First K. H. Kuo Summer School of Electron Microscopy and Crystallography

Beijing Workshop of Cryo-Electron Microscopy

in Structural Biology

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 14 - 16, 2008

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Topics:

• Principles of electron microscopy and electron diffraction
• Modern techniques of specimen preparation
• Cryo-electron microscopy
• Crystallography of two-dimensional crystals
• Principles of single particle analysis
• Electron tomography
• Structural studies of membrane proteins
• Structural studies of viruses
• Structural studies of macromolecular complexes
• Structural studies of cells and cellular organelles

Suggested Readings:

"Electron Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules"
by Robert Glaeser, Ken Downing, David DeRosier, Wah Chiu and Joachim Frank. Oxford University Press (2007).

"Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy of Macromolecular Assemblies: Visualization of Biological Molecules in Their Native State"
by Joachim Frank. Oxford University Press (2005).