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Advanced Electron Microscopy in NanoMedicine Symposium

Friday, October 2nd - Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Location: CNSI Auditorium
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
8:30 - 9:00 am
Coffee & Registration
9:00 - 9:10 am
Welcoming Remarks -
Leonard H. Rome, CNSI Associate Director
9:10 - 9:20 am
Opening Remarks -
Don Kania, FEI
Session 1 - Tim Baker, UC San Diego
9:30 - 10:00 am


9:55 - 10:00 am
Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine
Cryo-EM of Nanomachine and Cell

Question and Answer Session
10:00 - 10:30 am


10:25 - 10:30 am
Joachim Frank, Columbia University
Cryo-EM of the Ribosome - the Workings of a Molecular Machine

Question and Answer Session
10:30 - 11:00 am



10:55 - 11:00 pm
Werner Kühlbrandt, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Cryo-EM of Fatty Acid Synthase at 6 Å Resolution - Structure and Function of a Nanomachine for Solid-State Synthesis

Question and Answer Session
11:00 - 11:30 am
Break
11:30 - 12:00 pm


11:55 - 12:00
Ed Egelman, University of Virginia
Polymers and Pathogenesis: New Structural Insights

Question and Answer Session
12:00 - 12:30 pm


12:25 - 12:30 pm
Ken Downing, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Microtubules - Fun and Fascinating Target for CryoEM, Nanotechnology and Medicine

Question and Answer Session
12:30 - 2:30 pm Lunch - 6th Fl. Rooftop
Poster Session - 5th Fl. Presentation Space
Session 2 - Jeff Miller, UCLA CNSI
2:30 - 3:00 pm


2:55 - 3:00 pm
Petr Leiman, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Macromolecular Machines Involved in Infection of Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cells


Question and Answer Session
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Hong Zhou, UCLA CNSI
Atomic Resolution Virus Structures by CryoEM
3:30 - 3:40 pm
Hong Zhou, UCLA CNSI
Overview of Electron Imaging Center for Nanomachines (EICN)
3:40 - 6:00 pm Reception - 6th Fl. Rooftop
Poster Presentations - 5th Fl. Presentation Space
Open Tour - Electron Imaging Center for Nanomachines (EICN) on B Level, CNSI
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
8:30 - 9:00 am
Coffee
Session 3 - Ron Milligan, Scripps Research Institute
9:00 - 9:30 am



9:25 - 9:30 am
Ken Taylor, Florida State University
Molecular Tomography - Extracting Molecular Structure & Conformation from Electron Tomograms

Question and Answer Session
9:30 - 10:00 am


9:55 - 10:00 am
Grant Jensen, Caltech
Electron Cryotomography

Question and Answer Session
10:00 - 10:30 am



10:25 - 10:30 am
Sriram Subramaniam, National Cancer Institute
Bridging the Nano Gap: Visualizing Cells and Viruses at Molecular Resolution Using 3D Electron Microscopy

Question and Answer Session
10:30 - 11:00 am


10:55 - 11:00 am
Keiichi Namba, Osaka University
Molecular Mechanisms of Self-Assembly, Switching and Motion of the Bacterial Flagellum

Question and Answer Session
11:00 - 11:30 am
Break
11:30 - 12:00 am


11:55 - 12:00 am
Andres Hoenger, University of Colorado at Boulder
3-D Analysis of Microtubes Interacting with Maps and Motors

Question and Answer Session
12:00 - 12:30 pm


12:25 - 12:30 pm
Bridget Carragher, Scripps Research Institute
Automated Molecular Microscopy: Case Studies

Question and Answer Session
12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch - CNSI Lobby
Poster Session - 5th Fl. Presentation Space
Session 4 - David Eisenberg, UCLA CNSI HHMI
2:00 - 2:30 pm


2:25 - 2:30 pm
Remco Schoenmakers, FEI Company
Tomographic Reconstructions Methods for Electron Microscopy

Question and Answer Session
2:30 - 3:00 pm


2:25 - 3:00 pm
Paul Matsudaira, National University of Singapore
The Structure and Mechanics of a Biological Spring, the Actin Acrosomal Bundle

Question and Answer Session
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Meeting Adjourned; Lobby and 5th Floor Presentation Space Open for Interaction , UCLA CNSI