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11^th-15^th May 2026 – University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University

The ESRIC Super-Resolution Specialist School is an in-depth course designed to give participants a thorough grounding in super-resolution microscopy. It brings together leading academics and the major suppliers of super-resolution microscopes and analysis software to provide expertise and guidance in the theory, practice and analysis of these techniques. The course is suitable for anyone with prior experience of fluorescence microscopy looking to exploit the benefits of super-resolution.

The Specialist School includes a day of virtual talks covering the theory and background of all major super-resolution techniques and 4 in-person days offering hands-on practical training on ESRIC’s super-resolution systems. Participants can select whether to attend the virtual talks day only or the talks along with any combination of workshop days.

For more information please see: https://esric.org/Specialistschool2026/

To Register and Book by credit card please see this link to epay

To Register and Book by Internal transfer (UoE and HWU only) please see here ensure you check 'Pay by invoice' at the Checkout.

If you have ever wanted to get more from your microscopes/camera than just pretty pictures, this workshop is for you.

TO REGISTER: email Matthieu.Vermeren@ed.ac.uk

Location: wherever you have access to a computer and a good internet.

Fee: £200 for academia, £400 for commercial. 

UoE users need to provide People & Money details. A recording of the course will be made available to those who have registered. Course materials, including test files and detailed booklets, will be provided.

Pre-requisites:  You will need to install the following software:

• Fiji (https://imagej.net/software/fiji/).
• Ilastik (https://www.ilastik.org/)
• CellProfiler and CellProfiler Analyst (https://cellprofiler.org/)

Programme 2026:

Tuesday 7^th of April, 3-5pm UK time: What is a (good) image.

Friday 10^th of April, 2-5pm UK time: Introduction to Fiji

Tuesday 14^th of April, 2-5pm UK time: Checking picture quality, first measurements in Fiji

Friday 17^th of April, 2-5pm UK time: Segmentation

Tuesday 21^st of April, 2-5pm UK time: Artificial Intelligence for segmentation

Friday 24^th of April, 2-5pm UK time: Skeletons and 3D images

Tuesday 24^th of April, 2-5pm UK time: Tracking

Friday 1^st of May, 2-5pm UK time: Macro writing for beginners

Tuesday 5^th of May, 2-5pm UK time: CellProfiler and CellProfiler Analyst

Friday 8^th of May, 2-5pm UK time: Colocalisation

Friday 22^nd of May, 2-5pm UK time: Catch up and Q&A

• Show us your data, we guide your analysis

We are excited to welcome you to the 26th edition of the European Light Microscopy Initiative – ELMI2026 meeting, taking place from 16 to 19 June 2026 in the historic and vibrant city of Coimbra, Portugal.

Hosted at the beautiful Convento São Francisco, ELMI2026 will continue the long-standing tradition of bringing together the international light microscopy community—from researchers and facility staff to developers and industry partners.

More information about the meeting is here

Registration is here

QuPath is open-source software for bioimage analysis, developed by our group at the IGC (https://qupath.github.io).

With more than 800,000 software downloads and over 5,800 paper citations so far, QuPath is used a lot – often to analyse large whole slide and multiplexed images.

The workshops will take place on:

• Tuesday 10 March in the Chancellor’s Building (Edinburgh BioQuarter) – ePay link
• Tuesday 31 March in the Medical Education Centre (Western General) –  ePay link
   

Both workshops will run from 9:30am - 4:30pm and cover the same content.

Registration is via ePay and the cost per workshop is £50.