L# Date Time Lecturer Topic Chapter reading 1 17.9. 17:00-19:50 2 24.9. 17:00-19:50 Pavel Plevka "Development of X-ray crystallography, crystallization of macromolecules, phase diagram, Crystal symmetry, symmetry operators, point groups, space groups." "Drenth: 1, 2, 3" 1.10. No lecture 3 8.10. 17:00-19:50 Pavel Plevka "Diffraction of light by electrons, atoms, unit cell, crystal. Bragg's law. Diffraction images and indexing." Drenth: 4 4 15.1 17:00-19:50 Pavel Plevka "Fourier transform, structure factor, intensity of diffraction spots." "Drenth: 4, 5" 5 22.10. 17:00-19:50 Pavel Plevka "Solutions to phase problem in X-ray crystallography. Isomorphous replacement, SAD, MAD, Molecular replacement. Rotation and translation function. Model building and refinement." "Drenth: 7, 10" 6 29.10. 17:00-19:50 Tibor Füzik "Electron microscope. Interaction of electrons with matter, electron imaging. Amplitude and phase contrast. Contrast transfer function." "Frank: 1, 2" 7 5.11. 17:00-19:50 Tibor Füzik "Fourier transform and its properties, convolution, point spread function." Frank: 2 8 12.11. 17:00-19:50 Jiří Nováček Analysis of electron micrographs. 2D classification. Principal component analysis. "Frank: 3, 4" 9 19.11. 17:00-19:50 Jiří Nováček Three dimensional reconstruction - single particle reconstruction and tomogram calculation. 3D classification. Frank: 5 10 26.11. 17:00-19:50 Jiří Nováček "Improving cryo-EM reconstruction, particle polishing, Ewalds, sphere correction, per particle CTF, … Model building and refinement. Detection of errors, validation and detection of mistakes." Frank: 6 11 3.12. TBD