Preliminary Scientific Program:

Monday, July 14

8:15 - 8:30 Opening

Session I. Principles of transmission electron microscopy

8:30 - 10:00

Robert Glaeser (University of California, Berkeley)
Introduction to electron microscopy: image formation and electron optics

Fanghua Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Introduction to image processing

Session II. Specimen preparation and cryo-electron microscopy

10:30 - 12:30

Yoshinori Fujiyoshi (Kyoto University)
Introduction to cryo-electron microscopy

Yifan Cheng (UCSF)
Cryo-electron microscopy techniques and applications

Short talks to be selected from submitted abstracts

Session III. Single particle electron microscopy (Part A)

14:00 - 15:30

Joachim Frank (HHMI)
Introduction to single particle analysis

Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine)
Macromolecular complexes

Session IV. Single particle electron microscopy (Part B)

16:00 - 18:00

Huilin Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Macromolecular complexes

Thomas Walz (Harvard Medical School)
Macromolecular complexes

Joachim Frank (HHMI)
Ribosome structures

Tuesday, July 15

Session V. Structural studies of viruses

8:30 - 10:30

Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine)
Introduction to icosaheral reconstruction

Wen Jiang (Purdue University)
Virus structures

Z. Hong Zhou (UCLA)
High resolution structures of viruses

Session VI. Electron tomography (Part A)

11:00 - 12:30

Wolfgang Baumeister (Max-Planck Institute)
Introduction to electron tomography

Peijun Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)
Macromolecular complexes

Session VII. Electron tomography (Part B)

14:00 - 16:00

Wolfgang Baumeister (Max-Planck Institute)
Imaging cells and cellular organelles

Jun Liu (UT Health Science Center at Houston)
Applications of electron tomography

Ping Zhu (Florida State University)
HIV structure

Session VIII. Demonstration of image processing software (Part A)

16:30 - 18:00

MRC, SPIDER, EMAN, and more

Wednesday, July 16

Session IX. Electron crystallography and structural studies of membrane proteins (Part A)

8:30 - 10:00

Robert Glaeser (University of California, Berkeley)
Introduction to electron crystallography

Qiu-Xing Jiang (UT Southwestern)
Membrane protein structures

Session X. Electron crystallography and structural studies of membrane proteins (Part B)

10:30 - 12:30

Thomas Walz (Harvard Medical School)
Membrane protein structures

Short talks to be selected from submitted abstracts

Yoshinori Fujiyoshi (Kyoto University)
Membrane protein structures

Session XI. New technology development

14:00 - 16:00

Gatan

Hitachi

JEOL

FEI

Session XII. Demonstration of image processing software (Part B)

16:30 - 18:00

MRC, SPIDER, EMAN, and more