https://nwolife.nl

NWO Life is an annual scientific conference covering all disciplines in the Dutch Life Sciences at all scales. It is meant to connect researchers, to explore and push boundaries, to discuss new or desirable developments in the field, to get inspired by each other’s research and approaches and to start new interdisciplinary collaborations.

Expect world-leading invited speakers, inspiring parallel sessions, poster presentations for our promising scientific talents, and a broad scope of workshops. For members of the five research communities within the life sciences, NWO Life2025 is the hub to physically meet, connect and discuss major topics addressing the further development of the field.

Every other year, the Microspectroscopy Research Facility of Wageningen University & Research organises a FEBS advanced practical course on fluorescence microspectroscopy for young scientists and PhD students. We organise this course in collaboration with Dr. Koen van den Dries of Radboud Technology Center Microscopy and with Dr. Y. Stahl and Dr. S. Weidtkamp-Peters from Goethe University (Frankfurt) and Heinrich Heine University (Düsseldorf), Germany, respectively.

During this course, you will learn different microscopy techniques for studying biological processes in living cells. Microspectroscopic applications are the methods of choice because direct information on molecular interactions and dynamic events involving biomolecules is obtained with minimal perturbation of cellular integrity and function.

The course will cover the following functional imaging techniques:
Confocal microscopy, Multiphoton microscopy, Photo-activatable imaging, Single particle tracking, Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, Super-Resolution and Correlative Microscopy, Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), FRET imaging techniques, Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS), and Fluorescence recovery after Photobleaching (FRAP)

May 15th, 2025

A workshop for all that want to get the most out of their images!

Do you relate to any of the following?

• I already use image processing software but feel uncertain about the results.
• I struggle with object segmentation for analysis.
• I want to achieve image quality with which I could win Imaging Contests.
• I plan to use Huygens, or feel I could be using it more efficiently.
• I’m simply curious what it takes to get good images.

If so, this free virtual workshop is the perfect opportunity to discover what good image acquisition and Huygens image restoration can do for you! In just three hours, you’ll reveal object details you’ve never seen before, significantly improve the quality of your live-cell imaging experiments, and enhance signal and resolution, making object segmentation much easier. All of this is aimed at helping you to achieve more scientifically honest and reliable results.

You will learn how to optimally acquire image data, the true meaning of deconvolution and why it matters, how experimental settings affect the microscope PSF, the best ways to correct for noise and blur, how to identify and fix common acquisition issues, and how to visualize and analyze your data. A workshop manual, demo images, and a temporary Huygens Everywhere trial will be provided for free. Join us and register now!

https://svi.nl/Huygens-Workshop-Program