Announcement: Single Particle Cryo-EM School in Brazil, Summer 2006
24 August - 5 September 2006
The Second Brazil School for Single Particle Cryo Electron Microscopy - 2006 will be an intensive 12 days hands-on course for learning the processing of single-particle cryo EM data from A to Z.
The attendees can be those who are entirely new to the approach, or those for who the technique is of growing importance and who wish to acquire an in-depth understanding of the technique.
The course covers all issues from data collection, through to the interpretation of the cryo-EM maps and the fitting of known X-ray structures.
The students are expected to bring along a modern notebook computer onto which all necessary software will be downloaded.
Most processing will take place in the context of the IMAGIC software system but other software will be available. Various sample cryo-EM data sets will be distributed for processing during the course.
Data sets will range from electron images of the asymmetric ribosome images to those of icosahedral virus capsids. Model data sets with also be distributed. Students may bring along their own data sets for processing/discussion.
The conference site is located close to the city of Araraquara, in the interior of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Araraquara, although in the tropics, has a pleasant ~20º centigrade average temperature in August (500 m above sea level). Hotel Fazenda Salto Grande has optimal facilities for a school of this size.
For details see the school website http://www.cbem.ic.ac.uk/Brazil_School_2006/