What: Comprehensive Stereology Workshop in New Orleans following Society For
Neurosciences meeting.
"APPLICATIONS OF UNBIASED STEREOLOGY TO NEURAL SYSTEMS"
Sponsored by the Pathology Department
at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
WHEN: NOVEMBER 1-4, 1997
WHERE: Ramada Inn Plaza Hotel, 2203 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70140
We are pleased to annouce the third annual Stereology Workshop will be
held in New Orleans following the 1997 Annual Society For Neurosciences
meeting. The three-and-a-half day Stereology Workshop will provide
intensive training in the stereological analysis of biological structure,
with special emphasis on the mamalian nervous system. Lectures and
hands-on exercises will be presented by experienced stereologists,
neuroscientists and engineers. Participants will have the opportunity to
present current projects for group discussion in an informal setting. The
Workshop includes hand-on practice with integrated hardware-software
computerized systems for stereological analysis. A detailed workbook with
practical aids and complete references will be distributed to all
participants.
Peter R. Mouton, Ph.D., Course Director
Phone: (410) 614-3952
E-mail: mouton at welchlink.welch.jhu.edu.
COURSE INFORMATION:
COST: Registration for 3.5 day workshop: $600, including all course
materials. Course limited to first 25 participants.
To reserve a place in the Stereology Workshop, contact Ms. Mabel Smith
at (410)955-5876 (ph), or e-mail at mpsmith at welchlink.welch.jhu.edu.
For room reservations at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, call toll-free
1-800-443-4675 (request special rates for stereology course).
COURSE INSTRUCTORS:
Arun Gokhale, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Materials Sciences, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Altanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
Peter R. Mouton, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, The
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Mark J. West, Ph.D. Associate Professor, The Anatomical Institute, Arhus
University, Arhus, Denmark.
Calender
1) OCTOBER 25-30, 1997: SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE ANNUAL MEETING,
NEW
ORLEANS, LA.
2) OCTOBER 31, 1997: HALLOWEEN
3) NOVEMBER 1-4, 1997: 1997 STEREOLOGY WORKSHOP
Ramada Plaza Hotel, on the streetcar line at St. Charles Ave.
Stereology Workshop Schedule:
Saturday, NOVEMBER 1
Coffee 8:00 to 8:30am
8:30-9:00 Introduction to Unbiased Stereology (PRM)
9:00-9:30 TOTAL VOLUME ESTIMATION (MJW)
9:30-10:00 Exercise - Point Counting & Cavalieri methods
Break 10:00 to 10:15
10:15-11:30 Exercise - Volume Estimation in Hippocampus
Lunch 11:30 to 1:00
1:00-2:00 THE OPTICAL DISECTOR (MJW)
2:00-3:30 Exercise - Total Neuron Number in CA1 of Human Hippocampus
Break 3:30 to 3:45 pm
3:45-4:30 Exercise - The Smooth Fractionator
4:30-5:00 THE OPTICAL FRACTIONATOR (MJW)
5:00-6:00 Exercise - Total Neuron Number in CA1 of Human Hippocampus
Dinner 6:00 to 7:30 pm
7:30-10:00pm Presentation of Projects by Participants (ALL)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Coffee 8:00 to 8:30 am
8:30-9:30 Isotropy vs. Anisotropy (AG)
9:30-10:15 Vertical Sections (AG)
Break 10:15 to 10:30
10:30-11:30 Curvilinear Structures (AG)
Lunch 11:30 to 1:00
1:00-1:30 Length Estimation Using IUR and Vertical Section (AG)
1:30-3:00 Exercise - Total Length of Curvilinear Structure
on VUR sections.
Break 3:00 to 3:15
3:15 - 5:00 Exercise - Total Length of Curvilinear Structure
on IUR sections.
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00 pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Coffee 8:00 to 8:30 am
8:30-9:00 Particle Size Estimators (PRM)
9:00-10:00 The Nucleator, Rotator, and Volume Fraction (PRM)
Break 10:00 to 10:15
10:15-11:30 Exercise - Mean Cell Volume of Neurons
Using VUR sections
Lunch 11:30 to 1:00
1:00-3:30 How Many Animals, How Many Sections? (MJW)
Break 3:30 to 3:45 pm
3:45 - 4:30 What's in a number? Recent stereological studies
in aging, degenerative disease, and animal models.
4:30 to 5:30 Stereological Findings and Hypotheses of Brain Aging (DKI)
Dinner 5:30 to 7:00 pm
7:30-10:00 pm Participants presentations
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Coffee 8 to 8:30 am
9:30 to 11:00 Computerized stereology demonstrations
