All timings are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Please note this programme is provisional and may change.

Monday 17 April
09:00 – 09:10
Registration

Administration

09:10 – 10:10
Principles of Microscopy

Lecture (all streams)

10:10 – 10:30
Break

Break

10:30 – 11:30
Microscopy Principles/Diffraction

Lecture (all streams)

11:30 – 12:30
Principles of Electron Microscopy

Lecture (all streams)

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break

Break

13:30 – 14:30
Microscope Units

Practical/Tutorial (all streams)

14:30 – 15:30
Image Recording

Lecture (all streams)

15:30 – 16:00
ImageJ

Lecture (all streams)

16:00 – 16:30
Break

Break

16:30 – 17:30
Electron Beam/Specimen Interactions + Vacuum Systems

Lecture (all streams)

Tuesday 18 April
09:00 – 10:00
Practical Electron Optics

Lecture (all streams)

10:00 – 11:00
Principles of TEM

Lecture (all streams)

11:00 – 11:30
Break

Break

11:30 – 12:30
Preparing Macromolecular Complexes for TEM

Lecture (biological sciences TEM stream)

Principles of SEM

Lecture (biological & physical sciences SEM streams)

Imaging in the TEM

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break

Break

13:30 – 14:30
Negative Stain and Making Carbon Coated Grids for TEM

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM stream)

Basics of SEM/TEM

Practical/Tutorial (biological & physical sciences SEM streams)

TEM Alignment

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

14:30 – 15:30
Imaging in the TEM

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM stream)

Basics of SEM/TEM

Practical/Tutorial (biological & physical sciences SEM streams)

STEM

Lecture (physical sciences TEM stream)

15:30 – 16:00
Break

Break

16:00 – 17:30
CryoTEM Sample Preparation

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM stream)

SEM Alignments

Practical/Tutorial (biological & physical sciences SEM streams)

STEM

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

Wednesday 19 April
09:00 – 10:00
Sample Preparation

Lecture (physical sciences SEM & TEM streams)

09:00 – 11:00
Cryo TEM

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM stream)

Sample Coating and Desktop SEM

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences SEM stream)

10:00 – 11:00
General Sample Preparation

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM & TEM streams)

11:00 – 11:30
Break

Break

11:30 – 12:30
Fixation Cells and Tissues

Lecture (biological sciences TEM & SEM streams)

Polishing/Desktop SEM

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

Consumables/Sample Coating

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break

Break

13:30 – 14:30
Chemical Fixation of Cells and Tissues

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM & SEM streams)

Sample Holders and Adaptors/Sample Coating

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

FIB-SEM

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

14:30 – 15:30
Ultramicrotomy

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM & SEM streams)

Advanced SEM Preparation

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

Electron Diffraction

Lecture (physical sciences TEM stream)

15:30 – 16:00
Break

Break

16:00 – 16:30
High Pressure Freezing and Freeze Substitution

Lecture (biological sciences TEM & SEM streams)

16:00 – 17:30
EBSD

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

Electron Diffraction

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

16:30 – 17:30
High Pressure Freezing and Freeze Substitution

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM & SEM streams)

Thursday 20 April
09:00 – 10:00
Methods of Protein Localisation

Lecture (biological sciences TEM stream)

EDX Spectroscopy

Lecture (physical sciences SEM & TEM streams)

09:00 – 10:30
Room Temperature SEM Preparation

Lecture (biological sciences SEM stream)

10:00 – 11:00
CLEM

Lecture (biological sciences TEM stream)

SEM-EDX

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

TEM-EDX

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

10:30 – 11:00
Critical Point Drying

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences SEM stream)

11:00 – 11:30
Break

Break

11:30 – 12:30
Cryo-Ultramicrotomy

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM stream)

FIB

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences SEM stream)

SEM-EDX

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

EELS

Lecture (physical sciences TEM stream)

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break

Break

13:30 – 14:30
In-Situ Structural Biology of Tissues

Lecture (biological sciences TEM stream)

Cryo-SEM

Lecture (biological & physical sciences SEM streams)

EELS

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

14:30 – 15:30
CryoCLEM

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM stream)

Specialist SEM (ESEM/Low Vac)

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences SEM stream)

FIB

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

High Resolution TEM

Lecture (physical sciences TEM stream)

15:30 – 16:00
Break

Break

16:00 – 17:00
Krios Session

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM stream)

SEM-EDX

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences SEM stream)

Specialist SEM

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

High Resolution TEM

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

Friday 21 April
09:30 – 10:30
TEM-EDX/EELS

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences TEM stream)

Cryo-SEM

Practical/Tutorial (biological sciences SEM stream)

SEM Review

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

Spectrum Imaging

Lecture (physical sciences TEM stream)

10:30 – 11:00
Break

Break

11:00 – 12:00
EDX Spectroscopy in Biology

Lecture (biological sciences TEM & SEM streams)

CryoSEM

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences SEM stream)

SI

Practical/Tutorial (physical sciences TEM stream)

12:00 – 12:30
Future Directions

Lecture (all streams)

12:30 – 13:30
End of Course

Administration