Monday 8 December until Friday 12 December, 2025at 09:00 - 17:00
KBC and EM building, Umeå University
This is a practical course on sample preparation for TEM and includes ultra-microtome sectioning, chemical fixation, plastic embedding, TEM imaging, high-pressure freezing & freeze substitution, immunolabeling techniques (Immunogold, CLEM), volume EM (FIB-SEM & Tomography), segmentation and sampling (online lecture by Ilya Belevich, University of Helsinki).
Participants should attend all theoretical and practical parts of the course to receive a certificate of 1,5 hp.
Pre-requisite criterion: Basic EM course at UCEM or previous equal experiences with EM methods. The course is open to all research students, postdocs and staff.
Teachers: Sara Henriksson, Agnieszka Ziolkowska, Behnam Lak and Linda Sandblad.