eem Posted May 20, 2019 For people in Vic there's a couple of workshops on fungal microscopy and DNA bar coding: Microscopy (June 22) https://bioquisitive.tidyhq.com/public/schedule/events/25136-fungi-microscopy?fbclid=IwAR2CbJvcLKAutGI7fPBRgl3uk_KieGA9BWN7NF4AMVbioLqccWirPD_6g70 Barcoding (May 28) https://bioquisitive.tidyhq.com/public/schedule/events/25122-dna-barcoding-fungi-yeast-plants 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darklight Posted May 21, 2019 I so wish I could go to both these workshops, they're both critical skills I'm missing and a colleague was telling me how great Bioquisitive is when I was at Garden States last weekend Alas, I live nowhere near Melbs 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
obtuse Posted May 21, 2019 will be fun. pity you are so far away DL. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Solipsis Posted June 22, 2019 I would really love to follow a course on it online, as i just got a new microscope with dslr... Aus is bit far for me! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darklight Posted June 24, 2019 How did the microscopy workshop go? Wish I'd been there. Starting an informal microscopy study run today with another forum member to try and get some basic teks in hand to add to current research. Is way more daunting than I thought. Microscopy, like tissue culture and TLC, is an entire field of knowledge of it's own First lesson is cleaning our microscopes. It's mouldy in NNSW and even the best stored scopes cop it We're starting with the cheap-arsed compound scopes we've had for years ( USB camera, ebay ) to see how far we can push their utility before we look at the worth of saving for upgrades. Tho good optics and lens' are important- I once used the USB camera on a 1920s microscope with immaculate optics and the results were absolutely brilliant- way better than the cheap arsed ebay one I was comparing it to 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eem Posted June 25, 2019 The workshop went really well. Very enthusiastic crowd. Everyone had a lot of fun. We'll probably keep doing them every few months. Great to hear you're starting a study group! It is really hard to learn without someone there showing you. I managed to work out how to do squash plates from a video, but couldn't work out what other sections were being taken until someone showed me IRL and then it was pretty easy. Might be worth making some videos or something. This book is worth checking out too. It has diagrams of microscopic features, measurements and chemical reactions https://shop.fungimap.org.au/product/larger-fungi-of-southern-australia/ And you're totally right re the optics. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
