MSA 2020 Awards
Andrew Yankovich, Research Spe- cialist, Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
microscopy arena. His research has broken new ground in high-precision imaging using scanning transmission elec- tron microscopy (STEM) and high energy resolution elec- tron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and is characterized by high quality, creative, and for- ward thinking. Te projects in which he is engaged are highly collaborative with both experi- mentalists
and theoreticians,
and his thorough understand- ing of materials microstruc- ture, scattering physics, and
statistical treatment of experimental data give him the tools to create new approaches to solve difficult problems. His creativity, curiosity, independence, and enthusiasm continually drive him into new areas of physics. His research findings have continued to receive highly positive response from the scientific commu- nity and have facilitated the work of many others. His excep- tional skills as a materials-oriented electron microscopist, his demonstrated commitment to collaborative research, and his leadership capabilities indicate that he has the potential to con- tinue making leading contributions well into the distant future.
Hildegard H. Crowley Award for Outstanding Technologist in the Biological Sciences Tis award annually honors a technologist from the bio-
logical sciences who has made significant contributions, such as the development of new techniques that have contributed to the advancement of microscopy and microanalysis. A tech- nologist is defined as an individual whose primary role is in microscopy and microanalysis tool development or service. Established principal investigators/project managers are not eligible for this award.
Crowley Award: Joseph Mowery Joe has a diversified train-
Joseph Mowery, Biologist, Electron & Confocal Microscopy Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricul- tural Research Service, Beltsville, MD.
ing background and has made significant contributions to the morphological characterization of a protozoan parasite, Sar- cocystis, an emerging patho- gen in countries where people consume meat from wild ani- mals and have lower standards of food safety. Joe was also involved in the morphologi- cal characterizations of mites, Baculoviruses, mixed bacteria biofilms, and root-lesion nem- atodes
infecting agricultural crops. In his work at the Elec-
tron & Confocal Microscopy Unit (ECMU) at the U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, Joe has oſten encountered unique and rare specimens that necessitated he apply innovative measures to optimize
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Lijun Wu, Engineer I, CMPMS Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
preservation and EM processing. For instance, Joe developed a microwave embedding protocol specifically for the preserva- tion and resin embedding of plant and woody material. He was invited to present this work at the Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting in Baltimore in 2018. Most recently, Joe played a sig- nificant role in research that demonstrated that Varroa mites feed primarily on honeybee fat body tissue, not hemolymph as previously thought. Tis work was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January 2019. Joe’s clever design of a feeding arena for mites and of a method for immobi- lizing feeding mites on the honeybee enabled the precise local- ization and characterization of the feeding site and target tissue. Tis work overturned the conventional belief that Varroa mites feed on the hemolymph of the honeybees and may have sig- nificant implications in the future development of management schemes for this devastating honeybee parasite.
Chuck Fiori Award for Outstanding Technologist in the Physical Sciences Tis award annually honors a technologist from the physi-
cal sciences who has made significant contributions, such as the development of new techniques that have contributed to the advancement of microscopy and microanalysis. A tech- nologist is defined as an individual whose primary role is in microscopy and microanalysis tool development or service. Established principal investigators/project managers are not eligible for this award.
Fiori Award: Lijun Wu Lijun joined Brookhaven
National Laboratory (BNL) in 1996 as a visiting researcher, with a Master’s degree in Mate- rials Science, and was soon pro- moted to Technical Staff in the Applied Science Department at the BNL. Based on the excellent research results that he acquired at BNL, he received his PhD in 2002. Lijun has been critical to the success of research at BNL, both at the electron microscopy user facility in the Center for
Functional Nanomaterials and in the DOE/BES core-research programs. Lijun’s exceptional contributions stem from his knowledge of electron crystallography and computer program- ming. Te computer codes he has developed have been widely used in materials science research, allowing better understand- ing of the relationships between structure and properties. As an example, he and his colleagues developed the unique quan- titative diffraction technique “parallel recording of dark field image (PARODI)” to accurately measure structural factors of both low- and high-order reflections. Te low-order structure factors are used to map valence electron distribution in func- tional materials, while the high-order ones reveal anharmonic thermal motion of atoms. With his proficiency in computer programming, Lijun has
developed advanced computer programs for image processing, 3D structural modeling, HRTEM/STEM image simulation
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