March 10-11 at the Montana State University-Bozeman campus

In collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the Blake Wiedenheft Lab and the MSU Cryo-EM Facility, we are happy to announce the first Rocky Mountain Cryo-EM Symposium on March 10-11 at the Montana State University-Bozeman campus! 

The goal of this symposium is to introduce new users to cryo-EM, learn more about local resources, and showcse research from both academia and industry.

Attendees are invited to submit samples for a live screening and data collection session on the Talos Arctica cryo-TEM. For questions about samples, please email cryo-em_facility@montana.edu

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Agenda

March 10th (Byker Auditorium in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Building)

9:30AM: Coffee

10:00AM: Opening remarks (Martin Lawrence, MSU Cryo-EM Facility Director)

10:15AM: Tour facility (Cryo-EM Facility Manager) and start data collection at the Microscope

11:30AM: Martin Lawrence (MSU Cryo-EM Facility Director)

12:15PM: Catered lunch  

1:15PM: Ryan Jackson (Utah State University) – "Structures of CRISPR-Cas12a variants reveal novel immune mechanisms with unprecedented biotech potential"

2:00PM: Keynote Speaker – Gabriel Lander (Professor at the Scripps Research Institutes and Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb) - "Visualizing the machinery of Life and Death" 

3:15PM: Luke Findley (MSU) – "Ribosome silencing factor S (RsfS): Between ribosome biogenesis and starvation"

3:45PM: Dan Decato (University of Montana) - "Microcrystal Electron Diffraction"

4:15PM: Levi McClelland (University of Montana, Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics) - "Structures of the Ric8:Galpha complex"

4:45PM: Eliza Nieweglowska (Thermo Fisher Scientific) – "Advances in cryo-electron tomography"

5:00PM: Nate Burman (MSU) – Structure update from cryoSPARC live

6:00PM: Dinner

 

March 11th (Plant Bioscience Building, Room 108)

9:00AM: Coffee

9:30AM: Blake Wiedenheft (MSU) – "Structure and function of microbial immune systems"

10:00AM Heather Callaway (MSU) - "Structure guided design of vaccines"

10:30AM: Colin Gauvin (Superluminal Medicines) – "Putting the structure in structure-based drug design"

11:00AM: Nate Burman (MSU) – Structure update from cryoSPARC live  

12:00PM: Closing remarks (Martin Lawrence, MSU Cryo-EM Facility Director)

12:15PM: Lunch