Day 1 – Thursday, 29/01/2026

8:45 am – 9:30 am: Registration

9:30 am – 11:20 am:
Anatomy of an Electron Microscope, grid types, image formation (theory), difference with NS-TEM

11:25 am – 11:40 am: Tea Break

11:45 am – 1:20 pm:
Data Acquisition, ice thickness, image quality assessment, preferred orientation, decision making to set data set collection or discard,and Image Processing 2D and 3D classification.

1:25 pm – 2:55 pm: Lunch

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm:
Sample preparation (Vitrobot demo) & data processing workflow

5:00 pm – 5:15 pm: Tea Break

5:20 pm – 6:05 pm:
Map to model: fitting, model building, refinement and validation

6:10 pm – 7:00 pm:
Introduction to Cryo-Electron Tomography

7:00 pm onwards: Dinner

Day 2 – Friday, 30/01/2026

9:30 am – 10:45 am:
MicroED: Theory and practice: Sample preparation, imaging, data collection and processing, structure determination for small molecules.

10:45 am – 11:05 am:
MicroED limitations for protein structure determination

11:10 am – 11:25 am: Tea Break

11:30 am – 12:30 pm:
Panel discussion on integrative structural biology

12:30 pm onwards: Lunch & Conference

Conference Schedule (Each talk: 20 + 5 min)

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm:
Session 1 – Membrane Proteins

4:00 pm – 4:25 pm: Coffee Break

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm:
Session 2 – Genome Stability & Chromosome Segregation

6:30 pm – 7:00 pm:
Panel Discussion: Road ahead for the Cryo-EM community in India

7:00 pm onwards: Conference Dinner

Day 3 – Saturday, 31/01/2026

9:30 am – 11:30 am:
Session 3 – Pathogenesis

11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Coffee/Tea & Poster

1:05 pm – 2:20 pm: Lunch

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm:
Session 4 – Ribosome & Translation Machinery

4:00 pm – 4:25 pm: Tea Break

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm:
Session 5 – Cytoskeleton

Concluding remarks and vote of thanks

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm: Dinner