Oct 17 2014
For the first time, PicoQuant's annual course offers practical sessions by all five major microscopy companies.
A FLIM demonstration during PicoQuant's microscopy course in February 2014 in Berlin.
The short course on “Time-Resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy”, organized by PicoQuant, will be held at the science and technology park WISTA in Berlin-Adlershof, Germany from February 24 to 26, 2015.
The three day event includes lectures by renowned scientists as well as practical sessions on instruments provided by the market-leading companies Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Zeiss, and PicoQuant.
The scope of the course is to provide an in-depth introduction to principles and applications of time-resolved fluorescence microscopy from a theoretical and experimental point of view.
Registration is possible until January 15, 2015.
Topics covered:
- Instrumentation and data analysis
- Correlation methods: FCS, FCCS, FLCS, and more
- Imaging methods: FLIM, FRET, FLIM-FRET, and more
- STED super-resolution microscopy
- Single molecule microscopy
Lectures are given by Ingo Gregor and Fred Wouters from the University of Göttingen, Mark Hink from the University of Amsterdam, Chris Dunsby from the Imperial College London, Johan Hofkens from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Rainer Erdmann, Managing Director of PicoQuant.
- Course Title: 7th European Short Course on “Time-Resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy”
- Date: February 24-26, 2015
- Location: WISTA Campus, Berlin, Germany
- Contact: PicoQuant GmbH, Jana Bülter
About PicoQuant
PicoQuant GmbH is a research and development company in the field of optoelectronics. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in the science and technology park Berlin-Adlershof, Germany. The company is a worldwide leader in the field of single photon counting applications.
The product line includes pulsed diode lasers and LEDs, photon counting instrumentation, fluorescence lifetime spectrometers and time-resolved confocal microscopes. PicoQuant employs currently around 50 people. Since April 2008 Sales and Support in North America is handled by PicoQuant Photonics North America Inc.