principles of fluorescence techniques

april 6-9, 2015 | urbana-champaign, il

(tentative agenda)

April 6, 2015
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Registration & Introductions
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Welcome Address
Prof. Stephen A. Boppart
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Short History of Fluorescence
Dr. Beniamino Barbieri
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Basic Fluorescence Principles I
Overview, Excitation and Emission Spectra,
      Quantum Yields, Polarization

Prof. David M. Jameson
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Coffee Break
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Basic Fluorescence Principles II
Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Quenching

Prof. David M. Jameson
6:30 PM Networking Mixer
April 7, 2015
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Basic Fluorescence Principles III
FRET: In Vitro and In Vivo Fluorescence Probes

Prof. David M. Jameson
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Basic Instrumentation
Prof. David M. Jameson
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Fluorescence Microscopy
Dr. Beniamino Barbieri
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Group Picture and Experiment Group Assignment
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Laboratory Practicals
April 8, 2015
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM FCS, Autocorrelation; PCH, Cross-correlation
Dr. Paolo Annibale
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM RICS, N&B, and FLIM
Dr. Paolo Annibale
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Monitoring Dynamic Protein Interactions in the Living Cell Nucleus
Prof. Richard Day
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM Laboratory Practicals
April 9, 2015
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Laboratory Practicals
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Label-free Multimodal Molecular Imaging
      of Breast Cancer Development

Prof. Stephen A. Boppart
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Super Resolution
Dr. Paolo Annibale
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Exploring the Chiroptical Properties of Single Molecules
Dr. Austin J. Cyphersmith
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM Closing Remarks/Award of Participation Diplomas