Monday, March 25, 2024 9AM - 5PM, UC Berkeley
245 Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences

8:45-9 AM Pre-function Social
9-9:10 AM  Welcome by Eva Nogales
9:10-9:50 AM Elizabeth Villa, HHMI and Dept. of Molecular Biology, UC San Diego
"Discovering new jumbo phage biology with cryo-electron tomography"
9:50-10:30 AM Gaia Pigino, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy
"Cellular Structural Biology: a powerful approach to reveal the molecular mechanisms of cellular processes"
10:30-10:45 AM Break
10:45-11:25 AM Ben Engel, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
"Exploring photosynthesis and carbon fixation across scales with cryo-electron tomography"
11:25-12:05 PM Bronwyn A. Lucas, MCB and Center for Computational Biology, UC Berkeley
"Visualizing and characterizing single molecules in cells with 2DTM"
12:05-1:00 PM Lunch (Not Provided)
1:00-1:40 PM Juergen Plitzko, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Serial-lift-out – the path to the molecular anatomy of whole organisms by cryo-ET
1:40-2:20 PM C. Shan Xu, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University
"Probing Structure and Function Relationship by Enhanced FIB-SEM"
2:20-2:35 PM Break
2:35-3:15 PM Ke Xu, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
"Multidimensional Super-Resolution Microscopy of the Living Cell"
3:15-3:55 PM Christopher Obara, Janelia Research Campus
"Integrating dynamic and cryogenic imaging technologies to map the landscape of organelle membranes"
3:55-4:00 PM Closing Remarks
4:00-5:00 PM Social

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