We have initiated a two-day course on charged particle microbeams to be presented annually or semi-annually, depending on demand. The first course will be given April 14-15, 2011. The course is free and is aimed at graduate students, post-docs and researchers who have had little experience with microbeams.
The goal of this training course is to give physicists and biologists a thorough and hands-on introduction to microbeam technology. At the end of the course, participants should understand how microbeams work, what experiments can be performed using a microbeam, why these experiments are of biological interest, and how to perform these experiments. ). Because of its intimate nature, it will be limited to 4-5 participants. The course will be designed to emphasize specific needs (e.g., imaging, designing a microbeam facility) as requested by the participants.
The first day will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and a tour of the RARAF irradiation facilities, particularly the charged particle and x-ray microbeam systems. The second day will consist of a demonstration of determining the spot size and position of the beam spot for the sub-micron charged particle microbeam facility. Each participant will then perform these operations individually. After the beam has been characterized, each participant will perform cell irradiations using different irradiation protocols.
Under special circumstances participants will be able to send biological samples before the course and stay afterward to perform microbeam experiments using their own biological systems. Such arrangements will have to be made well before the course and will be subject to approval by the RARAF staff.
The application deadline is 5 p.m. EST, Monday, December 20, 2010.
Learn more and apply to be a course participant:
Contact Steve Marino (sm14 AT columbia.edu) or go to
http://www.raraf.org/microbeamtraining.htm
Friday, December 3, 2010
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