Thermo Fisher Scientific, the Portuguese Microscopy Society (SPMicros) and the Portuguese Platform of BioImaging (PPBI) are pleased to announce an Amira Practical Course. The course will be kindly hosted by the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and it is open to Scientists based within Portugal.

The main objective of this course is to give the Portuguese research community a better understanding of the Amira software and enrich the applications of this tool in 2D and 3D data analysis for light and electron microscopy images.

In an effort to achieve that main objective, before the course each participant will:

• • receive a trial license;
  • receive a list of tasks to try with the program;
  • need to practice some of the basic skills.

This advance "homework" is meant to maximize the learning opportunities in the Amira Practical Course and it is highly advised that interested course participants reserve time in their schedule for this work prior to the start of the course.

Draft Program:

• • May 5^th – morning - a walk through of the Amira program - this will be fairly generic to give everyone an overview of this program
  • May 5^th – afternoon - a more dedicated tutorial on preselected data based on the needs of the participants (LM or EM? 2D or 3D? etc)
  • May 6^th - morning - a continuation of the dedicated tutorial
  • May 6^th - afternoon - the chance to work with your own data with help from the Amira specialists in the room
  • May 7^th onwards - Homework to analyse the data with full support from the technical experts of Amira for the duration of the 1 month trial license.