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Summary of the Scientific Program The M&M 2007 meeting will be preceded on Saturday and Sunday, August 5 and 6, with a Pre-meeting Congress entitled "Cryo-preparation for high-resolution cryo-SEM and cryo-TEM". The two-day Congress will consist of "how-to" lectures, as well as demonstrations of a wide variety of cryo-EM instrumentation and techniques. The Pre-meeting Congress will share Sunday with full-day Short Courses on image analysis, immunogold labeling, biological confocal microscopy, failure investigation, surface analysis, and electron backscattered diffraction. Honoring the passing of two prominent colleagues, the Pre-Meeting Congress on cryo-EM will be dedicated to the memory of Stan Erlandsen, and the symposium on Biological Microanalysis will be dedi-cated to the memory of Andrew Somlyo. New in 2007 will be a basic-level workshop, to be held on two consecutive afternoons during the meeting. The topic will be basic SEM and XEDS. This workshops is designed to meet the needs of students and technical personnel. In biological sciences, the topics are integrative structural analysis, advanced light microscopy, cell pathology, cancer biology, neurobiology, biological microanalysis, biomaterials, vascular corrosion casting, and paleontology. The topics in the physical sciences include microscopy in nanotechnology, one-dimensional nanoma-terials, nanoelectronics, high-resolution TEM, electron backscatter diffraction, electron crystallography, large chamber SEM, metallographic techniques, archaeometallurgy, and failure analysis. Joint symposia on technology and instrumentation for both biological and materials scientists consist of aberration correction in EM (theory, instrumentation, and applications), new phase contrast methods in TEM, electron energy-loss spectroscopy and imaging, electron tomography, spectral imaging, quantitative X-ray microanalysis, cryo-SEM, variable-pressure SEM, focused ion beam instrumentation and applications, confocal light microscopy, X-ray microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, atom probe tomography, image analysis (Image J and stereology), microscopy in pharmaceutical sciences, and management of microscopy core facilities. In addition to the regular topical symposia, contributed sessions will be organized that encompass fields of study not covered in the topical symposia. In each of the three categories--Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology and Instrumentation--a designated organizer, working with the Ex-ecutive Program Committee, will endeavor to create a coherent set of sessions. This mechanism will allow us to properly showcase every paper that is contributed. The core of the scientific program is the series of poster sessions. These are held in the afternoon at a time when there are no platform sessions. A poster session is an essential part of each topical and contributed symposium. This is your best opportunity to present and discuss your results one-on-one with your colleagues. The majority of papers are presented in this way, and many authors specify a poster as the preferred presentation method. Although authors need be present at their poster for only one afternoon, they are requested to leave their posters up from Monday through Thursday afternoon, giving ample opportunity for viewing and re-viewing. A poster presentation is an especially good opportunity for students to meet well-known investigators. To encourage this interaction, MSA poster awards are available only to students, and are given in all three topical categories. All poster presenters are eligible for selection as part of the MSA Traveling Poster Exhibit, as well as the Diatome Award that includes a first prize of an all-expenses-paid trip for two to Switzerland, with second and third prizes of Swiss watches. Please review the instructions for award applications on the awards WWW page. Supplementing the topical sessions will be tutorials that provide the opportunity to learn the basics behind several popular techniques. Topics include high-pressure freezing, freeze-substitution, electron tomography for materials science, incoherent imaging for quantitative TEM, atomic force microscopy, and X-ray microtomography. There will also be two special Professional Development tutorials, one on ob-taining external funding and one on preparing scientific presentations. In addition to the tutorials, there will be two ask-the-experts sessions, one on high-resolution TEM, and one on live cell imaging. The commercial exhibits by themselves would be reason enough to attend the meeting. Nowhere else can one find such a large array of state-of-the art microscopy instrumentation, services, and supplies. The chance to try out the latest instrumentation, and discuss applications directly with the manufacturers' top experts, is a chance not to be missed! Several of the exhibitors hold special tutorials on the second evening of the meeting, providing an excellent opportunity to appreciate the capabilities and learn about the best operating procedures of the latest instrumentation. Please review all of the symposium descriptions and determine which are most suitable for presenta-tion of your work. Authors of invited talks and tutorials should select only one number. Authors of con-tributed papers should select both a first and second choice, one of which might be one of the special contributed symposia. The symposium organizers will assemble the papers into coherent sessions. In-clusion in a specific symposium cannot be guaranteed, but every effort will be made to place your contri-bution into the most appropriate symposium. When submitting their papers, authors should indicate if they prefer a poster presentation, and also if the first author is a student. To be eligible for awards, posters must be put up Monday morning. The instructions for submission and guidelines for paper preparation can be found on later WWW pages. All papers must be submitted by the February 15, 2007 deadline. Specific details of each of the items outlined above can be found by selecting the appropriate Button on the left hand window of the WWW Site. Click here to see the details of each Symposia listed below.
It is the sincere hope of the Executive Program Committee that the scientific program will be of interest to all microscopists in North America and the world. We look forward to meeting and interacting with as many of you as possible in Ft. Lauderdale.
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