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Please direct questions regarding registration to: [email protected] Questions regarding exhibits and exhibitors may be directed to: August 4-8, 2019 [email protected] PORTLAND, OR Questions regarding sponsors or sponsorships may be directed to: [email protected] Please direct all other meeting-related questions to: [email protected] Are You A Member? August 2-6, 2020 Join Today and Save on M&M MILWAUKEE, WI 2017 Registration Fees! Visit http://microscopy.org to join the Microscopy Society of America online, or call 703-234-4115 for more information about the benefits of MSA membership. August 1-5, 2021 PITTSBURGH, PA Visit http://microanalysissociety.org to join the Microanalysis Society and find out information about MAS membership benefits. July 31-August 4, 2022 Visit http://fieldemission.org for PORTLAND, OR membership information on the International Field Emission Society. On the cover: “Micro-Sailboat Racing” Dale Hensley and Bernadeta Srijanto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2016 MSA Micrograph Contest Entry “Cascading Confetti” Eric Formo, University of Georgia, First Place Winner of the 2016 MSA Micrograph Competition MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS 2017 MEETING | August 6-10 | St. Louis, MO [3] Single Particle Analysis A workflow that is pushing the boundaries of modern science Cryo-EM structure of F-actin decorated with tropomyosin at 3.7Å resolution. Courtesy of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany. Find out more at thermofisher.com/FEI © 2017 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of Thermo Fisher Scientific and its subsidiaries unless otherwise specified. > Welcome Letter On behalf of the sponsoring societies, we invite you to join us August 6-10 Contents in St. Louis, Missouri for Microscopy & Microanalysis 2017. The theme of the M&M 2017 meeting is “Anniversaries.” At this meeting the Microscopy Future Meeting Dates . 3 Society of America and the Microanalysis Society, which established the joint M&M meeting format more than twenty years ago, will celebrate Welcome Letter . 5 their 75th and 50th anniversaries, respectively. We are pleased to feature special commemorative logos for each society during this anniversary year. Sponsors . 6 In addition, the M&M meeting is cosponsored for the first time by the International Field Emission Society to commemorate the 50th anniversary Advertiser Index . 6 of the invention of the atom probe. Sustaining Members . 9 The meeting’s Week at a Glance Schedule is on pages 25-32. We are Registration . 10 excited to offer special anniversary programming this year! Anniversary lectures by pioneering figures in microscopy and microanalysis will be Essential Meeting & Venue featured in special morning and midday sessions. You’ll be able to hear Information . 12 about the development and future prospects for instrumentation and techniques that are at the forefront of our field today, while enjoying some Convention Center Floor Plan . 14 complimentary coffee and a breakfast item. MSA’s Student Council will Hotel, Travel & City Information . 15 be hosting an inaugural pre-meeting event on Saturday that will treat attendees to a sampling of the best work, across scientific disciplines, Social Events & Onsite Awards . 16 presented at the meeting by early career scientists. Anniversary Lectures . 18 The meeting itself will be preceded by our usual array of Sunday Short Courses as well as four Pre-Meeting Congresses. The technical program Meetings & Special will kick off with our annual Monday morning plenary session, featuring Events Schedule . 20 the major awards ceremonies for the sponsoring societies, the M&M Highlights & Awards . 22 meeting awards, and two exciting plenary talks by Eric Betzig, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of super-resolved Megabooth . 24 fluorescence microscopy,” and Keith Riles, a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that in 2015 detected gravitational waves, a prediction of Week At-A-Glance Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Following the plenary session, the Friday . 25 Exhibition Hall opens to attendees, the largest annual exhibition in the Saturday . 25 field showcasing the latest state-of-the-art instrumentation and accessories Sunday . 25 in microscopy and microanalysis. Educational opportunities throughout Monday . 25 the week include tutorials covering select topics in physical and biological sciences, educational outreach sessions for students and teachers, our Tuesday . 27 Technologists’ Forum, and our ever-popular vendor tutorials, held Monday Wednesday . 29 through Wednesday after the Exhibit Hall closes. M&M 2017 will provide Thursday . 31 you with the opportunity to stay abreast of the latest new technologies, hear the latest developments in the techniques and applications of all Exhibitor Directory . 33 areas of microscopy and microanalysis, and most importantly network with Exhibitor Categories . 51 colleagues. As the saying goes: “Meet me in St. Louis!” Exhibitor List by Booth . 60 Ian M. Anderson Masashi Watanabe David J. Larson President, President, President, International Exhibitor List by Name . 62 Microscopy Society Microanalysis Society Field Emission Society of America Exhibit Hall Diagram . 64 MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS 2017 MEETING | August 6-10 | St. Louis, MO [5] > 2017 Sponsors HREM Research Inc. Protochips Quantifiably Better™ Sponsor List as of June 1, 2017 > Index to Advertisers Company Page # Company Page # Amptek, Inc. 33 Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. 2 International Centre For Diffraction Data Applied Beams, LLC 34 19 (ICDD) Bruker Corporation 8 IXRF Systems, Inc. 50 Diatome 13 Kammrath and Weiss 17 Digital Surf 19 Nion Company 63 Duniway Stockroom Corp. 36 Photonics 49 EDAX 23 Scienion US, Inc. 61 Electron Microscopy Sciences 68 Ted Pella Inc. 56-57 Evactron 37 Tescan USA 7 EXpressLO, LLC 38 Thermo Fisher Scientific 4 Gatan, Inc. 67 Zeiss 11 [6] www.microscopy.org/MandM/2017 for up-to-date meeting information EXPLORE THE HIGHEST RESOLUTION EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIES EXPLORE S8000 series ULTRA-FAST CROSS-SECTIONS AND 3D ANALYSIS DAMAGE-FREE ULTRATHIN SAMPLE PREPARATION VISIT US AT BOOTH No. 1508 AT M&M 2017 Stop by to learn more about the very new generation of tools offered by TESCAN. 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