Prof.

Miguel Jose Yacaman

Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science Department
Core faculty Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and
Applications (¡MIRA!), Northern Arizona University, USA
Webpage: nau.edu/applied-physics-and-materials-science/miguel-jose-yacaman

➢ Vela ́ zquez-Salazar, J. J. et al., Controlled overgrowth of five-fold concave nanoparticles into

plasmonic nanostars and their single-particle scattering properties. ACS Nano 2019, 13, 10113.
➢ Palomares-Báez, J. P. et al., The Decmon: A New Nanoparticle Shape Along the Truncation Path
from the Icosahedron to the Decahedron. Nanotechnology 2019, 30, 425701.
➢ Mendoza-Cruz, R. et al., Helical Growth of Ultrathin Gold–Copper Nanowires. Nano Lett. 2016,
16, 3, 1568.
Title: The effect of radiation damage in electron microscopy
and a key aspect of modern materials science and biology
Oct. 13, 2020 9:30-10:30 pm IST
(9:00-10:00 am PST)
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 Dr. Maia Azubel
Research Scientist
Department of Structural Biology,
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
➢ Azubel, M. et al., Electron microscopy of gold nanoparticles at atomic resolution. Science
2014, 345, 909.
➢ Murakami, K. et al., Architecture of an RNA Polymerase II Transcription Pre-Initiation
Complex. Science 2013, 342, 1238724.
➢ Azubel, M. et al., FGF21 trafficking in intact human cells revealed by cryo-electron
tomography with gold nanoparticles. eLife 2019, 8, e43146.

Title: Structures of atomically precise clusters by AC-TEM and single

particle reconstruction
Oct. 14, 2020 9:30-10:30 pm IST
(9:00-10:00 am PST)
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 Prof. Hendrik Dietz
Department of Physics
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Webpage: https://www.dietzlab.org
➢ Wagenbauer, K. et al., Gigadalton-scale shape-programmable DNA assemblies. Nature
2017, 552, 78.
➢ Praetorius, F. and Dietz, H. Self-assembly of genetically encoded DNA-protein hybrid
nanoscale shapes. Science 2017, 335, 6331.
➢ Kilchherr, F. et al. Single-molecule dissection of stacking forces in DNA. Science 2016,
353, 6304.

Title: The venus virus trap - and how cryo EM helped building it
Oct. 15, 2020 5:30-6:30 pm IST
(2:00-3:00 CET)
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 Prof. Richard Palmer
College of Engineering,
Swansea University, United Kingdom
Webpage: www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/engineering/palmer-r-e

➢ Alshammari, K. et al. Optimization of sol-immobilized bimetallic Au–Pd/TiO2 catalysts:

reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol for wastewater remediation. Philos. Trans.
Royal Soc. A 2020, 378, 20200057.
➢ Foster, D. et al. Atomic-resolution imaging of surface and core melting in individual size-
selected Au nanoclusters on carbon. Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 2583.

Title: Atomic structure, metastability and dynamics of size-selected nanopart

probed by aberration-corrected STEM

Oct. 16, 2020, 5:00-6:00 pm IST

(12:30-1:30 pm, London time)
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 Prof. Wah Chiu
Wallenberg-Bienenstock Chair Professor in the Department of
Bioengineering,
Photon Science Directorate of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford University, USA
Webpage: profiles.stanford.edu/wah-chiu

➢ Dai, W. et al., Visualizing virus assembly intermediates inside marine cyanobacteria.

Nature 2013, 502, 707.
➢ Pintilie, G. et al., Measurement of atom resolvability in cryo-EM maps with Q-scores. Nat.
Methods 2020, 17, 328.
➢ Roh, SH, et al. CryoEM and MD Infer Water-Mediated Proton Transport and Autoinhibition
Mechanisms of Vo Complex. Science Adv. 2020, in press.

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