60th Annual May Conference (SAS/MSNO/acs/avs)
MSNO's 50th Anniversary
mAY 18, 2016 jOHN cARROLL uNIVERSITY, dOLAN SCIENCE CENTER
How to get there?
The full-day conference will be held at Dolan Center of John Carroll University. On the map linked above, you can find the Dolan center at the lower left corner of JCU. For GPS users, please use 1 John Carroll Blvd, University Heights, OH 44118, or maybe the old address: 20700 North Park Boulevard University Heights, Ohio 44118.
Submit your paper (closed)
Submission deadlines: 3/18/2016 for talks and 4/18/2016 for posters.
Topics:
Topics:
- Microscopy/Spectroscopy
- Materials science
- Biology
- Renewable energy/sustainability
- Additive manufacture (3D printing)
- Analytical Chemistry
- Vacuum/surface techniques
- Nanomaterials/nanodevices
Student awards
May Conference Student Paper Awards (3 for talks and 3 for posters): Monetary awards - $100 for 1st place, $50 for award of merit and $25 for special mention.
MSNO Student Awards (up to 2, both talks and posters considered): $100 monetary awards and sponsoring up to $500 for each awardee to attend the national microscopy meetings (valid through the end of 2017).
MSNO Student Awards (up to 2, both talks and posters considered): $100 monetary awards and sponsoring up to $500 for each awardee to attend the national microscopy meetings (valid through the end of 2017).
Joint session 1: Keynote Address
"Aim High, then Aim Higher--Basic Research for the US Air Force"
Colonel Robert J. Kraus, PhD
Chief, Science and Engineering Division, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, VA
Colonel Robert J. Kraus, PhD
Chief, Science and Engineering Division, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, VA
Joint session2: Yeager award address
"Optimizing the Optical Properties of ‘Bubble’ DNA-Templated Fluorescent Silver Nanoclusters"
Ian Campbell, The Behrend College, Erie, PA
Ian Campbell, The Behrend College, Erie, PA
Invited Speakers
- Dr. Rigoberto Advincula (Case Western Reserve University) Nanoscale Electro-Patterning and Templating with Polymers
- Dr. Ali Dhinojwala (The University of Akron) Raman and vibrational spectroscopy of soft matter materials
- Dr. Grahame Kidd (Cleveland Clinic) Biological 3D Blockface Scanning EM: some current and future applications
- Dr. Edgar Kooijman (Kent State University) Interaction of amphipathic alpha-helix bundle proteins with lipid interfaces
- Colonel Robert J. Kraus, PhD (Keynote Speaker, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, VA) Aim High, then Aim Higher--Basic Research for the US Air Force
- Dr. Jeffrey Lengyel (FEI, NY) Recent Advances in Cryo-TEM; A New Era for Structural Biology
- Dr. Chunfei Li (Clarion University, Clarion, PA) Application of Transmission Electron Microscopy in Crystal Structure Determination
- Dr. Zhenmeng Peng (The University of Akron) Studying Growth Process of Facet-Controlled Platinum Group Metal Nanoparticles on Substrate with Electron Microscopy and IR Spectroscopy
- Dr. Ron Rubinovitz (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lanham, MD) Applications of FTIR and Raman Imaging
- Dr. Adam Smith (The University of Akron) Investigating membrane protein-protein interactions in live cells with time-resolved fluorescence microscopy
- Dr. Phoebe Stewart (Case Western Reserve University) Cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-electron tomography of nanoparticles
- Dr. Shih-Wa Wang (PolyOne Corporation and Polymer Diagnostics) Fatigue Performance of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Style 3D Printed vs. Injection Molded Ultem® 9085
- Dr. Qi-Huo Wei (Kent State University) Plasmonic Meta-surfaces as Photomasks for Photo-patterning Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals
- Dr. Jianguo Wen (Argonne National Labs, Lemont, IL) Application of aberration-corrected TEM in advanced energy material
technical program: Oral presentations
- Gaurav Amarpuri (University of Akron), Todd A. Blackledge, and Ali Dhinojwala “Distribution of salts and proteins, and structural changes in spider glue revealed by confocal Raman microscopy”
- Harry Scott (Case Western University), Derek Taylor, Feng Qiao, Jin Kim, Lan Huang, and Clinton Yu, “Architecture of the Schizosaccharomyces Pombe Ccq1-Tpz1-Poz1 telomeric complex”
- Tiyash Bose (Cleveland State University), Jonathan Barko, and Mekki Bayachou, “Ruthenium-modified Sensitive NO Sensors: Quantifying nitric oxide in the pathobiology of cystic fibrosis”
- Matthew Smith (NEOMED), and Samuel D. Crish, “From boutons to bulbs: Exploring fluorescent and 3D-electron microscopy to examine axonopathy and synaptopathy in mouse models of glaucoma”
- Jennifer L. Taylor (Lorain County Community College), Darla M. Balawender, Michelle J Neudeck, Lisa E. Parrish-Thompson, Kayla S. Zamborsky, and Harry W. Kestler, “HIV Receptor Knockout Using the Genome-Editing CRISPR/Cas9 System”
- Dinesh Lolla (University of Akron), Joseph V. Gorse, Christian Kisielowski, Jiayuan Miao, Philip L. Taylor, George G. Chase and Darrell H. Reneker “Inside Nanofibers-- Where atoms, molecules and fibers are seen”
- Amirali Zangiabadi (Case Western Reserve University), Harold Kahn, Frank Ernst, and Arthur H Heuer, "Low-Temperature Nitridation of Martensitic Stainless Steel and Reverse Austenite Transformation"
- Jacob Hill (University of Akron), and Mark Foster “Novel surface enrichment characteristics of polymer surfaces detected by emerging mass spectrometry technique”
- Brylee David B. Tiu, Roderick B. Pernites, Sicily B. Tiu (Case Western University), and Rigoberto C. Advincula, “Detection of aspartame via microsphere-patterned and molecularly imprinted polymer arrays”
- Sandra Pejic (Case Western University), Forrest Etheridge, Roshan Fernando, and Geneviève Sauvé, “Structure-Property Studies of Fluorinated Azadipyrromethene Derivatives as n-Type Acceptors in Organic Photovoltaics”
- Matthew Caputo (Youngstown State University) and C. Virgil Solomon, “Additive Manufacturing of a Ni-based Alloy”
- Jie Xiang, Greta Cukrov (Kent State University), Yuriy A. Nastishin, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich, “Elastic properties of dimeric liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy”
- Tim Daugherty (Youngstown State University), C. Virgil Solomon, and Stefan I. Moldovan, “Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of thermal evaporation synthesis of ZnO nanostructures”
- Kyle Crosby (Carl Zeiss Microscopy), “ZEISS MultiSEM – The Fastest SEM In The World”
- Weimin Yang (Thermo Fisher Scientific), “Automated method development and plasma optimization on iCAP 7000 plus series ICP/OES”
- Mark Waksmonski (Shimadzu Scientific Instruments), “Phthalate Screening Using Pyrolysis GC-MS”
- Jay Anderson (ANASYS Instruments), “IR Spectroscopy-Breaking the Diffraction Limit!”
Technical Program: Posters
- Katie Nowlin (Lorain County Community College), Valerie Gardner, Clayton Mastorovich, Christopher Wright, and Regan Silvestri, GC-MS Analysis of Unprecedented Whiskey Flavors Created by a Novel Aging Process
- Fatima A. Jaber (Kent State University, NEOMED, King Abd-Al-Aziz University), Gregory R. Sondag, Mohammad Y. Ansari, and Fayez F. Safadi, Osteoactivin/LC3 Interaction Regulates Autophagy in Osteoblasts
- Alex Nyarko (The University of Akron), Hazel Barton and Ali Dhinojwala, Investigating the material properties of the Caulobacter crescentus adhesive holdfast
- Kendall M. Hoover (Case Western Reserve University), Rebecca E. James, Nan Liu, and Heather T. Broihier, Investigating synapse assembly and organization at the NMJ: Role of the Crimpy-Gbb signaling pathway
- Lisa E. Parrish-Thompson (Lorain County Community College), Alyssa Williams, Makenzie Heritage, and Bilal M. M. Bomani, A Self-Sustainable Ecosystem Utilizing eXtreme Green Concepts: Sand vs. Soil
- Samuel Bunting (The University of Akron), and Adam Smith, Applications of a 3D-Printable Photospectrometer
- Heba Salim (Cleveland State University), and Mekki Bayachou, Development of oligonucleotides films as sensing platforms for peroxynitrite detection
- Octavia Whitfield (Lorain County Community College), Kennedy Figueroa, Brandon Holcomb, Austyn Lilly, Nya Washington, and Harry W. Kestler, Analysis of a Novel CCR5 Mutation from an African American Family
- Keira Magdos (Lorain County Community College), Norah Ali, Gary Dodson, Jacob, Haller, Jeremy Leighty, Katelin Smith, India Worthy, and Harry Kestler, The Effect of ccr5delta32 on the Expression of Wild-Type CCR5 and CXCR4
- Jared Repas (Lorain County Community College), Lyndsey Darmos, Virginia Ford, Riley Figueroa, H. W. Kestler, PhD, CCR5 and CXCR4 Molecular Interactions
- Jonathan P. Barko (Cleveland State University), Tiyash Bose, and Mekki Bayachou, Chemically Modified NO Sensors with Enhanced Capability to Detect Low Levels of NO: With Application Towards Clinical Conditions Related to Decreased NO Levels
- Xiaosi Li (The University of Akron), and Adam W. Smith, Electrostatic interactions between peripheral peptides and anionic lipids in biological membranes
- Neetu M. Gulati (Case Western Reserve University), Andrzej S. Pitek, Nicole F. Steinmetz, and Phoebe L. Stewart, Cryo-Electron Tomography Characterization of the Shielding Properties of Serum Albumin on a Viral Nanoparticle
- Dharamdeep Jain (University of Akron), Ci Zhang, Lydia Rose Cool, Todd.A.Blackledge, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Toshikazu Miyoshi, and Ali Dhinojwala, Effect of Humidity on the Adhesion of Black Widow Spider’s Gumfoot Silk
- Janet L. Gbur (Case Western Reserve University), Kimaya N. Gupte, and John J. Lewandowski, Flex Bending Fatigue of Dental Archwires
- Naima Hilli (Case western reserve university), Degradation of LSM-Based SOFC Cathodes Under Accelerated Testing
- Jerome Palaganas (Mapua Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University), Al Christopher De Leon, Katrina Pangilinan, Napolabel Palaganas, and Rigoberto Advincula, Development of Self-Healing Polymer for Stereolithography 3D Printing
- Napolabel Palaganas (Mapua Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University), Joey Mangadlao, Al Christopher de Leon, Katrina Pangilinan, Jerome Palaganas, and Rigoberto Advincula, Mechanical Properties of Poly(ethylene glycol) Reinforced by Abaca Nanocrystals and 3D Printed via Stereolithography
- Suqi Liu (The University of Akron), Dinesh Lolla, Joseph Gorse, Christian Kisielowski, Jiayuan Miao, Philip L. Taylor, George G. Chase, and Darrell H. Reneker, Atomic Scale Electron Microscopy of Polyvinylidene Fluoride
- Haitham Kalil (Cleveland State University), Shaimaa Maher, Morgan Ashcraft and Mekki Bayachou, Synthetic Melanin Films as Potential Interfaces for Peroxynitrite Detection
- A. Bourke (University of Limerick, Case Western Reserve University), M. A. Miller, R. P. Lynch, J. S. Wainright, R. F. Savinell, and D. N. Buckley, Effects of Electrochemical Pretreatment of Carbon Electrodes on the Kinetics of Vanadium Redox Reactions
- Mallory Miller (Case Western Reserve University), Jesse S. Wainright, and Robert F. Savinell, Understanding Speciation in Ionic-Liquid Electrolytes for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries
- B. Dong (Case Western Reserve University), R. Agarwal, and M. A. Willard, Simple, high sensitivity magnetostriction measurement system
- Andrew Pyles (Case Western Reserve University), Al de Leon, Rigoberto C. Advincula, Atomic Force Microscopy for Optimization of Corona Treatment on PET films
- Jill Manapat (Case Western Reserve University), Al Christopher De Leon, Joey Mangadlao, Rigoberto Advincula, Strengthening FDM-Printed ABS Parts Through Filament Modification and UV Post-Curing
- Hua Sun (Case Western Reserve University), and David A. Schiraldi, Tough, low flammability polymer aerogels incorporating inorganic nanoparticles
- Brandon C. Carreno (Case Western Reserve University), Ralph P. Harvey, and James R. Gaier, Characterization of Meteorite Samples for the Determination of the Physical Properties of Asteroid Regolith
- J. Healy, S. Lan (Case Western Reserve University), B.C. Hornbuckle*, G.B. Thompson*, M. Daniil‡, and M.A. Willard, Coercivity Model for (Co, Ni)-based Soft Nanocomposite Magnets
- Lihan Rong (Case Western Reserve University), Pengfei Cao, Al de Leon, Zhe Su, Rigoberto C Advincula, A Supramolecular Polyethylenimine-Cored Carbazole Dendritic Polymer with Dual Applications
- Tyler Arntz (The University of Akron), Craig Hoffman, Nicholas Alexander, and Chrys Wesdemiotis, Multidimensional Mass Spectrometry of Polyglycerol
- Brylee David B. Tiu (Case Western Reserve University), Roderick B. Pernites, Edward L. Foster, and Rigoberto C. Advincula, Electropolymerized and Colloidally-Templated Conducting Polymer-Au Co-Patterns
- Xun Zhan (Case Western Reserve University), Pei Zhang, Paul. M. Voyles, Xinyu Liu, Rohan Akolkar, and Frank Ernst, Effect of Tungsten Alloying on Short-to-Medium-Range-Order Evolution and Crystallization Behavior of Near-Eutectic Amorphous Ni–P
- Ruixia Zhang (The University of Akron), Effects of laser shock peening on the wear and degradation behaviors of magnesium alloys
- Peng-Fei Cao, Yun-Hui Yan (Case Western Reserve University), Joey Dacula Mangadlao, Li-Han Rong, and Rigoberto Advincula, Star-like copolymer stabilized noble-metal nanoparticle powders
- Asritha Nallapaneni (The University of Akron), Matthew D. Shawkey, and Alamgir Karim, Diffuse reflection of phase-separated polymer blend films
- Piaoran Ye (Case Western Reserve University), Zhe Su, Pengfei Cao, and Rigoberto Advincula, Well-Defined Linear Polymer made by Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization via Flow Chemistry
- Zhencheng Ren (The University of Akron), Chang Ye, and Yalin Dong, Improvement of corrosion and wear resistance of AISI 4140 steel through nanocrystallization-assisted nitriding
Contact us
For general meeting information, please contact:
Brian Perry, LORD Corporation
Amir Avishai, Case Western Reserve University
Min Gao, Kent State University
For technical program, please contact:
Min Gao, Kent State University
Brian Perry, LORD Corporation
Regan Silvestri, Lorain County Community College
Nan Avishai, Case Western Reserve University
For corporate sponsors and vendor exhibitions, please contact:
Amir Avishai, Case Western Reserve University
Rick Kus, DeNora Tech
For online submission, online registration and meeting webpage, please contact:
Min Gao, Kent State University
Amir Avishai, Case Western Reserve University
Brian Perry, LORD Corporation
Amir Avishai, Case Western Reserve University
Min Gao, Kent State University
For technical program, please contact:
Min Gao, Kent State University
Brian Perry, LORD Corporation
Regan Silvestri, Lorain County Community College
Nan Avishai, Case Western Reserve University
For corporate sponsors and vendor exhibitions, please contact:
Amir Avishai, Case Western Reserve University
Rick Kus, DeNora Tech
For online submission, online registration and meeting webpage, please contact:
Min Gao, Kent State University
Amir Avishai, Case Western Reserve University
sponsors (2016)
RYDBERG SPONSORS
IONIC SPONSORS
Atomic SPONSORS
