The M&M 2007 meeting will be preceded on Saturday and Sunday, August 5 and 6, with a Pre-meeting Congress entitled “Cryo-preparation for high-resolution cryo-SEM and cryo-TEM”. The two-day Congress will consist of “how-to” lectures, as well as demonstrations of a wide variety of cryo-EM instrumentation and techniques. The Pre-meeting Congress will share Sunday with full-day Short Courses on image analysis, immunogold labeling, biological confocal microscopy, failure investigation, surface analysis, and electron backscattered diffraction.