Microscopy & Microanalysis 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri
Jay Potts, Program Chair Cell Biology and Anatomy Dept. , University of South Carolina School of Medicine , Columbia , SC 29208
jay.potts@uscmed.sc.edu
The Microscopy Society of America, the Microanalysis Society, and, for the first time, the International Field Emission Society invite you to Microscopy & Microanalysis 2017 in beautiful St. Louis, Missouri. This meeting celebrates the 75 th anniversary of MSA and the 50 th anniversary of MAS. This year M&M will feature two plenary lectures, more than 36 symposia, and a special series of anniversary lectures, not to mention many educational opportunities in the form of courses and tutorials. And, of course, the meeting will again feature the largest exhibition of microscopy technology in the world.
We are honored to have Prof. Erik Betzig from the Janelia Farms Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, present a plenary talk titled “Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution.” Prof. Betzig obtained a BS in Physics from Caltech and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Cornell. In 1988 he became a Principal Investigator at AT&T Bell Labs where he extended his thesis work on near-fi eld optical microscopy, the fi rst method to break the diffraction barrier. By 1993, he held a world record for data storage density. Later he was the co-inventor of the super-resolution technique photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) with Bell Labs colleague Harald Hess. For this work, he was co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Since 2005 he has been a Group Leader at the Janelia Research Campus, developing new optical imaging technologies for biology.
Prof. Erik Betzig
Our other plenary lecturer, Prof. Keith Riles from the University of Michigan, will show us that microscopy and microanalysis can lead to amazing discoveries when applied to the question of whether or not gravitational waves
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truly exist. Prof. Riles received his B.A from the University of California Berkeley in Physics in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford in 1989. He began his career at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, then moved to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and fi nally to the University of Michigan in 1982. In his plenary talk, “Detecting Massive Black Holes via Attometry - Gravitational Wave Astronomy Begins,” Professor Riles will explain how the two detectors of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Advanced LIGO) simultaneously observed transient gravitational-wave signals. Descriptions will be presented of the fi rst gravita- tional-wave discoveries and the instruments that made them possible. Dr. Riles’s plenary lecture topic will be expanded in the symposium “Geological Sample Characterization Using Various Imaging Modalities” High-resolution imaging in the life sciences will be continued with a symposium honoring the memory of Gina Sosinsky who passed away in the Fall of 2015: “Gina Sosinsky Memorial Symposium on Imaging of Cellular Communications.” Gina served as the assistant director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at University of California at San Diego and was an advocate for women in science and engineering, spending seven years as co-chair of the UCSD Women in Science Committee. T is symposium is intended to interest young scientists in some fast-developing areas in electron microscopy. The Advances in Instrumentation Symposia will cover, in addition to the above techniques, such popular topics as electron and atom probe tomography, electron diffraction, data processing, in situ techniques, and real-world microscopy
Prof. Keith Riles doi: 10.1017/S1551929517000177
www.microscopy-today.com • 2017 March
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