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Methods and Applications of Fluorescence

aszerdi — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:16:35 +0000

The 11th International Conference on Methods and Applications of Fluorescence: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Probes will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from September 6-9, 2009. The venue of the Conference is the Congress Center of the oldest Hungarian University, the Eötvös Loránd University.
The meeting will cover the following scientific topics:

- Fluorescence Spectroscopy (Theory and Applications)
- Fluorescence Correlation and Single Molecule Spectroscopy
- Fluorescence in Biology/Medicine: Bioassays, Biophysics
- Special Fluorescent Imaging Techniques: Multi-Photon, Live Cell and Single Molecule Imaging
- Novel Fluorescent Probes, Sensors, Fluorescent Proteins, Quantum Dots, Nanomaterials and their Applications
- Special Fluorescence Techniques: Upconversion, Delayed Fluorescence, Fast Fluorescence Kinetics FRET, etc.
- Fluorescence Microscopy: Towards Higher Spatial and Temporal Resolution
- Fluorescence in Systems Biology High Throughput Screening Assays, Arrays, Micro-chip

www.maf11.hu

Budapest, Hungary

Spectroscopy Meeting

aszerdi — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:46:01 +0000

Thermo Fisher Scientific will hold its 2009 Spectroscopy User Meeting from September 14-15, 2009 in Stratford, UK. The event will cover an evening applications workshop on September, 14 and a free of charge scientific programme on September, 15. The scientific programme will feature talks from spectroscopy instrument users. In addition applications specialists will be providing an update on recent advances in the use of infra-red, near infra-red, Raman and UV spectroscopy. There will also be the opportunity to see current generation spectroscopy systems in operation and see how sample handling and data analysis tools have changed over the years.
www.thermo.com/ukscievents

FEI Joins Metrology Research at University of Albany

aszerdi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:26:41 +0000

FEI Company, a provider of atomic-scale imaging and analysis systems, and Sematech, the global consortium of chipmakers, announced that FEI has joined Sematech’s Advanced Metrology Development Program at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany, US. As a member of this program, FEI will collaborate with experts to develop high-resolution capabilities of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis, with electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and focused ion beam (FIB) technology to address critical needs in process development and defect analysis.
www.fei.com
www.cnse.albany.edu
www.sematech.org

First Taiwan AFM Bioworkshop

aszerdi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:03 +0000

Asylum Research, in conjunction with the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), will host the first Taiwan AFM Bioworkshop to be held July 30-31, 2009 at NHRI, Zhunan Campus, in Taiwan. The workshop will combine talks from leading researchers and industry experts on atomic force microscopy for life science applications, as well as instructional AFM demonstrations. Topics covered include principles of AFM, biological imaging, force spectroscopy, integration of AFM and optical microscopy, sample preparation, application examples and future directions in AFM. The event is free to all researchers in the field of AFM.
www.asylumresearch.com/bioworkshop

Fellow for the Microscopy Society of America

aszerdi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:00:13 +0000

Yimei Zhu, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected the inaugural Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America, an affiliate of the American Institute of Physics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Limited to a small fraction of members, the designation of Fellow recognizes senior distinguished members of the society who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the science and practice of microscopy. Zhu will formally be awarded the society’s first fellowship at its annual meeting in Richmond, Virginia, US, to be held in July. His citation reads: “For outstanding and innovative development and implementation of advanced electron microscopy techniques including quantitative diffraction, imaging, spectroscopy, and phase retrieval methods in understanding superconducting, ferromagnetic, and strongly correlated materials.”
www.bnl.gov

Yimei Zhu, inaugural fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (photo: Courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Principles of Fluorescence Techniques

aszerdi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:49:50 +0000

The Fluorescence Education Center, also referred to as the Fluorescence Foundation, will host two courses on the principles of fluorescence techniques to be held from:
June 29 – July 2, 2009 in Genova, Italy
and
September 14-17, 2009 in Madrid, Spain

The Principles of Fluorescence Techniques course will outline the basic concepts of fluorescence techniques and the successful utilization of the currently available commercial instrumentation. The course is designed for students who utilize fluorescence techniques and instrumentation and for researchers and industrial scientists who wish to deepen their knowledge of fluorescence applications. Key scientists in the field will deliver theoretical lectures. The lectures will be complemented by the direct utilization of steady state and lifetime fluorescence instrumentation and confocal microscopy for FLIM and FRET applications.

Topics addressed in this course include:

- Basic Definitions and Principles of Fluorescence
- Fluorescence Polarization
- Time-resolved Fluorescence
- Instrumentation
- Data Manipulation and Data Analysis
- Non-Linear Microscopy Including SHG
- GFP Fluorescence and Photoactivation
- Confocal and Multiphoton Fluorescence Microscopy
- FCS, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
- FLIM, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
- Single Molecule Imaging
- Image Processing and Deconvolution Approaches

www.fluorescence-foundation.org

Interdisciplinary Symposium on 3D Microscopy

aszerdi — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:43:06 +0000

3D Microscopy, taking place from July 12 -16, 2009 in Interlaken, Switzerland, is an international symposium focused on 3D imaging and spectroscopy in science. The objective of this symposium is to create a forum for researchers with different expertise and scientific interests to present their knowhow and the techniques they use to answer their scientific questions. Methods using three-dimensional imaging and spectroscopy to retrieve data in volume will be discussed, whether “light”, x-rays, electrons or near field probes are used. The conference contains 3 plenary talks and 9 sessions with invited and contributed talks and poster sessions.

Session topics are:

- High resolution TEM and AFM
- 3D CLSM and light microscopy
- Stereology
- 3D TEM and atom probe tomography/serial sectioning
- 3D correlative microscopy
- 3D X-ray microscopy and tomography
- 3D FIB/SEM or serial sectioning (with Denk-method) blockface tomography
- 3D image analysis and simulation
- 3D scanning probe microscopy

www.ssom.ch/3D/index.html

Interlaken, Switzerland

Routine Spectroscopy in Analytical Labs

aszerdi — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:01:03 +0000

Thermo Fisher Scientific will host a series of free informative seminars on routine spectroscopy in the analytical laboratory. This seminar will explain the range of spectroscopic techniques currently available for use in the quality control or analytical laboratory. The essential theory of Infra-Red, Near-Infra-Red, Raman and UV spectroscopy will be covered, together with how to select the best technique for a given process or application. The seminar is aimed at scientists and analysts looking to commission, expand or replace spectroscopic analytical capabilities in their laboratory.
Dates are:
June 2, 2009 – Hemel Hempstead, UK
June 3, 2009 – Leeds, UK
June 4, 2009 – Edinburgh, UK

Attendance is free of charge. For registration visit:
www.thermo.com/ukscievents

Euro Atomic Force Microscopy Forum

aszerdi — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:17:16 +0000

Asylum Research, in conjunction with IMETUM, Nano Initiative Munich, and Atomic Force F&E, announces the 2^nd Euro AFM Forum to be held at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Garching, Germany, July 1-3, 2009. The event is a conference for AFM researchers to share their cutting-edge research for both materials and life science applications. The forum will combine invited and contributed talks from leading European researchers as well as instructional workshops on AFM equipment. Workshop topics include cell imaging, imaging in liquids, force spectroscopy, electrical characterization and more.
Participants are invited to submit their best AFM image for the Forum Image Contest. An iPod Nano will be awarded for the best image that represents innovative science and has the “cool” factor. The deadline for submission is June 1, 2009.
www.atomicforce.de/Euro-AFM-Forum-2009.php

Surface of a Chestnut, DC mode in air. Taken by Thomas Gutsmann, Research Center Borstel, Germany (participant of the 2007 event).

Time-resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy

aszerdi — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:35:46 +0000

PicoQuants 7^th Short Course on Principles and Applications of Time-resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy, taking place from Nov. 9-12, 2009, in Berlin, Germany is intended for individuals wishing an introduction of the basics of fluorescence spectroscopy and its applications to the Life Sciences. The course is held in cooperation with Dr. J.R. Lakowicz from the Center of Fluorescence Spectroscopy (CFS) in Baltimore. It will focus on time-resolved spectroscopy applications (i.e. measurements on bulk samples). Registration deadline is Aug. 31, 2009.
www.picoquant.com/_trfcourse.htm