Professor Egelman from the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia,  an expert in cryo-EM, comes to Poland within a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. During his visit at IIMCB, Prof. Egelman will provide hands-on training and advise on cryo-EM to the local community of students, postdocs and PIs.

Professor will give a lecture about cryo-EM on 24^th May at IIMCB, and will be the keynote speaker at the Institute’s retreat session on 25^th May.  Our guest is invited by Prof. Marcin Nowotny, Head of the Laboratory of Protein Structure and Prof. Matthias Bochtler, Head of the Laboratory of Structural Biology. The main aim of this visit is to raise awareness of the new technique in the Polish community, particularly among the younger students and scientists, and to discuss opportunities for interested researchers to carry out the experiments. Besides IIMCB, Prof. Edelman will also visit Poznan and Cracow, two other main structural biology centers in Poland.

Note about Prof. Edward Egelman
Edward Egelman received his undergraduate degree in Physics, and then started his graduate work at Harvard in Experimental High Energy Physics. He changed fields to Biophysics, and received his PhD from Brandeis University in 1982. He was a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and became an Assistant Professor at Yale University in 1984. He moved to the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1989 as an Associate Professor, and became a full Professor there in 1993. In 1999 he moved to the University of Virginia Medical School where he is currently the Harrison Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. From 2007-2012 he was Editor-in-Chief of Biophysical Journal, he is a past President of the Biophysical Society, and is currently Chair of the Public Affairs Committee of the Biophysical Society. He is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Microbiology and of the Biophysical Society, was Chair of the Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy Gordon Research Conference in 2013, and has served as Chair of numerous NIH panels in the U.S. He has authored more than 230 papers, most involving the use of electron microscopy to understand macromolecular assemblies, and was the overall Editor for the nine volume book series Comprehensive Biophysics. His current research focuses on the structure, function and evolution of protein and nucleoprotein polymers, spanning bacterial pili, archaeal and bacterial flagellar filaments, archaeal viruses, and actin.