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Sample Preparation Working Group

Contact Chairs

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Chairs​

​Michele Darrow and Nadine Randel

Remit

Curation of sample preparation resources for the vEM community, including a protocol library that encompasses preparation steps through to imaging, with a focus on discussion and dissemination of knowledge around why each step is done, health and safety information, and annotations to indicate options and when they might be useful. ​

Members

JoAnn Buchannan,  Anwen Bullen, Raffa Carzaniga, Lucy Collinson,  Mark Corrales, Ana Correia, Kirk Czymmek, Ben Giepmans, Michael Grange, Chris Guerin, Linh Hoang, Louise Hughes, Errin Johnson,  Anneke Kremer, Jurgen Kriel, Alice Liang, Pedro Machado, Thomas Muller-Reichert, James O’Sullivan, Chris Peddie, Sigurður Rúnar Guðmundsson,  Matt Russell, Martina Schifferer, Małgorzata Śliwińska, Sriram Somasundharam, Tom Strader, James Thompson, Erin Tranfield, Rick Webb,  Michaela Wilsch-Brauninger

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Ongoing projects

• Sample prep widget 
  • A tool to capture and share detailed sample preparation protocol information 
  • Will be available later this year! 
• Meta-analysis of protocols 
  • Intra-protocol comparison and analysis to understand variations and why they exist 
• Securing funding 
  • Everything we do right now is volunteer-based. To enable our community and projects we need a source of funding! 

Future projects

• Sample exchange library 
  • A library of standard samples, prepare and imaged in standard and documented ways, available on request.