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Texas Journal of Microscopy Journal Texas e TSM TSM Volume 37, Number 2, 2006 ISSN 0196-5662 Visit our web site at: www.texasmicroscopy.org Tex. J. Micros. 37:2, 2006 37 38 Tex. J. Micros. 37:2, 2006 TSM OFFICERS 2006-2007 President: JOANNE T. ELLZEY Department of Biological Sciences Contents University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, Texas 79968-0519 (915) 747-6880 E-mail: [email protected] President-elect: TEXAS JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY ERNEST F. COUCH Department of Biology VOLUME 37, NUMBER 2, 2006 Texas Christian University ISSN 0196-5662 TSM Fort Worth, Texas 76129 (817) 257-7165 FAX (817) 257-6177 E-mail: [email protected] e Past President: SANDRA WESTMORELAND Department of Biology University of Texas at Arlington Camelia G.-A. Maier, Editor Arlington, Texas 76019-0498 (817) 272-1513 Department of Biology, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX 76204 E-mail: [email protected] Secretary: Official Journal of the Texas Society for Microscopy TINA HALUPNIK “TSM - Embracing all forms of microscopy” 5917 Inks Lake Drive Arlington, Texas 76018 www.texasmicroscopy.org (817) 468-0325 [email protected] President’s Message . 41 Treasurer (Interim appointment): ROBERT DROLESKEY USDA/ARS/SPARC In Memoriam: 2881 F&B Rd., College Station, Texas 77845 Richard Ross Rebert . 43 (979) 260-9316 FAX (979) 260-9332 E-mail: [email protected] Research Article: Treasurer-elect: E. ANN ELLIS Effects of Arsenic Toxicity at the Cellular Level: A Review Microscopy and Imaging Center Jaime B. Vigo and Joanne T. Ellzey . 45 Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-2257 (979) 845-1129 Application for Membership Texas Society for Microscopy . 51 E-mail: [email protected] Program Chairman: Fall 2006 Meeting Abstracts . 53 JODI ROEPSCH Electronic Systems Short Communication Raytheon Network Centric Systems 2501 W. University, McKinney, Texas 75071 Frost Rings in Timber Cores from Spring House, Mesa Verde, Colorado E-mail: [email protected] Howard J. Arnott and Rex Adams . 56 Program Chairman-elect: PHOEBE J. DOSS Cystoliths and Nebencystilithen (Secondary Cystoliths) Alcon Research, LTD. in White Mulberry (Morus Alba L., Moraceae) 6201 South Freeway Fort Worth, TX 76134-2099 Howard J. Arnott and Camelia G.-A. Maier . 58 (817) 568-6090 E-mail: [email protected] GaAs MMIC Resistor Deposition and Modification Via FIB Milton Tam . 58 APPOINTED OFFICERS Corporate Member Representative: Answer to “What Is It?” from Tex. J. Micros. 37:1 . 61 GERMAN NEAL Carl Zeiss SMT, Inc. 2800 Primwood Path Anniversary Article (continued from Vol. 37:1) Cedar Park, Texas 78613 Howard J. Arnott: Autobiography – Part Three (512) 249-6296 FAX (512) 249-6406 Howard J. Arnott . 62 E-mail: [email protected] Student Representative: Corporate Members . 80 VIBHU BAKSHI Department of Biology University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76201 Editorial Policy . 81 E-mail: [email protected] TSM Journal Editor: Advertiser’s Index . 81 CAMELIA G.-A. MAIER Department of Biology Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas 76204-5799 (940) 898-2358 FAX (940) 898-2382 ON THE COVER E-mail: [email protected] Holothurian sclerites are small bone ossicles located in the skin of sea cucumbers. The ones on the cover are fossilized of approximately 300,000,000 years. The morphology TSM Web Page Master: of sclerites is used by taxonomists to identify various species of sea cucumbers. See also BECKY HOLDFORD Texas Instruments Inc. current abstract entitled ‘Middle Permian Holothurian Sclerites from The Guadalupe 13536 North Central Texas Expressway, Mountains, West Texas’ by G. P. NESTELL1, M. K. NESTELL1, and M. GRACEY2, MS 940, Dallas, Texas 75243 1 2 (972) 995-2360 Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Department of Biology, Univer- E-mail: [email protected] sity of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019. Plate prepared by Martha Gracey. Tex. J. Micros. 37:2, 2006 39 SCANNING 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstract deadline — January 15, 2007 Papers are now being solicited for oral presentation and must be received at SCANNING/FAMS no later than January 15, 2007. Submit online at http://scanning.msubmit.net Abstracts will be published in the Proceedings Issue of SCANNING®, The Journal of Scanning Microscopies, available at the meeting. In addition, full-length manuscripts may be submitted to SCANNING for peer review for publication in another issue. Presentation for contributed papers will be limited to approximately 20 minutes unless an exception is made by the Program Committee. For general meeting information, contact: SCANNING Program Committee, P.O. Box 485, Mahwah, NJ 07430-0485, USA. Phone (201) 818-1010, Fax (201) 818-0086, e-mail: [email protected], Internet: www.scanning.org All topics in the scanning microscopies are sought, including: • Advances in confocal and related optical • Light microscopy • Museum applications microscopies • Materials microscopy and microanalysis • Nanotechnology and nanofabrication • Agricultural applications • Medical applications of scanning microscopy • Scanning cry-HRSEM of chemical • Backscattering electron diffraction • Microanalysis in SEM/EPMA/AEM systems • Scanning probe microscopies • Biological and biomedical microscopy and • Microscopy and microanalysis: theory, instru- • Semiconductor devices, materials, and microanalysis mentation and techniques process characterization • Electron beam specimen interaction workshop • Microwave technology • STEM • Focused ion beam (FIB) • Monte Carlo modeling for microscopy and • TEM • Forensics applications microanalysis • X- ray mapping in electron beam • Graphic arts aspects of microscopy • Multidimensional microscopy instruments SHORT COURSES The Short Courses present information on the subject listed, and the instructor will provide a course packet for each registrant. Special registration includes your choice of one short course. Be sure to REGISTER EARLY as enroll- ment is limited. Short Courses will be scheduled on April 10, April 11, April 12. The Short Course curriculum at SCANNING 2007 includes: � Introduction to Atomic Force Microscopy (two-day course) � Advanced Topics in SEM � Quantitative Measurements using AFM (half day course) � Scanning Microscopy in Forensic Science � Materials Science Applications of AFM (half day course) � Images in Print PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Robert P. Becker David G. Howitt Michael T. Postek, Jr. Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology Dept. of Chem. Eng. and Materials Science Nanometer Scale Metrology Group University of Illinois Medical Center University California Davis, 2016 Bainer Hall National Institute of Standards and Technology Room A-117, Stop 8212 808 S. Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612-7308 Davis, CA 95616 Phone (312) 996-7215; Fax (312) 413-0354 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8212 Phone (530) 752-1164; Fax (530) 758-9918 e-mail: [email protected] Phone (301) 975-2299; Fax (301) 869-0822 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] P.C. Cheng Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Laboratory David C. Joy William P. Wergin USDA-ARS-EMU, Bldg. 177B Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Biochemistry, Cellular, Molecular Biology Beltsville, MD 20705 113 Bonner Hall, SUNY Buffalo University of Tennessee Knoxville Phone (301) 504-9027; Fax (301) 504-8923 Buffalo, NY 14260 232 Science and Eng. Research Facility e-mail: [email protected] Phone (716) 645-3115; Fax (716) 645-3868 1414 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-0840 e-mail: [email protected] Phone (865) 974-3638; Fax (865) 974-9449 Audio-Visual: e-mail: [email protected] Beverly Giammara Chris Pooley Dept. of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology S. Frank Platek HRSL-Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab University of Louisville School of Medicine Forensic Chemistry Center, US Food and Drug 10300 Baltimore Avenue 2205 Weber Avenue Administration, 6751 Steger Drive 465 BARC-EAST Bldg. Louisville, KY 40205 Cincinnati, OH 45237-3097 Beltsville, MD 20705 Phone & Fax: (502) 454-7218 Phone: (513) 679-2700 x254;Fax: (513) 679-2761 Phone: 301-504-8377; Fax: 301-504-8931 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] 40 Tex. J. Micros. 37:2, 2006 President’s Message hank you for electing me as your new President and the expansion of the Arnott Award for best student for the Texas Society for Microscopy. My asso- presentation at TSM meetings to three awards, with a Tciation with TSM began in the late 1960’s when 1st place award of $100.00, a $75 2nd place award and I heard George Palade, Nobel Laureate, give a talk on a $50 3rd place award. his research on the transmission electron microscopy of the Golgi apparatus. I was a graduate student of Dr. Sandra Westmoreland chaired our successful Spring Constantine Alexopoulos, in the Botany Department at 2006 meeting at Alcon Industries, Fort Worth, in April the University of Texas at Austin. I arrived on campus 2006. We are anticipating an excellent meeting at the to begin my doctoral work the same day that Howard Hilton Garden Inn in Allen for the October 19-21, 2006 Arnott began his postdoctoral work. Since then, my Fall Meeting. Jodi Roepsch has planned this meeting to students and I have been warmly received over the years, encourage a diversity of participants from both academia traveling from El Paso to participate in the TSM meet- and industry. For next year, Ernest Couch, Pam Neill and ings. Alice Stacey and I were planning a TSM meeting Phoebe Doss are preparing our spring meeting on the for October of 2001 when September 11th intervened. campus of Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth for the weekend of April 13-15, 2007. Please plan to attend Our society has had excellent leadership with very and bring colleagues and students! dedicated officers including Sandra Westmoreland, Past President; Robert Champaign, Past Secretary; Robert The Society has lost a valuable member with the death Droleskey, Treasurer; Jodi Roepsch and Pam Neill as of Richard Rebert, representative of Electron Micros- Program Chairs; German Neal, Corporate Member Rep- copy Sciences, Hatfield, PA. We will greatly miss his resentative; and Camelia Maier, TSM Journal Editor.