Schedule for the Berkeley CryoEM Course
                                June 5 - 14, 2008  
Thurs. June 5 Room Group                                                                            Event  
7:00 - 9:00 Durant Hotel ALL Registration, Welcome Reception
    Outline of course, Introduction of students, 
      faculty, manufacturers
         
Fri. June 6 Room Group Event Instructors
  TBA      
8:00 - 8:30   ABC Orientation Kent McDonald
8:30 - 9:30   ABC Introduction to High Pressure Freezing Kent McDonald
9:30 -1:00   A HPF - Baltec HPM 010  Kent McDonald 
    B HPF - Leica EM Pact Paul de George - Ian Lamswood
    C HPF - Wohlwend HPF-01 Johnny Hagen
1:00 - 2:00     lunch  
2:00 -5:30   A HPF - Wohlwend HPF-01 Johnny Hagen
    B HPF - Baltec HPM 010 Kent McDonald
        C HPF - Leica EM Pact Paul de George - Ian Lamswood
5:30 - 6:00   ABC regroup  
Sat. June 7 Room Group Event Instructors
8:30 - noon   A HPF - Leica EM Pact Paul de George - Ian Lamswood
    B HPF - Wohlwend HPF-01 Johnny Hagen 
            C HPF - Baltec HPM 010  Kent McDonald
noon - 1:00     lunch  
1:00 - 3:00   ABC Introduction to cryo-ultramicrotomes George Posthuma - Paul Webster
3:00 - 4:00   ABC Introduction to Freeze Substitution Kent McDonald
4:00 - 5:00   ABC Begin Freeze Substitution run Kent McDonald - Ian Lamswood
5:00 - 5:30   ABC regroup  
7:00  - 10:00     Dinner at Jupiter, Downtown Berkeley  
Sun. June 8 Room Group Event Instructors
8:30 - 9:15   ABC Cellular Tomography Eileen O'Toole
9:15 - 10 :15   ABC The Tokuyasu Technique  George Posthuma - Paul Webster
10:30 - 5:00   A Introduction to Tomography Eileen O'Toole
    B Cryo-ultramicrotomy - Tokuyasu Paul Webster
                   C Cryo-ultramicrotomy - Tokuyasu George Posthuma
~12:15 - 1:00      lunch  
5:00 - 5:30     regroup  
Mon. June 9 Room Group Event Instructors
8:30 - 9:30   ABC Microwave Processing Elaine Humphrey
9:30 - 10:30   ABC Immunolabeling George Posthuma - Paul Webster
10:30 - 5:00   A Cryo-ultramicrotomy - Tokuyasu Paul Webster
    B Cryo-ultramicrotomy - Tokuyasu George Posthuma
    C Introduction to Tomography Eileen O'Toole
~12:15 - 1:00      lunch  
5:00 - 5:30     regroup  
Tues. June 10 Room Group Event Instructors
8:30-3:00   A Cryo-ultramicrotomy - Tokuyasu George Posthuma
    B Introduction to Tomography Eileen O'Toole
    C Cryo-ultramicrotomy - Tokuyasu Paul Webster
~12:15 - 1:00      lunch  
3:00-4:30   ABC infiltration and embedding of HPF-FS tissues Kent McDonald -  - Paul DeGeorge - others                                                                                            
4:30 - 5:00   ABC regroup  
Weds. June 11 Room Group Event Instructors
8:30   ABC Meet at EM Lab to go to Hitachi Facility in Pleasanton  
9:30-noon   ABC Tour and Tomography Demo at Hitachi Hitachi Staff
noon - 1:00   ABC Lunch  
1:00 - 4:00   ABC Wine tasting and tours in Livermore Valley  
Thurs. June 12 Room Group Event Instructors
8:30 - 9:30   ABC IGL - on grid immunolabeling of Tokuyasu Sections George Posthuma
9:30 -12:00     Remounting and/or Trimming Resin Blocks Kent McDonald and others
    ABC for Sectioning  
         
      Blot, Dry and Poststain Grids from IGL George Posthuma - Paul Webster
12:00  - 1 :00      lunch  
1:00 -5:00   ABC Sectioning of HPF resin blocks, post - staining, and microscopy of resin and Tokuyasu sections as they become available All
5:00 - 5:30   ABC regroup  
Fri. June 13 Room Group Event Instructors
    A Microscopy of Samples  
9:00 - 11:00   B Revisit earlier techniques, prepare group presentation  
                   C Revisit earlier techniques, prepare group presentation  
    A Revisit earlier techniques, prepare group presentation  
11:00 - 1:00   B Microscopy of Samples  
                   C Revisit earlier techniques, prepare group presentation  
1:00 - 2:00   ABC Lunch  
    A Revisit earlier techniques, prepare group presentation  
2:00 - 4:00   B Revisit earlier techniques, prepare group presentation  
                   C Microscopy of Samples  
4:00 - 6:00   ABC regroup and review course as a whole  
7:00  - 10:00     Dinner at Skates on the Bay, Berkeley  
Sat. June 14 Room Group Event Instructors
10:00 - 12:00   All Presentations All
12:00 - 13:00      lunch, prizes, and farewell All