The EM Spring School aims to provide a basic training in both the theory and practice of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The course covers imaging, diffraction and chemical microanalysis as well as the highly important area of sample preparation. 

Provisional programme - Physical Sciences: SEM and TEM

Provisional programme- Biological Sciences: SEM and TEM

Provisional Programme - Physical Sciences: Advanced TEM

Speakers

Scientific Organisers 

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  Professor Rik Brydson

  RMS Honorary Secretary Physical Science

  University of Leeds
  Rik holds a chair in the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) in the School of Process Environmental and Materials Engineering at the University of Leeds. He heads the NanoCharacterisation group based around the Leeds Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy (LEMAS) centre which is shared between Materials and Earth Sciences and also acts as an EPSRC facility for external UK researchers. He has a general research interest in high spatial resolution chemical analysis in nanostructured materials, and has a current research h index of 32 with over 25 years research experience in nanomaterials characterisation. He has managed extensive national and international collaborations including being current consortium leader for the UK National Facility for Aberration corrected Electron Microscopy, SuperSTEM at Daresbury. 

  Rik is also on the Management Board of the European Microscopy Society. He has written an RMS Handbook on Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (Bios /Taylor and Francis 2001), has co-written a book on “Nanoscale Science and Technology" (Wiley 2005), edited a recent RMS book on Analytical Aberration-corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy with Wiley and has contributed a number of other chapters in specialist books on electron microscopy by other professional bodies covering Physics, Chemistry and Engineering. In recent years his research interests have focused on applying high spatial resolution characterisation methods (particularly TEM and EELS) to the nanochemical analysis of softer, more radiation sensitive materials.

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  Dr Nicole Hondow

  University of Leeds
  Nicole is a University Academic Fellow in the area of Materials Characterisation at the University of Leeds. Prior to this she completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Chemistry at The University of Western Australia, and undertook postdoctoral research University of Leeds in the electron microscopy of materials relevant to catalysis and toxicology. Nicole’s current research uses analytical electron microscopy in the examination and quantification of nanomaterials in complex matrices.

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  Dr Rebecca Thompson

  Electron Microscopy Deputy Chair

  University of Leeds
  Rebecca is Facility Manager and senior cryo-electron microscopy (EM) support scientist at the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory, University of Leeds. Her research interests include imaging a broad range of biological specimens, from whole cells to macromolecular complexes, to high resolution using cryo-EM, and integrating data from EM with other microscopy techniques.

   

Invited Speakers 

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  Zabeada Aslam

  University of Leeds
  After completing my PhD in 2006 investigating the growth mechanisms of carbon nanotubes, I worked as a Research Fellow on the IMPRESS Project at Leeds University investigating the solidification of intermetallic materials for advanced catalysts.  I then moved to Oxford University as an ERC post-doctoral research fellow investigating the mechanical and electrical properties of doped multi-walled carbon nanotubes using an in-situ TEM holder. I am currently providing TEM support to students and researchers at LEMAS, University of Leeds.

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  Jemima Burden

  University College London 
  Jemima is Head of Electron Microscopy at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London.  She received her BSc from University of Bath and her PhD from Imperial College London, where her fascination for microscopy began. Her main interests are Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy and using EM to investigate cell biological processes - from viruses to whole organisms. 

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  Steve Chapman

  Protrain
  Steve Chapman was a former Hitachi service technician and product specialist, co-designed the EMscope Sputter Cryo system. He has been a product specialist at JEOL and ISI, the latter being deeply involved with the design of SEM and TEM.  Steve formed Protrain in 1982 working around the world in 32 countries as a consultant in electron microscopy. 

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  Dr Michael Dixon

  Hitachi High Technologies
  Mike is EM Section Manager at Hitachi High-Technologies. After studying Physics at university he started his career in microscopy at Philips Research before joining Hitachi in 1997.  Mike has worked in sales, service and applications development roles in the US and Europe, covering Hitachi's preparation systems, benchtop SEM, field emission SEM, automated SEM and TEM/STEM. He is currently responsible for Hitachi's EM sales activity in the UK, but continues to work in applications development and training. He is a member of the RMS Engineering & Physical Sciences Committee and the Institute of Physics EMAG committee.

   

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  Ms Kim Findlay, FRMS

  John Innes Centre
  Kim is head of Bioimaging at the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Her degree was in Biology and Physics at King’s College, London. With over 34 years' experience in light and electron microscopy and more than 90 publications involving the use of TEM, SEM or confocal microscopy, in 2015 she was awarded the RMS Vice Presidents Medal for microscopy research and laboratory support. Her early focus on the plant cytoskeleton developed into a wider interest in plant and microbial sciences. She has made particularly important and long-standing contributions to Streptomyces research.  Kim teaches cryo-SEM at the RMS EM school and taught on the RMS cryo-EM course in the past. She is regularly involved in Outreach activities, running tours and demonstrations for the public and young students.  Kim won an award from the University of East Anglia, where she is an honorary lecturer, for her outstanding contribution to public and community engagement.

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  Mr Dennis Fitzpatrick

  Quorum Technologies

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  Martin Fuller

  University of Leeds

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  John Harrington

  University of Leeds

  John Harrington is the Facility Manager of the Leeds Electron Microscopy And Spectroscopy centre (LEMAS) in the faculty of Engineering. He has taught on the EM school for many years, firstly as a technician and then as an Experimental Officer. He has over 30 years of EM experience and expertise particularly in SEM, EDX and FIB-SEM dual beam technologies

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  Professor Pippa Hawes, FRMS

  The Pirbright Institute
  Pippa is the Head of Bioimaging at The Pirbright Institute based in Surrey. Projects centre around investigating the interactions between animal pathogens and host cells. Bioimaging is dedicated to using and developing confocal and electron microscopy techniques to study viruses exotic to the UK that infect farm animals. Pippa has extensive experience in the field of electron microscopy and is an active member of the RMS EM section committee. She believes the RMS has an important role to play in the promotion and teaching of microscopy and is consequently a lecturer at the RMS EM School.

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  James Holland

  NanoAnalysis, Oxford Instruments
  Dr James Holland is a NanoAnalysis Scientist who has worked for Oxford Instruments for more than 15 years. The main focus of his work has been the use of energy dispersive X-ray analysis to characterise materials, predominantly on scanning electron microscopes. He is experienced in qualitative and quantitative analysis of X-ray spectra and the use of various X-ray mapping techniques.

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  Rowan Leary

  University of Cambridge 
  Rowan Leary obtained his MEng/BEng in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Leeds, and his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College and the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. His research involves the development of a variety of multi-dimensional electron microscopy techniques, and their application in the context of materials chemistry and catalysis in particular.

   

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  Dr Natasha Lukoyanova

  Birkbeck College
  Dr. Natalya Lukoyanova is EM facility coordinator in ISMB Birkbeck, London. She is interested in the application of electron microscopy and computational image processing to study the structure and function of macromolecular assemblies. Her current research focuses on the mechanism of pore formation by MACPF/CDC proteins, which is a continuation of her work at ISMB in Prof. H. Saibil’s group. Previously, she studied structure of actin and actin binding proteins during her postdoctoral training under the Prof. E. Egelman (University of Virginia) and structure of septin filaments under Prof. J. Trinick (University of Leeds). 

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  Stuart Micklethwaite

  University of Leeds

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  Evans Mogire

  University of Warwick
  I work as Technical and Laboratory Manager for UK and Ireland. Prior to this I worked as a metallurgist for an OEM manufacturer in the energy sector after completed my doctoral studies on high temperature materials at Loughborough University.  In my present role, I am actively involved in providing solutions in materials sample preparation (metallic and non-metallic) for both optical and electron microscopy to various industry sectors, research facilities and academic institutions. I am also a visiting academic at University of Warwick supporting the advanced steel research center

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  Dr Stephen Muench

  University of Leeds
  Dr Stephen Muench is a lecturer in membrane proteins at the Univeristy of Leeds. Having trained in X-ray crystallography, he moved to the field of electron microscopy in 2006. His main interests are in using electron microscopy, primarily single particle cryo-EM, to resolve the structure and mechanism of membrane proteins and to use this to underpin inhibitor design

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  Prof Quentin Ramasse

  SuperSTEM
  Quentin Ramasse is the Director of the SuperSTEM Laboratory, the EPSRC UK National Facility for Aberration-Corrected STEM, and holds a visiting associate Professorship at the University of Leeds, U.K. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge as a member of the Microstructural Physics Group working on optical aberration measurements methodologies for aberration-corrected STEM. Before taking up his post at SuperSTEM he held a Staff Scientist position at the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) in Berkeley, a U.S. Department of Energy-funded user facility where he took part in the TEAM project which saw development of the world's first 0.5A electron microscope. Quentin Ramasse has published extensively in the field of STEM-EELS, with a dual focus on STEM technique development and on applications to a wide range of energy harvesting materials, from 2-dimensional materials such as graphene and MoS2 nano-catalysts to complex oxides.

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  Gill Tudor

  EM Resolutions

  Gill is Technical Director at EM Resolutions. After 21 years working as a Senior Technical Officer for Agar Scientific, in 2014 Gill contributed to the development of EM Resolutions, where she continues to manufacture TEM and SEM consumables. Gill specialises in making Holey/Lacey TEM Support Films and is currently working with the University of Warwick Physics Department to maintain and develop high quality Graphene Oxide Support Films. EM Resolutions supplies customers across the word with high quality EM essentials.

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  Richard Walshaw

  University of Leeds

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  Alice Warley

  KCL, London

  Dr Alice Warley is a former director of the Centre for Ultrastructural Imaging and Emeritus Professor of Ultrastructural Imaging at King's College London. She has a long term interest in the application of electron probe X-ray microanalysis to biological specimens and has published widely in this field.

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  Neil Wilkinson

Delegate Information

Course Fees  
The course fees are as follows:  
RMS Member rate: £1130
Non-Member rate: £1250  
Accommodation Package: £350 including 5 nights’ accommodation

Please note that any registrations taken after the 1 March 2017, will incur a £100 late registration fee. (The above prices do not currently reflect this increase.)    

Venue for the course
The Electron Microscopy Spring School takes place within the Houldsworth Building, Department of Engineering Materials, at the University of Leeds, Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9DT.  

For more information on the University, please visit the Univeristy of Leeds Website 

Travelling to the venue
Leeds is served by two major airports: Leeds Bradford and Manchester Airport. Regular flights are available from a huge number of European and International cities.

Leeds Bradford airport is approximately seven miles away from the University, so easily commutable by taxi. Leeds Railway Station is the closest station to the Leeds campus where the course takes place.

The campus is a 30 minute walk or 10 minute taxi ride from the station. 

Accommodation package
The accommodation package includes 5 nights’ en-suite, bed and breakfast accommodation in the Ibis Leeds Centre.

Delegates will be able to check-in on Sunday 26 March and will be departing on Friday 31 March.

Meals
For those who have selected the accommodation package, breakfast will be provided on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning.

Lunches, tea / coffee and biscuits are included in your registration fee.

The evening meals will be in the following locations:    
 - Monday’s evening meal will be held at Aagrah Indian Restaurant in Leeds City Centre. (All delegates)      
 - Thursday’s evening meal will be held at Piccolino’s Italian Restaurant in Leeds City Centre.  (All delegates)

Transportation to and from the dinners will be provided from outside the hotel.  Please note that Tuesday and Wednesday night do not have any arranged meals.

Dietary and Access requirements  
The RMS is committed to our delegate’s health and wellbeing. Therefore if you have any dietary or access requirements please contact Karina Lang.

Registration
Registration will be taking place on Monday morning from 08.30 – 09.00 at the Houldsworth Building Foyer.   

CPD Points and certificates of attendance  
In previous years this course has been awarded IBMS Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points. You will be able to collect a CPD Certificate and also a certificate of attendance at the course should you require them.