[3dem] Cryogenic Preparation and Imaging Strategies for Soft Matter in Materials Science

[Melanie Reedman]

Dear All

Registration is now open for Cryogenic Preparation and Imaging Strategies for Soft Matter in Materials Science taking place at Queen Mary University, London on 24 February 2017.
http://www.rms.org.uk/discover-engage/event-calendar/cryogenic-preparation-imaging.html

This will be the first of the new Focus Lecture Series as part of the Microscopy Characterization of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces Meeting taking place the day before also at QMUL, http://www.rms.org.uk/discover-engage/event-calendar/microscopy-characterization-2017.html
Organised by the Royal Microscopical Society together with The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, this lecture series will focus on applied electron microscopy for the characterization of hydrated samples (hydrogels, colloids, hydrated polymers, polymer-peptide hybrids, scaffolds for cell culture evaluations) using cryo-preservation and characterization of materials in their pristine/life-like state. Several techniques that have been well established in life sciences research will be presented in the context of materials science.

EVENT PROGRAMME

09:00   Registration and Coffee
09:55   Welcome - Dr Roland Fleck and Prof Paul Verkade
10:00   Water and hydration: properties of water; free, bound and structural water; effects of hydration on materials bulk and surface properties - Prof Martin Chaplin, London South Bank University, UK
10:40   Cryo-immobiliization of aqueous samples for EM - water phase diagram, heat transfer and vitrification techniques - Dr Eyal Shimoni, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
11:20   Coffee
11:40   EM for advanced materials: efficient phase contrast imaging in the scanning transmission electron microscope - Prof Peter Nellist, University of Oxford
12:20   CryoSTEM tomography of vitrified cells and soft materials: providing 3D morphology and chemical analysis simultaneously - Dr Sharon Wolf, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel,
13:00   Lunch
14:00   CryoSEM/EDS/BSE: freeze-fracture SEM, topographical and material contrast; EDS mapping; correlation with fluorescent microscopy - Ms Gal Mor Khalifa, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
14:40   Charting cellular landscapes in molecular detail: cryo-FIB preparations aimed at in situ cryo-electron tomography - Dr Julia Mahamid, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
15:20   Coffee Break
15:40   The development of cryo-FIB lift-out for soft matter and Biological imaging - Dr Christopher Parmenter, University of Nottingham, UK
16:20   Seeing single metal atoms on protein structures by cryo-STEM - Prof Michael Elbaum, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
17:00   Concluding remarks - Prof Michael Elbaum

Find out more and register at http://www.rms.org.uk/discover-engage/event-calendar/cryogenic-preparation-imaging.html


Mel Reedman
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