Researchers to present at May Microscopy Society event; free admission for students

Several faculty members will present their research on Wednesday, May 15, at the 57^th Annual Society for Applied Spectroscopy, American Chemical Society: Analytical Topics Group, and American Vacuum Society’s May Conference at the Dolan Science Center at John Carroll University. Research from a diverse range of disciplines will be presented. Topics in the program include: evolutionary morphology, gold nanoparticles, semiconductors, 3-D imaging of small membrane protein complexes, stem cells and more. Presentations will be given by several Case Western Reserve researchers:

• Danqi Wang from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Andreas Engel from the Department of Pharmacology
• Ina Martin of the Materials for Opto/Electronics Research and Education Center
• Seth Villarreal of the Department of Pharmacology
• Paul C. Quayle from the Department of Physics
• Wayne Jennings from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Yindong Ge of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Posters also will be shown by CWRU researchers:

• Justin Flatt of the Department of Pharmacology and the Cleveland Center for Membrane & Structural Biology
• Christopher Francy from the Department of Pharmacology
• Midori Hitomi, School of Medicine, Electron Microscopy Facility
• Zhange Feng of the Department of Chemistry
• Yindong Ge from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• Maryam Zahiri Azar of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

The conference will be an all-day event. There will be a reception and banquet with an awards ceremony after the day of presentations. The evening banquet event is optional. Registration will be available at the door, but to attend the evening banquet, registration and payment must be made in advance. All members of the CWRU community are invited to attend. Registration and lunch is free for all students. To view the entire program and register online visit www.msneo.org/meetings or for more information e-mail: Amir.avishai@case.edu.