have any dietary or access requirements please contact Karina Lang.

Registration
Registration will be taking place on Monday morning from 08.15 – 08.45.