NeCEN EM Seminar – Dr. Rouslan Efremov

Dear EM enthusiasts,

The next presentation from the NeCEN seminar series on Electron Microscopy will be on Wednesday December 11 (15:30) in room GM 4.13 at the Gorlaeus Laboratories Betacampus. Dr. Rouslan Efremov from the VIB-VUB in Belgium will present.

Dr. Efremov has setup a cryoEM facility for single particle work with a JEOL cryoARM300; one of the two in Europe. He will give us an update on the performance of the machine and his own research interests which lie on the structural biology of large protein complexes using single particle as the main technique.

If you would like to receive announcements about NeCEN events, please send an email to necen@biology.leidenuniv.nl and we will add your name to our mailing list.

Looking forward to seeing you there,
The NeCEN team

Functional Imaging course, Amsterdam

The van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy organises the next edition of the “Functional Imaging” course in Amsterdam, the Netherlands at Oct 7th-16th 2019.

This 8-days advanced microscopy course for experienced graduate students, postdocs and other scientists will integrate theoretical lectures with hands-on experiments and practical experience. Due to the revolution in genetic encoded labeling (GFPs, switchable probes, FlAsH and AGT-tagging, etc) and in advanced microscopy (confocal,
super-resolution, FRET, dynamics etc) it is now not only possible to image the location of fluorescently labeled molecules but with the functional imaging techniques one can quantify the dynamics of molecular processes inside cells with unprecedented resolution, speed and accuracy. Because the application of advanced microscopy is essential
for modern research in cell biology, this course provides training in the diverse modes of advanced microscopy. The microscope setups on which the training is provided are part of the van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy (LCAM) in Amsterdam, in which the research groups of Molecular Cytology (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, UvA), of
Cell Biology and Histology of the University Medical Center Amsterdam (UMCA) and the Cellular Biophysics Group, Dept of Cell Biology (Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI). The practical sessions will cover several microscopy techniques such as Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP), Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) & Super resolution microscopy (SRM).

Participants: Max. 8 PhD students, postdocs and other scientists
Level: Experienced microscopist
Course fee: 400 €
Info: http://www.microscopycourse.nl/?page_id=652
Application deadline: September 4th 2019
Selection criteria: Experience and motivation, to be included in the application form.
Organisers: LCAM, contact: Mark Hink (m.a.hink@uva.nl)