The SRC's Educational Program in Unbiased Stereology
"A pleasure to spend hours and days learning stereology from the experts." Prof. M.B, Oregon Health And Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
The SRC provides stereology-related resources to the global biomedical research community. Included in these resources is the most established stereology training program worldwide, along with state-of-the-art computerized stereology systems, outsourcing services, consultation, and books published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
SRC-sponsored Stereology Workshops, Stereology Short Courses and SRC Fellowships have trained thousands of bioscientists from academia, government agencies, and private industry in the applications of unbiased stereology to biological tissue. Our three-day Stereology Workshops, offered every Fall since 1995 in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Society For Neurosciences, is designed for bioscientists interested in gaining proficiency in the principles and practices of unbiased (design-based) stereology.
Faculty Our workshops and courses offer the combined expertise of professional instructors with strong experience in study design, histology, and peer-review of stereology projects. 
The two leaders of this educational program have published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in the field of unbiased (design-based) stereology.
Course Director: Peter R. Mouton, Ph.D., Professor of Stereology at the Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, University of South Florida School of Medicine in Tampa, Florida and past U.S. representative of the International Society for Stereology (2001 - 2011).
Co-Director: Arun M. Gokhale, Ph.D., Professor of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. Dr. Gokhale is past Vice-President of the International Society For Stereology.
Proven Methods The SRC's Educational Program includes a range of proven teaching methods, including formal PowerPoint lectures, data presentations, one-on-one instructor-participant sessions, and hands-on training with computerized systems.
Emphasis of this training includes the underlying theory and practical skills required for independent design and completion of studies using all commercially available systems for computerized stereology.
The SRC's courses and workshops have trained users of all commercially available computerized stereology systems, including StereoInvestigator (MBF), newCAST (VisioPharm), and Bioquant.
Instructional Material Participants of these training programs receive full documentation of the presented materials, including copies of all Power Point slides, a bound manual with 200+ pages of instructional materials, a wide range of relevant publications from peer-reviewed scientific journals, and instructional videos about proper data collection using computerized stereology systems.
Peer Reviewed Publications For those interested in the detailed applications of unbiased stereology, we recommend these recently published or in press peer-reviewed books, chapters and articles.
Mouton, P.R. Neurostereology. John Wiley Press, Boston, MA, in press.
Courchesne, E., Mouton, P.R., Calhoun, M.E., Semendeferi, K., Ahrens-Barbeau, C., Carter, C., Pierce, K. An Excess Number of Prefrontal Cortex Neurons Underlies Early Brain Overgrowth in Autism. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), November 9, 2011.
Mouton, P.R. Applications Of Unbiased Stereology To
Neurodevelopmental Toxicology, in Developmental Neurotoxicology Research:
Principles, Models, Techniques, Strategies and Mechanisms, C. Wang and W.
Slikker (eds), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, N.J. pp. 53-77, 2011.
Mouton, P.R., Gordon, M.
Stereological and Image Analysis
Techniques For Quantitative Assessment Of Neurotoxicology. In Neurotoxicology,
3rd Edition, Target Organ Toxicology Series, G. Jean Harry, Hugh A. Tilson,
(eds), March 2010.
Contact the SRC with any questions about the 2012 Educational Program at 410.490.2034; src@disector.com.
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