Month: February 2012

Here is the Message from Dr. John Port together with the SCSMM Symposium schedule 

Just a reminder – the SCSMM Meeting is coming up on March 3 at CalTech.  Full details are available at: www.scsmm.org

 We have a full day of talks and 16 posters this year for what will be an excellent meeting.  The final platform program and poster program are attached.  Our National Tour Speaker this year is David Williams, co-author of the text book Transmission Electron Microscopy.

 One of our student presenters has created a Facebook link.  You can use it to notify all your friends! https://www.facebook.com/events/284962681560521/

 If you do intend to come, please don’t forget to register.  Details on our web site!

 On behalf of our board, we hope to see you all at the meeting.

 John Porter

President SCSMM

2012 Symposium Schedule
07:30 – 08:50 Registration
08:50 – 09:00 Welcome address
09:00 – 09:30 Structure and dissection of biological complexes in situ using cryogenic transmission electron microscopy
Morgan Beeby, California Institute of Technology
09:30 – 10:00 Electron Tomography of HIV in Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissues
Mark Ladinsky, California Institute of Technology
10:00 – 10:15 Vendor Talk – Gene Griggs, FEI
10:00 – 10:15 Vendor Talk – Scott Sitzman, Oxford Instruments
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Sponsored by Oxford Instruments
11:00 – 11:30 Transmission Electron Microscopy of Incandescent Lamps and Liquid Water
Chris Regan, University California at Los Angeles
11:30 – 12:15 Reflections on Microscopy & Analysis: From Viewing the Small World to Leading on a Larger Stage
David Williams, The Ohio State University
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch Break, Vendor Exhibits and Graduate Student Poster Judging
Sponsored By FEI
13:30 – 13:45 Business Meeting
13:45 – 15:00 Five Student Presentations:
Effect of Water Vapor on Non-Ideal Oxide Growth in NiCoCrAlY Bond
Coat Systems, Matthew Sullivan, UCI
Fluorescence microscopy in thick biological tissues by optical phase
conjugation of ultrasound-tagged light, Yingmin Wang, CalTech
Magnetization Dependence on Crystallinity in Nanostructured
Gadolinium, Chin-Jui Ray Hsu, UCLA
Structural, mass, and elemental analyses of storage granules in
methanogenic archaeal cells, Dan Toso, UCLA
Bioremediation applications of microbial fuel cells utilizing Shewanella
oneidensis MR-1, Prithiviraj Chellamuthu, USC
15:00 – 15:30 Electron Cryo-Tomography Studies of Sporulating Bacteria, Elitza Tocheva, California Institute of Technology
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session
Sponsored by Edax
16:00 – 16:15 Vendor Talk or extension of Poster Session
16:15 – 16:30 Vendor Talk, Jack Rosek, Edax
16:30 – 17:00 Chemical and structural analysis on the sub-nanometer scale using highresolution STEM and atom probe field microscopy – A case study of GaNAlN, Stephan Kraemer, University California at Santa Barbara
17:00 – 17:30 Student Awards Presentations and Closing Statement