Free

ESRIC Super-Resolution Summer School 2018

15 – 20 July 2018 + Add to calendar Edinburgh

Free

ESRIC Super-Resolution Summer School 2018

15 – 20 July 2018 + 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 and single molecule localization microscopies (PALM, sptPALM and dSTORM).

This year we will be running workshops with the latest technology from Leica, Zeiss, Nikon, ONI, Hamamatsu and Andor. We also have speakers joining us from across the globe to discuss their pioneering research, including Silvio Rizzoli, Christian Eggeling, Sara Abrahamsson, Jonathan Grimm and Ricardo Henriques.

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.

Please scroll down the page to find further information about the course and to submit your application.

Applications and registration

Applications for the ESRIC Summer School have now closed.

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

Sara Abrahamsson

University of California, Santa Cruz
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.
Jonathan Grimm

Janelia Research Campus
Jonathan Grimm is a synthetic organic chemist and senior scientist in the laboratory of Luke Lavis at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. Jon received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia in 2002. He then attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing an M.S. in Chemistry while investigating silicon-tethered enyne metathesis with Daesung Lee. From 2005 to 2010, Jon worked as a medicinal chemist at Merck Research Laboratories in Boston, Massachusetts. Since 2010, he has worked in the Lavis laboratory at Janelia. In his work with Lavis, Jon has focused on the application of organic synthesis to the preparation of innovative tools for biology and microscopy, including fluorescent dyes and fluorogenic molecules. He seeks to leverage new technologies in the synthetic community and opportunistically develop novel chemistry to modernize dye synthesis and access new chemical space.
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.
Sandrine Leveque-Fort

Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay
Sandrine Lévêque-Fort is a CNRS Researcher Director at the Institute of molecular science in Orsay (ISMO). She obtained her PhD on the development of a new acousto-optic imaging approach for imaging through scattering media in the Optical Lab of ESPCI. She then became a postdoctoral fellow in the physics department of Imperial College, where she started to develop time resolved fluorescence microscopy. She joined the CRNS in 2001, when she started to develop different strategies to improve fluorescence microscopy such as plasmonics. Since 2009, her research focus on supercritical angle fluorescence microscopy and super-resolution microscopy techniques.
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

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 20 July for just £50.

Please note: The course will run up until 5pm on Friday the 20 July, 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.

Delegates can check in from Sunday 15 July.

Lunch and refreshments are included in your registration fee.

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.

Admittance to this event is for registered and authorised attendees. Unfortunately we cannot permit access to visitors or allow non-registered persons to enter the meeting or exhibition areas. If you have any questions, please contact the RMS contact for this event.