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Special Edition Virtual Pub: Innovation in Imaging

September 13, 2024

Innovative CryoEM Workflow Development: An In-Depth Look at TESCAN and the Institute of Molecular Genetics Collaboration

At the Special Edition Virtual Pub, Dominik Pinkas (Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, part of Euro-BioImaging’s Advanced LIght & Electron Microscopy Prague Node) & Ondřej Šulák (Tescan), will present a use case on how they worked together in an academia-industry partnership to develop and optimise workflows for cryo-electron microscopy. Their talk is entitled “Innovative CryoEM Workflow Development: An In-Depth Look at TESCAN and the Institute of Molecular Genetics Collaboration.” 

September 5, 2024

Euro-BioImaging at European Microscopy Congress 2024

With 8 years of planning and waiting, emc2024 was an event with many expectations. Held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2024, following the cancellation of…

A staff scientist sits at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Volumescope, looking closely at data

February 21, 2024

Dissecting the natural history of the Malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in mosquitoes with advanced 3D electron microscopy

Pablo Suárez Cortés is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin (Germany). His work focuses on understanding how Plasmodium falciparum,…

February 5, 2024

Cryo-ET to understand how enteroviruses replicate

Enteroviruses cause a range of diverse diseases in humans, like polio or viral myocarditis. While there is a vaccine available for polio, the replication…

EDX image at 4 nm pixelsize showing phosphor, osmium and sulfur distribution in EPON-embedded exocrine pancreas, in red, green and blue respectively. Image credit: Peter Duinkerken, Giepmans lab, UMC Groningen, NL.

January 17, 2024

EDX Imaging: Electron Microscopy beyond the grey-scale

Electron Microscopy holds the key to understanding the ultrastructure of biological systems, but finding what you are looking for in the high resolution EM…

Maximum intensity projection of Acantharia (plankton), plunge frozen and imaged with a high-end confocal microscope. Green: Acantharia; red: chlorophyll of symbionts (microalgae). Credits: Anna Steyer/EMBL

January 3, 2024

Cryo-ET: Imagination is the limit

Studying macromolecular complexes in their native environment in a cell is a real challenge, but new methods and technology advances are allowing scientists to…

Developing larva of Hymenolepis microstoma. Image by Uriel Koziol, Ilya Belevich, and Eija Jokitalo.

May 5, 2023

High-end Electron Microscopy to understand tapeworm life cycle & larval anatomy

Uriel Koziol, a professor at the Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, studies parasitic tapeworms (such as Echinococcus and Taenia), a type of worm…

Euro-BioImaging Volume EM series

February 13, 2023

Volume EM Series: 3D Correlative Live and Cryogenic imaging of Biological Tissues combining Raman, Light and Electron Microscopy

On Friday, February 17th at 13:00 CET, Nico Sommerdijk, Department of Medical Biosciences, Electron Microscopy Center, Radboudumc Technology Center Microscopy, Radboudumc, Nijmegen-NL delivers a…

December 1, 2022

Volume EM Series: Neuropathology on tape – applications of ATUM-based volume EM

On Friday, December 16th at 13:00 CET, Martina Schifferer, of SyNergy Nanoscale Hub, Technical University Munich and German Center of Neurodegenerative Diseases, delivers a…

October 26, 2022

Method development at Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy

Delivering cutting-edge Electron Microscopy (EM) support, operations, and instrumentation, that is the mission of the Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy…

August 27, 2020

Providing remote training for new users of Light and Electron Microscopes

The Centre for Cellular Imaging of the University of Gothenburg has remained open throughout the corona virus pandemic, continuously providing microscopy services to…