Linkam in France: deuxième partie

The Gateway College bridge crosses the river Rhone  in Lyon.

Renowned for its exquisite food, rich cultural history and annual Festival of Lights, Lyon is one of France’s most visited cities. We are excited to announce Linkam will be heading there soon. 

The European Microscopy Congress will take place at the Lyon Convention Centre from the 28th August to the 2nd September. This will be Linkam’s second trip to France this year after the highly successful European Materials Research Society spring meeting.

With over 2000 guests, several hundred guest speakers, specialised workshops and symposia covering the life sciences, instrumentation and methods and materials science, EMC will be an excellent platform to showcase our stages. 

We’ll be taking along the tensile TST350, cryo-correlative CMS196, dual pan DSC, humidity system RH95 and one of our electrical probe stages, the LTS420 E-PB4. 

Come over to booth 3 to discuss how our stages can enhance your sample characterisation needs - we look forward to seeing you there.

Lighting the Way

Next week, Linkam will be taking a short trip to Didcot, in Oxfordshire, for the ‘UK Bio-XFEL Single Particle Imaging Workshop’ hosted by Diamond Light Source (the UK’s national synchrotron science facility). The event will take place on the 2nd and 3rd June in the Pickavance Theatre at the Science and Technology Facilities Council, at Harwell. 

The two day workshop is aimed at the life science sector, mainly biological and biomedical. X-ray Free Electron Lasers (X-FEL) have been used by biological researchers in x-ray crystallography, but another application - Single Particle Imaging (SPI) - is gaining rapid attention due to its ability to determine 3D structures without crystallisation. The workshop gives voice to field experts and focuses on encouraging and demonstrating the use of X-FEL for SPI to laboratory scientists.

Come over to our stand to see our cryo-correlative CMS196, the tensile TST350 and the high temperature TS1500.

We look forward to seeing you there and discussing your sample characterisation needs!

New Video: Cryo-CLEM grid mapping

CMS196M automated mapping of an EM grid at high resolution.  

The cryo-correlative stage, CMS196M can automatically map EM grids at high resolution making it a simple matter to find and record the co-ordinates of the key areas of interest in your sample. The video above shows how easy it is to set up the CMS196M with the new LINK software and create high resolutions maps of the full EM grid.

Freeze Drying Focus Group

This March, the Friedrich-Alexander University’s ‘Freeze Drying Focus Group’ will be presented in English for the first time.

The 1 day seminar includes sessions on:

• The Basic Principles of Freeze Drying

• The ‘World of Thermal Analysis’ Using Freeze Dry Microscopy — which will be co-presented by Linkam’s Dr Michael Schwertner

• Defining the quality of a Freeze Dried product

• Instrument Demonstration and Laboratory Practice

• Designing a Freeze Drying Cycle

• and New insights in Freeze Drying of Co-Solvent Systems.

This is the University's Department of Pharmaceutics’ 11th Annual Seminar, and it is an event that has always proved very popular in the past.  

The seminar brings together people from academia, the pharmaceutical industry and vendors & suppliers of equipment to initiate sound scientific discussions in the field of freeze drying and also provides updates on the latest trends and research interests in this field.

Our FDCS196 Freeze Drying Cryo Stage will be on show throughout the day. 

More information and details on how to register for the seminar can be found here.