Renew Your Membership for 2018

Have you renewed your membership for 2018 yet? If not, you can pay your dues through the online members portal.

Cryo-EM at 2018 ACA Annual Meeting, Toronto

The cryo-EM community is excited to contribute to the annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) in Toronto, July 20-24, 2018. On Friday July 20, there will be a one-day workshop "Cryo-EM -A Guide to High-Resolution Structure Determination" providing a detailed overview of cryo-EM specimen preparation, image processing and building/refinement of atomic models. Please join us! Registration is now open at http://www.amercrystalassn.org/2018-meeting-homepage

Ernst-Ruska-Prize 2019 of the German Society for Electron Microscopy

The German Society for Electron Micorscopy invites candidates for the 2019 Ernst-Ruska-Prize. The prize is awarded for work carried out by younger scientists pioneering new capabilities of electron microscopy as a scientific technique through innovative instrumentation or novel methods of basic and general interest. Click here for more information.

Student Council is excited to announce that the remaining Regional Liaison position has been filled! Joseph Lim has agreed to take on the role of Regional Liaison I, serving the Pacific Northwest. Joseph is no stranger to MSA as he has been an active participant in the Student Bursary Program and attended the last three Microscopy & Microanalysis meetings. His story also points to how MSA and MSA Student Council truly do represent a broad reach of backgrounds and interests in the field of microscopy. As an Army Veteran returning to school to pursue paramedic certification, he became inspired by professors in his biological sciences courses and was introduced to microscopy through them. He joined MSA three years ago when his Cell Biology professor encouraged him to join a professional organization. Joseph has been an enthusiastic part of the MSA student membership ever since. Welcome Aboard!

Take a minute to look at the MSA Student Council Regional Liaison map, connect with a local liaison, and remember to renew your MSA Student Membership or for PIs/faculty/staff please encourage your students to get involved and reach out to MSA Student Council at [email protected]!

Region I - Joseph Lim, Virginia Community College

Region II - Frank Barrows, Northwestern University

Region III - Tim Pegg, Miami University

Region IV - Jason Sardey, Temple University

Region V - Matt Nigro, SUNY Geneseo

Region VI - Kartik Venkatraman, Arizona State University

Region VII- Samantha Brady, University of Missouri-Columbia

Region VIII- Jackson Spurling, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Region IX- Kemaro Muir, Tuskegee University

Region X - Nhu Trieu, University of New Brunswick

Connect with Student Council on Social Media

Keep up with all of the exciting activities, student success stories, and student news from MSA Student Council. If you have not done so already, like and follow MSA Student Council on social media.

Please, faculty, and staff, use this as a way to share with students how involvement in MSA has been beneficial to you and post opportunities that might be open in your lab or workplace.

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The MSA Student Council (StC) is organizing the 2nd annual Pre-meeting Congress for Students, Postdocs and Early-career Professionals in Microscopy & Microanalysis (PMCx60), to be held on the Saturday preceding M&M 2018 in Baltimore, MD.

The PMCx60 is a one-day conference organized by and for students and early-career professionals, and offers a highly interactive forum for participants to share cutting edge research, network, and engage with peers ahead of the main meeting.

The StC is soliciting financial support from the MSA community, and welcomes corporate sponsorship and donations from individuals/organizations to help build the future of microscopy and microanalysis.

Please consider sponsoring, donating to, and attending the 2018 PMCx60 in Baltimore, MD. To learn about the benefits of being a PMCx60 sponsor, email the StC at [email protected], or donate to the PMCx60 via the MSA donation page ( microscopy.org/donation, include "PMCx60" in the "Donation Made by:" field).

For event details visit www.microscopy.org/MandM/2018/program/congress_X60.cfm, and check out our final program from 2017 at www.microscopy.org/docs/Program_PMCRadMM2017.pdf .

Local Affiliated Societies News

by Patty Jansma, LAS Director

MSA's Local Affiliated Societies provide networking and outreach opportunities for the microscopy community. The list of LAS can be found on the LAS community page at http://microscopy.org/communities/local.cfm.

LAS Meetings

Mark your calendars! Here is a list of Spring 2017 LAS meetings:

February 22-24	Texas Society for Microscopy	www.texasmicroscopy.org
March 20	Three Rivers Microscopy Society	Susheng Tan ([email protected])
March 27	Northern California Society for Microscopy	www.ncsmicroscopy.org
March 30	Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society	azmicroscopy.org
May 16-18	Southeastern Microscopy Society	southeasternmicroscopy.org
April 13	Southern California Society for Microscopy & Microanalysis (SCSM)	www.scsmm.org/

Check the individual LAS websites for more details.

Support your local affiliated society! Invite students & early career scientists & technologists to your LAS meetings. Better yet, bring a new member to your local meeting and get them involved!

LAS Programs

MSA provides LAS support with Tour Speakers, Grants-in-Aid and Special Meeting grants. Details can be found at http://www.microscopy.org/communities/programs.cfm. Funds are still available for 2018. Please contact me as soon as possible if your LAS is interested in applying, and you haven't already received funding this year.

As always, you may contact me at [email protected] with comments, questions or concerns.

Thanks!

Patty