Past EM Journal Clubs and seminar speakers

31 Oct 2011 - 4 pm - Richard Henderson_: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, "What is needed to make single particle electron cryomicroscopy reach its true potential?"
21 Sep 2011 - 11 am - Brian Gibbons_: Dept. of Structural Biology (Kornberg Lab), Stanford University Med School, "Looking Transcription in the H"
15 Sep 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club SaikatChowdhury of the City College of New York will present Organization of an activator-bound RNA polymerase holoenzyme by Bose et al. (2008). Mol Cell. 32(3):337-46.
12 Jul 2011 - 4-5pm (A-11) - Special Seminar Ed Eng from Harvard will present Conformational changes in integrin and von Willebrand factor during primary hemostasis studied by single particle EM and SAXS
16 Jun 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club BillRice of NYSBC will present Precise beam-tilt alignment and collimation are required to minimize the phase error associated with coma in high-resolution cryo-TEM by Glaeser et al. (2011). J. Struct Biol 174:1-10.
02 Jun 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club Ignacio Garzón of Columbia will present his paper ADP_EM: Fast exhaustive multi-resolution docking for high-throughput coverage. (2007) Bioinformatics. 23(4):427-33
19 May 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club PaulGottlieb of CCNY will present Three-Dimensional Model of Salmonella's Needle Complex at Subnanometer Resolution by Schraidt et.al. (2011) Science 331(6021):1192-1195.
10 May 2011 - 2-3 pm (A-11) - Special Seminar: James Chen from the Department of Biology at MIT will present his work titled, "Towards high-resolution, high-throughput single particle EM"
05 May 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club KdDerr of NYSBC will present a Review of Current Biologically focused FIB/SEM Articles.
21 Apr 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club NicolasCoudray of NYSBC will present High-resolution tomographic diffractive microscopy of biological samples by Simon et.al. (2010) Journal of Biophotonics, Special Issue: Advanced Micro and Nanoscopy for Biomedicine 3(7):462-7.
24 Mar 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club PaulaUpla of NYSBC will present Structural Analysis of HIV-1 Using Cryo-Electron Tomography by Marco et. al. PLOS Pathog. 2010 Nov 24; 6(11) e1001215
10 Mar 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club Special Seminar Mariena Silvestry of Univ. of Western Ontario will present "Understanding the Structures of Human Adenovirus and Calcium-binding Proteins by CryoEM and NMR"
24 Feb 2011 - 4-6pm (A-22) - EM Journal Club, AndreaNans of NYU will present Cryo electron tomography of native HIV-1 budding sites. by Carlson et al. PLoS Pathog. 2010 Nov 24; 6(11)
10 Feb 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club RalphLasala of NYSBC will present The 3-dimensional structure of hepatitis virus p7 ion channel by electron microscopy by Luik et.al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Aug 4; 106(31):12712-6.
13 Jan 2011 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club, Jaime Llodra of NYU will present "Microtubule organization in the final stages of cytokinesis as revealed by cryo-electron Tomography" by Elad et al. J Cell Sci.2011; 124: 207-215
9 Dec 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club, NatachaOpalka and AlbertWeixlbaumer of Rockerfeller Univeristy will present "Grafix: sample preparation for single-particle electron cryomicroscopy" by Kastner et al. Nat Methods vol5:1 Jan 2008.
18 Nov 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club, PaulGottlieb from CCNY presents "4D Electron Tomography" by Kwon et al., Science 2010 328:1668-1673.
11 Nov 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club, SaikatChowdhury a visiting grad student from Pennsylvania State University at CCNY will present "Single particle cryoelectron tomography characterization of the structure and structural variability of poliovirus-receptor-membrane complex at 30 A resolution" By Bostina et. al., J Struct Biol. 2007 Nov;160(2):200-10.
28 Oct 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club, "James" JayantJayasundar from CCNY presents "An Atomic Model of the Thin Filament in the Relaxed and Ca2C-Activated States" by Pirani et al. J. Mol. Biol. (2006) 357, 707–717
21 Oct 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club, WillisaLiou visiting scientist at AECOM will present "A subdomain of the endoplasmic reticulum forms a cradle for autophagosome formation" by Hayashi-Nishino et al., Nat CellBio 11 1433-1436.
14 Oct 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club, SachaDeCarlo of CCNY will present "Ribosome dynamics and the tRNA movement by time-resolved electron cryomicroscopy" by Fischer et al. Nature 2010 466:329-333.
07 Oct 2010 - EM Journal Club, KdDerr of NYSBC will present "Improving the technique of vitreous cryo-sectioning for cryo-electron tomography: Electrostatic charging for section attachment and implementation of an anti-contamination glove box" by Pierson et. al., J Struct Bio 2010 169 :219-225.
30 Sep 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club, Special Guest Pawel Penczek from Structural Biology Imaging Center at University of Texas-Houston Medical School will talk about quantifying fits to EM maps
23 Sep 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11) - EM Journal Club, JaimeLlodra of NYU will present "Dissecting the molecular architecture of integrin adhesion sites by cryo-electron tomography" by Patla et al. Nat Cell Bio, online 2010
29 Jun 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11)- Special EM Meeting- Highlights from the Gordon Research Conference presented by David Stokes and Joachim Frank,
24 Jun 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11)- EM Journal Club, BillRice from NYSBC will present "Zernike phase contrast cryo-electron tomography" by Danev et al, J Struct Biol 2010 171, 174-81
03 Jun 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11)- EM Journal Club, AlejandraLeoMacias from NYU will present "Towards automatic detection of complexes in cells by cryoelectron tomography and template matching. Mycoplasma pneumoniae as a test case" Focusing on Kühner et al. "Proteome Organization in a Genome-Reduced Bacterium" Science 2009 326:1235 - 1240
20 May 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11)- EM Journal Club, RubenDiaz presents "Correlative cryo-light microscopy and cryo-electron tomography: from cellular territories to molecular landscapes" by Jurgen Plitzko et. al. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2009 20:83-89
6 May 2010 - 4-6pm (A-11)- EM Journal Club, FabianaRenzi presents FREALIGN: High resolution refinement of single particle structures by Nikolaus Grigorieff J Struct Biol 157 117-25 (2007)
22 Apr 2010 - 4-6PM EM Journal Club, SachaDeCarlo presents The resolution dependence of optimal exposures in liquid nitrogen temperature electron cryomicroscopy of catalase crystals by Baker et.al. J Struct Biol 169 431-37 (2010)
08 Apr 2010 @ 4PM KdDerr Presents "High-pressure cooling of protein crystals without cryoprotectants" by Chae Un Kim, Raphael Kapfer and Sol M. Gruner Acta_Cryst (2005) D61, 881-890
25 Mar 2010 @ 4PM PaulGottlieb presents Cryo-EM Model of the Bullet-Shaped Vesicular Stomatitis Virus by Peng Ge, et al. Science 327, 689 (2010)
04 Mar 2010 @ 4PM BillRice Presents "Optimal Determination of Particle Orientation, Absolute Hand, and Contrast Loss in Single-particle Electron Cryomicroscopy" by Peter Rosenthal and Richard Henderson

-- KdDerr - 28 Jun 2010