Tutorials

Physical Sciences Tutorials

Organizer: D.N. Leonard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

X40 Large Scale Data Acquisition and Analysis for Materials Imaging and Spectroscopy

Stephen Jesse, Sergei Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Increasing Bandwidth, Control, and Resolution of Microscopes Using Customized Data Acquisition Hardware
• Multivariate Analysis for Mining Spectral-Imaging Data to Map Functional Properties
• Microscopy in the Cloud – Utilizing High Performance Computing Infrastructure for Advanced Large Scale Analysis
• Microscopy in a Crowd – Building Environments for Collaborative Data Analysis and Processing

X41 Entrepreneurship in the Microscopy Community

Robert Hirche, ICMAS Inc.

Several entrepreneurs from the microscopy community will be in attendance for a round table Q&A with tutorial attendees on topics including, but not limited to:

• Instrumentation development and commercialization
• Practical steps to take when starting your own microscopy based business
• Panel discussion on business start-up best practices
• Role of local affiliated microscopy societies in bringing microscopists and businesses together

Biological Sciences Tutorials

Organizer: Tommi A. White, University of Missouri

X42 CryoEM with Phase Plates

Radostin Danev, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Germany)

• Introduction to phase plates
• Setting up cryo-tomography and single particle data acquisition with a phase plate
• Processing of phase plate single particle data

X43 Practical Strategies for Cryo-CLEM Experiments

Cheri Hampton, Emory University

• Available methodologies for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM)
• Emphasis on cryo-fLM paired with cryo-EM/ET
• Practical considerations and troubleshooting for biological sample preparation
• Applications for virus-host interactions and virus structure including bacterial and mammalian systems

X44 Freeze Fracture, Deep-Etch & 3D Anaglyphs

Robyn Roth, Washington University

• Freeze fracture
• Deep-Etch
• 3D Anaglyphs