EMBL welcomes undergraduate students of all disciplines in the natural sciences extending from biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics to medicine, informatics and engineering.
Programme
| Time | Monday 15 July | Tuesday 16 July | Wednesday 17 July | Thursday 18 July | Friday 19 July |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.00- 10.00 | Welcome by Summer School Organisers | Seeing the unknown: What molecular labelling can do for developmental biology Mariana R.P. Alves | Basic concepts in developmental biology Ulla-Maj Fiuza | Physics of early Embryo Morphogenesis Chii Jou Chan | Lab Day |
| 10.00- 11.00 | Keynote lecture on Imaging Jan Ellenberg | Superpowers of super-resolution microscopy and the hidden assembly of disordered proteins in the NPC Sofya Mikhaleva | Keynote lecture on Cell mechanics Stefano De Renzis | Visualization of transcription in embryos Timothy Jessen Fuqua | Lab Day |
| COFFEE BREAK | COFFEE BREAK | COFFEE BREAK | COFFEE BREAK | Lab Day | |
| 11.00- 12.00 | Basics concepts of Microscopy Carlo Bevilacqua | Looking deeper than microscopy: Imaging modalities beyond light for visualising biology deep in tissues Jakub Czuchnowski | Keynote lecture on Cell communication in developing systems Alexander Aulehla | Keynote lecture on Morphogenesis in plants Alexis Maizel | Lab Day |
| 12.00- 13.00 | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | Lab Day |
| 13.00- 18.00 | Practicals: Microscopy Building Robert Prevedel, Jakub Czuchnowski, Ling Wang | Practicals: Microscopy Building Robert Prevedel, Jakub Czuchnowski, Ling Wang | Practicals: Imaging Biology Aissam Ikmi, Anniek Stokkermans | 13.00 Keynote lecture Virginie Uhlmann 14:00 Keynote lecture James Sharpe Practicals: Imaging Biology | Lab Day |
| 18.00 | Welcome event | Dinner | Meet the EMBL PhD Students | Dinner | Lab Day |
No programme activites during the weekend
| Time | Monday 22 July | Tuesday 23 July | Wednesday 24 July | Thursday 25 July | Friday 26 July |
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| 9.00- 10.00 | Keynote lecture on Imaging biology Christian Tischer | Optogenetics in morphogenesis Daniel Krueger | Keynote lecture on light-sheet microscopy Lars Hufnagel | Imaging cancer initiation: one cell at a ti Ashna Alladin | Student presentations preparation time |
| 10.00- 11.00 | The basics: pixels, filters, morphology Sanjana Singh | Intro to machine learning Fynn Beuttenmueller | Keynote on EM imaging Julia Mahamid | Chasing space and mapping time: on tracking and kymographs Paul Gerald Sanchez | Student presentations preparation time |
| COFFEE BREAK | COFFEE BREAK | COFFEE BREAK | COFFEE BREAK | Student presentations preparation time | |
| 11.00- 12.00 | From Images to data: Denoising, filtering and segmentation Philipp Walch | Ways of Seeing – Machine Learning for Images Jose Almeida | Extending the Depths of Light-Sheet Microscopy with Adaptive Optics Dimitri Kromm | Deep learning Anna Kreshuk | Student presentations preparation time |
| 12.00- 13.00 | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| 13.00- 17.00 | Practicals: Image Analysis Anna Kreshuk, Fynn Beuttenmueller, Ben Story | Practicals: Image Analysis Anna Kreshuk, Fynn Beuttenmueller, Ben Story | Focus Practicals | Focus Practicals | Students presentations Wrap-up and Feedback session |
| 17.00- 20.00 | Food for thought with Manfred Lautenschläger | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | Farewell BBQ |
No programme activites during the weekend
This module will introduce you to basic concepts in microscopy, and teach you how to assemble your own microscope. The lectures will focus on physical principles, as well as describe the application of various microscopy methods for current research in biology. In the practical, you will build your own wide-field fluorescence microscope, evaluate it’s optical performance and test it on various biological samples.
This module will introduce the basic principles of developmental biology, with emphasise on imaging approaches that capture the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which a fertilized zygote transforms into a mature organism. Topics covered will include cell mechanics, cell-cell communication and tissue morphogenesis across diverse multicellular organisms. The lab practical will consist on live imaging the metamorphic process of a sea anemone that gradually transforms the spherical embryo into an elongated tubular body.
This module will give an introduction to how microscopy images can be processed to extract biological information. We will look into both classical filters and machine learning-based methods and try them all out on the Nematostella samples imaged in the previous module.