An inspiring visit from Professor Jamie Blaza

On 8th October the CPBM welcomed Professor Jamie Blaza from the University of York to give a seminar and a workshop based on his work with cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Jamie’s seminar on “Using Cryo-EM and symmetry expansion to understand how Rubisco is bound together to accelerate carbon fixation” drew a full house and prompted lots of interesting discussions with academics and students across the department throughout the day.

He later delivered a fantastic workshop on “Making the most of the UK’s cryo-EM resources for single-particle analysis” where researchers had the opportunity to learn from Jamie’s extensive experience using cryo-EM for his own research as well as setting up the cryo-EM facility at York Structural Biology Laboratory, which several groups at Durham use regularly to carry out exciting structural biology work.

We are very grateful to Jamie for taking the time to visit Durham and offer his expertise to the growing community of academics here using cryo-EM within their research!