Agenda

~ Welcome and Opening Remarks ~
Nikolaus Grigorieff, UMass Chan Medical School

Session 1
Moderator:
Luke Chao, Harvard Medical School

Sara Kathrin Goetz, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
"Towards high-throughput in-cell cryo-ET: new tools for automated sample preparations and data mining”

1:05 pm – 1:25 pm

Shiwei Zhu, Yale School of Medicine
“Capturing Three-Dimensional Structures of Human Antimicrobial Immune Proteins in Action”

1:25 pm – 1:45 pm

Anthony Schuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Context matters: The Cellular Environment Shapes the Nuclear Pore Complex Architecture"

1:45 pm – 2:15 pm

Breakout Room: Sessions with Speakers

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm

BREAK

2:30 pm – 3:20 pm

Session 2
Moderator:
Chen Xu, UMass Chan Medical School

2:35 pm – 2:50 pm

Drew Griffin, Gatan
"Maximizing Throughput and Data Quality with the Bio-Continuum HD"

2:50 pm – 3:05 pm

Aubrey Funke, ZEISS Group
"The ZEISS Correlative Cryo Workflow: Your Solution for TEM Lamella Preparation and Volume Imaging"

3:05 pm – 3:20 pm

Breakout Room: Sessions with Sponsors

3:20 pm – 5:00 pm

Session 3
Moderator:
Bronwyn Lucas, UMass Chan Medical School

3:25 pm – 3:45 pm

Judy Huang, UMass Chan Medical School
"Quantitative Structural Analysis of Influenza A Virus by Cryo-Electron Tomography and Convolutional Neural Networks"

3:45 pm – 4:05 pm

Shujun Cai, Yale School of Medicine
“Cryo-electron Tomography of a Parkinson’s Disease-Linked Lipid-Transfer Protein in Situ”

4:05 pm – 4:25 pm

Alex de Marco, Monash University
"Pushing the Efficiency for in Situ CryoEM"

4:25 pm – 4:55 pm

Breakout Room: Sessions with Speakers

4:55 pm – 5:00 pm

~ Closing Remarks ~

12:30 pm – 12:40 pm

Introduction
Brian Kelch, UMass Chan Medical School

12:40 pm – 2:20 pm

Session 4
Moderator:
Chuck Sindelar, Yale School of Medicine

12:40 pm – 1:30 pm

Lightning Talks (10x 5 minutes each)

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Thunder Discussions

2:00 pm – 2:20 pm

BREAK

2:20 pm – 3:10 pm

Session 5
Moderator:
Chen Xu, UMass Chan Medical School

2:25 pm – 2:40 pm

Natelia de Val, ThermoFisher
"Cryo-EM, a Powerful Tool for Understanding Structure"

2:40 pm – 2:55 pm

Jaap Brink, JEOL
"CRYO ARM Series Electron Cryo-microscopes for Structural Analysis"

2:55 pm – 3:10 pm

Breakout Session with Sponsors

3:10 pm – 4:30 pm

Session 6
Moderator:
Christine Carbone, UMass Chan Medical School

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm

Johannes Elferich, UMass Chan Medical School
“High-Throughput in-Situ Cryo-EM of Hematopoietic Differentiation” 

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Simon Jenni, Harvard Medical School
“Reconstruction of the Vesicular Stomatitis Bullet-Shaped Virus” 

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego
“Opening Windows into the Cell: Bringing Structure into Cell Biology Using Cryo-Electron Tomography”

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Breakout Sessions with Speakers

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

~ Closing Remarks ~