The UK Structural biology Forum is the community voice for working structural biologists in the UK. On July 6th 2015, the Forum hosted a meeting at the Wellcome Trust London to discuss new developments in the rapidly developing fields of electron microscopy and imaging. Presentations for registered participants are available here
UK strategy on EM hosted by UK Structural Biology Forum
Program
11.00 Richard Henderson: Recent progress, future prospects and the need for more single particle cryo-EM capacity
11.20 Sjors Scheres: Cryo-EM structures of small and flexible complexes
11.40 Helen Saibil: Update on the national EM facility
12.00 Kay Grünewald: Putting macromolecules into context: cryo-ET and complementary approaches
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Neil Ranson: What can high resolution cryo-EM tell us about RNA virus assembly?
13.50 Venki Ramakrishnan: Studying the ribosome by EM
14.10 Discussion
16.00 Close
Participant list
Name | Organisation | Name | Organisation | Name | Organisation |
Pamela Williams | Astex | Steve Smerden | Crick | Nathan Richardson | MRC |
Ravi Acharya | Bath | Alessandro Costa | CRUK | Megan Dowie | MRC |
Colin Miles | BBSRC | Lucy Collinson | CRUK | Sjors Scheres | MRC-LMB |
Anthony Roberts | Birkbeck | Raffaella Carzaniga | CRUK | John Walker | Cambridge |
Carolyn Moores | Birkbeck | Andrew Harrison | Diamond | Martin Noble | Newcastle |
Gabriel Waksman | Birkbeck | Liz Duke | Diamond | Paula Salgado | Newcastle |
Giulia Zanetti | Birkbeck | Tom Owen-Hughes | Dundee | Christian Siebold | Oxford |
Helen Saibil | Birkbeck | Ardan Patwardhan | EBI | Dave Stuart | Oxford/Instruct |
Maya Topf | Birkbeck | Gerard Kleywegt | EBI | Isabel deMoraes | Oxford |
Dan Clare | Birkbeck | Laura Spagnolo | Edinburgh | John Vakonakis | Oxford |
Laurence Pearl | Brighton | David Bhella | Glasgow | Jon Grimes | Oxford |
Ariel Blocker | Bristol | Simon Phillips | Harwell | Juha Huiskonen | Oxford |
Christiane Schaffitzel | Bristol | Katie Cunnea | Harwell | Kay Grünewald | Oxford |
Paul Verkade | Bristol | Edward Morris | ICR | Liz Carpenter | Oxford |
Andrew Carter | Cambridge | Dale Wigley | Imperial | Mark Sansom | Oxford |
David Owen | Cambridge | Doryen Bubeck | Imperial | Radu Aricescu | Oxford |
Garib Murshadov | Cambridge | Morgen Beeby | Imperial | Susan Lea | Oxford |
Jan Löwe | Cambridge | Paul Freemont | Imperial | Yvonne Jones | Oxford |
Lori Passmore | Cambridge | Xiaodong Zhang | Imperial | Per Bullough | Sheffield |
Paula DeFonseca | Cambridge | Harry Low | Imperial | Martyn Winn | STFC |
Randy Read | Cambridge | Claudia Alen | Instruct | Alistair Siebert | Strubi |
Richard Henderson | Cambridge | Roland Fleck | KCL | Jo Nettleship | Strubi |
Tom Blundell | Cambridge | Rivka Isaacson | KCL | Erika Mancini | Sussex |
Luca Pellegrini | Cambridge | Mark Sanderson | KCL | Jemima Burden | UCL |
Alan Warren | Cambridge | Dave Brown | Kent | Tom Collins | Wellcome Trust |
Judy Hirst | Cambridge | Neil Ranson | Leeds | Fred Antson | York |
Venki Ramakrishnan | Cambridge | Peter Moody | Leicester |
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Pierre Rizkallah | Cardiff | Polly Roy | LS Trop Med |
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Peter Rosenthal | Crick | Alan Roseman | Manchester |
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Instruct has facilitated the organisation of this meeting.