BMB207: Biophotonics (5 ECTS)

STADS: 01010201

Level
PhD course

Teaching period
The course is held twice a year, once in the autumn semester and once in the spring semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: brewer@memphys.sdu.dk

Timetable
There is no timetable available for the chosen semester.

Comment:
Max deltagerantal: 16. kurset er et ph.d.-kursus som kan tages af både kandidat- og ph.d.-studerende.

Kurset vil blive afholdt i Januar 2015.

Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
Bachelor's degree in biology, chemistry, physics, molecular biology or medicine.

Course introduction
It is the goal of the course to teach the students general principles of fluorescence and light microscopy as well as teach principles behind advanced fluorescence and imaging techniques. There will be practical demonstrations and hands on exercises on all topics. The course is a five day intensive course taking place within one week. There will be:

1. Lectures (3 days, 9 lessons)
2. Seminars on application of technique (3 seminars)
3. Hands on practical exercises
4. Individual experimental projects
5. The students prepare a presentation of the results
6. Students presentations

Expected learning outcome
At the end of the course the student should be familiar with:

• Wide field microscopy
• Laser scanning single-photon confocal microscopy
• Two-photon microscopy
• Spinning disk confocal microscopy
• Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
• Raster Image Correlation Spectroscopy
• Atomic Force microscopy
• Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging microscopy

Subject overview


Literature
There isn't any litterature for the course at the moment.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:

1. Oral examination, internal evaluation by teacher on pass/fail basis.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 12 hours
Skills training phase: 25 hours, hereof:
 - Tutorials: 8 hours
 - Laboratory exercises: 17 hours

Educational activities

Language
This course is taught in English.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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