Professor Jim Naismith, Senior Research Fellow in Structural Biology at Jesus College, is part of a research team awarded a prize at the Microscopy Today Innovation Awards 2023.
Professor Naismith and colleagues from the Rosalind Franklin Institute and Thermo Scientific, received their award for the development of the Arctis Cryo-Plasma Focused Ion Beam (PFIB).
Professor Jim Naismith, Senior Research Fellow in Structural Biology at Jesus College.
Image credit: Research Complex at Harwell
Cryo-electron tomography enables the study of proteins and molecular interactions in a cellular context, which is important, for example, in understanding infectious diseases and neurodegenerative disorders. The Thermo Scientific Arctis Cryo-PFIB received an Innovation Award as it is expected to advance cryo-electron microscopy, and its impact on cell biology research, by meeting the requirements for lower contamination, longer run times, correlative microscopy, improved connectivity to the cryo-TEM, as well as higher throughput rates and a higher degree of automation.
For more information on the instrument, and the MT Innovation Awards, click here.