RMS Congratulates Competition Winners
First place went to Seyit Ali Kamanli who presented on Imaging and visualisation of the life stages of Chinese mitten crab using Confocal Microscope and CT Scanning.
Second place was awarded to Feargus Cooney who presented on Using Micro-CT to investigate whether the cognitive demands of a complex breeding strategy in solitary wasps lead to changes in brain structure.
Full abstracts and further information on the competition can be found on the Beginners’ Competition page, at
www.rms.org.uk
Nominations are now invited for the 2017 RMS Medal Series.
The competition winners receive their awards at the Royal Microscopical Society’s SEMT meeting held in London
At its annual SEMT Meeting held at the Natural History Museum, The Royal Microscopical Society announced the winners of the RMS Beginners’ Competition. Attendees at the day of meetings, talks and an exhibition, were also treated to the highlights of 10 minutes presentations from those participating for the Beginners’ awards.
The Medals award outstanding scientifi c achievements in all branches of microscopy as well as recognising the unsung heroes in support and technician roles, and individuals who volunteer a huge amount of time and energy to the Society. Nominations should be addressed to Allison Winton and submitted by 30 April 2016.
Further details of the Award categories and nomination procedure can be found at
www.rms.org.uk
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Grand Prize Winners for TEM/SEM
UK ISIS Team Lead on Major Instruments for ESS
Neutron Source said of this new agreement from the ESS: “ISIS is particularly strong in the area of neutron enabled nanoscience research. These two new instruments will provide unique scientifi c capabilities that will fully exploit the complementary time structures of the ESS and ISIS facilities.”
Jim Yeck, ESS Director General said: “The construction of ESS is moving forward according to plans. Successful delivery of ESS always required that the hugely experienced STFC ISIS team take the lead role on multiple instruments, including one of the fi rst instruments. I am delighted with this decision, and look forward to working with ISIS to provide a positive early example of how to build world class instruments in collaboration with other partners.”
ISIS Director Robert McGreevy, left, and ESS Science Director Dimitri Argyriou signing the MoU indicating that ISIS will be lead partner for the construction of ESS instruments FREIA and LoKI on 4th December in Copenhagen. (Credit:ESS)
A team from STFC’s ISIS Spallation Neutron Source in Oxfordshire has been selected as the prime contractor on two key instruments, LoKI and FREIA, destined as part of the world’s largest microscope, the European Spallation Source (ESS) currently being built in Sweden.
The two instruments, which will use neutrons to examine the structure of matter, are set to help scientists in a huge array of applications – from medical research to new materials – at the new facility in Lund, one of the largest science and technology infrastructure projects of the decade.
Professor Robert McGreevy, Director of the STFC ISIS Spallation
LoKI is a small angle neutron scattering instrument for soft matter, materials and bioscience, FREIA is a horizontal refl ectometer that will allow the structural analysis of thin fi lms for the fast growing science areas of soft condensed matter and life sciences.
The ISIS team will lead refi ning of the engineering and scientifi c design of the instrument components before procurement for trial- assembly in STFC, thus proving in function as much as possible prior to shipping and integration into the ESS facility in Lund, Sweden.
STFC is managing the UK contribution to the ESS, which includes in-kind contributions to ESS construction. STFC’s Accelerator Science and Technology Centre (ASTeC) was the fi rst partner to provide an in-kind contribution to ESS, with recently delivered new state of the art vacuum facilities.
37543pr@reply-direct.com Nano Sun - TEM image winner
From the collection of images submitted by its customers for the company’s 2015 Image Contest, Jeol selected two Grand Prize images which they considered exhibited the best composition and resolution, while demonstrating excellent technical skills with Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM).
The Grand Prize TEM image was awarded to Professor Moon Kim’s group (Ning Lu), University of Texas at Dallas.
Entitled
‘Nano Sun,’ it is a pseudo-coloured TEM image of a 500 nanometer silicate nanoshell particle. The particle contains iron oxide concentrated on the inside of the shell as evidenced in the bright red ring. The shell’s outer ring resembles a tiny solar fl are. This image was taken on the Jeol JEM-ARM200F atomic resolution TEM housed in Professor Kim’s “Nano and Beyond Lab” at the University of Texas at Dallas. The sample is from Professor Andrew Kummel at University of California, San Diego. In 2014, Profesor Kim won the Grand Prize for his atomic resolution TEM image entitled ‘Nano Star.’
HSI 2016: Conference Announced
The technical programme committee is joined this year by Dr Aoife Gowen of University College Dublin who has extensive experience in the use of hyperspectral imaging in the examination of food stuffs.
Additionally Dr Neil Clancy steps up into a role of programme organisation. He works at the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London and his research activities are centred on the development of optical technologies such as how hyperspectral imaging may be used in minimally invasive diagnosis and surgery.
HSI 2014: Listening to the fi rst speaker, Tong Qiao, from the University of Strathclyde
The second biennial conference on hyperspectral imaging and applications has been announced by Xmark Media organisers of Photonex 2016. The free-to-attend event will be held under the umbrella of the Enlighten Conference alongside Photonex on Wednesday 12th & Thursday 13th October at the visitor-friendly Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
Professor Stephen Marshall of the Hyperspectral Imaging Centre at the University of Strathclyde comments on the event, “The conference attendees benefi t from the co-location with the Photonex which gives added reason for attendance. A complete review of academic research and commercial instrumentation in just two days is the intention.”
The call for conference papers is now open and potential conference presenters should visit
www.hsi2016.com where they can fi nd more details and also register to attend.
37546pr@reply-direct.com Commelina erecta anther - SEM image winner
The Grand Prize SEM image was awarded to José R. Almodóvar Rivera, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus. The stunning false-coloured image displays excellent depth of fi eld and clearly shows the intricate details of an anther, the pollen- producing part of a fl ower, with an artist’s fl air. The plant’s scientifi c name is Commelina erecta. The sample was critically point dried, sputter coated, and imaged with Jeol JSM-5410 LV, an older SEM model in regular use at the Biology Department’s Microscopy Centre.
For details on this year’s entries visit:
www.jeolusa.com/winners
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