Dear microscopists, I'm planning to organise another training course for the Definiens advanced image analysis software this summer. If you are interested in such a course, please let me know, content and dates of the course are flexible and depend on the requirements of participants. If there is enough interest, I hope of organising a basic course for beginners and an advanced version for more experience users. The costs for the course should be ~£400 per participant. The Definiens software gives biologists relatively easy access to very complex image analysis tools. Since we installed it about a year ago, we have very successfully used it for a large range of microscopy images in the facility (the largest analysis was on a dataset of 30,000 images). Unlike Volocity, the software doesn't provide quick drag&drop solutions for simple tasks, but for anything more demanding it provides a huge set of tools to identify objects in crowded and noisy microscopy images, taking into account biological information, and extract a large range of features about intensity, shape, position, orientation, density, boundaries, .... of objects. If you are interested, please get in contact with me. If you want more information, have a look at the links on the FILM website / Equipment / Definiens (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/portal/page/portallive/imagingfacility/equipment/...) or on the Definiens Community website (http://community.definiens.com/home.html). Good imaging, Martin ################################## Martin Spitaler, PhD FILM - Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy - Facility Manager - Sir Alexander Fleming Building, desk 401 Imperial College London / South Kensington Exhibition Road London SW7 2AZ UK Tel. +44-(0)20-759-42023 E-mail m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk Website: http://imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility