4th European short course on
"Principles and Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
October 30 - November 3, 2006.

Summary Aims and Purposes Course Instructors Guest Lecturers
Course Organisation Hands-on Instrumentation Information and Correspondance Program
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with kind support of
Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Maryland Medical School
Baltimore, Maryland 21201


Course Chairman: Rainer Erdmann, PicoQuant GmbH

Summary

This course was held in Europe for the fourth time and was again a great success. Altogether 80 people from universities and industrie from more than 21 countries participated. They attended 15 lectures and 6 hands-on experiment sessions with 10 different instruments from 5 companies, covering different methods and procedures in fluorescence spectroscopy.

Group pictureLecture of J.R. Lakowicz

Aims and Purpose

The course is intended for individuals wishing an in-depth introduction to the principles of fluorescence spectroscopy and its applications to the Life Sciences. Attendees are typically professionals who are using or intend to use fluorescence in their research. Most attendees have some knowledge of fluorescence, typically in a specialized area. However, other individuals, from totally different research areas and industry, get the opportunity to enter this exciting field in a very effective way and benefit especially from the experimental section.


Course instructors

Guest lecturers (in alphabetical order)

Course organisation

The lectures on Monday and Tuesday dealt with basic principles of fluorescence spectroscopy, while from Wednesday to Friday more specialized topics were covered:

Monday and Tuesday - Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy

These lectures dealt with the basics of steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and instrumentation. They covered time- and frequency-domain measurements, anisotropy, solvent effects, quenching and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), as well as an introduction into data analysis.

Wednesday to Friday - Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Principles, Instrumentation and Applications

These lectures emphasised time-resolved fluorescence along with advanced applications of fluorescence in biophysics, sensing, imaging, clinical chemistry, microscopy and ultrasensitive detection. Guest lectures were given on various topics, like fluorescence microscopy, correlation spectroscopy, single molecule detection and fluorescence markers.

Apart from the lectures, hands-on experimentation (steady-state and time-resolved experiments as well as data analysis) was offered on various instruments provided by market leading companies.

Hands-on Experimentation

The following companies offered hands-on experimentation:

Olympus
Working on a FluoView 1000
Horiba Jobin Yvon
Working on a Fluorolog
PicoQuant
Working on a MicroTime 200
PicoQuant
Working on a FluoTime 200
 
Lambert Instruments
Working on a LIFA-System
Varian
Working on a Cary Eclipse
PicoQuant
Working with FluoFit

Program

The program and the time schedule is still available for download as a pdf document:

Previous Courses

The European short course on "Principles and Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy" is an annual event since 2003. For further details about each year's event, please select the year from the list below.

  2003     2004     2005     2006     2007     2008  

Information and Correspondence

Course Coordinators: Jana Grünig / Angelika Zoufahl

PicoQuant GmbH
Rudower Chaussee 29 (IGZ)
12489 Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49-30-6392-6560
Fax +49-30-6392-6561

e-mail: trfcoursepicoquant.com


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