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Optical Imaging Across Biological Length Scales
From Nanometers to Millimeters

July 28 - August 9, 2024

HHMI Janelia Research Campus

Course Directors:

Teng-Leong Chew and Rachel M. Lee (HHMI Janelia)

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COURSE INFORMATION

Course Schedule [PDF]

Course Instructors [PDF]

Imaging Rotation Groups [PDF]

Microscope Map [PDF]

Directions to laundry [PDF]

Course Evaluation: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GYGQQW6

Share your photos here: Google Drive Folder

Join the conversation on Twitter: 

@AICjanelia | #IALSJanelia

Listen to music across global length scales: 

Submit a song here | Listen to the playlist here

Participant-created song: Recording & Lyrics

​Link to Thorlabs Fourier Kit

Free​ Janelia Fluor dyes at dyes.janelia.org.

Plasmids from the Integrative Imaging team on Addgene.

Information for Udvar-Hazy trip.

Pecan and Cacao Nib cookie recipe.

Announcement of AIC Proposal Call.

DATA & DOWNLOADS

Accessing Data on PRFS\Hackathon

Remote access to the Hackathon folder is no longer available.

Fiji Program

You should use this version even if you already have Fiji installed on your laptop.

Do not update Fiji after installation.

Click here to download for Mac
Click here to download for Windows

Sample Images for Fiji Lectures
1.92 GB of images [download .zip] 

Co-localization Data

900 MB .zip file

PoCA (Program for PALM/STORM Data Analysis)

If you have a Windows machine, download the latest release's zip file here.

Data for From Hypothesis to Results Activity

32 MB of images [download .zip]

IALS 2024 Team Photo

To "decode" this image, look for the FFT image in the "PhotoSharing" folder in hackathon!

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Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes

L01 Hypothesis Driven Experimental Design

Including an introduction to the workshop

 

L02 From Nanometers to Millimeters

An introduction to the techniques and experiments for bootcamp

L03 Fundamentals of Digital Images

Basic concepts of digital images, file format, color scheme

L04 Fundamentals of Image Processing

Histograms, displays, pixel adjustment, filters, kernels 
 

L05 Fourier Transformation in Image Processing and Optics

Image processing in Fourier space

L06 Object Segmentation

Turning pixel map into discrete objects

Solution to the object segmentation homework

L07 Introduction to Fluorescence Microscopy and Optical Sectioning 

Widefield, TIRF, confocal, two-photon

L08 Live Cell Fluorescence Imaging

Importance, pitfalls, and applications

L09 Object-based Co-localization Analysis

Quantifying overlapping objects

L10 Pixel-based Co-localization and Intensity Analysis

Colocalization coefficients and ratiometric imaging

L11 Analysis of Biological Movement I: Structural Motion

Kymographs, fluorescence recovery rate

L12 Analysis of Biological Movement II: Translational Motion

Particle tracking, motion analysis

L13 Introduction to Enhanced Resolution Imaging

SIM, pixel reassignment 

L14 Introduction to Super-Resolution Imaging

STED, PALM/STORM

L15 Accurate and Sufficient Scientific Reporting

Effects of inaccurate and insufficient documentation and what constitutes good scientific reporting

L16 Object Segmentation with Machine Learning

Introduction to machine learning and trainable segmentation models

L17 Image Processing for Super-Resolution Microscopy

Processing of STED, SIM, and PALM/STORM data

FairSIM:  An open source SIM reconstruction plugin for FIJI

SIM Check:  An open source FIJI plugin to diagnose SIM reconstruction issues (Note: this plugin is installed via the FIJI updater. Do NOT do this with your Bootcamp version of FIJI).

L18 Data Analysis for Localization Microscopy

Filtering, point statistics, segmentation

L19 From Hypothesis to Results: Activity Discussion

Follow up after analysis lab A6

Reference for understanding biological replicates: doi:10.1083/jcb.202001064

Reference for determining good sample size: doi:10.1083/jcb.202401074

L20 Light Sheet Imaging Modalities and Adaptive Optics

Types of light sheet systems and aberration correction

Blog post on understanding objective angles and the code the AIC uses for deskewing.

L21 Working with Big Data

Data handling and visualization

L22 Practical Considerations for Quantitative Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

Potential pitfalls to consider

L23 Machine Learning Resources

Image restoration and other machine learning tools

L24 Stitching and Tracking Large Datasets

Approaches to stitching images and tools for tracking big data

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Lab and Analysis Sessions

Labs

LAB SESSIONS

 

W1 Co-localization Imaging Lab

Myosin

W2 Cellular Scale Imaging Lab

Single-Cell Migration


W3 Multicellular Imaging Lab

Overnight Collective Migration Assay


W4 Subcellular Scale Imaging Lab

Actin and Myosin


W5 Super-resolution Imaging Lab

Focal Adhesions


W6 Expansion Microscopy (ExM) Imaging Lab

Zebrafish Wound Response

Additional slides on sample mounting


W7 Organism-scale Imaging Lab

Zebrafish Wound Response
 

ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION SESSIONS

A1 Analysis Lab: Cell Migration

Segmentation and tracking


A2 Hypothesis Formulation and Experimental Design

Making experimental decisions

A3 Analysis Lab: Subcellular Scale Imaging

FRAP measurements

A4 Co-localization Analysis

Pearson and Manders coefficients

A5 Analysis Lab: Super-Resolution Imaging

Resolution vs acquisition choices

A6 From Hypothesis to Results

Materials will be provided during the session

Alternative handout


A7 Hypothesis Formulation: Organism-scale Imaging

Tracking wound responses
 

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Further Reading

Reading

When Light Meets Biology: How the Specimen Affects Quantitative Microscopy

Michael Reiche, Jesse Aaron, Ulrike Böhm, Michael DeSantis, Chad Hobson, Satya Khuon, Rachel Lee, and Teng-Leong Chew

J. Cell Sci. 2022

doi:10.1242/jcs.259656

A guide to accurate reporting in digital image acquisition - can anyone replicate your microscopy?

John M. Heddleston, Jesse S. Aaron, Satya Khuon, Teng-Leong Chew

J Cell Sci 2021

doi: 10.1242/jcs.254144

A guide to accurate reporting in digital image processing - can anyone reproduce your microscopy?

Jesse S. Aaron, Teng-Leong Chew

J Cell Sci 2021

doi:10.1242/jcs.254151

Hypothesis-driven quantitative fluorescence microscopy - the importance of reverse-thinking in experimental design

Eric C. Wait, Michael A. Reiche, Teng-Leong Chew

J Cell Sci 2020 133.

doi:10.1242/jcs.250027

Practical considerations in particle and object Tracking and Analysis

Jesse S. Aaron, Eric Wait, Michael DeSantis, Teng-Leong Chew

Curr Prot Cell Biol 2019 e88.

doi: 10.1002/cpcb.88

Image co-localization – co-occurrence versus correlation

Jesse S. Aaron, Aaron B. Taylor, Teng-Leong Chew

J Cell Sci 2018 131: jcs211847

doi: 10.1242/jcs.211847

Analysis of Image Similarity and Relationship

Jesse S. Aaron, Teng-Leong Chew

In: Jerome W., Price R. (eds) Basic Confocal Microscopy.

Springer, Cham

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97454-5_11

Imaging methods are vastly underrepresented biomedical research

Guillermo Marques, Thomas Pengo, Mark A. Sanders

eLife 2020;9:e55133

doi: 10.7554/eLife.55133

Model-free quantification and visualization of colocalization in fluorescence images

Aaron B. Taylor, Maria S. Ioannou, Jesse S. Aaron, Teng-Leong Chew

Cytometry Part A 2018 

doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.23356

Perceptually accurate display of two greyscale images as a single colour image

Aaron.B. Taylor, Maria.S. Ioannou, Takashi Watanabe, Klaus Hahn, Teng-Leong Chew

J. Microscopy 2018 268: jmi.12588

doi:10.1111/jmi.12588 

Automatic and quantitative measurement of protein-protein colocalization in live cells

Costes, S. V., Daelemans, D., Cho, E. H., Dobbin, Z., Pavlakis, G. and Lockett, S.

Biophys. J 2004 86: 3993-4003.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1529/biophysj.103.038422

Seeing is believing? A beginners' guide to practical pitfalls in image acquisition

Alison J. North

J. Cell Biol. 2006 172: 9-18

doi: 10.1083/jcb.200507103

Accuracy and precision in quantitative fluorescence microscopy

Jennifer C. Waters

J. Cell Biol. 2009 187: 1135-1148

doi: 10.1083/jcb.200903097

Protein-Retention Expansion Microscopy (ExM): Scalable and Convenient Super-Resolution Microscopy

Paul Tillberg

Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2304:147-156.

doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1402-0_7

What If Scientists Shared Their Reagents for Free?

Amanda Heidt

The Scientist, July 2022 Issue 2

Believing is seeing – the deceptive influence of bias in quantitative microscopy

Lee, R.M., Eisenman, L.R., Khuon, S., Aaron, J.S. and Chew, T.-L.

J. Cell Sci. 2024 137 (1): jcs261567

doi: 10.1242/jcs.261567

Practical considerations for quantitative light sheet fluorescence microscopy

Hobson, C.M., Guo, M., Vishwasrao, H.D., Wu, Y., Shroff, H., Chew, T.-L.

Nat. Meth. 2022 19, 1538-1549

doi: 10.1038/s41592-022-01632-x

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