Please join us for a Frontiers in Microscopy Seminar on Wednesday, 22 November.
Date/Time: Wednesday, 22 November 2023, 14:00 – 15:30 (AEST)
Title: Measurement of charge and chemical bonding through cryo-EM and ED
Presenter: Professor. Koji Yonekura - RIKEN Spring-8 Tohoku University
Venue: AIBN Building 75, Level 1 Seminar Room
Zoom: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/85117053230
Abstract:
Using single-particle cryo-EM and three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED), we can explore 3D structural details in diverse samples from small organic compounds to large protein complexes. In this seminar, I will present our developments and results obtained using the 1st machine of a JEOL CRYO ARM 300 microscope. The topics will cover the measurement of charges and chemical bonding, AI-assisted data collection, and comparisons between 3D ED and serial crystallography with X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs).
Tea/coffee offered at the end of the session!
All welcome!
Some background information on the speaker:
Koji YONEKURA, Ph. D (Group Director / Professor)
EDUCATION:
1992: Graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology
1997: Ph. D. from Graduate School of Biosciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology
APPOINTMENTS:
1997: Research Associate, International Institute for Advanced Research, Matsushita Electric Company
1997-2002: Researcher; Group Leader of NanoSwitching Group, Protonic NanoMachine Project, ERATO, JST
2002-2005: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University
2004-2008: Keck Fellow, The W. M. Keck Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
2008: Associate Chief Scientist; Chief Scientist; Group Director, Biostructural Mechanism Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center
2018 - 2023: Unit Leader, Advanced Electron Microscope Development Unit, RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, RIKEN Baton Zone Program
2020: Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM) Tohoku University
AWARDS:
2004: Keck Fellow, The W. M. Keck Advanced Microscopy Laboratory
2009: The Ernst Ruska Prize of the German Society for Electron Microscopy
MEMBERSHIP:
2010: Member of the specialty committee, The Biophysical Society of Japan
2009-2012: Member of the younger generation subcommittee, The Japanese Society of Microscopy
