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Light microscopy has become one of the most useful tools in the life sciences. This free online comprehensive series begins with the basics of optics, proceeds through transmitted light microscopy, covers the various methods of imaging fluorescent samples, describes how cameras work and image processing, and concludes with some of the latest advances in light microscopy. In addition to lectures, we also provide labs (filmed at a microscope) and short tips, so as to cover pragmatics of how to use microscopes. Assessments are provided for each lecture. Enjoy learning microscopy! Note that each section header is a link and will lead to additional videos not displayed on this page.

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Jeff Lichtman (Harvard) Timothy Mitchison (Harvard) Stephen Ross (Stanford) Edward Salmon (University of North Carolina) Mark Schnitzer (Stanford/HHMI) Stephen Smith (Stanford) Nico Stuurman (UCSF) Roger Tsien (UCDS/HHMI) Kurt Thorn (UCSF) Ron Vale (HHMI/UCSF) Clare Waterman (NIH) Xiaowei Zhuang (HHMI/Harvard)

Daniel Axelrod (University of Michigan)Philippe Bastiaens (Max Planck Institute)Carlos Bustamante (UC Berkeley/HHMI)Karl Deisseroth (Stanford/HHMI)Jan Ellenberg (European MBL)Daniel Fletcher (UC Berkeley)Joseph Gall (Carnegie Institution)Stefan Hell (Max Planck Institute)Bo Huang (UCSF)Shinya Inoue (MBL)Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (NIH)