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Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy workshop (Mt Desert Island, ME) June 6-12, 2027

Enrollment for the Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy workshop at the beautiful Mount Desert Island Labs in Bar Harbor Maine is now open. The course will be held next June 6th-12th, the site describing the course, faculty, and syllabus is at (https://mdibl.org/course/lsfm-2027/). LSFM is now in its 5th year and really builds on the fact that light sheet microscopy in all its forms continues to grow and plays a dynamic and increasing importance in fields as diverse as developmental biology, and neuroscience or system-based anatomy and cell biology.

The course has two primary goals, the first is an immersive treatment, of the theory and practice of light sheet microscopy. The goal being to educate scientists at all career stages on the opportunities the technology offers, covering the basic science behind the approach in all its flavors.

The second goal is to allow you to interact with and use almost every commercial system currently available (last year we had more than 14 platforms present at the workshop). Importantly are continuing the major changes to the curriculum we made last year, the most significant of which was that we are encouraging you to bring your own samples to test out on the various available platforms.

This year, following student and faculty requests we are going to build in more image analysis components specific to dealing with the large data volumes that are generated by light sheet imaging. These new components will be supported by industry and academic partners that specialize in visualization and segmentation of these data types.

This course is a must if you are thinking about how light sheet microscopy can help your research or if you have realized how important it may be or become and actually want to have what we feel is an extra-ordinary opportunity to test out the full variety of technologies currently available on your samples and actually compare the different platforms to see which would be the best fit for your laboratory or facility.

We encourage applications from graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, facility managers and faculty.

For those of you attending the SFN meeting next week, speak to our industry partners (listed on the website: https://mdibl.org/course/lsfm-2027/) to get more details about the course or if you have further questions about the course feel free to send me a mail at simon.watkins@pitt.edu<mailto:simon.watkins@pitt.edu&gt;


Best
Simon C. Watkins Ph.D, FRCPath
Director Center for Biologic Imaging
University of Pittsburgh