Conference Description
The 2021 Gordon Research Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy will continue the tradition of highlighting the best of cutting-edge research in 3DEM.
The Coronavirus pandemic has changed all of our lives, and prevented us from meeting in 2020. We will have a special session to highlight the vital role that cryo-EM research has played in the intensive research being done to battle Covid-19, and in translational research in general.
Technological innovations have not stopped, despite the reduced capacity experienced by most labs. Progress continues in solving structures of macromolecular complexes to atomic resolution with new milestones observed. There are many exciting challenges that still confront us, including needs for hardware and platform innovation, reproducible and efficient sample preparation, higher throughput, algorithm development, data validation, and reaching towards dynamic and ever smaller complexes. The accumulation of huge data sets requires data mining and dissemination tools in order to best exploit these rich resources of information.
We also see a bridge forming between high resolution structures and in-situ structural biology. Developments in cellular tomography provide us with new ways to capture biological structures at ever finer detail. Developments in sample preparation for tissues and cells, FIB-milling, correlative light microscopy, phase plate technology, instrumentation, data acquisition and processing schemes have brought exciting new results to the field and rapid progress.
The meeting will highlight many of these aspects, as well as other complementary techniques that can bridge the gap between high resolution and large volumes.
We will continue with the popular tradition of having two evening sessions dedicated for selected poster presentations. There will be ample opportunities for senior and junior scientists to interact and discuss during social events and poster sessions. As in every year, due to limited attendance (<200 participants) and the over-subscribed nature of previous meetings, early registration is encouraged. In your application, please provide information on your research, and if you are a junior member of our community, please indicate the name of your advisor.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by June 30, 2021. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Contributions of 3DEM to Research on Coronavirus
Discussion Leaders
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Montserrat Barcena (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
Speakers
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Priyamvada Acharya (Duke University School of Medicine, USA)
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Sai Li (Tsinghua University, China)
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David Veesler (University of Washington, USA)
Innovations in Algorithms and Software
Discussion Leaders
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Michael Cianfrocco (University of Michigan, USA)
Speakers
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Pilar Cossio (Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute, USA)
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Joseph Davis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
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Joachim Frank (Columbia University, USA)
Shattering Resolution Limits in Cryo-EM
Discussion Leaders
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Eva Nogales (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Speakers
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Dimitry Tegunov (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
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Holger Stark (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
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Andrija Sente (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
Cellular and Molecular Tomography
Discussion Leaders
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Elizabeth Villa (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Speakers
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Stefan Raunser (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany)
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Yanqing Zhang (Fudan University, China)
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Elizabeth Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Selected Poster Presentations: Breakthrough Methods and Workflows
Discussion Leaders
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Mario Borgnia (National Institutes of Health, USA)
Speakers
Sample Preparation and Workflows
Discussion Leaders
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Bridget Carragher (New York Structural Biology Center, USA)
Speakers
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Juergen Plitzko (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
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Hongwei Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
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Katerina Naydenova (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
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Ulrich Lorenz (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Hardware and Instrument Developments
Discussion Leaders
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Tamir Gonen (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Speakers
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Abbas Ourmazd (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
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Osip Schwartz (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
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Peiyi Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
3DEM in Translational Research
Discussion Leaders
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Alexey Amunts (SciLifeLab, Sweden)
Speakers
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Claudio Ciferri (Genentech, USA)
Selected Poster Presentations: Solving Challenging Structures
Discussion Leaders
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Nadav Elad (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Speakers
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizer:
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Elizabeth Kellogg (Cornell University, USA)
