Presented by: Daniel Nemecek
Title: Cryo-Electron Microscopy: “How do I make it work for me?”
Following recent leaps in technical performance of both Hardware and Software related to Cryogenic Electron Microscopy for Life Scientists, it has become possible to determine the structure of biological macromolecules, without chemically fixing or staining samples, at near atomic resolution. This provides structural biologists, and more specifically the X-Ray Diffraction and crystallographic community, with a number of incredibly powerful techniques for the determination of macromolecular complex structures in addition to those in which they are already experts. However, it also produces some hurdles related to the approach to these new techniques, both from a sample preparation, and from a data handling and processing perspective. This workshop is sponsored by the global leader in cryo-Electron Microscopy, FEI Company. It will feature speakers from FEI, and is proposed as a way to flatten the learning curve, and to assist in harnessing the technique of Single Particle Analysis for an audience who may not yet be Electron Microscopists in their daily lives.
Over the course of 90 minutes two key EM workflows, fundamental to any Single Particle Analysis experiment will be described:
1) Sample preparation - how to get started.
2) Solving a structure from EM data - a guided approach
Presented by: Chad Schwartz
Global Product Manager AUC , Beckman Coulter Life Sciences
Indianapolis , USA
Title : Next Generation Analytical Ultracentrifuge : Cutting Edge application advances leveraging improved Data Quality and Optical Resolution for Protein Analysis
Poster Sessions A and C Presenters:
Please affix your poster to the allocated board between the hours of noon and 3:30pm on your allocated presentation day. Posters should be taken down no later than 6.30pm on your allocated presentation day. Posters remaining after this time will be removed by conference staff.
A number of student poster prizes will be awarded at the conference. The judged student poster sessions take place in the afternoons (Poster Sessions A and C). If you prefer your poster is not considered for a prize (and not subject to judging), please advise the staff at the registration desk if you have not already let Diana Stojanovski know ahead of the meeting. Each poster will be assigned at least one judge, (usually an invited international or local speaker). Each judge will assess your poster presentation on scientific content, visual clarity and quality of verbal communication. The poster determined as best by each judge will be awarded a prize.
Posters with an odd abstract number must be present during the first hour of the poster session (4:00pm – 5:00pm)
Posters with an even abstract number must be present during the second hour of the poster session (5:00pm – 6:00pm)
Student presenters not present at their poster at the designated presentation time will be excluded from consideration.
Sponsored by the Australian Synchrotron
Poster Sessions B and D Presenters:
Please affix your poster to the allocated board between the hours of 6:30pm and 8:30pm on your allocated presentation day. Posters should be taken down no later than 11:30am on the day following your allocated presentation day. Posters remaining after this time will be removed by conference staff. Posters should be attached to the boards using the Velcro provided. Please visit the conference registration desk if you require additional supplies.
For those who wish to continue socializing the bar will be open until late.