MicroscopyAwards
Microscopy Society of America Awards: 2022 Award Winners
Jay Potts Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine
jay.potts@uscmed.sc.edu
Each year, the Microscopy Society of America (MSA)
provides several major awards for outstanding contributions to the fields of microscopy and microanalysis and service to the Society. While recipients of these awards are listed under the tab Awards & Scholarships – Society Awards | Microscopy Society of America on the MSA homepage, little informa- tion as to why awards were bestowed is provided. Tis article highlights the contributions of the winners of the 2022 MSA major Society awards and the MSA Fellows. Te information presented here represents a short summary of
information
provided in the awardees’ nomination packages. Guidelines, including deadlines for nominating individuals for these and other MSA awards, can be found at https://www.microscopy .org/awards/
society.cfm.
Distinguished Scientist Awards Distinguished Scientist Awards annually recognize a pre-
eminent senior scientist, from both the biological and physical sciences, who has a long-standing record of achievement during his or her career in the field of microscopy or microanalysis.
Biological Sciences Distinguished Scientist: Kenneth A. Taylor Ken Taylor began his
Ken Taylor, Professor, Florida State University
career as a PhD student with Bob Glaeser at Berkeley where, in 1974, he published the first electron diffraction patterns from frozen, hydrated protein (catalase) crystals. Tis was the first paper to use electron cryo- microscopy on proteins and contributed to the early appre- ciation of its long-term poten- tial. Ken is one of the principal founders of the field of electron microscopy of unstained (fro- zen-hydrated) biological speci-
mens, a field known colloquially as “cryo-EM.” Ken’s seminal work helped to launch this field. Ken is an international leader in two areas of cryo-EM. Te first of these involves structural studies of the actin-myosin system, and the second is the appli- cation of electron tomography in cell and molecular biology. His highly cited 2006 Nature paper (
https://doi.org/10.1038/ nature04817) reported the first 3D tomographic determination of the structure of the HIV env spike protein trimers.
10 doi:10.1017/S1551929522000888 As a postdoctoral fellow in 1980, Ken determined the first
3D structure of a bacterial cell wall (from Sulfolobus sp.) using electron crystallography images of 2D arrays of the cell wall, tilted at angles up to 85°
. Te greatest impact of Ken’s research
has been his extensive work on actin and myosin, the proteins involved in muscle contraction. His work on insect flight muscle in rigor and various trapped states has produced an enormous depth of understanding of the location, motion, and occupancy of the cross-bridges in their cycle of attachment, power stroke, and release from the thin filaments. Ken has been an active participant in MSA and interna-
tional meetings. He has served on both the MSA Program Committee and the Nominations Committee. He also served as Chairman of the 2003 Gordon Research Conference on 3-D Electron Microscopy. He has a strong record of service to the scientific community as a long-standing editor of the Journal of Structural Biology, a participant in over 70 NIH study sections, and a member of two NIGMS council advisory panels.
Physical Sciences Distinguished Scientist: Ruud Tromp Ruud Tromp received his
Ruud Trump, University
Professor, Leiden
PhD in Physics and Mathemat- ics from Utrecht in 1982 under the guidance of Drs. F.W. Saris and M.J. Sparnaay. In 1983, he began work as a Research Staff Member at IBM in the T.J. Wat- son Research Center, where he became Manager of the Inter- face Science and Analytical Sci- ence groups. Since 2006, he has been affiliated with the Materi- als group at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Ruud pursued development of ion and electron scattering
at IBM with low-energy electron microscopes (LEEMs). His sig- nature contribution involves modifications to the LEEM system, including aberration correction, that have transformed its per- formance. Tese modifications include a reduction in footprint of Bauer’s original concept of a horizontally extended instru- ment, to one with a mainly vertical electron beam column. Tis improved access to the specimen area allowed modularization of optical components with greater mechanical stability. It also simplified the addition of a commercially available field emission source that significantly improved electron beam brightness.
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