Lectures


The PDF files of the lectures presented during the course are reproduced here with the kind permission of the individual lecturers. This material is provided for educational use only. The information in these slides including all data, images and related materials are the property of the individual lecturer. No part of this material may be reproduced without explicit written permission from the lecturer.

In many cases, two versions of the slides from a lecture are provided. The "1up" version contains one slide per page and is suitable for online viewing, while the "6up" version has 6 slides per page, suitable for printing. A copy of the original PowerPoint slides may also be provided, in cases where there is animation that would not be viewable in PDF format.

Note that 3 of the talks from November 3, 2005, failed to get recorded. The slides for those talks are provided below, but not the audio. There were similar talks given as part of the 2003 CryoEM course.

Instructor Lectures Slides (*.pdf) Audio (*.mp3)
Bridget Carragher
Department of Cell Biology, CB129
The Scripps Research Institute,
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784-9050
Fax: (858) 784-9090
November 2, 2005:
+ Welcome
PDF 1up, 557K
PDF 6up, 244
3 MB
Ron Milligan
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784- 9827
Fax: (858) 784- 2749
November 2, 2005:
+ Introduction & Course Overview
Slides not publicly available.
Please request these directly from the instructor.
8.7 MB
Mark Yeager
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784-8584
Fax: (858) 784-2504
November 2, 2005:
+ General Overview of Molecular Microscopy
Slides not publicly available.
Please request these directly from the instructor.
38.5 MB
Wah Chiu
Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, TX, 77030
Tel: (713) 798-5734
Fax: (713) 798-1625
November 2, 2005:
+ Molecular Microscopy: Past, Present and Future
PDF 1up, 46M
PDF 6up, 16M
33 MB
Robert M. Glaeser
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
239 Hildebrand Hall 3206
Berkeley, CA 94720-3206
Tel: (510) 642-2905
Fax: (510) 486-6488
November 3, 2005:
+ Fundamentals of Electron Microscopy: Theory
PDF 1up, 11M
PDF 6up, 9.8M
recording unavailable
Ron Milligan
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784- 9827
Fax: (858) 784- 2749
November 3, 2005:
+ Cryo-specimen Preparation
Slides not publicly available.
Please request these directly from the instructor.
recording unavailable
David de Rosier
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02454
Tel: (781) 736-2494
Fax: (781) 736-2405
November 3, 2005:
+ Fundamentals of Fourier Theory
PowerPoint, 3.4M
PDF 1up, 5.0M
PDF 6up, 4.1M
recording unavailable
Phil Mercurio
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784-9040
Fax: (858) 784-9090
November 3, 2005:
+ Introduction to Linux (2 parts)
PDF 1up, 2.9M
PDF 6up, 920K
23 MB
18 MB
Vincenz Unger
Department of molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University
P.O. Box 208024
New Haven, CT 06520-8024
Tel: (203) 785-5652
Fax: (203) 785-6404
November 4, 2005:
+ Introduction to 2D Crystal Analysis
PDF 1up, 14M
PDF 6up, 8.4M
35 MB
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
Department of Biophysics
Faculty of Science
Kyoto University
Phone: 81-75-753-4215
Fax: 81-75-753-4218
November 4, 2005:
+ High Resolution CryoEM
Slides not publicly available.
Please request these directly from the instructor.
33 MB
Ron Milligan
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784- 9827
Fax: (858) 784- 2749
November 4, 2005:
+ Diffraction Quiz
Slides not publicly available.
Please request these directly from the instructor.
21 MB
David de Rosier
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02454
Tel: (781) 736-2494
Fax: (781) 736-2405
November 5, 2005:
+ Introduction to Helical Analysis
PowerPoint, 5.3M
PDF 1up, 6.4M
PDF 6up, 2.4M
30 MB
Tim Baker
Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive 0378
La Jolla, California 92093-0378
Tel: (858)-534-5845
November 5, 2005:
+ Introduction to Icosahedral Virus Analysis
PDF 1up, 28M
PDF 6up, 18M
48 MB
Joachim Frank
Wadsworth Center
Empire State Plaza
P.O. Box 509
Albany, New York 12201-0509
Tel: (518) 474-7002
November 6, 2005:
+ Introduction to Single Particle Analysis
PDF 1up, 12M
PDF 6up, 4.7M
41 MB
Niko Grigorieff
MS 029, Rosenstiel Center
Brandeis University
415 South St.
Waltham MA 02454-9110
Phone 781-736-2444
Fax: 781-736-2419
November 6, 2005:
+ Refinement Strategies for Single Particle Structure Determination
PDF 1up, 9.8M
PDF 6up, 5.2M
32 MB
Pawel Penczek
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas-Houston Medical School
P.O. Box 20708
Houston, Texas 77225
Tel: (713) 500-5416
Fax: (713) 500-0652
November 7, 2005:
+ Image Assessment
PDF 1up, 2.1M
PDF 6up, 840K
35 MB
Steven Ludtke
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas 77030
Tel: (713) 798 -6989
Fax: (713) 798-1625
November 7, 2005:
+ SP Reconstruction: Strategies for High Resolution
PDF 1up, 5.2M
PDF 6up, 4.9M
37 MB
Michael G. Rossmann
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Purdue University
915 W. State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Tel: 765-494-4911
Fax: 765-496-1189
November 7, 2005:
+ Fitting High Resolution Structures into Low Resolution EM Maps
PDF 1up, 9.7M
PDF 6up, 4.0M
33 MB
Clint Potter
Department of Cell Biology, CB129
The Scripps Research Institute,
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784-9050
Fax: (858) 784-9090
November 8, 2005:
+ Automation 1
PDF 1up, 43M
PDF 6up, 15M
15 MB
Bridget Carragher
Department of Cell Biology, CB129
The Scripps Research Institute,
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784-9050
Fax: (858) 784-9090
November 8, 2005:
+ Automation 2
PDF 1up, 33M
PDF 6up, 14M
16 MB
Scott Stagg
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784-9208
Fax: (858) 784-9090
November 8, 2005:
+ Automation In Practice
PDF 1up, 7.1M
PDF 6up, 1.5M
18 MB
Niels Volkmann
The Burnham Institute
10901 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
Tel: (858) 646-3187
Fax: (858) 646-3195
November 9, 2005:
+ EM Fitting
PDF 1up, 982K
PDF 6up, 1.1M
23 MB
Charles L. Brooks, III
Department of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784-8035
Fax: (858) 784- 8688
November 9, 2005:
+ NMFF: Flexible Fitting of Atomic Structures into Low-Resolution EM Maps
PDF 1up, 25M
PDF 6up, 12M
24 MB
Michel Sanner
Department of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel: (858) 784-2341
Fax: (858) 784-2860
November 9, 2005:
+ Multi-Modal Visualization of Macromolecular Assemblies Using Python
Slides not publicly available.
Please request these directly from the instructor.
13 MB
Catherine L. Lawson
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rutgers University
610 Taylor Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Tel: 732 445 8074
Fax: 732 445 5312
November 9, 2005:
+ Deposition and Retrieval of CryoEM Structure Data
PDF 1up, 8.3M
PDF 6up, 2.4M
12 MB
Nicolas Boisset
Laboratoire de Minéralogie Cristallographie
Case 115
140 Rue de Lourmel 75015
Paris, France
Tel: +33 (0) 1 44 27 45 85
Fax: +33 (0) 1 44 27 37 85
November 10, 2005:
+ Random Conical Tilt
PDF 1up, 5.2M
PDF 6up, 4.9M
22 MB