Lauren Ann Metskas
Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology
Incoming Assistant Professor at Purdue University
Illuminating the Map: Current Practices, Challenges, and Future Applications of Cryo-CLEM
Date and time: May 19, 2021
Wednesday, at 8am PT / 11am ET / 3pm GMT / 5pm CET / 11pm China
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Correlated cryo-light and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-CLEM) has become an increasingly popular method for combining the resolving power of cryo-EM with the specificity of fluorescence. Although cryo-fluorescence microscopy suffers from optical limitations, it is a powerful way to target the resolving power of cryo-EM toward proteins of interest in heterogeneous cellular environments. Two large areas of methods developments are ongoing in both hardware and software: improving the correlation precision and accuracy to facilitate single-protein targeting, and expanding the cryo-fluorescence toolkit to include room-temperature approaches capable of targeting functions or specific protein conformations. This webinar will begin with a theoretical overview of current obstacles and considerations for software developers seeking to improve correlation precision and accuracy, and conclude with our recent efforts to improve cryo-fluorescence data quality, including characterizing the effect of cryo temperatures on fluorophores and establishing function-based localization in cryo-CLEM.