BIRC Workshops and Seminars

List of recent BIRC-organized workshops and seminars:

  • 2026: Fundamentals of Microscopy workshop
    • This series consists of five sessions. Each session comprises of a 45-min lecture followed by 15 min of Q&A. Then, 2 hours of hands-on practical training, using the microscopes in our centers.
    • Number of attendees: 25
    • Please visit Fundamentals of Microscopy workshop website for more details.
    • # Topic  Date  Speaker 
      1  Fundamentals of Fluorescence and the Fluorescence Microscope January 29 Dr. Alison North, BIRC 
      2  What Is an Image? Image capture, composition and basic analysis February 26  Dr. Ved Sharma, BIRC 
      3  Light Properties and Optical Principle March 26 Dr. Behzad Khajavi, BIRC 
      4  Confocal Microscopy  April 30  Dr. Ivan Rey Suarez, BIRC 
      5  Light-Sheet Microscopy May 28  Dr. Raghav Chhetri, MBO 
  • April 2025: Co-localization analysis workshop (4 hours)
    • Guest lecturer – Pablo Ariel, UNC Chapel Hill
    • Additional speaker – Alison North, RU BIRC
    • Facilitators – RU BIRC staff
    • Capped at 35 attendees
  • March 2024: SVI/Huygens workshop
    • 1-day workshop for Rockefeller University and other local attendees on practical use of Huygens software, including introduction to the new Quality Control module
    • Presenters – Vincent Schoonderwoert and Nicolaas van der Woort (Netherlands)
    • Approx. 40 attendees
  • November 2022: “PAIR-UP” advanced microscopy workshop
    • 2nd advanced microscopy workshop, hosted by the RU BIRC as part of the PAIR-UP initiative organized by George Langford, Syracuse University
    • External faculty also included Joerg Bewersdorf, Yale University and Ian Dobbie, Johns Hopkins University
    • Focused on the topic of super-resolution microscopy: method and equipment demonstrations included Facility Line STED (Abberior), OMX 3D-SIM, Airyscan confocal (Zeiss 980) and PanExpansion microscopy/confocal. Demos performed by RU BIRC staff and visiting faculty and their colleagues
    • 21 imaging scientists from across the USA attended
  • May 2022: OMERO and Data Management seminar and community discussion
    • Speaker – Jason Swedlow, OBE, Dundee University, UK
    • Kick-off event for establishing interest in the RU and local NYC community for using OMERO as a database for managing microscopy data, with seminar followed by a 2-hour discussion with attendees and members of the GLENCOE software team for supporting OMERO
  • January 2020: Imaris workshop
    • 1-day workshop on image processing using Imaris software (Bitplane/Andor/Oxford Instruments)
    • Capped at 45 attendees (RU and local NYC institutions)
  • October 2019: Zeiss Zen Blue workshop
    • 1-day workshop organized by local representatives from Carl Zeiss Inc., together with Alison North and staff of the BIRC, for RU and other NYC attendees
  • April 2019: Second meeting of the North Atlantic Microscopy Society (NAMS)
    • Alison North (RU) and Darcy Peterka (Columbia University), local organizers
  • July 2018: Introduction to image analysis and FIJI
    • 2-day workshop, taught by Teng-Leong Chew, Director of the Advanced Imaging Center (AIC) at Janelia Research Campus, assisted by the staff of the RU BIRC
    • Capped at 50 attendees
  • April 2017: STED MiniSymposium
    • Speakers: Joerg Bewersdorf, Yale University, Christian Eggeling, Oxford University (UK) and Christian Wurm, Abberior Instruments (Germany)
    • Organized and hosted by Alison North and the RU BIRC
    • Symposium followed by a multi-day demonstration of the Abberior Expert Line STED system
    • Attendees from all across the eastern USA