Course description:

This course provides participants with an insight into the complexity and principles of biological sample preparation necessary for routine ultrastructural analysis by Transmission or Scanning electron microscopy. An emphasis is given to definition of critical steps in sample preparation workflows and their optimization to suit specific type of samples (from nanoparticles to cells, tissues and bio-composites) and to specific aims of the analysis. The practical part of the course will cover sample harvesting, chemical fixation, contrasting, resin embedding, ultra-thin sectioning, negative staining, critical point drying, plunge freezing and more. The EM-SPS course is organized by the Imaging Methods Core Facility at BIOCEV as an annual course supported by the National Infrastructure for Biological and Medical Imaging (Czech-BioImaging, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports – Large Research Infrastructure, LM2023050).

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