Tamir Bendory
Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv University
Date and time: February 1st, 2023
Wednesday, at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET / midnight China
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Recovering small molecular structures using Cryo-EM
Any current Cryo-EM algorithmic pipeline entails recovering the 3-D structure after particle picking. However, the signal-to-noise ratio of the data, and thus the reliability of particle picking, drops with the molecular mass of the specimens. Accordingly, it is commonly believed that Cryo-EM cannot be used to map molecules with a molecular mass below a certain threshold. Challenging this misconception, I will argue that finding the particle picking is not a prerequisite for structure determination and thus small molecules are, at least in principle, within reach of Cryo-EM. Then, I will introduce two computational frameworks to bypass particle picking and show numerical results.