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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Dear All,</font></div>
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<i class="">“<b class="">Otago cryo-EM course</b>”</i> on 28<sup class="">th</sup>January – 1<sup class="">st</sup> February 2019 in Dunedin, New Zealand.</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">The course aims at PhD students and researchers with little experience in cryoEM or that are planning to use cryoEM to bring their projects to the next level.</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">It will comprise a series of lectures covering all steps of Single-particle cryoEM (from sample preparation to data collection and image processing). </font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Practical sessions will give the students the opportunity to perform image processing for both single particle and subtomogram averaging. </font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><i class="">Confirmed speakers:</i></font></div>
<font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><i class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;" class="">Stefan Raunser</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">,
Max Planck Institute for Structural Biology, Dortmund, Germany</span></i></font></div>
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Baylor College of Medicine, Huston,TX, USA </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;" class="">
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><i class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;" class="">Hans Elmlund</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia</span></i></font></div>
<font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><i class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;" class="">Michael Landsberg</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">,
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia</span></i></font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><i class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;" class="">Christos Gatsogiannis</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">,
Max Planck Institute for Structural Biology, Dortmund, Germany</span></i></font></div>
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Elmlund</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;" class="">
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><i class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;" class="">Mihnea Bostina</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">,
University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand</span></i></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">All applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract describing the project they are currently working on.</font></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">On Day 1 we will hold a mini symposium where selecyted participants will present their work.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">More information about the course can be found on: <a href="http://simplecryoem.com/Otago/workshop2019.html" class="">http://simplecryoem.com/Otago/workshop2019.html</a></font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">We hope to see you in New Zealand,</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Dominika, Hans and Mihnea</font></div>
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Mihnea Bostina, PhD <br class="">
Academic Director • Electron Microscopy, Otago Micro and Nano Imaging<br class="">
Senior Lecturer • Department of Microbiology and Immunology<br class="">
University of Otago<br class="">
720 Cumberland Street</font></span></div>
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Phone: 0064 (3) 479-5926<br class="">
<a href="http://micro.otago.ac.nz/our-people/mihnea-bostina" class="">http://micro.otago.ac.nz/our-people/mihnea-bostina</a></font></span></div>
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