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Following is a list of microscopy related meetings and courses. The editors would greatly appreciate input to this list via the electronic submission form under “events/other microscopy events” at the MSA webpage: www.microscopy.org. We will gladly add hypertext links to the notice on the web and insert a listing of the meeting in the next issue. Please furnish the following information (any additional information provided will be edited as required and printed on a space available basis):
• Meeting/Course name
• Meeting/Course dates
• Meeting/Course topic or short description
• Sponsoring society/organization/university
• Contact person
• Telephone number
• Fax number
• E-mail address
• URL for website
General Links
European Molecular Biology Organization Course & Workshops
www.embo.org/programmes/courses-workshops.html
Gordon Research Conferences
www.grc.org/meetings.aspx?year=2010
Keystone Symposia
Lehigh Microscopy School Courses
Royal Microscopical Society Annual Courses
www.rms.org.uk/events/RMS_Annual_Courses
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA
Meetings 2011
Neuroscience 2011
November 12–16, 2011
Washington, DC
Sponsor: Society for Neuroscience
Phone: 202-962-4000
Fax: 292-962-4911
E-mail: info@sfn.org
American Society for Cell Biology 51st Annual Meeting
Meetings 2012
1st International Conference on Drug Therapy in TB Infection
January 6–7, 2012
Barcelo Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh, UK
Sponsor: Africa Health Research Organization
High-Throughput Structural Biology with Structural Biology of Cellular Processes: From Atoms to Cells
January 22–27, 2012
Keystone Resort, CO
Sponsor: Keystone Symposia and Bayer USA Foundation
Phone: +1 800-253-0685
10th Asia-Pacific Microscopy Conference
22nd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Virology
March 14–17, 2012
Essen, Germany
Contact: Jana Radoi, Carl-Pulfrich-Straße 1, 07745 Jena (Germany)
Phone: +49 (0) 3641 311 63 46
E-mail: jana.radoi@conventus.de
Immunohistochemistry and Microscopy Short Course
March 18–20, 2012
MBL, Woods Hole, MA
Topics: Immunohistochemistry & Microscopy Hands-On Course at MBL, 3/18–3/20/2012. Preparing cells/tissue for IHC, assay design and set up, assay performance, antigen retrieval, chromogen/fluorescence detection, visualization, image capture, and troubleshooting
Sponsor: The Histochemical Society
Contact: Meg McGough
Phone: 206-832-9853
Fax: 425-483-1058
Histochemistry 2012
March 21–23, 2012
MBL, Woods Hole, MA
Topics: Immunohistochemistry—Bridging the Gap Between Light and EM: sessions on correlative microscopy, switchable Q dots, calibrated imaging and validated analysis, JHC lecture—Richard Hynes, chroma lecture—Bernd Fritzsch, and tech reviews
Sponsor: The Histochemical Society
Contact: Meg McGough
Phone: 206-832-9853
Fax: 425-483-1058
11th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidasis
March 29–April 2, 2012
San Francisco, CA
Sponsor: American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Contact: ASM Conferences, 1752 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2940
Phone: 202-942-9261
E-mail: Conferences@asmusa.org
www.asm.org/index.php/meetings/11th-asm-conference-on-candida-and-candidiasis.html
Focus on Microscopy 2012
April 1–4, 2012
Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Singapore
E-mail: info2012@FocusOnMicroscopy.org
2012 MRS Spring Meeting
April 9–13, 2012
Moscone West and San Francisco Marriot, San Francisco, CA
Sponsor: Materials Research Society
Phone: 724-779-3003
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
11th ASM Conference on Prokaryotic Cell Biology and Development
May 6–10, 2012
Montreal, Canada
Sponsor: American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Contact: ASM Conferences, 1752 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2940
Phone: 202-942-9261
E-mail: Conferences@asmusa.org
www.asm.org/index.php/meetings/4th-asm-conference-on-prokaryotic-development.html
Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy: From Molecules to Systems—Visualizing Biological Complexity
May 27–June 1, 2012
Les Diablerets Conference Center, Switzerland
Sponsor: Gordon Research Conference
Inter/Micro: 63rd Annual Applied Microscopy Conference
July 9–13, 2012
McCrone Research Institute, Chicago, IL
Topic: Applied Microscopy
Sponsor: McCrone Research Institute
Contact: Therese Newman
Phone: 312-842-7100
Fax: 312-842-1078
E-mail: intermicro@mcri.org
Microscopy & Microanalysis 2012
July 29–August 2, 2012
Phoenix, AZ
Sponsors: MSA, MAS, IMS
Contact: Nichole Guy, Hachero Hill, Inc., 11260 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 402, Reston, VA 20190
Phone: 703-964-1240, ext. 14
E-mail: nicholeguy@mindspring.com
Denver X-Ray Conference
August 6–10, 2012
Denver Yech Center Hotel, Denver, Colorado
Topic: Annual Conference of Applications of X-Ray Analysis
Sponsor: ICDD
Contact: Denise Flaherty
E-mail: flaherty@icdd.com
15th European Microscopy Congress (formerly EUREM)
38th Annual Symposium, National Society for Histotechnology
September 28–October 23, 2012
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sponsor: National Society for Histotechnology
Phone: 443-535-4060
Fax: 443-535-4055
E-mail: histo@nsh.org
2012 MRS Fall Meeting
November 26–30, 2012
Boston, MA
Sponsor: Materials Research Society
Phone: 724-779-3003
Courses 2012
Quantifying Immunogold Label on EM Thin Sections
April 5–7, 2012
House Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Topics: A practical course to teach quantitative methods for estimating immunogold signal on thin sections of biological material
Contact: Paul Webster
E-mail: pwebster@hei.org
EMBO Electron Microscopy and Stereology in Cell Biology
June 12–22, 2012
České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Topic: The aim of this course is to teach cutting-edge EM techniques for Cell Biologists on a high theoretical and practical level.
Sponsor: European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Contact: Jana Nebesarova
Phone: +420387775402
E-mail: nebe@paru.cas.cz
Optics Within Life Sciences
Meetings 2013
Microscopy & Microanalysis 2013
August 4–8, 2013
Indianapolis, IN
Sponsors: MSA, MAS, IMS
Contact: Nichole Guy, Hachero Hill, Inc., 11260 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 402, Reston, VA 20190
Phone: 703-964-1240, ext. 14
E-mail: nicholeguy@mindspring.com
Denver X-Ray Conference
August 5–9, 2013
The Westin, Westminster, CO
Topic: Annual Conference of Applications of X-ray Analysis
Sponsor: ICDD
Contact: Denise Flaherty
E-mail: flaherty@icdd.com
39th Annual Symposium, National Society for Histotechnology
September 20–26, 2013
Providence, RI
Sponsor: National Society for Histotechnology
Phone: 443-535-4060
Fax: 443-535-4055
E-mail: histo@nsh.org
Meetings 2014
Microscopy & Microanalysis 2014
August 3–7, 2014
Hartford, CT
Sponsors: MSA, MAS, IMS
Contact: Nichole Guy, Hachero Hill, Inc., 11260 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 402, Reston, VA 20190
Phone: 703-964-1240, ext. 14
E-mail: nicholeguy@mindspring.com
National Society for Histotechnology; 40th Annual Symposium/Convention
August 21–27, 2014
Austin, TX
Sponsor: National Society for Histotechnology
Phone: 443-535-4060
E-mail: histo@nsh.org
18th International Microscopy Congress
September 7–12, 2014
Prague, Czech Republic
Sponsor: The Czechoslovak Microscopy Society
E-mail: info@imc2014.com
