• 3 days.

  • 1 day symposium.

  • 2 days of practicals.

  • November 2-4*, 2026.
    *optional follow-on day Nov. 5 for on-site data collection.

  • Registration fees:
    students/postdocs $175.
    staff/PIs/professionals $250.
    industry $425.

  • Room and board NOT included.

Registration coming soon.
  • Standard application deadline is August 28, 2026. After that point applicants will join the waitlist.

For more information email nccatuseroffice [at] nysbc.org

organized by:

Dan Decato (University of Montana)
Ed Eng (NYSBC) &
Christina Zimanyi (NYSBC)

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MicroED Short Course
November 2-4, 2026

NYSBC, SEMC and NCCAT will offer a 3-day short course November 2-4. Day one of the course will encompass lectures that delve into the multiple steps of the MicroED workflow. Days 2 & 3 will have practicals in sample preparation, setting up a TEM for data collection, and data processing. For those that want further instruction and a chance to collect their own data, we will host a bonus day for independent practice on November 5. We held our first MicroED short course November 6-9, 2023 (https://nccat.nysbc.org/activities/courses/nccat-microed-2023/) for 18 participants that resulted in an Acta C review to help disseminate knowledge to the greater scientific community. Our second iteration November 4-6, 2024 built on lessons learned from the first workshop and further expanded the community of electron diffraction practitioners. Our third iteration November 3-5, 2025 focused on advancing the field by creating sustainable communities of independent researchers. This offering will be our fourth iteration to promote accessibility and reducing bottlenecks.

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Short Course Agenda

Day 1: Symposium

Monday, November 2, 2025

Time (ET) Topic Lecturer
9:00 - 9:30 Registration: Check-in and coffee User Office
9:30 - 10:00 Welcome & Introductions All the attendees
10:00 - 10:30 Structural information of ligands with electron diffraction TBD
10:30 - 11:00 Electron diffraction of biomacromolecules TBD
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee/Tea Break
11:15 - 11:45 Teaching Machines Electron Diffraction TBD
11:45 - 12:15 Novel applications in 3DED with direct electron hybrid pixel detectors TBD
12:15 - Group photo User Office
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Attendee tour TBD
13:30 - 14:30 From images to structure: the process of small-molecule structure determination from 3DED/MicroED data TBD
14:30 - 14:45 Solutions and Recent Advances in Precession-Assisted Serial Electron Diffraction TBD
14:45 - 15:00 Applications of EM Detectors for Beam Sensitive Samples TBD
15:00 - 15:30 Automating MicroED/3DED data acquisition TBD
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30 Management of 3D ED/microED data TBD
16:30 - 17:15 Roundtable: the future of 3D ED/MicroED TBD
17:15 - 17:30 Debrief
18:00 Reception

Day 2 Practicals

Processing and sample preparation

Day 3 Practicals

Data collection practicals

Day 4 Optional

additional instruction

After acceptance course participants will be required to submit a registration fee.

Registration coming soon.

We will reach out to accepted applicants at the end of September and waitlisted applicants by October. For further inquires please email the NCCAT User Office.

The symposium on day one will be hybrid, but the short course will be an in-person on-site workshop.

See the 2023 offering of this workshop here.

See the 2024 offering of this workshop here.