The aim of the course is to provide in-depth understanding of theory and practice in cryo-EM image processing, covering basic topics such as Fourier Transforms, image formation and CTF, to more advanced ones such as Bayesian methods, subtomogram averaging, postprocessing, high resolution refinement and atomic model building.

A series of pre-recorded lectures will be provided to watch in advance, and during the course there will be live video Q&A sessions with the experts. These will be followed by practicals on a wide range of commonly used software. The practicals will mainly be led by the software developers, giving a unique chance to understand in depth the ?black boxes?. In addition, we will have exciting live sessions and social interactions.

We will only be able to take a very limited number of applicants, who will be selected based on a series of required criteria:

skills and motivation:

- some existing level of exposure to cryo-EM
- basic familiarity with linux/command line operation
- a commitment to continuing work with cryo-EM and to spreading the knowledge locally.

technical requirements:

- a fast and stable internet connection
- ideally two monitors (or one plus a tablet: practicals will run on parallel guacamole and zoom sessions)

Applications will only be open for a short time (closing in early July); we are sending this message now so that you can gather all the necessary documents in advance. The application form will require a cover letter, a CV, and a letter of recommendation from your supervisor. Please make sure it is clear in these documents how you meet the above criteria. An email with the details on how to apply and the necessary links will be sent to this mailing list as soon as possible.

We will take participants from PhD level up, and we ask that only one application is sent from any institution.
 
https://meetings.embo.org/event/21-cryo-em 

The Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB), an alliance of research institutes (EMBL, ESRF, IBS and ILL) located in Grenoble, France, is pleased to announce that the PSB Symposium "Frontiers in Bioimaging" will take place on 1-2 July 2021. The meeting will be held remotely on a virtual event platform over two afternoons, and will include a series of invited and selected talks, interactive virtual posters, and interactive virtual lounges.
 

You are invited to submit an abstract for a poster and/or an oral presentation (short talks of 10 minutes).

Submission deadline on 23 May 2021. The number of posters is limited to 50, and best poster prizes (150 euros each) will be awarded.

Registration is free, deadline on 27 June 2021
 

"What can cryo electron tomography and cryo soft X-ray tomography do? From the basics to correlative imaging approaches?

The aim of the workshop is to provide the basics of the techniques, their limitations and opportunities, and extends to cryo-superresolution light microscopy, advanced instrumentation, implementation and data processing.

The event is open to PhD students, Postdocs or any potential user who would like to learn more about cryo-electron tomography and cryo soft X-ray tomography.
 
 

A limited number of places is available, and registration is free on a first come, first served basis.

It is a great pleasure and honour to invite colleagues from academia and business, as well as young researchers and students from all parts of the world to attend the Materials Science Conference. The conference, scheduled from October 11-14, 2021 is organized by Prism Scientific Services in collaboration with The University of Queensland.

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The conference will underpin the need and importance of collaboration and cooperation by individuals from a wide range of professional backgrounds. Materials Oceania will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers from all over the world to present latest findings and to exchange their ideas. This in turn paves the way for further discoveries, which most often happen where disciplines and specialists meet and congregate. In fact the development of materials was, is and will be fundamental for all technological applications, and in the entire field of applied science targeting the improvement of quality of life for humanity. At the end of the materials conference, we hope that attendees will feel they have generated the most up-to-date information available.

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We hope that you will join us for a symphony of outstanding science, and to also take a little extra time to enjoy the spectacular and unique beauty of Brisbane City.

This one month course, coordinated by the Université Grenoble Alpes, is designed to provide training for students, postdoctoral and senior scientists from European and non-European universities and laboratories, in the field of Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation for condensed matter studies (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Geosciences, Industrial applications). It includes lectures, practicals and tutorials, visits of Large Facilities and a poster session (each participant puts up a poster about her/his thesis or research topic for a day).

• PART I:Â BASIC METHODS AND INSTRUMENTSÂ :
  (This part is common for all the participants - 1.5 weeks)
• PART II is divided into two parallel specialized sessions (3.5 weeks) :
  • Session A:Â PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF CONDENSED MATTER
  • Session B:Â BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

A special seven days programme is included , in a partner institution among European Large instruments. In 2021, one week (out of the five of the school) will be spent in one different partner institutions among 4:

• ALBA synchrotron in Barcelona, Spain
• KIT Light Source in Karlsruhe, Germany
• Elettra and FERMI in Trieste, Italy
• Swiss Light Source / Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland

The language of the course is English.

Content

• Interaction of photons, neutrons and muons with matter
• Production of photons, neutrons and muons
• Experimental setups: optics and detectors
• Crystal symmetry, Bragg's law, reciprocal lattice, structure factors
• Elastic and inelastic scattering with neutrons and photons
• X-ray absorption spectroscopy, x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
• Polarized neutron scattering for the study of magnetic materials
• Imaging techniques using x-rays and neutrons
• Introduction to muon spin rotation
• Applications of muon spin rotation
  

The 15th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy (XRM) 2020 will be hosted by the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) from July 19 to 24, 2020. A 6-day program will feature the invited and contributed oral presentations in plenary and parallel sessions, poster and exhibition sessions, and a tour to the recently opened 3-GeV facility, Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) at NSRRC.

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Satellite Workshop

Machine Learning for Synchrotron-based and Medical Imaging Applications

Dates: July 19, 2020
Organizers: Dr. Chun-Chieh Wang, Dr. Yao-Chang Lee, and Dr. Lee-Jene Lai
Location: TICC, Taipei, Taiwan

https://indico.nsrrc.org.tw/event/4/page/91-machine-learning-for-synchrotron-based-and-medical-imaging-applications

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The School targets young scientists to introduce them to the exceptional research opportunities offered by synchrotron and free-electron-laser (FEL) facilities worldwide for exploring the properties of all types of matter.

The school will provide an overview of the production and characteristics of synchrotron and free-electron-laser light, its interaction with matter and the numerous experimental methods enabled by these interactions that have become indispensable tools spanning over all domains of basic and applied research. The school lecturers will demonstrate the multidisciplinary applications and the most recent instrumental developments and science breakthroughs in the fields relevant to their expertise. The program will also include discussions of the lecturers with the students, talks describing the open access to these facilities based on the merits of the proposed project and possible industrial application. Demonstration sessions will be organized at the beamlines of Elettra's synchrotron and FEL facilities.

Topics:

• Production of Synchrotron and FEL Radiation
  
• Properties of Synchrotron and FEL Light
  
• Photon-Matter Interactions
  
• Photon Transport and Beamline Instrumentation
• X-ray Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• Photoelectron Spectroscopy Methods
• X-ray Diffraction Methods
• X-ray Scattering Techniques - SAXS, WAXS, XPCS, RIXS
• Imaging Techniques using Synchrotron and FEL Light
• X-ray and IR Spectromicroscopy.
• Time-resolved Approaches and non-linear X-ray Optics

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

This workshop will include all steps of image reconstruction and the practical use of software for single particle image reconstruction available under Scipion. This workshop will consist of three days of lectures and hands-on training sessions led by Profs. David DeRosier, Jose Maria Carazo, Georgios Skiniotis and colleagues. The practical sessions will be conducted via cloud computing accounts and is only available on-site to a limited number of participants. Zoom teleconferencing will be available for the lectures and demonstration of the practical material but will not have a practical participation option.

There is no fee for this workshop.

If you are interested, you may apply before October 31, 2019.

Keynote Lecture by Wolfgang Baumeister

Confirmed Speakers
Janet Iwasa (UU Salt Lake City)
Peter Peters (Maastricht University)
Bram Koster (LUMC)
Peijun Zhang (STRUBI)
Grant Jensen (Caltech)
Gaia Pigino (MPI)
Wanda Kukulski (MRC-LMB)
Jun Liu (Yale University)
Daniela Nicastro (UT Southwestern)
Julia Mahamid (EMBL)
Martin Beck (MPI)
Ohad Medalia (Zurich University)
Achilleas Frangakis (Goethe University)
Martin Pilhofer (ETH)
Alex DeMarco (Monash University)
David Mastronarde (UC Boulder)
Elizabeth Wright (UW Madison)
Sharon Wolf (Weizmann Institute)
Dorit Hanein (Sanford Burnham)
Joergen Plitzko (MPI)
Stefan Raunser (MPI)

The workshop will provide hands-on training on all practical aspects of subtomogram averaging, encompassing all stages of the pipeline: tomogram visualization and archiving, particle picking in different geometries, averaging, refinement and classification. In addition to these core contents on subtomo processing, this year we will conduct a longer workshop, covering also generic data analysis tasks in cryo electron tomography, as alignment of tilt series, tomogram reconstruction, advanced scripting and management of large data sets.

No previous experience is required and participants of all levels are welcome and strongly encouraged to bring along their own data. Computing infrastructure for intense numerical experiments will be provided in place, including guidance for the use of GPUs in the Amazon cloud computing services.

The registration fee is 280 CHF (accommodation is not included), deadline is July the 6th. As we can only provide a limited number of workstations, we typically accept participants on a "first come - first serve? basis. Please do not hesitate to contact me for any questions.

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The deadline for applications is March 11, 2019.

The school is designed to introduce students to the capabilities available at US neutron and x-ray user facilities. The school will consist of a range of lectures, seminars and short experiments to provide the principles of neutron and x-ray scattering theory, the characteristics of neutron and synchrotron sources, and hands-on experience using the appropriate instruments at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source and Oak Ridge's Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor facilities.Â

Travel, meal and lodging costs will be covered by the school. Â

Keeping updated on the latest trends in material science across a wide range of industries can be an intimidating task. Realizing this imperative, PRISM is set to organize International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering which is going to take place during September 16-18, 2019 at Melbourne, Australia with a view to promote awareness and enhance research aiming in developing solutions for the challenges encountered.

This materials science conference will provide an international medium to share and exchange the theoretical and experimental studies and research related to the electronic, electrochemical, ionic, magnetic, optical, and biosensing properties of solid state materials in bulk, thin film and particulate forms. It focuses on synthesis, processing, characterization, structure, physical properties and computational aspects of nano-crystalline, crystalline, amorphous and glassy forms of ceramics, semiconductors, layered insertion compounds, low-dimensional compounds and systems, fast-ion conductors, polymers and dielectrics.

Materials Oceania aims to bring together leading academic scientists, industrialist, research scholars, students, delegates and exhibitors to exchange and share their experiences, research results about all aspects of Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Chemistry and Physics. This engineering conference is also providing a platform to the companies and/or institutions to present their services, products, innovations and research results.

Meet the Objective Business sector with individuals from and around the globe concentrated on finding out about Materials science and Engineering, this is the best chance to achieve the biggest collection of members from all over the world. This materials science conferences in australia will lead you to get disperse data, meet with current, make a sprinkle with another product offering and get name acknowledgement at this occasion. Widely acclaimed speakers, the latest methods, strategies, and the most up to date overhauls in Materials science and Engineering are signs of this meeting.

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For more details please visit:Â https://www.materialsconferenceaustralia.com

The first workshop on Advanced Diffraction Techniques for Biology will take place at the EPN campus at Grenoble, France. The course will cover X-rays, neutrons and electrons diffraction by crystals of biological macromolecules. Various techniques will be investigated:

• Macromolecular crystal growth
• In situ (in plate) X-ray diffraction
• Serial X-ray crystallography
• Time-resolved X-ray crystallography
• Neutron diffraction
• Electron diffraction of nano-crystals

with the aim of solving /de novo/ structures, searching ligands, elucidating reaction mechanisms...

This 1-week course will combine theoretical lectures and practicals on ESRF beamlines and other EPN instruments. It is dedicated to researchers (advanced PhD, PostDoc, Scientist) interested in macromolecular structural studies at atomic resolution using crystallographic approaches.

The registration is free and includes accommodation and meals on the EPN campus. Selected applicants will be notified by e-mail on September 30, 2018. Participants will have to pay for their travel expenses.

This satellite meeting will present an overview of a wide range of new
laboratory instrumentation available from different companies, as well
as new developments at several large scale facilities. The meeting will
cover information on the newest laboratory instruments from Bruker and
Rigaku as well as on new instrumental solutions such as the Lyncean
Compact Light Source (CLS) and Sigrey’s newest X-ray sources and optics,
and focus on bringing world-class structural and analytical synchrotron
type capabilities back to our labs. We will have sessions focused on new
photon sources to be installed at major European synchrotrons as well as
X-ray Free Electron Laser facilities including ESRF, DESY, MAXIV, and
the Swiss and European X-FELs.

The organisers are also particularly proud to advertise some of the
first experimental results taken at European X-FEL. The program of this
satellite will also be complemented by news from the neutron ISIS
facility and from the cryo-EM equipment producers to provide a forum to
discuss the future of instrumentation for X-ray, neutron diffraction and
CryoEM.

Chairmen:
Prof. Dr hab. Krzysztof Woźniak ( University of Warsaw, Poland)
Prof. Dr. Ullrich Pietsch, (Universität Siegen, Germany)
Dr. Michele Cianci, (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)