Program

Wednesday, 3 December

8:00 am	Registration opens, refreshments provided
9:00 am	Opening and Welcome Address Prof. Simon Ringer Director, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Symposium Co-Chair Dr Julie Cairney Senior Lecturer, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Symposium Co-Chair Prof. Merlin Crossley Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Sydney The Hon. Jodi Leyanne McKay, MP NSW Minister for Science and Medical Research

8:00 am

Registration opens, refreshments provided

9:00 am

Opening and Welcome Address
Prof. Simon Ringer
Director, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Symposium Co-Chair
Dr Julie Cairney
Senior Lecturer, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Symposium Co-Chair
Prof. Merlin Crossley
Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Sydney
The Hon. Jodi Leyanne McKay, MP
NSW Minister for Science and Medical Research

Session 1
Chair:	Prof. Simon Ringer
9:20 am	Prof. Yiu-Wing Mai University Chair and Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney "Processing, Structure and Deformation/Failure Studies of Polymer Nanocomposites Via Electron Microscopy"
9:50 am	Prof. David Williams President, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, USA "Single-Atom Analysis: The End of the Road for AEM?"
10:20 pm	Dr Judith Field, Senior Research Associate, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney "Megafauna Under the Microscope: Excavations at the Cuddie Springs Site 1991-2008"
10:50 am	Morning Tea

Session 2
Chair:	Prof. Manfred Rühle
11:10 am	Prof. Lyndon Edwards Head, Institute of Materials & Engineering Science, Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation "Imaging Tensors: Advances in the Spatial Mapping of Stress and Strain"
11:40 am	Prof. Paul Midgley Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK "3D Nanoscale Imaging with Electron Tomography"
12:10 pm	Prof. Tony Weiss Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, The University of Sydney "In-Situ Polymerization of Tropoelastin in the Absence of Chemical Cross-Linking"
12:40 pm	Prof. Mike Swain Biomaterials Science Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, Sydney Dental Hospital, The University of Sydney "Enamel: Some Ultrastructural Observations of its Deformation and the Role of Remnant Phases"
1:10 pm	Lunch

Session 3
Chair:	Prof. Daniel Axelrod
2:00 pm	A/Prof. Filip Braet Deputy Director, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney "The Liver Sieve Seen Through the Eyes of Multidimensional Correlative Microscopy Techniques"
2:30 pm	Prof. John Drennan Director of the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis (CMM), The University of Queensland "Fast Oxygen Ion Conduction in Solids - A New Microscopic View"
3:00 pm	Dr Katharina Gaus Senior Research Fellow (NHMRC), Centre for Vascular Research, School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales "Two-photon Microscopy Approaches to Unravel Cellular Membrane Structure"
3:30 pm	Afternoon Tea

Session 4
Chair:	Prof. Paul Midgley
3:50 pm	Prof. Simon Ringer Director, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney "Frontiers in Materials Design Inspired by Microscopy & Microanalysis"
4:20 pm	Dr Dean Morris Head of Operations, Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne "The Australian Synchrotron – The Brightest Light in the Southern Hemisphere"
4:50 pm	Dr Gwénaëlle Proust Joint Lecturer, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis & Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney "Twinning in Hexagonal Close-packed Metals: From Experimental Characterisation to Modelling"
5:20 pm	Poster Session

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Thursday, 4 December

Session 5
Chair:	Prof. Mike Loretto
9:00 am	Prof. Manfred Rühle Head of Department, Max Planck Institutfür Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany "Structure and Composition of Internal Interfaces by TEM"
9:30 am	Prof. Daniel Axelrod Research Scientist Emeritus, Physics Department, University of Michigan, USA "Secretory Dynamics Studied by Polarized TIRF"
10:00 am	Prof. Tetsuo Oikawa JEOL (Europe) SAS "Cs-Corrected High-Resolution Analytical STEM"
10:30 am	Prof. Paul Munroe Director, Electron Microscope Unit, The University of New South Wales "Splats, Cracks and Saving the Planet with Fried Chicken Poo"
11:00 am	Morning Tea

Session 6
Chair:	A/Prof. Filip Braet
11:20 am	Prof. Quikun Xue Cheung Kong Professor of Material Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China "Manipulating Single Molecular Spins by a Low Temperature Scanning Tunnelling Microscope"
11:50 pm	Dr Lilian Soon Senior Lecturer, Structural Cell Biology, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney "Cancer Cell Migration – Where to from Here?"
12:20 pm	Prof. David Sampson Director, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia "Medical Microscopy – Microscopic Imaging in Living Humans"
12:50 pm	Walk to Great Hall

Session 7
1.00 pm	EMU Golden Jubilee Networking Luncheon & Plenary Lectures, Great Hall, The University of Sydney
Chair:	Dr Julie Cairney
2:50 pm	Prof. Wolfgang Baumeister Head of Department, Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany "From Words to Literature in Structural Biology"
3:35 pm	Dr Thomas Kelly Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Imago Scientific Instruments, Madison, USA "What is Atomic-Scale Tomography?"
4:30 pm	*Networking and drinks in the Small Matters* exhibition in the Macleay Museum**

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Friday, 5 December

Session 8
Chair:	Dr Allan Jones
9:00 am	Prof. Mike Loretto Director, Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Materials for High-Performance Applications, University of Birmingham, UK "Electron Microscopy of Ti- and TiAl-based Alloys"
9:30 am	Dr Heiner Jaksch Staff Scientist & International Business Developement Manager, Carl Zeiss, Germany "Low Loss BSE Imaging and Strain Related Contrast in Crystalline Materials"
10:00 am	Dr Julie Cairney Senior Lecturer, Materials Characterisation, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney "Focused Ion Beam Nanofabrication for Materials Characterisation"
10:30 am	Prof. Hans Tanke Head, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands "Studying Chromatin Dynamics in Living Cells Using Advanced Microscopy"
11.00 am	Morning Tea

Session 9
Chair:	Dr Lilian Soon
11:20 am	Prof. David McKenzie Professor of Applied and Plasma Physics, School of Physics, The University of Sydney "Growth and Structure of Thin Film MAX Phases"
11:50 am	Dr Zongwen Liu Senior Research Associate, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney "High-Resolution TEM Imaging and Electron Diffraction"
12:20 pm	Dr Allan Jones Senior Lecturer, Image Analysis, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney "X-ray Micro-Tomography of the Inner Ear"
12:50 pm	Closing Address Dr Julie Cairney Senior Lecturer, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Symposium Co-Chair Announcement of Poster Prizes Prof. Simon Ringer Director, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, Symposium Co-Chair
1:10 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Departure for Harbour Cruise

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The University of Sydney - Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis

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Wednesday, 3 December

Thursday, 4 December

Friday, 5 December