The Iowa Microscopy Society (IMS) will hold it's annual meeting on September 26 and 27, 1996 in Iowa City. This year we will combine our meeting with an open house of the Central Microscopy Research Facility. The seminars will take place on the University of Iowa campus in the Eckstein Medical Research Building. September 26th, Thursday 7:30-9:00am Registration, poster and exhibiter setup 8:00 am Welcoming Remarks by Richard Sjolund-President,IMS 8:20 am "Resinless Sections for Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy" By Marek Malecki, University of Wisconsin, IMR 9:10am "Microwave Technology: Application of Clinical Medicine and Research" Rick Giberson, Ted Pella Inc. 10:00 am BREAK: Refreshments, posters, exibitors 10:20 "Fluorescence Banding in Stalagmites" Luis Gonzalez, University of Iowa 10:50 "Visualization of Oral Drug Delivery" Christopher Squier, University of Iowa 11:20am "Human Pathogenic Bacteria: Elucidation of Pathogenic Mechanisms by Microscopy" Michael Apicella, University of Iowa 11:50am IMS Business Meeting 12:10pm Lunch Break 1:10 "An Improved Procedure or Alternate Approach to Cryo fixation for Both Light and Electron Microscopy" Fred Lightfoot, George Washington University 2:00pm "Immunological Approach to the Study of Phloem" Richard Sjolund, University of Iowa 2:30pm BREAK: Refreshments, posters, and exhibitors 2:50pm "In-Situ Hybridization Techniques" Rebecca Reiter, University of Iowa 3:20pm "Cell Interactions in the Tomato Root Meristem" Eugene Syzmkowiak, University of Iowa 4:10pm "Imaging Muscle: From 3-D to 2-D and back again" By Margaret Goldstein, Baylor College of Medicine 5:00pm RECEPTION, award presentations, poster winners announced. September 27th, Friday Workshops 8:00-12:00 am "Microwave Technology: Application to Clinical Medicine and Research" Rick Giberson, Ted Pella Inc. 1:00-3:00pm "Resinless Sections for SEM and TEM" Mereck Malecki, University of Wisconsin, IMR 3:00-5:00pm "Immunohistochemical and Immunofluorescence Techniques Using Monoclonal Antibodies" Richard Sjolund, University of Iowa All day "Variable Pressure SEM-Hitachi S2460N" CMRF open house All day "Bio-Rad MRC-1024 Laser Scanning Microscope" CMRF open house Staff and Student poster competion for cash prizes. Abstracts due September 10. Conference Preregistraion: Meeting day Registration: Regular-$8.00 Regular-$12.00 Student-$6.00 Student-$8.00 Workshop fees are $15.00 each except for open house, which is free. A box lunch will be available on the 26th for $5.00 if purchased in advance. Contact Kathy Walters, IMS secretary for further information: Kathy Walters / / Research Assistant III / /\ Center for Microscopy Research / /\ \ University of Iowa /_/ \ \ 85 EMRB ____ ((O)) Iowa City, Iowa 52242 | | / / || / / email: [log in to unmask] ----------- fax: (319)335-8049 ------------- www: http://www.uiowa.edu/~cemrf