Workshop

Advanced fluorescence imaging course on FLIM and FCS

About event

There are a lot of in vitro techniques to study small molecular interactions, but most of them fail to study the same under in vivo conditions. Advanced fluorescence imaging is an excellent for this purpose. Apart from the initially used property of photon intensity in fluorescence imaging studies, advanced imaging techniques use fluorescence properties such as fluorescence lifetime, correlation of movement of fluorescent molecules, total internal reflection or structured illumination approaches. Here we introduce the advanced fluorescent imaging techniques FLIM-FRET and FCS. FLIM-FRET is combination of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) and Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). Fluorescent correlation and cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCS, FCCS) are techniques that allow us to study the fluorescent molecule concentration and diffusion at the single molecule level. FCCS is excellent for description of complex formation between fast moving molecules transferring across the confocal volume of a microscope.

Programme:

Day 1

9:15

Aswathy Jayasree: FLIM-FRET principles  

  • General approaches and theory behind FLIM-FRET imaging.
  • Various applications in biology.
  • Description about our FLIM-FRET instrumentation
10:15-10:30 Tea Break
10:30-12:00

Peter Kapusta: How to avoid common errors during FLIM imaging

 

12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13.00-17:00 Practical hands on session
FLIM FRET
  • Familiarizing the instruments for FLIM-FRET data acquisition
  • FLIM-FRET data acquisition using the demo samples
  • Data analysis
  • FLIM-FRET data acquisition using the user samples (if there is excess time)

Day 2

9:15-10:15

Ctirad Hofr: FCS principles

  • Theory and modifications of FCS.
  • Applications of FCS
  • Description about our FCS instrumentation.
10:15-10:30 Tea Break
10:30-12:00

Practical hands on session 
Familiarizing the instruments for FCS data acquisition - Tomáš Janovič

  • Data acquisition using the demo samples
  • Data analysis
  • Data acquisition using the user samples (if there is excess time)
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-17:00

Practical hands on session
FLIM

  • FLIM-FRET data acquisition using the user samples and data analysis

 

 

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Date

6. - 7. 6. 2019
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Venue

CEITEC MU, University Campus Bohunice