Session III : May 16, 2024
Special Sample Preparations
Program for Session III (coming soon)
Sara Miller
Presentation I Title
Dr. Sara Miller, Professor in the Pathology Department at Duke Medical Center, teaches electron microscopy (EM), virology, and presentation preparation to various student groups, including 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 Organisation (an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research), organized another with Cynthia Goldsmith at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the leading USA organization providing emergency response, expertise, public health infrastructure and global disease detection), and taught in the World Health Organization course "EM in Medicine" in Thailand. Dr. Miller performs research, directs the Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanoscale Technology at Duke. She has served as president of the Microscopy Society of America, the Society for Ultrastructural Pathology, and the Southeastern Microscopy Society, and in other capacities in several organizations. Also, she was elected a Fellow of the MSA.
Chris Hayden
The Eyes Have It: practical considerations for small animal retinal preparation
Chris was first hooked on the electron microscopy when he spotted the shockingly orange column of a Zeiss 900 in one of his undergraduate studies. He asked what he had to do to get time on that instrument, Since then, Chris has been playing in the electron microscopy game for nearly 20 years. Chris’s focus has generally been toxicologic effects of developmental compounds in Novartis Pharmaceuticals’ Pre-Clinical Safety division, with an emphasis on sample collection and preparation. Chris is located at the Novartis campus in Cambridge, MA
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.
Joe Mowery
Adapting CryoSEM for imaging challenging biological samples inaccessible through conventional techniques
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
Versatile mPrep ASP Automation and Capsules provide proven speed and adaptability for BioEM labs of any size.
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.