Program





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		Thursday, October 19, 2006

Time	Event	Location
9:00am-12:00pm	Registration	Foyer Outside Meeting Rooms
1:00pm-5:00pm	Registration	Foyer Outside Meeting Rooms
12:00pm-6:00pm	Vendor Setup	Allen 1
1:00am-4:00pm	Workshop Trick or Treat?; Turning an X-ray “Count” into a Component sponsored by Thermo Electron Corporation John Konopka, Microanalysis Applications Scientist	Plano Room
5:00pm – 7:00pm	Executive Council Meeting	Fairview Board Room
7:00pm-9:00pm	TSM Social and Vendor Exhibits	Allen 1
9:00pm-11:00pm	TSM Hospitality Suite	TBD


	Friday, October 20, 2006

Time	Event	Location
8:00am-5:00pm	Registration	Foyer Outside Meeting Rooms
8:00am-8:30am	Continental Breakfast	Foyer Outside Meeting Rooms
8:30am-8:35am	Opening Remarks Dr. Judy Ellzey, TSM President	Allen 3
8:35am – 9:00am	Ultrastructure and Pathology of Two Different Bacteria in Pierce’s Disease in Grape Petioles E. Ann Ellis, Microscopy and Imaging Center, TexasA&MUniversity Additional Authors B. Greg Cobb and George R. McEachern, Dept. of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences, TexasA&MUniversity
9:00am-10:00am	Guest Speaker Returning to the Field: Life with the US Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom Jason M. Smith, Principal Software Systems Engineer Raytheon, Network Centric Systems	Allen 3
10:00am – 10:25am	Laser Scanning Microscopy for Microelectronic Failure Isolation Dat Nguyen, Texas Instruments Additional Authors David Maxwell, Texas Instruments	Allen 3
10:25am-11:30am	Break in Vendor Area Poster Session Poster 1 Relationship between phytoliths of forage sorghums and herbivore preference Michael Pendleton, Microscopy & Imaging Center, TexasA&MUniversity, Additional Authors Bonnie Pendleton, Dept. of Agricultural Sciences, West Texas A&M Univ. Frederick Miller, MMR Genetics LTD. Poster 2 FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY ON TEN SPECIES OF PHYTOPLANKTON FROM THE PALODUROCANYONSTATE PARK Mandy Whiteside, Lisa Dyer and Nabarun Ghosh. Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences, WestTexasA&MUniversity	Allen 1
11:30am-11:55am	SEM ANALYSIS OF GREAT SALT LAKEOOLITES Manetta Dillingham, Department of Geology, StephenF.AustinStateUniversity Student Competition	Allen 3
11:55am-12:20pm	THIN SECTION EXAMINATION OF BACTERIA BY TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE SELECTION OF PRESERVATION PROTOCOLS Robert E. Droleskey USDA/ARS/SPARC Additional Authors Kathleen Andrews¹, Rita B. Moyes², Roger B. Harvey¹ and David J ¹USDA, ARS, Southern Plains Agricultural ResearchCenter, ²Department of Biology, TexasA&MUniversity	Allen 3
12:20pm-1:45pm	Luncheon / General Business Meeting	Allen 1
1:45pm-2:10pm	FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY IN CHARACTERIZING AEROALLERGENS CAUSING ALLERGIES AND RHINOSINUSITIS AT TEXASPANHANDLE Mandy Whiteside, Lisa Dyer Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences, WestTexasA&MUniversity Additional Authors C. Saadeh, Michael Gaylor AmarilloCenter for Clinical Research/ Allergy A.R.T.S. Nabarun Ghosh. Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences, WestTexasA&MUniversity Student Competition	Allen 3
2:10pm-2:55pm	GaAs MMIC Resistor Deposition and Modification via FIB Milton Tam Raytheon Corporation	Allen 3
2:55pm-3:25pm	Break	Allen 1
3:25pm-3:50pm	FIB systems: A contemporary sample preparation tool for Scanning and Transmission electron Microscopy of Materials Kultaransingh N. Hooghan, Hooghan Consultancy and Services Additional Authors Paul A. Rodriguez, Reactive Beam Technology	Allen 3
3:50pm-4:15pm	FROST RINGS IN TIMBER CORES FROM SPRING HOUSE, MESAVERDE, COLORADO Howard J. Arnott, Center for Electron Microscopy and Department of Biology, University of TexasArlington Additional Authors Rex Adams, Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona	Allen 3
4:15pm-4:40pm	Microscopic studies of hawthorn (Crataegus sp., Rosaceae) leaves and stems hosting the rust fungus Gymnosporangium (Basidiomycetes: Uredinales) Patrick Peterson, Texas Women’s University, Dept. of Biology Additional Authors David C. Garrett, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of NorthTexas Camelia G.-A. Maier, Department of Biology, Texas Woman’s University Student Competition	Allen 3
4:40pm-5:05pm	Calcium deposits in plants from the mulberry family (Moraceae) Brandon Roberts, UNT, TAMS Additional Authors David C. Garrett, UNT, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Camelia G.-A. Maier, TWU, Dept. of Biology Student Competition	Allen 3
5:05pm	Adjourn
8:00pm-10:00pm	TSM Hospitality Suite	TBD


	Saturday, October 21, 2006

Time	Event	Location
8:30am-9:00am	Registration Continental Breakfast	Outside Meeting Rms
9:00am-9:25am	Arsenic Tolerance in C57BL/6J Male Mice Jaime B. Vigo, The University of Texas at El Paso Additional Authors Joanne Tontz Ellzey, The University of Texas at El Paso Student Competition	Allen 3
9:25am-9:50am	MIDDLE PERMIAN HOLOTHURIAN SCLERITES FROM THE GUADALUPEMOUNTAINS, WEST TEXAS Martha Gracey, Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington Additional Authors Nestell G. P., Nestell M. K. Department of Earth and Environmental Science	Allen 3
9:50am-10:15am	Cotton pollen transition through the digestive tract of flower beetle, Carpophilus sp.(Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Camelia Maier, Professor, TWU, Dept. of Biology Additional Authors David C. Garrett, UNT, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering	Allen 3
10:15am-10:40am	Cystoliths asd NebencystolitheN (SECONDARY CYSTOLITHS) in WHITE MULBERRY (morus ALBA L., MORACEAE) Howard J. Arnott, Center for Electron Microscopy and Department of Biology, University of TexasArlington Additional Authors Camelia G.-A. Maier, Department of Biology, Texas Women’s University	Allen 3
10:40am-10:45am	Closing Remarks Dr. Judy Ellzey, TSM President	Allen 3
10:45am	Adjourn