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Recent Advances in Electron Cryomicroscopy, Part B

  • 1st Edition, Volume 82 - April 17, 2011
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Vidya Venkataram, Steve Ludtke
  • Language: English

Electron cryomicroscopy is a form of transmission electron microscopy (EM) in which the sample is studied at cryogenic temperatures (generally liquid nitrogen temperatures). Cr… Read more

Description

Electron cryomicroscopy is a form of transmission electron microscopy (EM) in which the sample is studied at cryogenic temperatures (generally liquid nitrogen temperatures). Cryo-EM is developing popularity in structural biology. This volume from the Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology series is Part B and covers essential topics.

Readership

Biochemists, biophysicists, cell biologists, protein chemists, structural geneticists, and structural biologists

Table of contents

  1. Single particle analysis at near atomic resolution

    2. Hong Zhou

  2. Single particle Tomography

    3. Michael Schmid

  3. Cellular tomography

    4. Andreas Hoenger

  4. Correlative light-electron microscopy

    5. Dorit Hanein

  5. Future prospects

Michael Rossmann

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 82
  • Published: April 17, 2011
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Vidya Venkataram

Dr. Vidya Venkataram obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore where she won the Young Scientist award for her PhD work. After a brief experience at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and the US Vitamins Pharmaceuticals, she moved to Toronto where she functioned as Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Fellow in Regenerative Medicine at the Toronto General Hospital and the Toronto Medical Laboratories. She then held assignment as a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Guelph. She is currently a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto. She has over 45 publications and has contributed a book. Her primary research interests are in the areas of viruses, virus-like particles, food security, genetic engineering and biotechnology. She lives with her family in Toronto.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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