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September 27, 2011
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MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS ANNUAL MEETING 2011
RESEARCH AND IMAGE AWARDS ANNOUNCED
RESTON, VA
MSA is pleased to announce the winners of three significant awards, one of which has been newly-expanded for the 2011 Annual Meeting.
The Diatome Award, sponsored by Diatome, Inc., is presented to the posters illustrating the best use of diamondknife ultramicrotomy in either biological or physical sciences. The winners of this year's Diatome Awards are:
1st Prize: Poster #214, Hilda Amalia Pasolli, HHMI at Rockefeller University
Hair Follicle Stem Cells Dynamics and Commitment Tissues
2nd Priz: Poster #112, Craig Queenan, Bergen County Technical School
Microscopy in the Classroom: How to Use It and How to Teach It
3rd Prize: Poster #12, Susan Goldstein, Dept. Geology U. of Georgia
Toward Understanding the Biodiversity of Gromzids
The MSA Micrograph Competition is held annually at Microscopy and Microanalysis, with the purpose of promoting the innovative blending of art and science. The competition is open to all forms of microscopic imaging. Winners include:
1st Prize: Mountains of Gadolinium, Chris Santeufemio, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
2nd Prize: At the Bottom of the Sea, Sergio Ballesteros and Nina Romero, CIATEQ, A.Q., Queretaro MEXICO
Check back soon to view these winners' images in the MSA Image Collection.
Finally, the M&M Poster Competition was expanded this year to offer daily opportunities for recognition of the M&M's excellent poster presentations, offered by students from around the world. Here are the winners:
MONDAY: Eric Mattson, University of Wisconsin - Synthesis, Structure, and Morphology of Magnetic Core Shell Nanoparticles, Elizabeth Boatman, UC-Berkeley - Characterization of Original Bioapatite and Nano-scale Heterogeneities in Fossil Bone with Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy, and Marta Bonds, UC-Davis - In-situ Observations of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis by Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscopy
TUESDAY: Ceren Aydin, UC-Davis - Imaging Ir6 Clusters in Zeolite NaY with Aberration-Corrected HAADFSTEM, Michael Spillmanm, University of Alabama-Birmingham - Molecular Piracy via Capsid Size Determination by Staphylococcusaureus Pathogenicity Island 1, and Joseph Grogan, University of Pennsylvania - In Situ Liquid Cell TEM/STEM with the Nanoaquarium
WEDNESDAY: Patrick Phillips, Ohio State University - Atomic resolution defect analysis using low angle ADF-STEM, Deborah Barkauskas, Case Western Reserve University - Monitoring Immune Cell Infiltration in the Brain with Intravital Twophoton Microscopy, and Joon Huang Chuah, Cambridge University - Pixellated CMOS Photon Detector for Secondary Electron Detection in the Scanning Electron Microscope
THURSDAY: Priyodarshan Goswamee, University of Toledo - Visualizing Cancer Cell Dynamics in a Liver Slice Model, Jinwoo Hwang, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Angular Correlations in Coherent Electron Nanodiffraction of a Metallic Glass, and Geehyun Kim, University of Michigan - Synthesis of Lead Chalcogenide Nanoparticles for Ionizing Radiation Detector
For more information, please visit the M&M Travel Awards section of the MSA web site. Congratulations to all our winners.
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