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Postgraduate Course: Imaging: Light microscopy (NEME11024)

Course Outline
SchoolDeanery of Clinical Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis optional course will cover basics of light and fluorescence microscopy, as well as advanced techniques, confocal microscopy, CCD camera technology, and re-enforce taught materials with practical activities. Note that some components of light microscopy will be covered in other courses where these components have broader imaging relevance.
Course description Modules cover but are not limited to:
+ General introduction to the CMVM imaging facilities and available instrumentation
+ Basics of light and fluorescence microscopy
+ Confocal microscopy
+ CCD camera technology
+ Advanced light micorscopy techniques
+ Microscopy relevant sample management, live cell maintenance, image acquisition / formation / sampling / deconvolution
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Course Start Date 16/09/2024
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Online Activities 20, Formative Assessment Hours 2, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Revision Session Hours 20, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 36 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Assessment will consist of continuous, in-course assessments and a final assessment. In-course assessment will be composed of a mixture of multiple choice-type questions, short essays, practical tasks, contributions to discussions and group learning activities - and will be delivered in time with individual modules making up the course. Final assessment will normally include a combination of multiple choice-type questions and short essays and it will take place at the end of the course period.

A number of bespoke technologies and the University's online assessment tool QuestionMark Perception will be used to deliver the more interactive and visually driven elements of assessment.
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Learning Outcomes
See course description
Reading List
A list of required and recommended readings will be provided through the institutional online learning environment
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements All courses are delivered online by distance learning, using the institutional learning environment and other online tools (e.g. wiki, objective testing software), accessed by using the standard university EASE login.
KeywordsLight / Fluorescence / Widefield / Confocal Microscopy,Illumination,Fluorophores,Lasers,CCD Came
Contacts
Course organiserProf Andrew Farrall
Tel: (0131) 537 3910
Email: andrew.farrall@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryDr Charilaos Alexakis
Tel: 0131 537 3125
Email: C.Alexakis@ed.ac.uk
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