Electron Microscopy: adding cryoEM

Electron microscopy provides a special area of biological imaging. This session addresses the use and management of electron microscope cores, and in particular the increasing productivity and demand for electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM). As the days of individual researchers operating their own EM are waning, access to these microscopes is handled more and more by shared resource facilities. Our special guest, Ed Egelman, will present the advanced structural results that can now be obtained by cryoEM. Core directors David Belnap and Melissa Chambers will provide overviews of their facilities and the uses for both traditional EM and cryoEM that are in demand. At the end, there will be a round-table discussion of current developments, best practices, and other questions from the audience.