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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_-1501084475511122357_m_-9128646668101662054_m_7108208874186707867__GoBack"></a>Dear Colleagues,<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">We are announcing the Purdue Cryo-EM Symposium to be held on
November 6-8 2018. The goal of this meeting is to gather cryo-EM enthusiasts
from around the globe to discuss topics including sample preparation, data
collection, image processing and applications of cryo-EM. We will be hosting a
range of speakers that will share their recent progress and developments. Application
deadline is <b>Friday, August 31</b>. More
details can be found in the website of the symposium <a href="https://www.purdue.edu/cryoem2018/" target="_blank">https://www.purdue.edu/cryoem2<wbr>018/</a><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Keynote Speaker<span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Richard Henderson (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Invited Speakers<span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Yifan Cheng (UCSF)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Wah Chiu (Stanford University)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Tamir Gonen (UCLA)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Yuan He (Northwestern University)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Grant Jensen (Caltech)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hong Jin (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Werner Kühlbrandt (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jun Liu (Yale University)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Steven J Ludtke (Baylor College of Medicine)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Alfonso Mondragon (Northwestern University)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Daniela Nicastro (University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Abbas Ourmazd (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Eduardo Perozo (University of Chicago)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Vinothkumar Kutti Ragunath (National Centre for Biological
Sciences, India)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">John Rubinstein (University of Toronto)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Phoebe Stewart (Case Western Reserve University)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Peijun Zhang (University of Oxford)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Minglei Zhao (University of Chicago)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Z. Hong Zhou (UCLA)<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">We look forward to meeting many of you in November. <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Organizing Committee<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Co-chairs<span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">Wen Jiang, Leifu Chang<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Committee members<span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">William Cramer, Richard Kuhn, Angeline Lyon, Nicholas
Noinaj, <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_-1501084475511122357_m_-9128646668101662054_m_7108208874186707867_m_-7174946378592867284__GoBack"></a>































































































</p><p class="MsoNormal">Michael Rossmann, Cynthia Stauffacher, John Tesmer<span></span></p>

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