2025 AQLM Schedule
This is a draft schedule and will likely be updated.
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Wednesday, 4/30/25 |
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1:30 - 2:30 PM |
Check in and get picture ID |
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3:00 - 4:00 |
Welcome and course orientation |
Course Directors, Dir. Ed |
Speck Auditorium |
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4:00 - 4:50 |
LECTURE and LAB: Ray Optics: Making an image and ray tracing |
Mattheyses |
Loeb 260 (Main Lab) |
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5:00 - 6:00 |
Wine and Cheese reception |
Tent outside Swope |
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6:00 - 7:00 |
DINNER |
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7:00 - 7:30 |
LAB Continued |
Mattheyses |
Main lab |
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7:30 - 7:50 |
LECTURE: Ray optics: Apertures and field stops |
Mattheyses |
Main lab |
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7:50 - 8:30 |
LAB: Group work with irises |
Mattheyses/ Commercial Faculty |
Main lab |
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8:30 - 8:45 |
LECTURE: Ray optics: Building a microscope |
Mattheyses |
Main lab |
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8:45 - 9:30 |
LAB: Building a microscope condenser in Kohler illumination; building the imaging path |
Mattheyses/ Commercial Faculty |
Main lab |
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9:30 - 9:50 |
LECTURE: Report out on condenser. Imaging onto a sensor |
Mattheyses |
Main lab |
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9:50 - 10:30 |
LAB: Building the imaging path; measuring the magnification of your microscope |
Mattheyses/ Commercial Faculty |
Main lab |
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Thursday, 5/1/25 |
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8:45 - 8:50 AM |
Daily Overview |
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Main lab |
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8:50-10:30 |
LECTURE: Wave Optics: Infinity-corrected objectives, Diffraction and Resolution; LAB: Measuring the resolution of your microscope |
Mattheyses |
Main lab |
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10:30-11:30 |
LAB: Kohler on the commercial systems |
Mattheyses |
Main lab |
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11:35 - 12:30 |
Wave optics, diffraction and contrast generation |
Kner |
Speck |
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12:30 - 1:30 PM |
LUNCH (students need to be there by 1) |
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1:30 - 2:30 |
Optics |
Ross |
Speck |
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2:30 - 3:30 |
Image Processing Lecture: FIJI |
Bjorn Paulson |
Main lab |
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3:30-5:30 |
Image Processing Lab: FIJI |
Bjorn Paulson |
Main lab |
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5:30 - 6:30 |
Fourier |
Kner |
Speck |
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6:30 - 7:30 |
Dinner |
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7:30-10:00 |
Lightning Talks |
Mattheyses |
Main lab |
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Friday, 5/2/25 |
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8:45 - 9:00 AM |
Daily Overview |
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Speck |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Label free: Phase/Pol/Darkfield |
Shalin Mehta |
Speck |
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10:00 - 12:00 |
Label free: Phase/Pol/Darkfield lab |
Shalin Mehta |
Main lab |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM |
LUNCH |
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1:00 - 2:00 |
Label free: Phase/Pol/Darkfield lab (con't) |
Shalin Mehta |
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2:00 - 3:00 |
Abbe demonstration and discussion |
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3:00-4:00 |
PSF/trans/fluor |
Laevsky |
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4:00-5:30 |
Fluorescence Lecture |
Salmon |
Speck |
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5:30-6:30 |
DINNER |
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6:30-10:00 |
Fluorescence Lab |
Salmon |
Main lab |
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Saturday, 5/3/25 |
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8:45 - 9:00 AM |
Daily Overview |
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Speck |
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9:00 - 10:30** |
Digital Detectors |
Watkins |
Speck |
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10:30-12:00 |
Noise lab |
Course Directors/Commercial Faculty |
Main lab |
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12:00-1:00 |
LUNCH |
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1:00-2:00 |
Noise Lab con't |
Course Directors/ Commercial Faculty |
Loeb var |
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2:00-5:00 |
Quant lab |
Course Directors/ Commercial Faculty |
Main lab |
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5:00-5:30 |
Noise and Quant discussion |
Course Directors |
Main lab |
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5:30-6:30 |
DINNER |
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6:30-8:00 |
Fluorescence Proteins and Probes |
Palmer |
Speck |
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8:00-10:00 |
FRET Biosensors Lab |
Palmer |
Loeb var |
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10:00-11:00 |
Vendor Talks |
Main Lab |
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Sunday, 5/4/25 |
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8:45 - 9:00 AM |
Daily Overview |
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Speck |
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9:00 - 10:00 |
Quantifying Cell Mechanics |
Salaita |
Speck |
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10:00 -10:30 |
BREAK |
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Main Lab |
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10:30 -12:00 |
Live Cell and labeling lecture |
Bartle |
Main Lab |
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12:00-1:00 PM |
LUNCH |
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1-5:30 |
Live Cell and Labeling lab |
Bartle |
Loeb var |
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5:30-6 |
Live Cell Discussion |
Bartle |
Loeb var |
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6 - 7:00 |
DINNER |
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7:00 - 8:00 |
3D Microscopy I: The Problems and a Wide-Field Solution |
Shaw |
Speck |
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8:00- 11:00 |
Deconvolution Lab |
Shaw |
Loeb var |
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Monday, 5/5/25 |
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8:45 – 9:00 AM |
Daily Overview |
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Speck |
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9:00-10:00 |
3D Microscopy II: Point-scanning Solutions and Their Problems |
Shaw |
Speck |
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10:00-12:30 |
Confocal Laboratory Exercises |
Shaw |
Loeb var |
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12:30-1:30 PM |
LUNCH |
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1:30-2:00 |
3D Microscopy Discussion I |
Shaw |
Speck |
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2:00-3:00 |
3D Microscopy III: Analysing Performance and Choosing Methods |
Shaw |
Speck |
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3:00-5:30 |
Quantitative Evaluation of Performance in 3D Microscopy |
Shaw |
Loeb var |
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5:30-6:30 |
DINNER |
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6:30-7:00 |
3D Microscopy Discussion II |
Shaw |
Speck |
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7:00-8:00 |
TIRF Lecture |
Taraska |
Speck |
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8:00-11:00 |
TIRF Lab |
Taraska/Mattheyses |
Loeb var |
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Tuesday, 5/6/25 |
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8:45 – 9:00 AM |
Daily Overview |
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Speck |
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9:00 - 10:00 |
SR SMM Localization Lecture |
Gustavsson |
Speck |
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10:00 - 11:00 |
SR SMM Single particle tracking lecture |
Lidke |
Speck |
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11:00-12:00 |
SR SIM/STED lecture |
Bahlmann |
Speck |
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00-2:00 |
Vincent A/O demo |
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2:00-5:30 |
SR LAB |
Gustavsson, Lidke |
Loeb various |
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5:30-6:30 |
Dinner |
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6:30-10:30 |
SR lab |
Gustavsson, Lidke |
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10:30-11:00 |
SR Discussion |
Gustavsson, Lidke |
Main Lab |
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Wednesday, 5/7/25 |
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8:45 - 9:00 AM |
Daily Overview |
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Speck |
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9:00-10:00 |
LSFM Lecture |
Laevsky |
Speck |
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10:00-12:00 |
LSFM Lab |
Laevsky |
Loeb various |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Lunch |
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1:00-3:00 |
LSFM Lab |
Loeb various |
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3:00-6:00 |
FREE TIME |
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6:00-7:00 |
Dinner |
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7:00 - 8:00 |
Advanced Image Analysis Lecture |
Le Liu |
Speck |
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8:00 - 10:00 |
Analysis Lab |
Le Liu |
Main lab |
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10:00-11:00 |
Ethics |
Directors |
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Thursday, 5/8/25 |
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8:45 - 9:00 AM |
Daily Overview |
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Main lab |
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9:00 - 12:00 |
Machine Learning for Image Processing Laboratory |
Cortes |
Main lab |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM |
LUNCH |
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1:00 - 4:00 |
UC2 |
UC2 |
Main lab |
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4:00 - 5:30 |
Computer-hardware communication, open source microscope control |
UC2 |
Main lab |
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5:30 - 6:00 |
Break |
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6:00 - 7:00 |
Inoue Lecture |
Sophie Brasselet |
Meigs Room |
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7:00 - 9:00 |
Clambake |
Everyone! |
Swope Tent |
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Friday, 5/9/25 |
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Depart MBL |
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