From Tissues to the Organelles: State of the Art in Morphological Studies by Optical and Transmission Electron Microscopy

About

This Summer School is a full-immersion course that guides students in learning the technical and theoretical procedures applied to the study of biological structures (tissues, cells, organelles).

The course includes:
- a theoretical part, organized in lectures covering basic techniques in cell cultures, light microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy;
- a practical part, in which participants will be hosted in laboratories and exposed to technical protocols related to the main topics of the course,
- an updated overview of the tolls used for the systematic analysis and cataloguing of images for research purposes.

At the end of the course students will have acquired knowledge of the state of the art in the main morphological approaches that can be used in basic and applied research.

The Summer School will be activated with at least 2 students. The maximum number of participants is set to 20 students.

The Summer School will be held on campus in Pisa, at Polo Nobili, via Alessandro Volta, 4

Course leader

Prof. Michela Ferrucci

Target group

The Summer School is focused on the fundamentals of optical (OM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), including basic tissue processing and morphological analysis applied to life sciences.

It is open to PhD students, as well as to highly motivated undergraduate students who plan to start research activities involving these techniques, and to postdoctoral researchers interested in enriching their experimental work with OM and/or TEM.

Senior researchers from universities, research institutes, clinics, and industry are also welcome.

Course aim

The aim of this Summer School is to provide students with an in-depth introduction to morphological studies, presenting the state of the art from classical methodologies to the most recent approaches.

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