
Advanced Light Microscopy Course
Find out more about our 5 day Advanced Light Microscopy Course.
We currently offer 2 formal training courses;
These courses are open to University staff and postgraduate students, UHS staff and external users.
Our week long advanced light microscopy course is currently under re-development (please contact us for bespoke training in the interim) and a new, week long course on 3D image analysis is in development.
We also provide 1-to-1 (or small group) training for specific instruments, applications and analyses, including a 1 day confocal masterclass, for facility users as well as advice on experimental design, image processing and image analysis. Please do come and talk with us before designing your imaging experiments to guarantee best results on our systems.
Our courses are intended to provide staff, postgraduate students and external users with an understanding of, and hands-on, practical experience in, a range of imaging techniques and BIU instruments.
The transmission electron microscopy usually runs approximately every 6 months - mid winter and mid summer for 8 and 9 participants respectively, extra courses are timetabled if demand is high. The introduction to image processing and analysis with ImageJ / Fiji course runs more frequently, on demand once sufficient participants to fill a course have registered (8)
To enquire about a place on any of our courses or to arrange individual tuition, please contact Patricia Goggin ( P.Goggin@soton.ac.uk ).
We also run occasional, external, diagnostic EM specialist training days for the wider imaging community听 (see our meeting archive ). These are intended to train postgraduate students, biomedical scientists, clinical scientists, and histopathologists in the role of electron microscopy (EM) in diagnostic pathology or other specialist techniques and some are also IBMS accredited.
We also hold occasional other themed imaging days / symposia.
Find out more about our 5 day Advanced Light Microscopy Course.
Find out more about our 4 day Transmission Electron Microscopy Course
Find out more about our 1 day Introduction to 2D Image Processing and Analysis with ImageJ / Fiji Course.
Find out more about 1-to-1 and small group training on specific instruments and applications, including our 1 day confocal microscopy masterclasses.
"Helpful staff, practical /lab work linked to lectures"
"Always opportunity to ask questions"
Clear guidance, very good teaching"
"Very good and useful course"
"Lots of hands-on experience"
"Useful techniques tailored to individual needs"
"It is by doing the techniques that we learn them, so it was insightful and really helpful going through the process, step by step"
"Really fun, engaging and comprehensive"
"Fantastic Course"
"Staff, logical flow of information"
"Learned so much, even with previous experience of microscopy"
it's great that we can use / try everything"
"Very helpful staff and very well organised"
"Course leaders were very helpful"
"Hands-on high-tech machines"
"I felt a sense of "no question is stupid", well done"
"Very much enjoyed the course, the Unit are enthusiastic, welcoming and friendly."
"Really helpful staff, practicals were really useful"
"Helpful to have the demonstrators there to troubleshoot"
"Brilliant Course"