The popular course in Cryo Electron Microscopy will return for 2018. Using both lectures and practical demonstrations, this residential course is ideal for anyone new to Cryo EM or just needing to brush up on their existing skills.

This intensive five day course covers sample preparation and cryo-microscopy techniques for both scanning and transmission electron microscopy, and is comprised of 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. During the course you will have the opportunity to practise the techniques on your own samples so we highly recommend bringing some samples relevant to your research.

Online registration has now closed as the course is full.
If you would like to be added to a waiting list, please email Debbie Hunt.

Programme

Speakers

Scientific Organiser

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  Dr Rebecca Lauder

  Rothamsted Research
  Rebecca Lauder is the electron microscopist in Rothamsted Research Bioimaging.  She obtained her PhD in 2011 from the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Dr David Bhella.  Following her PhD she joined Dr Frazer Rixon’s group at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research as a post doc working on characterising the structure and interactions of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 inside whole cells.  This involved a variety of techniques including cryoEM, cryo tomography, HVEM, and correlative light-electron microscopy.  In 2015 she started at Rothamsted where she provides EM imaging for a variety of projects as well as training users in EM and sample preparation techniques
   

Course Speakers

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  Prof Bram Koster

  Leiden University Medical Center

  The research and method developments of the Koster group are focused on the development of methods  combining high resolution fluorescence light-microscopy with ultra-structural imaging with electron microscopy. His group develops methods and technologies enabling the identification and visualization of specific macromolecular arrangements and/or changes in the cellular context. Bram Koster is one of the pioneers in the development of 3D electron microscopic imaging using electron tomography and worked on life sciences and materials sciences applications. He obtained his PhD Applied Physics in 1989 (Delft University, the Netherlands). After post-doctoral positions at UCSF (San Francisco) and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry (Martinsried, Germany)  he returned to the Netherlands in 1997 (Utrecht University). In 2006 he relocated to his current position at the Leiden University Medical Center in the In 2014 he was appointed director of the Netherlands Center of Electron Nanoscopy (NeCEN), also in Leiden. 

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  Dr James Streetley

  James Streetley is a post-doctoral research assistant in Dr David Bhella’s group at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. His research uses cryo-EM to image the replication machinery of respiratory syncytial virus and he maintains the EM facilities at the CVR, supporting other research projects requiring cryo-EM and tomography. In April, these facilities will become part of The Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging as we take delivery of a new 300kV automated cryo-microscope.

  James has been using cryo-EM since he was a masters student with Prof Elena Orlova at Birkbeck College, London before moving across the city for a PhD with Dr Peter Rosenthal at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research doing cryo-electron tomography of vitrified endothelial cells. He has been in Glasgow since January 2015.

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  Dr Kent McDonald

  University of California, Berkeley
  Kent McDonald received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. Following a year of teaching at UCLA, he took a Post-doctoral position with J.D. Pickett-Heaps at the University of Colorado, Boulder to study the ultrastructure of mitosis in algae. In 1975, he joined the laboratory of J.R. McIntosh in Boulder to re-focus his research on the cell biology of mitosis. This led him back to Berkeley in 1979 to work on correlative light and electron microscopy of PtK cells and diatoms in the lab of W.Zacheus Cande. In 1987 he returned to Boulder to join the High Voltage EM Lab begun by Keith Porter and subsequently run by J.R. McIntosh. It was at this time that the importance of cryofixation by high pressure freezing became a compelling interest that persists to this day. In 1993 he moved back to Berkeley to assume the Directorship of the campus Electron Microscope Laboratory, a teaching and research resource for UC Berkeley and other Bay Area institutions. Kent retired from UC Berkeley in 2017. His current research interest is improving the procedures for biological specimen preparation. Starting with high pressure frozen material he has recently developed methods for freeze substitution and subsequent resin embedding that takes only 6 hours or less to complete using simple, inexpensive equipment. Work to improve on-section immunolabeling efficiency is another recent activity.

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  Mr Gareth Jackson

  Leica Microsystems
  Gareth started his career in a clinical EM department in the early nineties. Since then he has worked for Olympus Microscopes and Leica Microsystems. Gareth is an active member of the EM committee and has been involved in many RMS courses over the years including the EM Summer School, Rothamsted Research Cryo Course and the Cell Imaging Techniques course at Oxford Brookes University.

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  Mr Andy Yarwood

  JEOL

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  Mr Dennis Fitzpatrick

  Quorum Technologies

Further Information and Venue

Venue for the course

The Cryo Electron Microscopy Course takes place at Rothamsted Research. The full address is West Common, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ.  For more information about Rothamsted Research, please visit www.rothamsted.ac.uk. 

Transport to the venue and accommodation 

If you are flying to the UK, we recommend that you travel to Luton Airport.  

Accommodation package 

The accommodation package includes 5 nights’ en-suite, bed and breakfast accommodation. 

Meals

Breakfast will be provided as part of the accommodation package, including on the morning of check out.   

All buffet lunches, tea / coffee and biscuits are included in your registration fee.  The evening meals will be held in the following locations:    
- Sunday’s evening meal will be held at a restaurant in St Albans. (for delegates that have selected the accommodation package).
- Monday’s evening meal will be a fish and chip supper, followed by a pub quiz at the Pavilion at Rothamsted Research (all delegates and speakers are invited to attend).
- Tuesday there is no evening meal provided, delegates have a free evening.
- Wednesday there is no evening meal provided, delegates have a free evening.
- Thursday’s evening meal will be held at the Luton Hoo Hotel and Golf Club (all delegates and speakers are invited to attend).

Please note that Tuesday and Wednesday are free evenings, where no evening meals are provided. 

Registration

Registration will be taking place on Monday 18 April from 09.00 – 09.15 in the foyer of Rothamsted Research. 

Dietary and Access requirements 

The RMS is committed to our delegate’s health and wellbeing.  Therefore if you have any dietary or access requirements or questions please contact Debbie Hunt.

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  Leica Microsystems

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  Linkam Scientific Instruments

  Linkam develops and manufactures a broad range of heating and freezing stages for both OEM and end users to visualize and explore materials properties. Used in conjunction with light microscopes and other forms of spectroscopy, Linkam stages are found in thousands of laboratories worldwide with the most successful microscope heating stage, the THMS600, selling over 4,000 units alone. Linkam is the market leader in temperature controlled microscopy.

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