I wonder if any one has heard of any courses in practical optic or photonics to build imaging and / or microscopy equipment.
There are lots of courses on individual imaging techniques or overviews of a modality but I can’t seem to find one that (runs anymore) on this theme. If anyone has any ideas I would be interested to know the options.
The closest applicable course I could find was from Imperial college, London for applied optics , the only problem is that they havent run it for years and Ive been asking every year for 3 yrs and… well… I think the academic admitted they didnt think they would run it again.
Since the work coming out in optical microscopy with open source hard ware is pretty fascinating at the moment. I was hoping there was a week long course to brush up my knowledge and get some practical hands on learning.
Does anyone know of anything and if not. Would anyone else be interested in gathering interest to get a course on the go?
@VolkerH , I had noticed the UC2 GitHub last week and plan to have a go at building the light sheet microscope and the workshops definitely am option.
I just wish there was a more comprehensive course. Though in reality, the UC2 project is more hands on and I like the fact they do do that. I will send an email but it is a lack of opportunities in this area. UC2 is great and exactly what I mean by open source hard ware , projects like these are important otherwise we will always be stuck with trying to get access to a >£250k optical microscope that’s designed for only a few individuals.
It would be great if we could get more opportunities for people as a list. UC2 is a definite learn option. There enough info there to do it without attending a workshop.
When it comes to teaching material, we’re currently offereing the SimpleBOX (Optics for 7th - 12th grade) and the CorseBOX, which offers the hands-on experience for various microscopy methods. It was designed for the Principles of Light Microscopy Course of MPI-CBG-Dresden. Unfortunately, we didn’t test it in the course yet, since the test run was plan for March 2020 and had to be postponed to the unknown future.
Regarding our workshops, we don’t have anything planned for the near futere, as the situation is still quite uncertain.
But maybe this course of the MPI could be what you’re looking for. It seems that their website is not totally up to date, but I know for sure they run the course every year. And it the future they’re planning to have the practical part of the course fully UC2-based
And if you’re building our light sheet microscope or any other part of the toolbox, I’ll be eager to hear any feedback from you! Thanks to those who give it a try, we can improve and make it more accessible!
