principles of fluorescence techniques

april 4-7, 2016 | urbana-champaign, il

(tentative agenda)

April 4, 2016
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 5, 2016
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 - 4:00 PM Laboratory Practicals
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Coffee Break
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM Laboratory Practicals
April 6, 2016
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM FCS, Autocorrelation; PCH, Cross-correlation
Prof. Silviya Zustiak
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM RICS, N&B, and FLIM
Prof. Parijat Sengupta
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 - 4:30 PM Laboratory Practicals
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Coffee Break
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM Laboratory Practicals
April 7, 2016
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Label-free Multimodal Molecular Imaging
      of Breast Cancer Development

Prof. Stephen A. Boppart
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM From Photons to Function: Quantitative Mining of
    Number and Brightness

Prof. Catherine Royer
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Fluorescence Detection of Pressure-Dependent
Protein Folding in vitro and in Cells

Prof. Martin Gruebele
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Closing Remarks/Award of Participation Diplomas