Dear Friends,
This year we will celebrate 44 years of activity of the Israel Society for
Microscopy (ISM) at our Annual Meeting, which will be held on May 31st, at
Beit Hatfutsot, Tel-Aviv University.
Plenary Speakers
- Stefan Hell, Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute, Germany. Nanoscopy with Focused Light
- Ferdinand Hofer, Institute for Electron Microscopy and Fine Structure Research (FELMI) of the Graz University of Technology, Austria. High Spatial-Resolution Analysis by Energy-Filtering TEM
- Helen Saibil, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College London, UK. Single Particle Cryo Electron Microscopy of Macromolecular Machines in Protein Folding
Invited Speakers
- Benjamin Geiger, Weizmann Institute
- Irena Gotman, Technion
- Kinneret Keren, Technion
- Yossi Lereah, Tel Aviv University
- Louisa Meshi, Ben-Gurion University
- Shlomo Trachtenberg, Hebrew University
- Ruth Sperling, Hebrew University
Click to download the
poster
Submissions
- Abstract for oral presentations as well as for poster
presentations can be submitted online - see links and guidelines here.
- The Lev Margulis prize will be awarded this year to one student in Materials
Science. For details click here.
- The SIG4 prize by Nanomegas will be awarded to one student, on a project
which focuses on electron crystallography. For details click here.
- We will continue our Photography Exhibition. This is a unique opportunity to present visually appealing micrographs. Prizes will be awarded for the “best picture” in the following categories: optical microscopy, SEM, TEM, and SPM. The "Best Shot" will be used in the emblem for next year’s meeting. Instructions for the preparation of micrographs can be found here.
Deadline of abstract submission and application for Prizes: April
15th, 2010.
Deadline of image submission for the micrograph competition: April
15th, 2010.
Deadline for early registration (reduced fees): April 15th,
2010.
Yours Sincerely,
Dganit Danino,
Chair, ISM
