EMAG 2017 Keywords

Instrumentation

• 3D microscopy
  
• in situ microscopy techniques
  
• Low-dose imaging and analytical microscopy
  
• Dynamic TEM
  
• Advances in SEM & FIB (CL, EBSD, beam deceleration, monochromators etc)
• Detector technologies and new instrumentation
  
• Vortex beams and phase plates
• Electron crystallography and diffraction

Materials

• Biological materials, biomaterials and soft matter
  
• Geological microscopy
• Catalytic materials
  
• Nanomaterials and 2D materials
  
• Energy and energy storage materials
  
• Functional materials
  
• Structural materials and metallurgy
  
• Surface imaging and modification
  
• Microscopy of interfaces and heterostructures
  
• High spatial resolution chemical and structural analysis

Scanning Probe Microscopy Sessions

• Frontiers of scanning probe microscopy
  
• High-resolution SPM
  
• Structures, interfaces and mechanics in life and health with AFM
  
• SPM nano-mapping of materials properties

The workshop will provide hands-on training on practical aspects of 2D crystal data collection on a Titan Krios, and cover in depth the theoretical foundations and the practical image processing of 2D crystal cryo-EM images with the 2DX software package. No previous experience is required.

Topics include:

Basics of 2D electron crystallography

• Introduction to 2D electron crystallography
• Cryo-electron microscopy sample preparation for 2D crystals of membrane proteins
• Cryo-EM data collection of 2D crystals
• Introduction to 2DX
• Drift correction using ZORRO Â

Basic image processing with 2DX

• Determination of the defocus, crystal tilt geometry, crystal lattice
• Crystal Unbending - including movie-mode drift correction of individual unit cells in dose-fractionated image series
• 2D merging and 3D merging with reconstruction via weighted back projection
• Automation of the processing pipeline

Advanced topics in image processing with 2DX

• Approaches for a partial reconstruction of amplitudes and phases inside of the missing cone
• Processing of 2D crystal unit cells with RELION and FREALIGN, under exploitation of neighborhood correlation of certain image parameters
• Advanced usage of the 2DX backend library
• Preparation of final results with quantitative description of statistical values (e.g., resolution) for export to databases (EMDB).

Computing infrastructure will be provided in place and participants are welcome to bring their own data sets and/or computer (OSX or Linux).

For registration, please include information about your affiliation, and a short motivation statement (max 200 words).
The registration fee is 250 CHF (travel and accommodation is not included), registration deadline is June 30th.

This meeting covers a wide range of topics associated with Scanning Probe Microscopy including main techniques such as atomic force microscopy and scanning tunnelling microscopy as well as more specialised versions.

The SPM Meeting is held annually and provides an excellent forum for the community to meet and discuss the latest advances in the field. With an exhibition alongside and social activities organised, it is one of the best events for 2016 for scanning probe microscopy users, for PhD students and well-seasoned microscopists alike!

Abstracts will be accepted to this meeting for oral and poster presentations.

LEEM-PEEM is a biennial meeting reviewing the status of LEEM, PEEM, SPLEEM, XPEEM and related techniques. The meeting promotes and disseminates applications of cathode lens microscopy to a broad audience of interested scientists.

The workshop highlights the most recent scientific advances as well as instrumental developments. Topics will cover surfaces, thin films, organic films, surface chemistry, magnetism, time resolved methods, instrumental advances and novel applications of LEEM and PEEM to other subject areas.

We are happy to announce VI-th National Crystallographic Symposium (NCS2016) that will be held on October 05-07, 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria.

As you may have already recognized this is will be the sixth "NCS" of the series started in 2009.

We have already started the preparation of the next issue of the conference (submitted manuscripts will be published in the journal “Bulgarian Chemical Communications”, a special issues due April 2017).NCS16 papers will also be online available in full text via the present platform.  You are warmly invited to come and join us!

NCS2016 is held under the auspices of BCS and is the major event on Crystallography, crystal growth, structure analyses and related techniques in Bulgaria. The Symposium aims at the applications of different crystallographic techniques in combination with other methods in the fields of materials sciences, mineralogy, biology, environmental engineering, computational methods etc. Bringing together researchers from different areas NCS16 will provide them with a high-qualified platform for them to share their latest studies and to assist further findings and collaboration.

With passionate participants from the world, NCS2016 Â would be perfect for you to present your research and find collaboration for your future work.

This intensive five day residential course will cover sample preparation and cryo-microscopy techniques for both scanning and transmission electron microscopy, and will comprise tutorials, demonstrations and hands on practical sessions.
The course is aimed at life sciences however the techniques can be applied to other fields so participants from any area of academia or industry who are interested in learning cryo-microscopy skills or updating their knowledge are invited to attend.

The course will be taught by professionals from both academia and industry on a range of equipment and will allow time for one-to-one queries and demonstrations if needed: as such, numbers for the course are limited so secure your space by registering early!
Delegates are invited to bring samples with them to try on the equipment for themselves.

 This course is hosted by Rothamsted Research Centre and the Royal Microscopical Society.

Optical Innovations Solving Challenges in the Life Sciences

Single-Molecule Microscopy: Life at a Higher Resolution

Single-Molecule Microscopy: Life at a Higher Resolution

Advancing and Reshaping Structural Biology with Electron Cryo-Microscopy

This workshop is a forum for presenting, teaching and discussing results
from the application of state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical
and computational approaches to studying protein dynamics, including
optical spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, XFELs,
electron microscopy, AFM and scattering methods.

 Confirmed speakers

Bai, Xiaochen (LMB Cambridge, UK)
Barends, Thomas (MPI Heidelberg, Germany)
Blackledge, Martin (Institut de Biologie Structurale, France)
Cammarata, Marco (U de Rennes, France)
Colletier, Jacques-Philippe (Institut de Biologie Structurale, France)
Fenimore, Paul (Los Alamos NL, USA)
Havenith, Martina (U Bochum, Germany)
Hilser, Vincent (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Heyden, Matthias (MPI Mülheim, Germany)
Ishii, Kunihiko (Riken, Japan)
Katona, Gergely (U Gothenburg)
Klostermeier, Dagmar (U Münster, Germany)
Lindorff-Larsen, Kresten (U Copenhagen, Denmark)
Lewandowski, Jozef (U Warwick, UK)
Mulder, Frans (U Aarhus, Denmark)
Palmer, Arthur (Columbia University, USA)
Parrinello, Michele (ETH Lugano)
Schanda, Paul (Institut de Biologie Structurale, France)
Schirò, Giorgio (Institut de Biologie Structurale, France)
Sprangers, Remco (MPI Tübingen, Germany)
Stock, Gerhard (U Freiburg, Germany)
Uchihashi, Takayuki (U Kanazawa, Japan)
Van den Bedem, Henry (Stanford University, USA)
Van Thor, Jasper (Imperial College London, UK)
Wand, Josh (U Pennsylvania, USA)