Meeting@NIH, Oct 12-13, 2010

[Stefan W. Hell]

Recent Advances and Future Prospects for Visualizing Macromolecular Complexes and Cellular Structures

On behalf of the organizing committee,  I would like to call your attention to a meeting focussed on advances and future prospects of advanced imaging methods for visualizing macromolecular complexes and cellular structures, which will be held on October 12-13, 2010 at the Lister Hall conference center on the NIH campus

https://conferences.niaid.nih.gov/vbbethesda/Pages/default.aspx

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Organizing Committee:

Wah Chiu
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine

Robert Glaeser

Structural Biology Department
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of California - Berkeley

Stefan Hell 
Department of Nanobiophotonics
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

Jim Hogle (Chair) 
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School

Werner Külbrandt 
Department of Structural Biology
Max Planck Institute for Biophysics

Eun-Chung Park
Virology Branch
NIAID, NIH

Sriram Subramaniam
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute, NIH

Xiaowei Zhuang
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

For additional information please contact: Eun-Chung Park, 
Program Officer, NIAID, NIH
Tel: [phone]
E-mail: [hidden email]

Preliminary Program (all speakers confirmed)

Tuesday, October 12, 2010                                   

Session I. Advances in high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy

9:00 - 10:00 Nikolaus Grigorieff Factors limiting resolution in cryo-electron microscopy
Steve Ludtke The challenge of high-resolution with low-symmetry in cyro-EM single particle analysis

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:30

Peter Denes Advanced Detectors for Microscopies of Hard and Soft Matter
Werner Kuhlbrandt Towards corrected, in-focus electron cryo-microscopy
Mark Ellisman Multiscale Imaging Challenges and Opportunities


11:30 – 1:30 Lunch

Session II. Advances in optical microscopy

1:30 – 2:30
Stefan Hell Nanoscopy with focused light
Xiaowei Zhuang Super-resolution fluorescence imaging with STORM


Coffee break

3:00 – 4:00
Bernardo Sabatini Supraresolution fluorescence imaging in brain tissue
W. E. Moerner Molecules and Methods for Super-resolution Imaging in Cells

4:00 – 6:00 Poster Session

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Session III. Advances in hybrid methods for molecular and cellular imaging

9:00 - 10:00
Carolyn Larabell Localizing molecules with respect to cell structures using correlated fluorescence and x-ray tomography
Toshio Ando Dynamic imaging of biomolecular processes by high-speed AFM

Coffee break and posters


10:30 -11:00
Sriram Subramaniam Cells and Viruses at Molecular Resolution: From Structure to Mechanism


11:00 -1:00 Short talks/panel discussion