Journal of Microscopy: Festschrift for Paul Walther
The Journal of Microscopy is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue, honouring the career of Professor Paul Walther.
Paul Walther's contributions to the field of electron microscopy have been immense. From eukaryotic cell cultures and giant trees to yeast and Xenopus oocytes, from freeze substitution and freeze fracturing to high-resolution cryo-field emission scanning electron microscopy (cryo-FE-SEM), focused ion beam-SEM (FIB-SEM) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) tomography – there is almost no sample type or electron microscopy technique that he has not worked with.
In March 2024, after 46 years of passion for the nanometre scale, he retired from Ulm University, Germany, where he led the Central Facility for Electron Microscopy. The Journal is hosting this Festschrift in honour of Paul Walther and to celebrate his career and legacy by recognising his contributions to the field of electron microscopy. The special issue was edited by Clarissa Read, Ulm University, Germany, and Ulla Neumann, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany.
The issue features the following papers:
- Introduction to the Festschrift for Paul Walther (Clarissa Read, Ulla Neumann)
- Diagnostic electron microscopy in human infectious diseases – Methods and applications (Michael Laue)
- Scanning transmission electron tomography to study virus assembly: Review for the retirement of Paul Walther (Susanne Wieczorek, Jacomina Krijnse Locker)
- In situ quantification of ribosome number by electron tomography (Mounir El Hankouri, Marco Nousch, Aayush Poddar, Thomas Müller-Reichert, Gunar Fabig)
- Application of STEM tomography to investigate smooth ER morphology under stress conditions (V. Heinz, R. Rachel, C. Ziegler)
- Cryo-SEM and large volume FIB-SEM of Arabidopsis cotyledons: Degradation of lipid bodies, biogenesis of glyoxysomes and reorganisation of organelles during germination (Gerhard Wanner, Elizabeth Schroeder-Reiter, Farhah F. Assaad)
- High-pressure freezing of mechanically stretched cells (Edward Felder, Jan L. Rüth, Bassam Abu-Omar, Martin Wohlwend, Paul Walther, Clarissa Read)
- Visualisation and differentiation of binder components in hard carbon composite anodes by osmium tetroxide and uranyl acetate staining (Gregor Neusser, Tom Philipp, Christine Kranz)
- DeepEM Playground: Bringing deep learning to electron microscopy labs (Hannah Kniesel, Poonam Poonam, Tristan Payer, Tim Bergner, Pedro Hermosilla, Timo Ropinski)