Seminar announcement: Optimizing Light Microscopy
A one-day lecture/demonstration for anyone who uses or plans to
use a microscope: students, teachers, medical technologists, clinicians,
pathologists, and lab managers
Six locations:
Monday, April 28 - Marriott Marquis, NYC
Tuesday, April 29 - Plainview Plaza-Hotel, Plainview, NY
Thursday, May 1 - Tufts Medical School/Multi-Media Resource Center,
Boston, MA
Friday, May 2 - Tufts Medical School/Multi-Media Resource Center,
Boston, MA
Tuesday, May 6 - Holidome, Holyoke, MA (Greater Springfield area) *
Wednesday, May 7 - Sheraton Hartford, Hartford, CT *
* catered lunch available for an additional $15.50
Program:
1. A quick tour around the microscope
2. Alignment tips for reducing headaches, fatigue, and errors
3. Care, cleaning, and troubleshooting
4. Useful principles for understanding images
5. Quick, easy, and often free techniques for improving contrast
(includes
discussions of Phase and Hoffman Modulation Contrast)
6. Advanced techniques (Fluorescence and DIC)
7. Becoming a better consumer: matching your microscope to your
applications
8. The Video connection: cameras, computers, and your microscope
Fees: $115 if received before 4/18/97; $125 if received after that date.
$50 discount on tuition for third person registered from the same
facility.
Free with your tuition:
“Optimizing Light Microscopy for Biological and Clinical Laboratories”
Over 220 pages of helpful tips, quick experiments, and new ideas for
getting
the best from your microscope (ASCLS/Kendall-Hunt, 1997)
For further details, contact :
Dr. Kenneth Piel or Barbara Foster
Microscopy/Microscopy Education (MME)
53 Eton Street
Springfield, MA 01108
Phone: (413)746-6931 Fax: (413)746-9311 email: mme at map.com
To register: Fax or mail the form below to the MME office
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