The Use of High Content Screening in Biomolecular Medicine
BCH 2024H
The course will be taught at Sunnybrook Research Institute over three days and includes an additional assignment. Students will learn how to design cell-based screen assays using fluorescent cell markers/gene targets, perform a screen and acquire data using a robotic-enabled high content microscope. Material to be covered includes the philosophy and design of high content screens and the use of automated image analysis algorithms to analyze high content data sets.
**THIS COURSE WILL BE ONLINE ONLY**
SIGN UP: Please click HERE to request this course
Enrolled students will need to download the following and have it working on their own computer before class begins
https://cellprofiler.org/releases
and instructions on use available on that site in a popdown menu also linked here: https://cellprofiler.org/getting-started
Deadline to submit request – August 28, 2020
Drop date – Students have until the day before the first class to drop the course. Students can only drop the course after the first class with the permission of the instructor.
Course Next Offered
Fall 2020 (Oct / November)
Course Time and Location
Location: ONLINE
DAY 1: Monday October 19, 2020
Lecture Components:
Introduction to high content screening: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Introduction to automated image analysis in high content screening: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
DAY 2: Monday October 26, 2020
Data analysis and group discussion (Part 1) - 1:00 - 5:00 PM
DAY 3: Monday November 2, 2020
Data analysis and group discussion (Part 2) - 1:00 - 5:00 PM
Enrollment Limit
Yes — 8
Method of Student Evaluation
Participation 50%
Final data presentation 50%
Coordinator
David W. Andrews
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Ave., Room M7 621
416-480-6100, ext. 5120
david.andrews@sri.utoronto.ca
Robert Screaton
Sunnybrook Research Institute
2075 Bayview Avenue, Room M7 617
416-480-6100 X 5743
robert.screaton@sri.utoronto.ca