607SM - TECNICHE AVANZATE DI INDAGINE MICROSCOPICA 2022
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1. Why optical microscopy?
2. Image formation; magnification and diffracted limited resolution
3. Optical aberrations resolution and image quality
4. Digital camera image acquisition (formats, properties, SNR)
5. Phase imaging techniques
- Phase contrast and differential interference contrast (DIC);
- Quantitative phase imaging: digital holographic microscopy
6. Other techniques to image unstained samples
- Dark field microscopy
- Polarization microscopy
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1. Epifluorescence basics;
- confocal; two photons
2. Super-resolution techniques:
- STtimulated Emission Depletion STED
- PhotoActivated Localization Microscopy PALM
- MINFLUX 3D nanoscopy
3. Forster Resonance Energy Transfer FRET microscopy
4. Photobleaching-based Techniques for Assessing Cellular Dynamicsst:
- Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching FRAP,
- Fluorescence Loss in Photobleaching FLIP
- Fluorescence Localization After Photobleaching FLAP,
- Photo Activation PA
5. Non Linear Optical microscopy
- : Two Photon Excitation Fluorescence (TPEF),
- Second Harmonic Generation (SGH),
- Coherent Raman Scattering (CRS)
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1. What is Electron Microscopy and why it is used
2. Interaction electron beam - matter and contrast mechanism for image formation
3. Types of EM:
- Transmission Electron Microscopy TEM
- Scanning Electron Microscopy SEM
- EM application to biological samples
5. Focused Ion Beam - what and why - basics
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Outline1.Why X-Ray microscopy ?2.How is the image formed in X-ray microscopy ?3.X-ray microscope components and techniques4.Radiation damage5.X-ray microscopy with Syncrotron light6.Imaging cell morphology and physiology using X-rays (review to read)7.X-ray diffraction imaging and Free Electron Laser (FEL)
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Outline1. Why Atomic Force Microscopy ?2. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy STM and AFM – working principle3. Force vs tip-substrate distance4. AFM - operation modes:• imaging or force spectroscopy• static and dynamic
5. Examples of AFM imaging in biology / life sciences
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Outline1.Why Optical, Acoustic, Magnetic Tweezers ?2.Optical Tweezers (OT) working principle3.OT particle manipulation in biological applications4.Acoustic and Magnetic Tweezers working principle5.AT and MT in biological applications6.Single molecule biology - force spectroscopy