MICROSCOPY
SOCIETY OF AMERICAMicroscopy Society of America
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.
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