


Session III : May 16, 2024
Special Sample Preparations
Program for Session III





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Dr. Sara Miller's talks is rescheduled to June 27, 2024
Featured Speakers

Sara Miller

Special EM Specimen Preparation & Procedures
Dr. Sara Miller is a Professor in the Pathology at Duke Medical Center who teaches electron microscopy (EM), virology, and presentation preparation to undergraduates, medical students, medical residents, and pathology assistant students. Dr Miller has given many invited talks in the USA and in numerous foreign countries. Along with Drs. Alex Hyatt and Hans Gelderblom, she taught a workshop on diagnostic virology by EM at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research), organized another with Cynthia Goldsmith at the Center for Disease Control, and taught in the World Health Organization course "EM in Medicine" in Thailand. Dr. Miller performs research and is Director of the Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanoscale Technology at Duke University. She served as president of the Microscopy Society of America, Society for Ultrastructural Pathology, Southeastern Microscopy Society, and is a Fellow of the MSA.

Lori A. Breitweiser

Microscopic Methods to Characterize Fungal Infections and
Fungicide Action in planta
Lori is the Senior Technician in the Microscopy and Microanaylsis Lab at Corteva Agriscience and works in Crop Protection R&D, located at the Indianapolis, IN, Global Headquarters. Lori was originally trained in Biotechnology, but since joining the lab in 2017, she has become a skilled practitioner in a wide variety of microscopic preparation methods, including classic fixation, resin embedding, and ultramicrotomy for light and electron microscopy; critical point drying, sputter coating, and scanning electron microscopy; cytochemical and immunostaining; and cryosectioning.
Tech Talks
Joe Mowery


Joe is an biologist with an extensive research background in electron and confocal microscopy. Before joining ZEISS, he led the electron microscopy facility at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Maryland, focusing on the development of novel TEM and Cryo-SEM techniques and is the recipient of the 2020 Hildegard H. Crowley Award from the Microscopy Society of America. Currently, as a Product & Application Specialist for Life Science EM & X-Ray Microscopy at ZEISS, Joe's mission is to provide life science researchers with greater access to advanced SEMs technology and promote the growth of Life Science EM and VolumeEM. Joe is particularly passionate about CryoSEM techniques and is always eager to share his decade of experience adapting CryoSEM toward biological research.

Steven Goodman

Steven’s microscopy “career” began as a child examining pond water, insects, and everything else with a student compound microscope. After a Neuroscience undergraduate, he was a lab tech at the Marine Biological Lab (Woods Hole) using TEM, SEM, and optical spectroscopy for retina and neuroscience research. This was followed by graduate school through faculty at U. Wisconsin and U. Connecticut. At Wisconsin he worked in the Integrated Microscopy Resource developing correlative HVEM, LV-SEM, Immuno-Gold Labeling, and Cryo-preparation methods for cell biology and biomaterials engineering. At UConn, he was the faculty director of the Health Center EM core and managed a biomaterials research program using 3D-SEM, TEM, AFM, and multi-photon optics. In industry, he worked on the development of new microscope technology (LEAP, scanning probe, confocal, mPrep system) and consulted for medical device & biopharma companies. He is now excited to accelerate TEM and vEM discovery and diagnostics in BioEM labs worldwide with the mPrep System of specimen and grid capsules and Automated Specimen Processors.