Dear Structural biology community;
We are delighted to announce that the National Institutes of Health is
helping us establish a Biotechnology Development Research Center focused
on MicroED at UCLA School of Medicine, named MicroED Imaging Center (MEDIC).
The main thrust of MEDIC is for method development and research focused
on MicroED.
As part of community engagement, the center will host the annual MicroED
course as well as an annual MicroED Summit, both of which will be staged
at the UCLA School of Medicine, and open to the community on a first
come first serve basis until spaces are filled. Approximately 90% of
available spots will be allocated to academic attendees and 10% to
industry attendees. This will be a continuation of almost 10 years of
tradition of providing workshops and training to the community.
Also, there is some opportunity for the community to collect data on
MEDIC microscopes. There is also limited availability for one-on-one
user training at the center at UCLA for microscope set up and data
collection. Users and trainees will be invited based on replies to a
call for proposals, which will be advertised shortly. The proposals
will be reviewed by an advisory committee. Because of the COVID19
pandemic and the limitations on travel and hosting imposed by UCLA we
cannot begin these activities at this stage.
On a related note, UCLA School of Medicine is also running a MicroED
Imaging Core which is open as a pay per use service for academia and
industry. This activity is independent of the Gonen Lab and from the
NIH funded research program on MicroED. Details can be found online.
Kind regards
Tamir Gonen and Pawel Penczek
