Description

Light microscopy, and especially fluorescence microscopy, is an essential tool to investigate and characterize biological specimen in the life sciences. Modern microscopes offer an increasing range of technical capabilities, but thereby become gradually more complex and require appropriate training for correct scientific use. This specialist course provides doctoral students with limited experience in microscopic imaging with the understanding that is needed to perform light and confocal imaging at a research-grade level.

To complete your registration, we kindly ask you to send a motivation letter to glim@ugent.be. 

A selection procedure is used to select applicants who (will) apply light microscopy on a short time base to assure optimal use of time and resources. In total 30 participants will be allowed to the course. Therefore we ask a short motivation letter containing 

• your expectations
• your experience level with light microscopy
• a description of the (planned) application of light microscopy in your research. 
• describe which microscopy related problem(s) or questions you currently have. This information will be used for the goupwork session.

In the summer you will reserve an email with the result of the selection.