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| First Annual CARS Workshop at Harvard | |
July 2004 "This workshop was just like another Gordon Research conference." -CARS Workshop 2004 attendee "This was a great workshop with enthusiastic instructors and thought provoking lectures." -CARS Workshop 2004 trainee A heartfelt thanks goes to everyone for their part in the success of the first Annual CARS Workshop. With sixteen attendees from eight different countries, we were able to provide hands-on training with the highest instructor/trainee of any workshop (13/16). The three-day workshop had seven lectures each morning given by experts from Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital, Purdue University, Olympus, Inc, High Q Laser, and Coherent. Afternoons were devoted to lab training sessions with Xie Group instructors. Each trainee began with the basic operation of solid states mode-locked lasers, confocal microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and CARS imaging on Day 1, then on to details of CARS instrumentation and obtaining a CARS image of live cells on Day 2. And on Day 3 they performed real CARS experiments, which included detection of single lipid bilayers, observation of active transport of lipid droplets, using deuterium for a CARS label, and CARS tissue imaging. |
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| Professor Sunney Xie, Dr. Eric Potma from Harvard University, Dr. Christian Combs from NIH, and Dr. Tak Kee from the National Institute of Standards & Technology get ready for hands-on training Day 1. | CARS Instructor Dr. Kevin Jia from Olympus and Professor How-foo Chen from National Yang Ming University |
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This event was so successful that we're doing it again next year! Registration information for next year's workshop will be posted this January. Please contact CARS Administrator Steven Soph with any questions at soph@fas.harvard.edu. |
CARS Instructor Dr. Daniel Kopf from High Q Laser |
