The American Crystallographic Association has formed a new Special Interest Group for Cryo-electron microscopy. I am delighted to serve as 2018 Chair of the new SIG, and look forward to developing new opportunities to expand conversations about CryoEM in Structural Biology through future ACA meetings and events.
There will already be lots of excellent discussion about CryoEM at the 2018 Annual ACA Meeting in Toronto sponsored by the Biological Macromolecules SIG and Light Source SIG. On July 22 there will be a full day of presentations from CryoEM scientists with morning and afternoon scientific sessions chaired by Wah Chiu (Stanford U) and Lori Passmore (MRC-LMB). Invited speakers include: Joachim Frank (Columbia University) (tentative) Nieng Yang (Princeton U) Maofu Liao (Harvard U) Kiyoshi Nagai (MRC LMB, Cambridge) Xiaodong Zhang (Imperial College, London) Gabe Lander (Scripps research Institute) Wah Chiu, Lori Passmore, and John Rubinstein (U Toronto) are also co-organizing a full day workshop on July 20 entitled “CryoEM – A guide to high-resolution structure determination.” The aim of the workshop is to provide a detailed overview of specimen preparation, image processing and building/refinement of atomic models, with focus on high-resolution single particle cryo-EM. Aspects of image processing and modelling will be hands-on with state-the-art programs used by workshop students to process sample datasets. Please mark your calendars and join us in Toronto! Best wishes, Cathy Lawson Rutgers University
