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