Practical Course
Hands-on training of selected electron microscopy techniques. The course consists of three parts. The first comprises preparation of biological samples through a standard, chemical fixation procedure. The second part continues with the ultramicrotomy of different resin-embedded specimens. The third part deals with the immunogold labelling on resin sections.
The list of hands-on techniques covered by EM-SPS course:
Chemical fixation
- Chemical fixation of suspension and monolayer cells
- Different embedding procedures
Ultramicrotomy
- Semithin sectioning and toluidine blue section staining
- Ultrathin sectioning and section pick up techniques
- Sections post-contrasting
- Troubleshooting and tips-and-tricks
- TEM imaging of different sample types
Immunolabelling
- On section immunolabelling with primary and gold-coupled antibodies
EM-SPS workshop
BIOCEV, Vestec
The course is organized by the Imaging Methods Core Facility as annual course.
The EM-SPS course has been postponed till autumn 2022.
The course is supported by the National Infrastructure for Biological and Medical Imaging (Czech-BioImaging, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports – Large Research Infrastructure, LM2018129).