Swedish National Cryo-EM Facility Inaugural Symposium

Exploring the Complexity of Life by Cryo-EM

The first international cryo-EM symposium in Sweden will take place in Stockholm (May 8) and Umeå (May 9), and present the developments that are shaping this scientific breakthrough. Topics covered include central discoveries in cryo-EM, the most recent methodological developments and applications to central biological questions.

May 8 (Stockholm)

• New frontiers in single-particle cryo-EM: imaging short-lived states and tracking a continuum of states
  Joachim Frank, Columbia University, United States
• Atomic resolution cryo-EM Sriram Subramaniam, National Institute of Health, United States
• A molecular movie of the exitation-contraction coupling
  Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University, China
• Mitochondrial membrane proteins and the resolution revolution in cryo-EM
  Werner Kühlbrandt, MPI Biophysics, Germany
• Single particle analysis of small molecules with the Volta phase plate
  Radostin Danev, MPI Biochemistry, Germany
• Next steps for automation in cryo-EM
  Bridget Carragher, NYSBC, United States
• Cryo-EM methods that drive the revolution: example applications in Alzheimer’s disease
  Sjors Scheres, MRC-LMB, United Kingdom
• Future software development challenges in cryo-EM
  Jose Miguel de la Rosa Trevin, Cryo-EM Facility, Sweden

May 9 (Umeå)

• Reducing the cost and increasing the speed of cryoEM
  Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
• Structures of scarce native complexes by cryo-EM: Finally following eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis at molecular resolution
  Roland Beckmann, Gene Center, University of Munich LMU, Germany
• Single particle analysis of chromatin complexes
  Sara Sandin, Nanyang Technological University, NTU, Singapore
• Protein synthesis in organelles at cryo-EMÂ resolution
  Alexey Amunts, Stockholm University
• Opening windows into the cell:  Revealing the molecular  architecture of the nuclear periphery
  Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego, USA
• A Hitchhiker’s guide to cryo-tomography: travel tips on things to do
  Elisabeth Fischer, National Institute of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA
• Using new methods in cryo-EM to gain mechanistic insight into gene expression
  Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
• Enabling and doing structural biology in situ â€" Recent advances in cryo-electron tomography
  Jürgen Plitzko, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich, Germany