Louie carried out his PhD in TEM characterisation of DNA binding proteins at the University of Glasgow, where he found his love for TEM. He is currently working as a Technician in Electron Microscopy at the University of Leeds. He frequents in both negative stain TEM and cryoEM, and has a particular interest in methods development.
Rik holds a chair in the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) in the School of Process Environmental and Materials Engineering at the University of Leeds. He heads the NanoCharacterisation group based around the Leeds Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy (LEMAS) centre which is shared between Materials and Earth Sciences and also acts as an EPSRC facility for external UK researchers. He has a general research interest in high spatial resolution chemical analysis in nanostructured materials, and has a current research h index of 32 with over 25 years research experience in nanomaterials characterisation. He has managed extensive national and international collaborations including being current consortium leader for the UK National Facility for Aberration corrected Electron Microscopy, SuperSTEM at Daresbury.
Rik is also on the Management Board of the European Microscopy Society. He has written an RMS Handbook on Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (Bios /Taylor and Francis 2001), has co-written a book on “Nanoscale Science and Technology" (Wiley 2005), edited a recent RMS book on Analytical Aberration-corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy with Wiley and has contributed a number of other chapters in specialist books on electron microscopy by other professional bodies covering Physics, Chemistry and Engineering. In recent years his research interests have focused on applying high spatial resolution characterisation methods (particularly TEM and EELS) to the nanochemical analysis of softer, more radiation sensitive materials.
Jemima is Head of Electron Microscopy (EM) at the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London. She received her BSc from University of Bath and her PhD from Imperial College London, where her fascination for microscopy began. Her main interests are Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy and using volume EM to investigate cell biological processes - from viruses to whole organisms.
I’m Tom, a cryo correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) scientist at Leeds University. Cryo-EM is conventionally used to look at single, isolated and purified particles such as protein or viruses. However, whilst single particle experiments are a powerful tool for structural biology, it fails to show how proteins are structured or behave in their cellular environment.
However, visualising structures within tissue or cells can be tough. Importantly, structures are sporadic within tissue, and high resolution electron imaging requires a small field of view. My job is to use cryo CLEM workflows to identify and isolate regions of interest for cryo-electron tomography.
Andrew is a senior lecturer in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering. He has extensive experience of a wide range of experimental (advanced electron microscopy, light microscopy, surface analysis, X-ray diffraction) and theoretical (ab-initio materials modelling, crystallography) techniques, acquired in both academia (Leeds, Newcastle, Brunel) and industry (BP Research).
