"JEOL life sciences solutions – spotlight on volume EM"

Tuesday, 01 July at 1 PM in Workshop 2. Presented by Dr. Eudri Venter.

Life science research has been at the forefront of groundbreaking scientific advances throughout recent history, and key to the ever-increasing rate of scientific discoveries is the improvement in scientific and analytical equipment used by scientists, researchers and students on a daily basis.  JEOL, a leading developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art scientific and metrology instruments, has been involved in supporting life sciences research for the past 75 years.  The word “Yokogushi”, which is a Japanese word that defines JEOL's strategic collaborating business approach, describes JEOL's philosophy to provide customers with complementary technologies to advance their research and development programs.  This empowers JEOL to offer bespoke solutions to the variety of streams within life sciences research; one of these being volume electron microscopy (vEM). 

Volume imaging has long been considered to be one of the most impactful techniques in studying the complexity of biological organisms’ micro- and ultrastructural morphology.  JEOL instruments deliver high-quality data for any vEM technique, whether that would be with TEM (array tomography, tilt series tomography, or a combination), FIB-SEM, or with SEMs (with array tomography and serial block face SEM), with JEOL offering comprehensive solutions for any part of the vEM workflow, from data acquisition, to manipulation, segmentation of ROIs, and volume rendering (Fig 1) . 

This workshop will spotlight the solutions for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) vEM techniques, namely array tomography and serial blockface SEM.  The JEOL JSM-IT810 (Fig 2) range of field emission scanning electron microscopes is the flagship within JEOL’s SEM portfolio, and has a variety of features to allow step-by-step guided experimental setup, uninterrupted high-resolution data collection of a wide variety of sample types, and the flexibility to have a single instrument capable of multimodal data collection approaches.

Figure 1. Volume rendering and segmentation of informative features on a plant sample, data acquired on a JSM-IT800 FE-SEM.