CSMMS Annual Spring Meeting

Mark your calendars for the Spring meeting on April 29th and 30th, 2010 at the Stowers Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. The first day will include a tour of the microscopy facilities conducted by Winfried Wiegraebe from the Stowers institute, followed by workshops in the afternoon and a dinner that evening. Presentations will be on Friday.

Preliminary Program

Join us for informative seminars and hands on practice with guidance from these knowledgeable instructors!

• PAUL WEBSTER - HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE

Cryotechniques workshop Thursday, Friday a talk on characterization of biofilms which in- corporates SEM with TEM, with HPF, with immunocytochemistry, with proteomics, with antibiotic effects, and with EDS.

• NICHOLAS RITCHIE - NATL INST OF STDS & TECH

DTSA-II workshop Thursday: learn to use the free software Desktop Spectrum Analyzer, a powerful spectrum simulation program, and come back Friday for an informative talk!

• WINFRIED WIEGRAEBE - THE STOWERS INSTITUTE

Tour of Microscopy facilities at Stowers on Thursday, Friday a talk on confocal microscopy.

• RICHARD ALEXANDER - THE STOWERS INSTITUTE

A tutorial Friday:on ImageJ - a free, versatile image processing and analysis program offered through NIH to enhance and extract data.

• MSA TOUR SPEAKER: TBA

Talk on Friday by one of this year’s tour speakers sponsored by The Microscopy Society of America.