Fw:THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY

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> THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY
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> Conference Description
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> Date: April 29 ? May 2, 2004.
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> Location: The Rensselaerville Institute, Rensselaerville, NY, USA.
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> Conference Chair: Bruce F. McEwen, Wadsworth Center, Albany NY, USA.
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> History and Focus: Biological electron microscopy has enjoyed a strong
> resurgence due to improved instumentation and specimen preparations, and
> the development of quantitative three-dimensional reconstructions methods
> including electron crystallography, helical reconstruction, single
particle
> methods, and electron tomography. Electron tomography is the most general
> of these methods because it can be applied to larger, plieomorphic
> structures such as cellular organelles. For this reason, electron
> tomography is the link between high-resolution structural determination
and
> cellular function. Electron tomography is also proving to be a powerful
> tool for a rapidly increasing number of material science applications.
> The flexibility of electron tomography derives from collecting all
> the data on a single copy of the specimen. However, this approach
presents
> a number of technical and computational challenges that are unique to
> electron tomography. These issues prompted Bram Koster and David Agard to
> organized the first international congress on electron at Ringberg Castle
> in Southern Germany on March 16-19, 1997. As anticipated, bringing
> together practitioners of electron tomography for an intensive 3-day
> interaction was instrumental in driving technical development and
> increasing the number of users and applications. At the time of the
second
> meeting, held in Amsterdam on October 17-20, 2001, an increasing number of
> electron microscopists from both biological and material sciences were
> starting to employ electron tomography. To accommodate the surge in new
> interest, the organizers incorporated an educational component to the
> conference. The Journal of Structural Biology devoted special issues to
> manuscripts from participants of both the earlier congresses (issues
> 120(3), Dec 1997, and 138(1&2), April, 2002).
> At the current juncture, electron tomography is well established and
> being employed for an increasingly broad range of applications, well
beyond
> those envisioned at the time of the first conference. Hence our strategy
> for the third congress is to invite speakers from a wide range of
> approaches and technical expertise in order to stimulate
> cross-fertilization of ideas. To further promote discussion, we have
> limited the number of symposia speakers and included a long discussion
> period after each presentation. The program also has two three-hour
poster
> sessions with two evening sessions devoted to discussions of the posters.
> It is anticipated that the poster sessions, and scheduled free times, will
> generate a large amount of informal discussions to complement the more
> structured discussions of the morning and evening sessions.
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> Venue: The Rensselaerville Institute is located in a picturesque hamlet
40
> minutes South of Albany NY. This self-contain conference center provides
> an opportunity for extensive discussion and creative exchange in the
> tradition of the Gordon Conferences and the first Tomography Congress at
> Ringberg castle. The conference center has the capacity to house about 90
> participants and we expect to fill it. In addition, the conference center
> will accommodate several "commuters" (participants who live locally or
> arrange independent lodging). Thus we anticipate that the total
attendance
> at the conference will be more than 100, possibly as high as 120.
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> PLEASE SEE CONFERENCE WEBSITE TO REGISTER FOR CONFERENCE AT:
> http://www.wadsworth.org/rvbc/conference/index.htm
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> Kim Friello
> RVBC/NCRR
> Wadsworth Center
> Room D350
> Albany, NY
> (518) 402-5790
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Received on Thu Oct 30 07:42:08 2003