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Cross Institutional Bioimaging PhD Course
September 1, 2025 @ 8:00 am - November 17, 2025 @ 5:00 pm CEST
Course description
The coure will take place at different Danish research institutions in order to expose the students to different research groups, researchers and experimental research facilities. The course will thus give the students a unique opportunity of orienting themselves within an active and diverse field of interdisciplinary science within bioimaging.
The course is relevant for PhD students within medicine, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, nano-bioscience, pharmaceutical sciences, agricultural science or biology. The emphasis of the course is a tour of all bioimaging techniques available in Denmark and will cover subjects like live cell imaging, confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, super-resolution microscopy, single particle techniques, stimulated emission depletion microscopy, imaging of neurons, cell migration and image analysis.
Time schedule for the course
The course runs consecutive Mondays for 10 weeks at 4 different universities and by different lecturers. Each module of the course covers around 8 hours, from 09:30-17:30. In general, the morning session will consist of a set of lectures and the afternoon session will predominantly involve either the student’s active participation in experiments, specific numerical exercises, or inspection of the local experimental facilities.
NB. Tentative schedule for 2025
| Date | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8 September | Fluorescence and two photon microscopy | SDU |
| 9 September | Image analysis, general introduction | SDU |
| 15 September | Confocal microscopy | KU |
| 22 September | Image analysis, introduction to Python | KU |
| 29 September | Live imaging in yeast, plants and mammalian cells | KU |
| 6 October | Single molecule fluorescence | AU |
| 20 October | Image analysis, pixel and object classification | KU |
| 27 October | Super-resolution, STED, SMLM, Minflux, (ICS) and Raman | SDU |
| 3 November | Electron microscopy | DTU |
| 10 November | Non-invasive imaging modalities (PET-SPECT-CT-R) | SDU/OUH |
| 17 November | Evaluation and student talks | KU/SDU |
Course credit and evaluation
The workload of the course corresponds to 10 ECTS points, the total workload includes reading material for each module and the preparation of the final talk (presentation). Credit for the course requires the student’s presence at minimum 8 of 10 modules. For any missed modules, students will have to write a 3-page report on the topic of the missed module.
The student’s presence on the entire exam day is mandatory, but the venue(s) – the University of Copenhagen or SDU Odense – are allocated based on the students conveniences/preferences and availability. The examination consists of 20 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes of questions from the examiners and student opponents. Each student must act as an opponent for the presentation of one other student. In the presentation, each student will describe an experiment using one of the applications described in the course including an image analysis strategy. The task for the presentation will be given in advance (on the last module day, 8 November).