Michael Bell, Ludtke Lab (2014 - 2019)

All are welcome to use the materials provided here. Credit is greatly appreciated but not required.

Thesis

thesis.pdf, thesis.tex

Thesis Defense Presentation

defense_slides.key

Note: The presenter notes in this file contain a full transcription of my talk.

Posters

2019 Sealy Symposium for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics & 2018 Keck ARC 2018: cryoet_poster.pdf, cryoet_poster.pptx

Keck Annual Research Conference 2017: keck_arc_2017.pdf

Biophysical Society Meeting 2017: biophysical_society_2017.pdf

2016 Biochemistry departmental retreat: biochem_retreat_2016.pdf

2016 Structural & Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program Retreat: scbmb_retreat_2016.pdf

Talks

Slides from the 2015 EMDatabank map/model challenge wrap up meeting: mapchallenge_wrapup_2017.key

Slides from the 2018 Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting on the EMAN2 cryoET workflow: microscopy_microanalysis_2018.ppt

Select Thesis Figures

Please see my thesis for corresponding figure captions.

Structural biology overview

Transmission electron microscopes (TEM)

TEM grids

Movie-mode imaging

Basic image processing

Fourier transforms

Single particle analysis

Contrast transfer function (CTF)

Gold Standard resolution measurement via Fourier Shell Correlation (FSC)

Electron cryo-tomography (cryoET)

Subtomogram Averaging