Super Resolution Microscopy workshop

We are pleased to announce a work­shop on “Super Res­o­lu­tion Microscopy – The­o­ry and Prac­tice”, sched­uled for April 9th to 11th, 2025, at the Cen­ter for Inte­gra­tive Infec­tious Dis­ease Research, Im Neuen­heimer Feld 344, Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty (https://ciid-heidelberg.de/). This work­shop is tai­lored for PhD stu­dents and post­docs keen on learn­ing fun­da­men­tals of super res­o­lu­tion microscopy and its appli­ca­tions in life sci­ences as well as those who are ready to apply super res­o­lu­tion tech­niques to their ongo­ing sci­en­tif­ic projects. More infor­ma­tion about the work­shop includ­ing the pre­lim­i­nary pro­gramme and par­tic­i­pat­ing teach­ers can be found at https://www.idip-heidelberg.org/workshops

Key work­shop highlights:

  • The­o­ret­i­cal lec­tures cov­er­ing super res­o­lu­tion microscopy tech­niques, sam­ple prepa­ra­tion, label­ing, imag­ing, and image processing
  • Hands-on ses­sions pro­vid­ing par­tic­i­pants with prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence using cut­ting-edge equip­ment and soft­ware for image acqui­si­tion and analysis
  • Oppor­tu­ni­ty to dis­cuss indi­vid­ual sci­en­tif­ic project with super-res­o­lu­tion microscopy experts

Work­shop details:

  • Dura­tion: 2.5 days (April 9th to 11th, 2025)
  • Par­tic­i­pa­tion: The work­shop con­sists of two parts (the­o­ry and prac­ti­cal). Prac­ti­cal com­po­nent of the work­shop is lim­it­ed to 6 par­tic­i­pants while the the­o­ry lec­tures are open to 50 participants.
  • Reg­is­tra­tion: Indi­vid­u­als inter­est­ed in attend­ing both the the­o­ry and the prac­ti­cal parts are required to sub­mit a con­cise (max. 1 page) moti­va­tion let­ter to vibor.laketa@uni-heidelberg.de, out­lin­ing how they plan to inte­grate microscopy into their research. Indi­vid­u­als inter­est­ed only in the the­o­ry part don’t need to send a moti­va­tion let­ter but an email with the basic con­tact infor­ma­tion (name, posi­tion, group, insti­tute). Ear­ly appli­ca­tion is encour­aged due to lim­it­ed slots. The appli­ca­tion dead­line is March 25, 2025.
  • Costs: The work­shop is free of charge.
  • Con­tact: For any inquiries or addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion, please feel free to reach out to vibor.laketa@uni-heidelberg.de.
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Last week we – sev­en med­ical stu­dents – rep­re­sent­ed our insti­tute and its diver­si­ty of infec­tious dis­ease research at the DZIF Autumn School 2023 in Lübeck (Ger­many).

We were delight­ed to gain insight into a wide range of infec­ti­o­log­i­cal prob­lems and their approach­es: Micro­bio­mes, Las­sa fever and Histo­plas­ma cap­su­la­tum were only a few of the dis­cussed top­ics. As you can imag­ine – we learned a lot! At the same time, there was also a big focus on men­tor­ing and career deci­sions with sev­er­al work­shops con­cern­ing net­work­ing and future research pos­si­bil­i­ties for clin­i­cians. Dur­ing the cof­fee-breaks and on the Christ­mas mar­ket we put our new­ly acquired net­work­ing skills to the test and social­ized in an open-mind­ed environment.

Over­all, this event was a great chance to get our feet wet in the sci­ence-pond by pre­sent­ing our find­ings in front of a diverse audience!

Nico­lai Koch, Paul Lemp­ka, Smil­la Stein­brück, David Lubot­sky, Tomke Arand, Amelie Belo­se­vic and Marie-Elise Ben­del. Mem­bers of AG Frischknecht and AG Gan­ter (Malar­ia), AG Lohmann (HCV), AG Urban (HDV) and AG Grimm (AAV-vec­tors).