Immunohistochemistry and Microscopy

The Faculty for 2012 is complete and we should have all biosketches and faculty page updates by this Friday, 1/13/2012. There are several new faculty from industry that have been kind enough to share their expertise using microscopes with attendees. This is the perfect place to take advantage of these expert’s knowledge, they want to help and are eager to share with you what they know.

After several years of hands on work, the faculty has fine tuned the course and although it has been streamlined, it has also been expanded to a full three days. We’ll be posting more information in the coming weeks and we should have a revised schedule available within a week or so.

New for 2012 is BootCamp. The course will include the Short Course Boot Camp on Sunday morning and early afternoon,  March 18th that will introduce students to basic concepts and practice that will help them with microscopy, imaging  and basic histology practice associated with the course.

While this part of the course is not mandatory, you will not want to miss it. Every year, students are surprised at what they don’t know. BootCamp is included in the cost of the course so come and join us, even if you think you aren’t a beginner.

The preliminary program for The Histochemical Society’s 2012 Annual Meeting is now available. Some of the highlights of the meeting follow.

JHC Editor-in-Chief John Couchman has announced that Richard O. Hynes, the MIT Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will give the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry Plenary lecture at the HCS Annual Meeting in 2012. Dr. Hynes’ laboratory,

http://web.mit.edu/hyneslab/

is interested in understanding the molecular basis of cell adhesion and its involvement in cell behavior including contributions to various human diseases, especially cancer progression, including invasion, metastasis and angiogenesis.

There will be four scientific sessions with seventeen invited oral presentations from academic investigators who are recipients of funds for the National Science Foundation “Innovations in Biological Imaging and Visualization (IBIV)” program.

A new thematic session will debut at our 2012 annual meeting, the “Histochemical Society Past Presidents Session”. As “correlative microscopy” is an emerging theme for the 2012 annual meeting, John M. Robinson, Ohio State Univ., Moise Bendayan, Univ. Montreal, and Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Univ. Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras will speak as past presidents and as experts in correlative microscopy.

The meeting will be held in conjunction with the HCS Short Course in Immunohistochemistry and Cytochemistry at the Marine Biological Laboratory in WoodsHole, MA.

The Program may be downloaded here:HCS2012v4

The following images are from the 2010 HCS Short Course. They show some of the students, faculty and sponsors. The sponsors brought microscopes, provided reagents, antibodies and and a wealth of other laboratory materials to assist us with the course. We’ll add other images shortly. All images are copyrighted by Jose Serrano-Velez.

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We have added a preliminary schedule to the Program page. It is a downloadable PDF. Please use it in reference with the topics listed on the program page. Together, they will give you a fairly accurate idea of the course content and how your time will be spent.

You may notice from the schedule that we keep participants “busy.” The HCS course is intense but there are breaks and past participants really enjoyed the amount of time that they got to spend in the lab by themselves, with their cohorts and with the faculty. Feel free to email us if you have any questions or worries about the course. There is something for all students of IHC.

Allen Gown, one of the guest lecturers in the HCS Short Course in 2010, gave the Pritzker Memorial Lecture at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto in June. A link to the PDF of the talk  follows.

Immunohistochemistry, the Past as Prologue to the Future