Basics microscopy Zoom group

Basics microscopy Zoom group

THIS GROUP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED

First date: 25th September

Time: 7pm for approximately 1.5 hours

Subsequent monthly dates: 23rd October, 20th November, and 18th December

Leader: Di Napier 

Location: Zoom call

The sessions aim to build confidence with microscopy so that you can continue to develop your skills more independently.  The groups offer informal opportunities to share learning with others rather than being a formal course.

Email zoom-microscopy@britishlichensociety.org.uk if you are interested in joining this group, or for more information.  Group size will be a maximum of six people, so that everyone has time to contribute to each session. There is also an Improvers Microscopy Group that will begin 9th October.

For the Basics group, you will need to already have both a dissecting microscope and a high-powered compound microscope with magnification to at least x400, and to know how to view specimens (for example a single leaf from a moss, or scales from a moth’s wing), and ideally you will already have had a go at cutting sections, even if with only limited success.  The sessions will be primarily aimed at learning how to cut thinner sections and how to interpret them, rather than on how to use the microscopes, or species identification.  

Details available on the attached PDF file