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Microscopy
MCB 352

Course Information

Description

This course presents the fundamental concepts that underlie modern light microscopy in a rigorous but non-mathematical way for biological applications. The students will learn about the four major frameworks for light (ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetism, and quantum optics). The ways lenses work, the theory of resolution, and the optical design of the compound microscope will be described. The course will also describe the photo-physical principles that underlie fluorescence and genetically encoded fluorescent proteins, and light detector and imaging strategies. Scanning (confocal and 2P), light sheet and super-resolution microcopies will also be described. We will end with a tour of the Harvard Center of Biological Imaging.

 

Class Notes

MCB 352 will meet Monday March 29, Monday April 5, and Monday April 12 from 1:00-4:00 each day.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 2
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Course Component Seminar
Grading Basis FAS Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution None
Course Level Graduate Course