Spring 2025:
Week 11-13, 10th-28th of March. Lectures are held in the mornings in class and the afternoons consist of individual work from the 10th-21st of March and labs from the 24th-27th of March; examination in the form of a presentation on 28th of March.
Course organizers
Nils Norlin Nils [dot] Norlin [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Nils[dot]Norlin[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se) and Ritha Gidlöf Ritha [dot] Gidlof [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Ritha[dot]Gidlof[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)
Examinator
Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson Gunilla [dot] Westergren-Thorsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Gunilla[dot]Westergren-Thorsson[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)
Target group
The course is aimed towards PhD students and researchers at the Faculty of Medicine. Participation is free for PhD students from European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland. Other external participants might require a fee for participation for this course.
Description
The course is aimed at PhD students and researchers who wants to increase their knowledge about how to perform preclinical imaging in general.
At Lund University Bioimaging Center (LBIC) our mission is to combine knowledge in the fields of medical physics, preclinical and clinical medicine, chemistry, technology and applied mathematics in order to provide and develop imaging methods for the advanced study of human morphology, cellular metabolism and physiological function in health and disease.
In the preclinical arena, LBICs infrastructure provides equipment for both in-vivo, ex-vivo and in-vitro imaging. This graduate course aims to give PhD students, post-docs, researchers and others theoretical and practical experiences of LBICs preclinical imaging modalities as well as give an overview about the current state-of-the-art. The course will touch upon advanced light microscopy techniques (confocal, STORM, TIRF), electron microscopy (TEM/SEM) and the in vivo imaging techniques PET, SPECT, CT and MRI and upcoming (imaging based) omics methods for molecular profiling of tissues and cells. The course provides a base which helps to incorporate different imaging technologies into the scientific questions to be answered within biomedical research.
There will be time to ask individual questions to our lecturers about your own potential imaging research questions during the course.
Location
The course will be aimed to be conducted on campus in Lund for all days.
Examination
To pass the course you will need to attend the days in class, have an active participation in discussions and teamwork during these days, and completion of all the labs as well as hold a group presentation as the examination.
Credits
The course is rewarded with 3 ECTS credits (equal to three weeks full time studies) for enrolled PhD students. All participants will receive a certificate of attendance for the course.
Resources and literature
- Molecular Imaging, Basic principles and Applications in Biomedical Research, 2nd Edition, Imperial College Press, Markus Rudin
- Sample preparation - Handbook for Transmission Electron Microscopy, Springer, Jeanne Ayache.
- Handbook of Sample Preparation for Scanning Electron Microscopy, Springer, Patrick Echlin
- In Vivo NMR Imaging Methods and Protocols, Humana Press, Leif Schröder and Cornelius Faber editors
Complementary material will be handed out during the course. These will also be available on Libguide.
Registration