The Live Cell Imaging Workshop

摘要

In recent years, the optical visualization of biological samples has made great strides, becoming one of the important pillars of biotechnology. It has even been possible to visualize such things as the rearrangement of neural circuits in living brain tissue and the motion of a transcriptase reading one base of DNA at a time.rnAs modern optical microscopes with their computer-controlled image-processing devices have become so complex, technical workshops on optical microscopy aimed at active researchers (from post-docs to professors) have become popular in the U.S. and Europe. The workshops there serve as focal points not only for technique dissemination but also for encounters between industry and academia and for technology evaluation. The first such workshop was the Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, U.S.A.)rnwhich is run regularly to this day, where Japanese companies also attend with new products for evaluation, and where they collect information.