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Armin Ruf is at the ECM34 in Padova, the European Crystallographic Meeting. Moreover, on Thursday he will be presenting a poster about the latest developments of the cryoWriter. More precisely, he will be at poster 15 on the ground floor in the MS09 poster session. In addition, he is looking forward to discuss proteins, their structures, and their preparation for cryoEM.
If you are at the conference, go and have a chat with him at the poster or during one of the breaks.
Andreas Engel is at the EMC 2024 in Copenhagen. So, if you want to learn about the latest developments of the cryoWriter, go and visit him. In addition, he will be happy to discuss your application or sample preparation for cryoEM in general. You can find him at the booth of TVIPS (A33) right at the entrance of the exhibition hall.
Today we published a new application note on cold-writing. Our cold-writing protocol improves reproducible grid preparation. With this protocol we routinely get over 100 squares with vitrified ice per grid. And even fragile samples like liposomes can be applied on the grid.
Do you want to learn more? Visit the application section of the cryoWriter
The Gordon Research Conference on 3D EM (Three dimensional Electron Microscopy) 2024 takes place in Spain in June. This year, the GRC focuses on “bridging gaps between cell, structural and computational biology”. To this end, it has a special session on “specimen preparation challenges and solutions”. With this session, the conference addresses the existing bottleneck in sample preparation for cryo-EM. It is therefore our pleasure to announce that Andreas Engel will present how a solution using an automated pipette-robot can make sample preparation more reliable. The use of pipettes even enables integration of extra inline preparation steps.
If you are interested to join, please check the GRC website for application information on attendance of this meeting.
After looking back on a successful business year 2023, we are now looking ahead again. We start the new year with expanding the team and hiring a new colleague.
With Nadia Antoniadis, we recruited a new application scientist at cryoWrite to support our customers and the implementation of new modules on the cryoWriter. Nadia has a bachelor’s degree in Nanoscience and did her Masters and PhD in experimental physics. After having worked on quantum computing, she will be applying her skills on more biological applications.
We are glad having Nadia in the team and look forward on her contribution to many, exciting applications of the cryoWriter.
It is Christmas time: Instead of dispensing proteins on hydrophilized grids in a spiral form, we provided the cryoWriter with coordinates in a different pattern! We omitted the on-board glow discharger to keep a better confinement of the tree and used ink to better see it in the camera.
We wish you all Merry Christmas and a good start in 2024.
We congratulate Andreas Engel on his 80th birthday and wish him a fantastic day!
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.
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!
See also the new How to reach us page.
We are incredibly proud to have reached a significant milestone for our startup company: The first cryoWriter was delivered! Our customer is the group of Prof. Stahlberg at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
