[FILM-Users 00377] PS: Definiens training course - costs

[Martin Spitaler]

Dear microscopistst,

   unfortunately in my last email I forgot to mention the final costs: 
Thanks to the College's Equipment Sharing Grant, we are able to offer 
this course at the *discounted rate of £170 per participant*, rather 
than the normal rate of £340!
   And for those concerned with the costs for using a commercial 
software (£6 per hour after the training), rather than FIJI / ImageJ or 
other freeware, I have tried to do a rough estimate of the comprehensive 
costs of microscopy experiments, see attachment. I'm really a big 
supporter of open source software, and we regularly use and recommend it 
in FILM, but for challenging image analysis tasks, commercial tools can 
simply be the better choice: They open up new possibilities, and they 
can be more efficient, both for time and for money. I have no commercial 
interest, I simply try to find the best solution for FILM users, and I 
know how much time and money is often wasted trying to save a few pounds.

Good imaging,

Martin


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Subject: 	Fwd: Definiens training course
Date: 	Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:43:02 +0100
From: 	film-service <film-service at imperial.ac.uk>
Organisation: 	Imperial College London / FILM
To: 	FILM-Users mailing list <film-users at imperial.ac.uk>



Dear microscopists,

  we have now finalised the dates for the *Definiens Basic* training 
course, it will take place *Tuesday-Thursday 1-3 OCTOBER 2013* in the 
computer training rooms of the CENTRAL LIBRARY (first floor).
   We have quite a few interests already, but a few more will fit in, so 
if you want to take advantage of this discounted offer, please register 
as soon as possible by email to <film-service at imperial.ac.uk 
<mailto:film-service at imperial.ac.uk>> (places are assigned strictly by 
registration date).

   The *Definiens Advanced* training course will be organised a bit 
later, probably around mid-November 2013. If you are interested in that 
course as well, please also let us know now, because the content of that 
training will depend on the needs of participants.

Good imaging,

Martin

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Definiens training course
Date: 	Tue, 7 May 2013 16:42:35 +0100
From: 	Martin Spitaler <m.spitaler at imperial.ac.uk>
To: 	FILM-Users mailing list <film-users at imperial.ac.uk>



Dear microscopists,

   I'm very pleased to let you know that we have recently been 
successful with an application for the College's "equipment sharing 
grant", and part of of the money will pay towards two training courses 
for the powerful Definiens Developer XD software, one for beginners and 
one for advanced users. This will mean that both training courses will 
be available at a subsidised rate of probably ~£200-300 per participants 
(rates still need to be finalised, also dependent on the number of 
participants).

  Many of you have already used the Definiens software for a range of 
challenging image analysis tasks, from finding vesicles in noisy 
confocal images to identifying cells in 3D datasets, multi-parameter 
analysis of muscle fibres to immunological synapses. The power of the 
software lies in the easy access to a large range of professional image 
analysis and computer vision tools - with full control of all parameters 
- and in a dedicated architecture for large-scale batch processing (the 
largest dataset so far consisted of >30,000 images). It also contains 
tools for cell tracking, fuzzy logics and machine learning, which might 
be covered in the advanced course - this will depend on user demand.

   Please let me know if you are interested in attending either of the 
two training courses. And if you are not sure -  if there is enough 
interest to learn more about the software, we could use the May FILM 
Club (31st of May) to give you an overview, based on projects in FILM.

Good imaging,

Martin
PS: other improvements covered by the Equipment Sharing Grant are 
upgrades to our Widefield 2 microscope (64bit computer to deal with 
larger data files for live imaging, RGB camera for histological 
sections) and a new data processing server, which will allow processing 
of much larger datasets
-- 
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*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 at imperial.ac.uk <mailto:m.spitaler at imperial.ac.uk>
Website: http://imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility





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