To ensure you receive your BNC Weekly Memo e-mails, please add bnc-all@ecn.purdue.edu to your address book. Current issue is at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/Nanotechnology/mondaymemo.html BNC News week of June 7, 2010 ________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS Landscaping work Beginning Tuesday, June 1, there will be a backhoe working to the east of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, in the area between BNC and BBC. The work hours will be from 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM. We do not expect to experience vibration issues from the work, but please be aware of the activity. If you have interruptions to research as a result of this work, please contact John Weaver jrweaver@purdue.edu or Mark Voorhis mvoorhis@purdue.edu. Living accommodations? Summer living accommodations? We have international visitors conducting research here this summer who are in need of housing. Please contact Deborah Starewich if you know of any housing. Floor restoration The 1st floor men's restroom will be closed on Wednesday June 9th for floor restoration. Please use the 2nd floor men's restroom and thank you for your understanding. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Mary Jo Totten [6-1173] Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Indiana Undergraduate Research Program: Applications are now being accepted for the fall session of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Indiana Undergraduate Research Program. Also, the program's summer session has scheduled a poster session for July 29. [More] ________________________________ SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS visit nano.purdue.edu and refer to "Featured Events" for the most up-to-date information PRISM Seminar - “Uncertainty Quanti-ication and Model Validation in Mechanical System Behavior Prediction” Sankaran Mahadevan Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director, NSF-IGERT Doctoral Program in Risk and Reliability Engineering Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Monday, June 14, 2010 10:00-‐11:00 am, MRGN 129 [Flier] Life and Death in Vitro - The Evolution of Techniques for Measuring Cell Growth and Toxicity in Culture Presented by Mark Rothenberg, Ph.D., Corning Life Sciences Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time - Register 17:00 - 18:00 (UK); 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe) Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time - Register 14:00 - 15:00 (UK); 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe) Abstract This seminar will discuss the development of in vitro techniques for measuring and estimating cell growth and cytotoxicity including direct cell counting, clonogenic assays and microplate-based assays. Also covered will be some of the problems that are typically encountered when trying to measure cytotoxicity using these techniques: • Timing experiments • Defining cytotoxicity • What is the dose? • Interpreting results [More] Keithley - Understanding the basics of electrical measurements Web Seminar [More] 5th BioNanoTox and Applications Research Conference will be held on November 4-5th, 2010, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. [More] ________________________________ KUDOS John Wilcox has won the NSAC Leadership Travel Grant. His contributions to the BNC as President of NSAC have been instrumental in engaging fellow and prospective students as well as the community in the Birck Nanotechnology Center. He will use the grant to present a paper at the 35th IEEE Photovoltaic’s conference this June. ________________________________ FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a DOE User Facility for Electron Scattering, is currently accepting research proposals for the next quarterly deadline of June 15, 2010. The mission of the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) is to provide scientists from universities, government and industrial laboratories with cutting-edge instrumentation, techniques and expertise for advanced electron beam microcharacterization of materials at high spatial resolution. Access to NCEM is free of charge for research that is in the public domain and intended for open publication. NCEM is one of the world’s foremost centers for electron optical microcharacterization with a resident staff of scientists who conduct high-level research and collaborate with external research groups to maximize the impact of electron optical methods on materials science. NCEM’s major focus is in the following areas of research: Defects and deformation; Mechanisms and kinetics of phase transformations; Nanostructured materials; Surfaces, interfaces and thin films. Prospective users are encouraged to contact NCEM staff to discuss proposal ideas in advance of submission and to learn more about special capabilities of particular interest (see the Staff section of the NCEM web page). Approved projects will receive user access and work can begin as soon as possible after this notification. The following instruments are accessible to users: • double-Cs-corrected TEAM 0.5 Microscope / Cs+Cc-corrected TEAM I • One-Angstrom Microscope (CM300) • CM200/FEG Analytical TEM/STEM • Spin-Polarized Low-Energy Electron Microscope • JEOL 3010 In-situ TEM • FEI Dual-beam FIB • Monochromated FEI Tecnai F20 TEM/STEM • Monochromated Zeiss Libra TEM/STEM Microscope All proposals will be reviewed for feasibility, safety, and potential for high-impact science. Users for approved projects must complete access and training requirements prior to beginning experiments. If you have any questions please contact NCEM's administrator JLCavlina@lbl.gov To submit a proposal online, or obtain further information, please visit the NCEM website: http://ncem.lbl.gov ________________________________ DISCOVERY PARK Energy Center Director Interview Presentations Candidate for Director of the Energy Center Interviews: Dr. Wallace E. Tyner James and Lois Ackerman Professor Department of Agricultural Economics Purdue University Monday, June 14, 2010 1:30-2:30 p.m. Room 1001 Martin Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering Dr. Mahdi Abu-Omar Professor, Department of Chemistry Purdue University Tuesday, June 8, 2010 1:30-2:30 p.m. Room 121 Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship ________________________________ PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS Faculty, staff, and students who have fever or other influenza symptoms should seek medical care. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT TO WORK WHILE ILL. Birck Nanotechnology Center staff will be notified of an emergency situation by telephone in the order set out in the BNC’s Phone Tree. BNC faculty members will receive an e-mail message from Monica Allain or Jim Cooper. Members of the Faculty (Professors and Research Professors) are responsible for contacting each of their group members, including graduate students, undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists. Specific instructions should be conveyed by phone if possible. All graduate students should register for the Purdue University e-mail alert system at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mail.html. Additional information for pandemic and emergency preparation may be found at www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/faculty and http://www.purdue.edu/emergency_preparedness ________________________________ Editorial policy set: personal information, i.e., newborn announcements, marriages, etc. [More] Submit items for memo of the week of June 14, 2010 by ****12 NOON**** on FRIDAY, 06.11.10, toDeborah Starewich dstarewi@purdue.edu ________________________________ Other BNC info: Purdue Home Page BNC Home Page BNC Users Forum Links to Discovery Park Centers Bindley Bioscience Center Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Cyber Center Discovery Learning Research Center Global Sustainability at Purdue: Center for Environment
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