078/2025
High-resolution electron microscopy

CellNanOs: Special workshop for experts from all over Germany

On July 21 and 22, around 25 specialists visited the state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary CellNanOs Research Center at Osnabrück University to undergo further training in the field of electron microscopy.

The Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics Osnabrück (CellNanOs), which also houses the integrated Bioimaging Osnabrück (iBiOs), is an interdisciplinary Research Center that offers one of the most modern infrastructures for high-resolution fluorescence and electron microscopy (EM) in Germany. "In addition to the use of various microscopy systems, CellNanOs establishes and further develops novel methods and workflows from sample preparation to data analysis in order to visualize and analyse the biological nanocosmos," explains Dr Rainer Kurre.

"Both researchers and students at the university benefit from these extraordinary possibilities in the field of imaging - and now also a whole range of external experts as part of the user workshop on high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM)," explains Dr. Katherina Psathaki, who organized this workshop with her team. Around 25 EM specialists from science and industry from all over Germany, including Munich, Tübingen, Darmstadt, Mainz and Frankfurt, took part.

In addition, there were external lecturers on various applications in the field of transmission electron microscopy as well as five external TEM trainers, who trained the participants on the microscopes in CellNanOs in various EM techniques and the use of the latest analysis software.

This is not the first event of this kind for the iBiOs EM and light microscopy (LM) team led by Dr. Katherina Psathaki and Dr. Rainer Kurre: several training courses have already been held there, most recently a correlative EM/LM methods workshop for doctoral students from all over Germany as part of the priority program "EXIT Strategies - Host cell exit of intracellular pathogens", funded by the German Research Foundation.

Further information:  www.ibios.uos.de
 www.cellnanos.uos.de

 

Further information for editorial offices:
Dr. Katherina Psathaki, Osnabrück University
CellNanOS
 katherina.psathaki@uni-osnabrueck.de

Dr. Rainer Kurre, Osnabrück University
CellNanOS
 rainer.kurre@uos.de

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