MICROSCOPY SOCIETY OF AMERICAMicroscopy Society of America

Minutes of the Annual BUSINESS MEETINGBusiness Meeting

HAWAII Hawaii CONVENTION CENTERConvention Center

HONOLULUHonolulu, HawaiiHAWAII

WEDNESDAYWednesday, AUGUST August 3, 2005 Ð 12:15 PM

 

I.          Call to Order & Introductions

President Grace Burke called the meeting to order at 12:25 p.m. with a quorum present. TThe members of the MSA Council were introduced and the new Meeting Manager for 2006 were introduced.. A quorum was not present in the audience.

 

 

II.        TreasurerÕs Report

Ev Osten announced the new Finance Committee members: Paul Fischione, Tom Kelly, Bob Price, Steve Samuelsson and Ev Osten, Chair. He stated their duties included addressing both short-term and long-term financial issues.

 

Osten gave a review of the financial report as of 5/31/05. The 2006 budget will be set on Thurs.day, Aug 4th.

 

 

III.           SecretaryÕs Report

            Janet Woodward indicated that there were no by-law changes to address.

 

 

IIIIV..       Awards & Volunteer Recognition

President Burke recognized the Past President Sara Miller and outgoing Secretary Janet Woodward, Council members with terms expiring in 2005 (OÕKeefe, Killius, McKernan), the M&M 2005 Program and Local Arrangements Committee (Price, Carvalho, Dunlap, Wong, Shields, Monroe, Simmons, Rebedeau, Eggers, Stone); and committee chairs whose terms expire in 2005 (Albrecht, Ingram, Lloyd, Johnson). Recognition was also given to Dale Anderson for her work with Microscopy Today.

 

President Burke introduced the committee chairs and appointed officers and thanked them for their service and contributions toward a successful year.

 

William T. Gunning III presented the poster awards, Micrograph competition awards and the Diatome awards. See below for listing of winners.

 

Sara Miller thanked all those who donated to the Raleigh Miller Travel Scholarship fund. The fund allowed one student to travel to M&M 2005.

 

 

1V.V.        PresidentÕs Remarks

Burke announced the record attendance at Microscopy & Microanalysis 2005 of 1604 scientific registrants.

Other accomplishments in 2005 were the activation of the member service center online, the reactivation of the publications and membership committees; the initiation of the CUP-MSA book series, and the selection of a new meeting management company for Microscopy & Microanalysis.

 

Burke recognized Tom Sanders, whose images on canvas were for sale in the exhibit area, for earmarking the proceeds of the sales to MSAÕs Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program.

 

President Burke, as outgoing President, turned over the gavel to President-Elect Jay Jerome.

 

 

VI. Adjournment

President-Elect Jay Jerome complimented President Burke for working tirelessly with the committees throughout the year which resulted in strong committee leadership.

           

            There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 12:50 pm.


2005 POSTER AWARDS

 

1.     Advances in Instrumentation Poster Awards

1st Place Regular: Y Kotaka; Fujitsu; T Yamazaki; Tokyo University of Science; K Watanabe; Tokyo Metropolitan College of Technology; Y Kikuchi; MIRAI Project; N Nakanishi, I Hashimoto; Tokyo University of Science

Measurement of 3rd Order Spherical Aberration Coefficient for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

 

1st Place Student: AD Garetto, DD Griffis, PE Russell; North Carolina State University

Growth Mechanisms of Electron Beam Induced Carbon Deposition Using Hydrocarbon Contamination

 

2nd Place Student: Y Lin, DC Joy; University of Tennessee; H Meyer; Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Absolute Calibration of Auger Spectrometer for Measuring SE and BSE Yield

 

2.     Biological Sciences Poster Awards

1st Place Regular: G Kishchenko, R Josephs; University of Chicago

3D-Reconstruction of Imperfect Noisy Helical Particles: the Structure of Individual-frozen Hydrated HbS Fibers

 

2nd Place Regular: N Cheng; National Institutes of Health; JF Conway; CNRS, Grenoble, France; DC Winkler; National Institutes of Health; RL Duda; University of Pittsburgh; AC Steven; National Institutes of Health

High Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Virus Capsids at Liquid-Helium Temperature

 

1st Place Student: H Parker, M Hampton, J Keenan; University of Otago, New Zealand

Helicobacter Pylori Outer Membrane Vesicles Bind to and Internalize within Gastric Epithelial Cells

 

2nd Place Student: FM Coldren, E Palavecino, DL Carroll; Wake Forest University

Atomic Force Microscopy as a Potential Diagnostic Technique in Staphylococcal Infections

 

3.     Physical Sciences Poster Awards

1st Place Regular: VA Bhirud; University of California Davis; MJ Moses, DA Blom, LF Allard; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; T Aoki, S Mishina; JEOL USA; CK Narula; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; BC Gates; University of California Davis

Alumina-supported Tri-rhenium Clusters Revealed by Aberration-corrected Electron Microscopy

 

2nd Place Regular: EA Marquis; Sandia National Laboratories

Solute Distribution in Electrodeposited Ni-Mn Alloys by Atom Probe Tomography

 

1st Place Student: T Leo, DJ Smith; Arizona State University; JI Hong, YJ Tang, A E Berkowitz; University of California at San Diego

Effect of Composition and Thickness on Exchange-Biased NiCoO/Co and (Co,Mg)O/Co Bilayers

 

2nd Place Student: TJ Pennycook, M Varela, K van Benthem, SJ Pennycook; Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Low Energy-Loss Spectroscopic Studies of Grain Boundary Cores in Complex Oxides

 

4.     Micrograph Competition

1st Place: C Becker for Fibscape and 2nd Place: JL Mey for Pillow Me Fancy

 

5.     Diatome Poster Awards

1st Place: HA Pasolli, E Fuchs; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University

Epithelial Stem Cell Niche in Skin: Ultrastructural Insights

 

2nd Place: NE Curtis, SE Massey, JA Schwartz; University of South Florida; TK Maugel; University of Maryland; SK Pierce; University of South Florida

The Intracellular, Functional Chloroplasts in Adult Sea Slugs (Elysia crispata) Come From Several Algal Species, and are Also Different from Those in Juvenile SlugsÓ