The NVvM and NEMI are organizing the third Materials Science EM meeting which will take place on Wednesday February 2, 2022. Please find the program below. The meeting will be online via Microsoft Teams. The meeting is organized by Sonia Conesa Boj (TU Delft) and Marijn van Huis (Utrecht University). Please register for this meeting by sending an email to m.a.vanhuis@uu.nl. A link to the online meeting will be sent to all participants in January 2022.

Program: 

09.45-10.00   Online arrival and home-made coffee; opening at 10.00 am 

10.00-10.45   Heiner Friedrich (TU Eindhoven) 

10.45-11.30   Majid Ahmadi (Univ. Groningen) 

11.30-12.15   Maarten Bolhuis (TU Delft) 

12.15-13.00   Lunch 

13.00-13.45   Rafael Gregorio Mendes (Utrecht Univ.) 

13.45-14.30   Wiebke Albrecht (AMOLF Amsterdam) 

14.30-15.15   Gertjan Koster (University of Twente) 

15.15-15.30   Discussion and closure 

Invited participating groups: 

• UU (Marijn van Huis, Petra de Jongh, Martyn Drury) 
• TUD (Sonia Conesa Boj, Jacob Hoogenboom) 
• TU/e (Heiner Friedrich, Jom Luiten, Marcel Verheijen) 
• AMOLF (Wiebke Albrecht, Erik Garnett) 
• RUG (Bart Kooi) 
• University of Twente (Gertjan Koster) 
• Leiden University (Sense Jan van der Molen) 
• Industrial partners 

In recent years, Electron Microscopy has rapidly developed as a powerful research tool for high-resolution imaging achieving atomic resolutions and combining light and electron microscopy (CLEM).

During this course, you will be introduced to all these novel developments. You will learn to use both transmission (TEM) as well as scanning electron microscopes (SEM) with different detectors. You will perform classical techniques for specimen preparation, like resin embedding of cells and tissues and negative staining of small structures like virus particles, as well as cryo-techniques for both TEM and SEM. The course will also include tips and tricks to perform CLEM.

The course takes place at the EM labs of the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC and Wageningen University Research Centre so that there will be plenty of time to use the EMs. This course will be as much hands on as possible.

More info and registration (only 2 PhD spots left): link

• Nov 29 – Dec 1
• Broad spectrum of topics ranging from expression and purification of membrane proteins, several structural biology techniques and MD. 
• More info: https://www.embl.org/about/info/course-and-conference-office/events/tbp21-01/

The NVBMB fall symposium will take place online on 18 November in the afternoon. More info: https://nvbmb.kncv.nl/fall-2021/fall-meeting-2021

DutchBiophysics is the annual two-day conference on molecular and cellular biophysics. The aim of this conference is to bring together all Dutch research groups in these two fields of biophysics. The next edition of DutchBiophysics takes place on Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 October 2021.

Deadlines for submitting abstracts:

• Oral presentation abstract: Tuesday 1 June 2021, 14.00 hours CE(S)T
• Poster abstract: Tuesday 7 September 2021, 14.00 hours CE(S)T.

https://www.nwo.nl/en/meetings/dutchbiophysics

 

Program 

Monday 6 September 2021:

• 09.00 – 10.00 Introduction Transmission EM 
• 10.00 – 10.15 coffee
• 10.15 – 11.30 TEM assignment 
• 11.30 – 12.00 Electron Microscopes and Microbes
• 12.00 – 13.00 lunch
• 13.00 – 13.45 New developments in TEM and CLEM 
• 13.45 – 14.00 coffee
• 14.00 – 16.00 CLEM assignment
• 16.00 – 16.45 guest speaker TEM

Tuesday 7 September 2021:

• 09.00 – 10.00 Introduction Scanning EM
• 10.00 – 10.15 coffee
• 10.15 – 12.00 SEM assignment
• 12.00 – 13.00 lunch
• 13.00 – 13.45 Guest speaker SEM 
• 13.45 – 15.00 presentations 5 min per participant how can I use EM
• 15.00 – 15.15 coffee
• 15.15 – 16.45 presentations 5 min per participant how can I use EM