Advanced microscopic techniques and nanotechnology

The course is meant to be an introduction to biotechnologically relevant techniques that requires a particular knowledge of their physical, computational and technological basis.

The course aims at giving describing the principles and the potentials of a selection of advanced optical microscopy techniques and of nanotechnologies. The course also aims at providing a basic understanding and training of quantitative image analysis.

The topics included in the course can be divided into three main sections.

In this class the student: (i) learns about the physical quantities of importance in the field of Biotechnologies, with a specific emphasis on thermodynamic quantities, and about their units of measurements; (ii) learns to use such quantities in quantitative problems; (iii) learns about the physical and technological foundations of optical microscopy and fluorescence.