[lm-announce] TOMORROW, 12 NOON: Cryo-electron Tomography seminar

[Sam Swift]

Dear All,

Please can I draw your attention to tomorrow's seminar with Marek  
Cyrklaff on cryo-electron tomography at 12 noon in the WTB seminar  
room.  This promises to be an excellent talk from a recognised expert  
in cryo-electron tomography and should be of interest to all of you.   
And if that's not good enough... we will be upgrading one of our  
microscopes for tomography later in the year, so this is an excellent  
opportunity to find out a little more about how this technique may be  
relevant to your own research.

Cheers,
Sam


Joint Seminar CBI Division and Central Microscopy

Dr Marek Cyrklaff
University of Heidelberg

"Cryo-electron tomography of whole cells"

Tuesday 8th June

12noon

WTB Seminar Rooms (Front and Back)

Host John Lucocq

Everybody Welcome!

Marek is an expert in cryoelectron tomography, which provides 3D- 
nanometre
resolution imaging of rapidly frozen intact cells and molecular  
assemblies
at near-native state. This is, and will be, THE definitive benchmark
technique for analysing cell and molecular structures in situ,  
superseding
traditional “text book” and other cryo- EM methods. Marek has  
contributed to
the pioneering development of this key method by means of his  
analysis of
intact whole cells including human parasites, bacteria and parts  
mammalian
cells (e.g. neuron synapses) - producing the first images of whole
plasmodium sporozoites and the borreliosis (Lyme disease) spirochete.  
His
talk will be of interest to anyone interested in “true-to-life”
morphofunctional relationships in intact cells.
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