Cool talk – The Live Cell Imaging facility

Free, online microscopy course by the LCI core facility

Dear all

Kindly forward to anyone who might be interested.

It is my pleasure to invite you to follow our free (no registration) online microscopy course.

The course schedule and Zoom link are found our course webpage.

The public program (everything in blue in the course schedule) starts next week on Thursday 22^th of Jan and runs until the 13^th of February.

Here is a selection of what we will talk about:

Optics and image formation,
How microscopes work
Objectives and refraction index
Cameras and detectors, Noise and background, Bit depth and saturation
Sample preparation, Immunostaining, Clearing
Resolution and contrast, Nyquist sampling, how to choose microscope settings
Data handling, how to make article figures, Requirements for image analysis, Colocalization, Ethics
Image processing and analysis

All lectures will be broadcasted live on Zoom, recorded then posted the same day on our Youtube channel.

The course syllabus with the Learning Objectives can be downloaded here.

Do not miss the kind testimonies on our course webpage! 🙂

The LCI core facility team, Stockholm, Sweden

3D imaging symposium

Dear all

An interesting whole-day 3D imaging symposium at Scilife on the 4th of December. Many really inspiring talks! 🙂

Time to apply to the LCI Microscopy course! :)

Dear all

You are now welcome to apply to join the LCI light microscopy course (21 Jan – 13 Feb 2026) ‘Microscopy: improve your imaging skills – from sample preparation to image analysis’ (6 credits).

The purpose of this fully online yet very applied course is to provide PhD students and researchers with enough theoretical and practical knowledge about their OWN sample and their OWN microscope, to enable them to:

1. Prepare their sample and formulate their scientific question in a way that is suitable for reliable data extraction.
2. Properly use the software and hardware available on the microscope they use in their lab/facility.
3. Design their experiment based on image analysis requirements.

Application deadline 5^th of November.

Course webpage.

Course syllabus, description and registration. Please carefully check the eligibility criteria and make sure to include all required items in your application.

Those who cannot register to the course can anyway follow any of the lectures (in blue on the schedule) as they will be publicly broadcasted live on Zoom and accessible to anyone without registration. The schedule and zoom link are on the course page.

Kindly help us spread the word. 🙂

The LCI team

Flemingsberg science fun!

Do you want to know more about working at a Biotech companies? Meet the companies located on the Flemingsberg campus! Join the Flemingsberg Science breakfast meetings (in English) every wednesday in Novum.

High Speed Multiphoton Imaging of Dynamic Processes In Vivo at Stockholm University

Intravital people might be interested in this event at the Intravital Microscopy Stockholm University facility:

The online LCI microscopy course: Microscopy: improve your imaging skills – from sample preparation to image analysis.

Dear all

It is my pleasure to invite you to follow, online, free of charge and without registration, the LCI facility microscopy course Microscopy: improve your imaging skills – from sample preparation to image analysis. The public program starts on Tuesday next week (28^th of Jan) and runs until the 13^th of February.

As usual, all lectures are broadcasted live on Zoom and posted on Youtube every day, for the benefit of our far-away colleagues.

The aim for this course is to improve the microscopy skills of students and researchers who have already used a microscope to acquire digital images of fluorescent samples but feel that more knowledge could help them.

Here is a selection of what we will talk about:

Optics and image formation,
How microscopes work
Objectives and refraction index
Cameras and detectors, Noise and background, Bit depth and saturation
Sample preparation, Immunostaining, Clearing
Resolution and contrast, Nyquist sampling, how to choose microscope settings
Data handling, how to make article figures, Requirements for image analysis, Colocalization, Ethics
Image processing and analysis

Check our course webpage to see the course schedule (Broadcasted activities are in blue) and the Zoom link. Here is a full description of the course.

Scroll down to read the kind testimonies of our dear students! 🙂

We hope that you will enjoy the LCI facility online microscopy course!

Kindly forward to anyone who might be interested.

The LCI team

Correlative microscopy webinar

For those of you who are interested in Correlative microscopy where one overlays the data acquired from different imaging modalities, Zeiss organises a webinar about combining light microscopy, EM microscopy and Z ray data for very large samples.

Here is the link.

Registrations to the LCI microscopy course 2025 will soon close!

There are a few spots left at our course (27 Jan – 14 Feb 2025): ‘Microscopy: improve your imaging skills – from sample preparation to image analysis’ (6 credits). Application deadline: 5th of November 2024.

This course is completely unique in that it is a highly hands-on course but because it runs completely remotely, your hands will be on your own microscope and your own sample. 😊

To see how the course can help your microscopy project, check out the course schedule 2025 and the alumni testimonies on the course webpage.
You can read the course syllabus and apply on this page. Make sure you check the eligibility criteria and click on the + sign at the top for more information.
If you cannot apply to the course, you can anyway follow any of the lectures (in blue on the course schedule) as they will be publicly broadcasted live on Zoom and accessible to anyone without registration. The schedule and zoom link are available on the course page.

The purpose of the LCI facility microscopy course is to provide PhD students, researchers and core facility staff who have some prior experience of microscopy with enough theoretical and practical knowledge about their OWN sample and their OWN microscope, to enable them to:

assess and improve their sample so that it becomes suitable for data extraction from fluorescence images,
make best use of the hardware available in their lab/facility,
fully understand the acquisition parameters they need to set in their own microscope software,
design their experiment from scientific question to image analysis using a strong knowledge base.

The aim is to provide you with tools to acquire on ANY wide field, confocal or light sheet microscope, images of your samples that reliably answer your scientific question.

The course is free of charge. Contact us (LiveCellImaging@ki.se) for enquiries.

Best practice to prepare figures with microscopy images

Here you can find information about a very interesting talk on the 5th of March (7pm, Swedish time) about the recommended practice to prepare figures containing microscopy images.

This talk is based on a recent Nature communications article Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analysis.

The LCI open microscopy course starts on Monday! :)

Dear all

It is my pleasure to invite you to follow the LCI facility microscopy course Microscopy: improve your imaging skills – from sample preparation to image analysis.

The course starts next Monday (29 Jan) and runs until the 16^th of February.

As usual, all the course lectures are broadcasted live on Zoom. It is free of charge and you do not need to register.

The aim for this course is to improve the microscopy skills of students and researchers who have already used a microscope to acquire digital images of fluorescent samples but feel that more knowledge could help them.

Here is a selection of what we will talk about:

Optics and image formation,
Anatomy of a microscope
Objectives and refraction index
Cameras and detectors, Noise and background, Bit depth and saturation
Sample preparation, Immunostaining, Clearing and expansion
Resolution and contrast, Nyquist sampling, Microscope settings
Data handling, OMERO.figure, Requirements for image analysis, Colocalization
Image processing and analysis

Check our course webpage to see the course schedule (Broadcasted activities are in blue) and the Zoom link. Scroll down to read the kind testimonies of our dear students! 🙂

Here is the course syllabus.

For those who are on a far away time zome, we record all the live lectures and post them every evening on the LCI facility YouTube channel! 🙂

We hope that you will enjoy the LCI facility microscopy course!

Kindly forward to anyone who might be interested.

The LCI team