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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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Active FIGs
3D EM in the Biological Sciences (3DEMBS)
Ed Eng
New York Structural Biology Center
New York, NY
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Aberration Corrected EM (ACEM)
Shize Yang
Yale University
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Atom Probe Field Ion Microscopy (APFIM)
Daniel Schreiber
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Diagnostic & Biomedical Microscopy (DBM)
Emily Benson
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
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Electron Crystallography and Automated Mapping Techniques
(ECAMT)
Shelly Conroy
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom
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EM Data Analysis and Management (EM-DAM)
Debangshu Mukherjee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
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Electron Microscopy in Liquids and Gases (EMLG)
Stephen House
Sandia National Laboratory
Albuquerque, NM
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Facilities Operation and Management (FOM)
Felipe Rivera
Brigham Young University
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Focused Ion Beam (FIB)
Matthew Thorseth
The Dow Chemical Company
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Low Temperature Electron Microscopy (LT-EM)
Michael Zachman
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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MicroAnalytical Standards (MAS)
Abigail Lindstrom
National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
Gaithersburg, MD
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Pharmaceuticals (PHARMA)
Jonathan Boyd
Astra Zeneca
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