Major technical advances has enabled cryo-EM to become a mainstream technique in visualization of macromolecules, which provides the most definitive way to describe their mechanisms of action. The first international cryo-EM symposium in Sweden will take place in Stockholm and Umeå, and present the developments that are shaping this scientific breakthrough. Topics covered include central discoveries in cryo-EM, the most recent methodological developments and applications to central biological questions.
Note: the 1st day of the Symposium takes place on 8th of May 2017 at SciLifeLab, Stockholm.
Everybody is welcome!
Registration form to the Umeå Symposium 9th May 2017
Venue: Stora hörsalen, KBC-building, Umeå University
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| 8.45 | Welcome Hans Adolfsson, Vice-Chancellor, Umeå University |
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Reducing the cost and increasing the speed of cryoEM Richard Henderson MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK webpage |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Structures of scarce native complexes by cryo-EM: Finally following eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis at molecular resolution Roland Beckmann Gene Center, University of Munich LMU, Germany webpage |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee and posters |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Single particle analysis of chromatin complexes Sara Sandin Nanyang Technological University, NTU, Singapore webpage |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Protein synthesis in organelles at cryo-EM resolution Alexey Amunts Stockholm University website |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch and posters |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Opening windows into the cell: Revealing the molecular architecture of the nuclear periphery Elizabeth Villa University of California, San Diego, USA website |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | A Hitchhiker's guide to cryo-tomography: travel tips on things to do Elisabeth Fischer National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Bethesda, MD, USA website |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee and posters |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Using new methods in cryo-EM to gain mechanistic insight into gene expression Lori Passmore MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK website |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | Enabling and doing structural biology in situ - Recent advances in cryo-electron tomography Jürgen Plitzko Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich, Germany website |
| 17:30 | Closing remarks Bernt Eric Uhlin Director Cryo-EM Facility Umeå Scientific Coordinator of UCMR and Director of MIMS, Umeå University website |
| 18:00 | Dinner |