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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Early bird registration for the 11th Annual CCP-EM Spring Symposium closes soon (<b>1 March 2025</b>)! We have limited accommodation remaining, so if would like to
stay in the Orchard Hotel or Rutland Halls, please register asap!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The conference aims to provide a forum to highlight state-of-the-art developments in computational cryoEM and related themes, as well as showcasing outstanding recent
biological applications. We aim to promote an inclusive, friendly atmosphere, welcoming those both old and new to the community. Topics include instrument technology, sample preparation, image processing, single particle reconstruction, tomography and model
building.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The meeting also includes the Diamond Light Source Biological Cryo-Imaging User Meeting for eBIC & B24 and associated satellite meetings for correlative microscopy
(eBIC), electron diffraction (eBIC), membrane protein lab (DLS), HexAuFoil User Group Meeting (Quantifoil) and a Thermo Fisher meeting on advances in SPA.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The conference will be held as a hybrid meeting, with the physical event at the East Midlands Conference Centre (EMCC) in Nottingham, plus virtual access online via
Zoom. The meeting is kindly sponsored by CryoCloud, Dectris, Hammerspace, Nanosoft, Nuclera, SPT LabTech, SubAngstrom, and Thermo Fisher Scientific.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dates:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">23-25</span><sup><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">th</span></sup><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
April 2025</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Location:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">EMCC, Nottingham, UK</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Registration:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cvent.me/b4r5bM__;!!Mih3wA!DRHEg2yZsgIHZ1bSv6JqyiD6nd0vBxTe9uG6_sIdMVl_mDC5vNlNWYq6pU0h26yNBe2OOWalBmjbB0hHfdQlZ9a5DoFi$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://cvent.me/b4r5bM</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Confirmed Symposium speakers include:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alister Burt (Genentech)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Jose-Maria Carazo (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Maud Dumoux (RFI)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Johannes Elferich (UMass Chan Medical School)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Andreas Engel (CryoWrite)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Arjen Jakobi (TU Delft)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Wanda Kukulski (University of Bern)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Taiana Maia de Oliveira (AstraZeneca)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Charlie Scarff (Leeds University)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Thom Sharp (University of Bristol)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alexander Shtyrov (MRC-LMB)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Amit Singer (Princeton)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Jessie Zhang (University of California, Berkeley)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Kai Zhang (Yale)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Confirmed BCI speakers:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Sonia Rodriguez Fernandez (University of Cambridge)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Valentina Loconte (B24, Diamond Light Source)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ste Muench (University of Leeds)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Martin Rennie (University of Glasgow)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">David Sauer (University of Oxford)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">David Waterman (STFC, CCP4)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Plus eBIC user meeting round-table discussion</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Symposium scientific organisers:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Laura Spagnolo (University of Glasgow)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Rene Frank (University of Leeds)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Biological Cryo-Imaging user meeting organising committee:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lorna Malone (eBIC, Diamond Light Source)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Archana Jadhav (B24, Diamond Light Source)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Emma Buzzard (eBIC, Diamond Light Source)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Éilís Bragginton (eBIC, Diamond Light Source)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">More details are available here:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ccpem.ac.uk/training/spring_symposium_2025/spring_symposium_2025.php__;!!Mih3wA!DRHEg2yZsgIHZ1bSv6JqyiD6nd0vBxTe9uG6_sIdMVl_mDC5vNlNWYq6pU0h26yNBe2OOWalBmjbB0hHfdQlZ-Xm5YaM$"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">CCP-EM
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We look forward to welcoming you all in Nottingham!</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Best wishes from CCP-EM & DLS BCI</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Scientific Computing Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Rutherford Appleton Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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