7th International ELMI MeetingAdvanced Light Microscopy Course

17–20 April 2007

This 7th International European Light Microscopy Initiative (ELMI) course on Advanced Light Microscopy will be held in the historic city of York in the UK. York is set in the centre of the Vale of York surrounded by the Yorkshire Dales, Moors and Wolds. This walled city is one of the premier tourist attractions in the UK, with its medieval guild halls and hostelries offering many visitor attractions, including the Jorvik Viking Centre, the National Railway Museum, York Minster, York Castle Museum, Clifford’s Tower and the Merchant Adventur-ers’ Hall.

technique, method and instrument de-velopment, and provide practical ses-sions for small groups complemented by lectures. The topics have been chosen to cover new advances and developments in the field: live cell microscopy with spe-cial attention to high resolution micros-copy, studies of single molecules and their interactions and correlative imag-ing, high content screening, and compu-ter analysis of microscopic images.

The course will consist of expert talks from international light microscopists, short presentations from selected attend-ees, as well as practical workshops hosted by the key microscopy companies and a poster session. Optical microscopy and fluorescent probes is still rapidly progressing and this course will enable the participants to keep up to date with both the current trends and future direc-tion.

The strength of this course/meeting is the mix of new and regular attendees from across Europe. Participants range right through lab heads, principle inves-

tigators, technicians, postdocs and PhD students from research orientated labs and research service labs as well as in-dustrial delegates which further en-hances the courses ability to help future cross-collaborations.

We invite you to attend the 7th ELMI meeting and we look forward to welcom-ing both new and regular attendees.

Contact:Peter O’TooleJo MarrisonHead of Imaging and Cytometry LaboratoriesTechnology FacilityDepartment of BiologyUniversity of York, UKTel.: +44 1904 32 8722/8720 pot1@york.ac.ukjlm2@york.ac.ukwww.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/tf/ELMI

The conference venue is the new, pur-pose built, Wellcome Teaching facilities where the practicals and lectures will be held in the laboratories and lecture halls. The en-suite accommodation will be ad-jacent to the venue and will encourage networking and communication between all participants. York is under two hours by train from London and close to re-gional airports such as Manchester and Newcastle. The conference meal will be held at the National Rail Museum which showcases work from the inspirational Stephenson and Brunel.

The meeting will focus on the rapidly evolving area of light with expanding ca-pabilities complementing the systematic approaches of molecular genetics. Progress in fluorescent probes and imag-ing techniques has resulted in micros-copy no longer being used as a basic vis-ualisation tool, but as an increasingly powerful and objective tool for systemat-ically studying cellular biophysics. This course is designed to reflect on this trend and will bring together the very latest in

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