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The 2013 meeting for the Southeastern Microscopy Society will be at the
Embassy Suites Golf Resort and Conference Center in Greenville, SC, on
May 22-24!  There is an exciting program planned with 3 Invited
Speakers:  Jay Jerome from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Paul
Carpenter from Washington University St Louis, and Brian J Ford, a
well-known lecturer who is based at Cambridge University, England.

In addition, there will be the Ruska Award presentations, contributed
talks and posters, and two workshops.  There will also be a Vendor
Social on Wednesday evening, a Banquet on Thursday evening, and a
Business Breakfast on Friday morning.  

The SEMS website is ready for your registration, available at
http://southeasternmicroscopy.org/2013-meeting/.  

Below are the descriptions of the workshops being held at Clemson
University:

First, at the Clemson Light Imaging Facility featuring the Leica
Imaging Suite, there will be a workshop titled *Sample techniques for
creating high resolution images: tips and tricks for great confocal and
super resolution sample preparation", sponsored by Leica.

Second, at the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory, there will be a
tour of the facility (with 3 TEMS (including a 300 kV) and 4 SEMs) and
an introduction to the capabilities of the microscopes there, sponsored
by Hitachi, and a workshop titled *A Semiconductor-Based Heating and
Electrical Biasing Platform for High-Resolution in situ Electron
Microscopy*, sponsored by Protochips.

We hope to see you in Greenville in May!