CryoWrite will join the 31st Protein Structure Determination in Industry (PSDI) Meeting that is taking place on the Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge, from November 12th to 14th, 2023. Please visit booth #10 to discuss what our cryo-EM sample preparation robot, the cryoWriter, can do for you.
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CryoWrite has appointed Patrick Frederix to follow up co-founder Andreas Engel as the company’s new CEO. Andreas Engel will stay active at cryoWrite as chief scientific officer.
The cryoWrite AG is growing, more people are employed, and the first devices are delivered. This also means that new expertise is required. Besides his excellent knowledge of structural biologists’ needs, Patrick is experienced in instrument development, applications, and services and brings the required management background.
Patrick has worked as an application scientist at Nanosurf for the last thirteen years, leading this department over the last twelve years. In his new job, he is looking forward to joining the team to make the cryoWriter successful.
A technical solution is already in place. Now we need to show the EM community what we have to offer and how our solution can help to get excellent results faster – which is of interest in both, industry and academic research.
Patrick Frederix
We welcome our new CEO and wish him a good start.
Short Biography
Patrick studied applied physics in Eindhoven (Netherlands) with PhD in fluorescent microscopy. Afterward, he moved to Switzerland in 2001 and joined the lab of Andreas Engel in the Department of Structural Biology of the Biozentrum in Basel. He joined Nanosurf in 2010, became head of applications and services, and was part of the extended board.
cryoWrite moved: cryoWrite AG is growing and urgently needs more space. Therefore, we moved and finally have enough space for developing, building, and delivering cryoWriters!
Chaperonin 60 was prepared using cryoWriter technology without and with the coverslip injector module. Scalebar: 200 nm.
Together with cryoWrite and Roche, a research group in the Biozentrum of the University Basel presented a Faraday Discussion paper improving the grid quality and reducing background noise using cryoWriter technology. They use a “coverslip” injector to modulate the air-water interface with amphiphilic molecules:
Rima, L.; Zimmermann, M.; Fränkl, A.; Clairfeuille, T.; Lauer, M.; Engel, A.; Engel, H.-A.; Braun, T. CryoWriter: A Blotting Free Cryo-EM Preparation System with a Climate Jet and Cover-Slip Injector. Faraday Discussions2022. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2FD00066K.