Exploring the Complexity of Life by Cryo-EM

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 (May 8) and Umeå (May 9), 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.

Please not that the venue has change to Gard-Aulan, Nobels väg 18, Solna (Folkhälsomyndigheten). This is due to the great interest in the symposium.

Everyone is welcome!

Program, May 8 (Stockholm)

08.45	Welcome Gard-Aulan, Folkhälsomyndigheten, Nobels väg 18, Solna
09.00	Greetings Göran Sandberg, executive director of the Wallenberg Foundation
09.10	Early time in cryo-EM microscopy Jacques Dubochet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
09.50	New frontiers in single-particle cryo-EM: imaging short-lived states and tracking a continuum of states Joachim Frank, Columbia University, United States
10.30	Coffee
11.00	Atomic resolution cryo-EM Sriram Subramaniam, National Institute of Health, United States
11.45	A molecular movie of the exitation-contraction coupling Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University, China
12.30	Lunch and posters Air & Fire auditorium, SciLifeLab
14.00	Mitochondrial membrane proteins and the resolution revolution in cryo-EM Werner Kühlbrandt, MPI Biophysics, Germany
14.45	Single particle analysis of small molecules with the Volta phase plate Radostin Danev, MPI Biochemistry, Germany
15.30	Coffee
16.00	Cryo-EM methods that drive the revolution: example applications in Alzheimer’s disease Sjors Scheres, MRC-LMB, United Kingdom
16.45	Future software development challenges in cryo-EM Jose Miguel de la Rosa Trevin, Cryo-EM Facility, Sweden
17.30	Closing remarks Gunnar von Heijne, Director of the Swedish National Cryo-EM Facility

Registration form, May 8 (Stockholm)

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Program, May 9 (Umeå)

09.00	Reducing the cost and increasing the speed of cryoEM Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
09.45	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
10.30	Coffee and posters
11.00	Single particle analysis of chromatin complexes Sara Sandin, Nanyang Technological University, NTU, Singapore
11:45	Protein synthesis in organelles at cryo-EM resolution Alexey Amunts, Stockholm University
12.30	Lunch and posters
14.00	Opening windows into the cell: Revealing the molecular architecture of the nuclear periphery Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego, USA
14.45	A Hitchhiker’s guide to cryo-tomography: travel tips on things to do Elisabeth Fischer, National Institute of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA
15.30	Coffee and posters
16.00	Using new methods in cryo-EM to gain mechanistic insight into gene expression Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
16.45	*Enabling and doing structural biology in situ* – Recent advances in cryo-electron tomography** Jürgen Plitzko, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich, Germany
17.30	Closing remarks

Registration, May 9 (Umeå)

Separate registration for the Umeå Symposium May 9 at:

http://www.kbc.umu.se/english/events/cryo-em/