Two cool new courses at SU for Spring! Bio-Art and a Microscopy Lab

by Heidi Hehnly in ,

Boryana Rossa (VPA) and myself (Biology) are offering a Bio-Art Studio/Lab class… The first of its kind at Syracuse! This course is a studio and art history class, which brings together Transmedia, art and biology students, offering overlap of disciplines with hands on study of state-of-the-art digital imaging technologies, microscopy, biological drawing, and also lecturing on the relatively new field of Bio-Art. The outcome of the class will be shown at an exhibition at The Wall Gallery at Shaffer Art building at SU. It’s cross listed as TRM500 and BIO400/600. Students will have access to microscopes in my lab and the Blatt Imaging Center.

If students are interested in Microscopy, I’m offering a Microscopy Laboratory (Adv Micro Tech 400/600) where students will learn sample preparation either for live or immuno-histochemistry, imaging whole organisms and cell culture in three dimensions, different forms of microscopy such as expansion microscopy, epifluorescent imaging, laser scanning confocal, and spinning disk confocal. Students will also be going over kinetic analysis using FRAP, and overall quantitative analysis of acquired acquisitions. Students will have access to the cool biological samples for imaging, Blatt Imaging Center, and Microscopes in my lab.