This 6-day workshop is open to BSc, MSc and PhD students in bio-medical, physics or engineering fields. We will take you through the basic tools needed to create and analyse fluorescence images of biological samples.

Topics covered:

●     Fundamental optics & principles of microscopy

●     Fluorescence & confocal microscopy theory

●     Building an OpenFlexure, 3D-printed fluorescence microscope in small teams

●     Immuno-fluorescent labelling of malaria infected erythrocytes

●     Imaging labelled samples on self-built microscopes

●     Basic principles and tools for bio-image analysis

●     Challenges for teams to quantify features of the images they have taken.

●     Student presentations of their work

Workshop facilitators:

●       Lison Guillaume, MSc (MDC, Berlin)

●       Dr. Peran Hayes (MDC, Berlin)

●       Dr. Alassane Mbengue (Expertise France, Dakar)

●       Facundo Rueda, MSc (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

●       Paula Santos-Otte, MSc (MDC, Berlin)

The WAMBIAN workshop will be hosted by the Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar and funded by the iNAMES MDC-Weizmann Helmholtz International Research School for Imaging and Data Science from the Nano to the MESo.