Cryo-EM data collection at eBIC, Diamond UK

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On 2nd to 4th March, Pasi and Benita visited electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC) at diamond synchrotron, UK. Two sessions worth of data was collected on FEI Krios equipped with post-GIF Gatan K2. Data is currently being processed at CSC and is proving to be of superb quality!

Visit from Hagelstamska skolan ninth grade students

Hello,

We are 4 students on the ninth grade with a business idea to make the perfect ice cream with nitrogen. Some of us have had previous experience with the food industry but we should still expand our knowledge about the food industry and the chemistry.

It is very demanding and important that you know everything about these subjects when you make nitrogen ice cream.

There are a lot of safety risks when you are dealing with nitrogen and that is why we couldn’t experiment with it at our school. Instead we got an unique opportunity to go to the research centre in Vik with our Chemistry teacher Katarina Hattula, whom we really want to thank for this opportunity.

At first we went with bus and train to the centre. There we met Pasi who showed us his work station and a little bit of the centre. Pasi also told us everything we needed to know about the nitrogen, for example that it is not dangerous if the subject touches your bare skin for only one second, but if it stays longer you will get serious frostbites. He also gave us the risk analyses, which is very important.

Soon we had put up the cameras and the ice cream experiment began. The center had paid for all the ingredients and it was thrilling to see smoke coming out of the pot. Sadly we couldn’t taste the ice cream because it was made in a laboratorio (you are not allowed to eat in a laboratorio), but Pasi surprised us with ice cream from the store. We got an exclusive interview with Pasi that you can see in our video.

After thanking the friendly staff at the centre we packed our bags and were on our way back to school with a lot to tell our friends.

You can see our video here: https://drive.google.com/a/elev.grankulla.fi/file/d/0B6fIBgaSsq99LU5ySVdOTjg0eEk/view?usp=docslist_api

Thanks to everybody who made this possible!

Amanda, Corinna, Casper and Ina

Hagelstamska skolan

3.2.2016