<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Watkins, Simon C</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swatkins@pitt.edu">swatkins@pitt.edu</a>></span><br> Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:34 PM<br>Subject: QFM 2k10<br>To: <a href="mailto:CONFOCALMICROSCOPY@lists.umn.edu">CONFOCALMICROSCOPY@lists.umn.edu</a><br><br><br> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div><p style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Folks, we would like to announce that enrollment for Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2k10 at the Mount Desert Island Marine Laboratory in Maine is now open. The tremendous success of the course over the last several years has encouraged us to run it again next year, and as it is December it is time to start our enrollment. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is an intensive lab/lecture course, focusing on fluorescence microscopy in all its forms, including widefield, Confocal, Multiphoton, Decon, TIRF, FRET etc, though with an emphasis on live cell methods. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We also encourage students to provide their own specimens such that the hands on components of the course are as enriching as possible (in fact last year at one point, the technical help were growing 64 different cell lines for our students). </span></p><p style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enrollment is highly competitive, so if you think that you or your colleagues would benefit from the course please enroll as soon as possible. </span></p><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As the course is moving into its second decade, we have decided to make a couple of significant changes to the enrollment process: </span></p><div style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1: Perhaps the most important is that <b>Alumni are eligible to return</b>. Because we made sweeping changes in the curriculum and faculty last year, and all aspects of imaging have advanced enormously since we started the course we feel it is time to allow past students to take the course again. So... alumni... you are welcome to return to the course. Please point out that you are an alumnus in the application (it won't affect eligibility).</span></p><div style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2: The second big change which has been driven by a common student request that we have <b>rolling admissions</b>. We have decided to act on this. Our first student group will be accepted late this month, then February and the final group in April. There are no particular quotas for each block, rather students should have good projects that suit the flavor and goals of the course.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The dates for course are from Saturday June 12 to the following Friday (June 18th) . </span></p><p style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The url for the course is <a href="http://www.mdibl.org/courses/Quantitative_Fluorescent_Microscopy/159/" target="_blank">http://www.mdibl.org/courses/Quantitative_Fluorescent_Microscopy/159/</a></span></p><p style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you have any questions dont hesitate to contact me directly</span></p><div style="margin-top: 6pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Simon</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Simon C. Watkins Ph.D, FRCPath</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Professor and Vice Chair, Cell Biology and Physiology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Professor, Immunology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Director, Center for Biologic Imaging</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">BSTS 225, University of Pittsburgh</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3500 Terrace St.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pittsburgh PA 15261</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tel: 412-352-2277</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fax:412-648-2797</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">URL: <a href="http://www.cbi.pitt.edu" target="_blank">http://www.cbi.pitt.edu</a></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> </div> </div> </div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>**************************<br>Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression<br>College of Life Sciences<br>MSI/WTB/JBC Complex<br>University of Dundee<br>Dow Street<br>Dundee DD1 5EH<br> United Kingdom<br><br>phone (01382) 385819<br>Intl phone: 44 1382 385819 <br>FAX (01382) 388072 <br>email: <a href="mailto:jason@lifesci.dundee.ac.uk">jason@lifesci.dundee.ac.uk</a><br><br>Lab Page: <a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/lifesciences/swedlow/">http://www.dundee.ac.uk/lifesciences/swedlow/</a><br> Open Microscopy Environment: <a href="http://openmicroscopy.org">http://openmicroscopy.org</a><br>**************************<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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