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Cryo Microscopy Group annual meeting at University of Birmingham (UK)

Meeting
Date: 15-Nov-2017

Contact: Raffaella Carzaniga

This year’s Cryo-Microscopy Group annual meeting will be on Wednesday, 15th November at the University of Birmingham (UK).

In addition to the excellent group of speakers they have the ‘Freeze Frame Competition’ – this competition is aimed at young researchers, however, is open to everyone. You will have 2 minutes and 2 slides to show off your best images and give the audience an overview of your research project – the best presentation wins!

The registration for the meeting is available via this link

Programme

9.30-10.00 Registration + coffee

10.00-10.05 Welcome

10.05 - 10.50 - Andreas Schertel, Carl Zeiss -“Cryo-FIB-SEM volume imaging of cellular ultrastructure in native frozen biological specimen”

10.50 – 11.35 - Robert Cooke, Heptares Therapeutics - "The Potential impact of Cryo EM on Drug Discovery"

11.35 - 11.45 Tecnobyte 1

11.45 - 11.55 Tecnobyte 2

11.55 – 12.05 Tecnobyte 3

12.05 - 12.45 – Guilia Zanetti, Birkbeck College - “Coat protein complexes studied by cryo-tomography and sub-tomogram averaging"

12.45-13.00 Freeze Frame Competition

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00- 14.15 CMG AGM meeting

14.45 - 15.15  - Andy Yarwood, JEOL - "A Career and Life in (Cryo) Electron Microscopy"

15.15- 15.45 - Ray Wightman, The Sainsbury Laboratory - "Developing cryoSEM as a key botanical tool"

15.45 - 16.00 Conclusion + Farwell

16.00 END

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Cryo Microscopy Group annual meeting at University of Birmingham (UK)