Guenter Resch (Nexperion – Solutions for Electron Microscopy) is organising an international meeting in hybrid format
April 27 – 30, 2026
Technical Innovations Using SerialEM: A Community Meeting
Krainerhuette, Austria, Europe and online
with the assistance of David Mastronarde (University of Colorado Boulder), Louisa Stark (University of Utah), Leo Crowder (University of Colorado Boulder), and Marlene Brandstetter (Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities).
The goal of the meeting is to discuss advanced workflows in SerialEM, showcase innovative solutions built on top of SerialEM, and foster meaningful connections within our community. It is open to students, postdoctoral staff, technical staff, scientists, and group leaders from academia across all scientific disciplines and industry.
On-Site Attendance
The meeting will be held at Krainerhuette, a conference location situated in the middle of the scenic Vienna Woods, 25 km southwest of the city center of Vienna and close to the city of Baden bei Wien.
The mornings will be dedicated to social activities or leisure; scientific sessions will take place in the afternoons and evenings (Central European Summer Time; CEST). Poster sessions are not planned.
The registration fee for on-site participants includes 2.5 days of meeting, accommodation for 3 nights (primarily single rooms), all meals (with vegetarian, vegan, and other options), the social programme and spa access, as well as transfer from/to Vienna Airport (VIE) at selected times. Alternatively, public transport to the venue is available, with a bus stop right in front of the hotel.
Impressions from the Venue
(Photos: Guenter Resch, Krainerhuette)
Remote Attendance
Alternatively, the scientific sessions of the meeting can be joined remotely via a conference software. The sessions will take place in the afternoon/evening (European time zones) and morning/early afternoon (time zones of the Americas). For remote attendance, the meeting starts Monday, April 27, in the evening (CEST) and ends Wednesday, April 29, at night (CEST).
Scientific Speakers and Topics
This list of speakers is tentative and reflects the current state of planning this event.
Armel Bezault
Institut Pasteur
A User Perspective on SerialEM for Cryo‑Electron Tomography
Daniel Bollschweiler/Tillman Schaefer
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Custom Cryo-EM Workflows - A Multi-User Service Facility Perspective on SerialEM
Jonathan Bouvette
Princeton University
Self-Tuning Workflow for Automated Cryo-EM Data Collection in SmartScope
Andreas Brech
Institute for Cancer Research, OUH
Array STEM-tomography as tool for volume-EM
Yuriy Chaban
Diamond Light Source
Developing software frameworks for accessible, multi-modal cryo-EM acquisition at eBIC
Radostin Danev
University of Tokyo
New data collection approaches and exploring opportunities to simplify the single particle workflow
Jason de la Cruz
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Current Data Collection Schemes for 3D ED/MicroED via SerialEM
Christian Dienemann
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
SerialEM made simple - scripting for data collection setup
Fabian Eisenstein
DECTRIS AG
Smart Parallel Automated CryoET acquisition
Simon Fromm
EMBL Heidelberg, Imaging Centre
LowDoseWizard - a script collection to guide TEM setup in SerialEM
Wim Hagen
Thermo Fisher Scientific
SerialEM: an indispensable toolbox for EM development
Peter Kirchweger
Weizmann Institute of Science
Advances in cryo-STET: from dual-axis tomography to azimuthal segmented cryo-STET
Berk Küçükoğlu
DECTRIS AG
Acquisition to Reconstruction: 4D-STEM Tomography of Thick Biological Specimens
Daniel Mann
Ernst Ruska Centre 3, Forschungszentrum Juelich
Serial (ST)EM for the automated collection of iDPC/4D-STEM data of frozen-embedded single particles
Bartosz Marzec
JEOL Europe
JEOL TemExt Plugin: Architectural Extension of SerialEM Control for JEOL Microscopes
David Mastronarde
University of Colorado Boulder
TBD
Rachel Mellwig
EMBL Heidelberg
A CLEM Workflow for the Precise Localization of Fluorescent Signals in Resin-Embedded Specimens
Willem Noteborn
NeCEN
Flexible High-Throughput Cryo-EM Data Acquisition with SerialEM at NeCEN
Zbyszek Otwinowski
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Real-time GPU Data Processing on Linux with Feedback to SerialEM Acquisition on Windows
Rebecca Pfeiffer
University of Pittsburgh
TEMmy: SerialEM integrated prompting for serial section image acquisition consistency between operators
Daniel Schäfer
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Towards single atom sensitivity using the REEL analysis technique
Chen Xu
UMass Chan Medical School
Toward Greater Automation and Higher Throughput in Single-Particle and Tomography
Shengbo You
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Automation of data acquisition for tomographic ptychography
Participants and Registration
The number of on-site participants is limited to about 40; the number of remote participants is not limited.
On-site registration: 950 € excl. VAT, including 2.5 days of meeting, accommodation for 3 nights (single rooms; discount for double rooms available), all meals, social programme and spa access, and transfer from/to Vienna Airport at selected times.
Remote registration: 220 € excl. VAT for individuals, 440 € excl. VAT for entire research groups/facilities
Registration for this event is closed.
For general inquiries, please contact
Academic Supporters
This event is supported by UC Boulder providing infrastructure.
Sponsors
The meeting is generously sponsored by DECTRIS, Hitachi High-Tech, JEOL, Thermo Fisher Scientific, EMSIS, Gatan, TVIPS, Direct Electron, Health Technology Innovations, Ligo Analytics, and NanoSoft.
Disclaimer
This website represents the current state of planning for this event, content and speakers are subject to change as planning progresses.
CO2 emissions caused by air travel of organizers will be compensated for with a donation to a project funding reforestation and energy efficient cooking systems in Nepal.