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M&M Student Scholars
2025 Student Scholars
Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship Awardees
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Kaylee Patterson — University of Utah
Characterization of a Fundamental, Conserved Structure: The Synaptonemal Complex |
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Motahareh Helli — The Ohio State University
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Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship Awardee
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Aurys Šilinga — University of Glasgow
Using Electrons to 3D-Print Ferromagnetic Nanostructures and Characterise their 3D Magnetic States Using Tomographic Model Based Iterative Reconstruction |
Student Scholar Awardees
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Hayeon Baek — Seoul National University
Investigation of interfacial radiolysis of water at liquid phase TEM chip membranes and strategies to minimize radiolysis by utilizing graphene |
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Abigail Carbone — Stanford University
Cross-Sectional Backscattered Electron Imaging of Mechanically Polished Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Photovoltaics |
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Tamazouzt Chennit — University of Antwerp
Investigating the Effect of Update Strengths for Atomic-Resolution Low-Dose Imaging in Iterative Ptychography |
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Alejandra Coronel-Zegarra — Florida Atlantic University
Multiscale Chemistry and Structure of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Lesions |
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Blake Dorame — Arizona State University
Studying Different Modes of Fluxionality on Pt Nanoparticle Surfaces using In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Andrew Ducharme — University of Oregon
Towards Robust Low-Spatial-Frequency Imaging with Ptychographic Holography |
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Solinus Farrer — Brigham Young University
Preparation and Imaging of Monhysterid Nematodes from the Great Salt Lake with a Scanning Electron Microscope |
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Elizabeth Griffin — Northwestern University
Revealing Phase Heterogeneity in Vertically Aligned Nanocomposites via Plan-View Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
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Fintan Hardy – Imperial College London
Accelerated Identification of Polar Domains From 4D-STEM Using Group Convolutional Neural Networks |
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Patrick Hays — Arizona State University
Identification of Novel Stacking Faults in Chiral InSeI Nanowires |
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Ziria Herdegen — Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
Quantitative Structure and Composition Determination by Including Thermal Vibrations in Inverse Multislice Ptychography |
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Malik Hollis — University of Oregon
Investigation of Dipole-Stabilized Skyrmions in Amorphous Centrosymmetric FeGdPt Multilayers using 4D-STEM |
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Xiang-Lin Huang – Lehigh University
Applications of a novel CEOS energy filtering and imaging device for the investigation of electronic structures of delafossite CuFeO2 single crystals growth by optical floating zone method |
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Minhazul Islam — The Ohio State University
Revealing Medium Range Ordering in Zr-based Metallic Glasses Using Machine Learning Analysis of 4D-STEM Nanodiffraction |
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Nicole Kerrison — University of Arizona
4D-STEM Analysis of Fe-Sulfides from the Early Solar System |
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Rishabh Kothari — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Control of Structure and Epitaxy of High-k Metal Oxides Through In Situ Electron Microscopy |
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Berk Kucukoglu — EPFL
Phase Contrast 4D-STEM Tomography of Thick Biological Specimens |
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Chuhang Liu — Stony Brook University
Time-Resolved Magnetic Imaging with Ultrafast Electron Pulser: Spin-Wave Generation in Topological Spin Textures |
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Adan Mireles — Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University
Three-Dimensional Structural Analysis of Templated Gold Nanoplates by Integrating Electron Tomography and 4D-STEM |
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Kevin Nyaburi Mogere – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scanning Electron Microscopy Noise Classification Using Machine Learning |
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Rahim Raja — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Parameter-Free Deep Sub-Ångstrom Resolution Electron Ptychography Reconstructions using Neural Networks |
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Joaquin E. Reyes-Gonzalez — McMaster University
Phonon Modes of High-Tc YBa2Cu3O7-δ Films: Effects of Doping and Isotope Substitution |
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Ioannis Siachos – University of Liverpool
In Situ Investigation of Degradation Processes of Undoped and Doped Mn-rich High-voltage Cathodes |
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Nikita Singhi – University of Utah
Visualization and Characterization of Bulk Oxygen Nanobubbles using Fluid Peak Force Quantitative Nano-Mechanical Atomic Force Microscopy |
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Daniela Tamayo-Jaramillo – University of Utah
Mechanism of VCP Inhibition by a Novel Covalent Inhibitor |
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Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya – Nagoya University
Three-dimensional Analysis of the Lattice Bending Strain by Iterative Phase Retrieval of Electron Rocking Curves |
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Daniel Vasquez – TU Darmstadt
Multi-Ion Plasma FIB for Advanced TEM Lamella Preparation: A Comparative Study Toward (SE)EBIC-Enabled Analysis |
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Xiaowang Wang – University of California, Irvine
Revealing the microscopic pattern of GB’s effect on macroscopic thermal conductivity |
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Yupeng Wu – Binghamton University
In-situ Atomic-Resolution Observations of Formation of Amorphous Iron during Reduction of Iron Oxides in Hydrogen |
2024 Student Scholars
Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship Awardee
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Kristaps Kairišs — Heidelberg University
Visualisation of gene expression within the context of tissues: an X-ray computed tomography-based multimodal approach |
Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship Awardee
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Zoë Broad — University of Liverpool
Recovery of Subsampled EBSD Datasets Using a 3-D Data Volume for Inpainting |
Student Scholar Awardees
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Andrew Balog — The Pennsylvania State University
Investigation of Alumina Atomic-Scale Structure and Crystallization Behavior Across a β-Ga2O3/Al2O3 Interface |
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Aviram Bhalla-Levine — University of California, Los Angeles
Atomic Electron Tomography of Thin Films |
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Kayla Callaway — University of Maryland
In Situ Ultra-fast TEM Observation of Acoustic Excitation of 128° Y-X LiNbO3 |
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Christopher Chae — The Ohio State University
Atomic Scale Defect Formation and Evolution at LiGa5O8/β-Ga2O3 and Ga2O3/Ni/Au Interfaces |
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Ho Leung Chan — University of California, Los Angeles
Nano-PUND and STEM EBIC Imaging for Ferroelectric Polarization Mapping |
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Byeongjun Gil — Seoul National University
Ultralow-dose TEM Study: Modulating the Grain Size-Dependent Sub-Grain Planar Defects via A-site Compositional Tuning in Metal Halide Perovskites. |
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Francisco Guzman — UC Irvine
Ferroelastic Charged Domains in Ferroelectric BiFeO3 Nanoneedles. |
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Jeffrey Huang — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Three-Dimensional Imaging of 2D Materials with Tilted Multislice Electron Ptychography |
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Shake Karapetyan — Cornell University
Visualizing Defects and Amorphous Materials in 3D with Mixed-State Multislice Electron Ptychography |
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Taichi Kusumi — The University of Tokyo
Real-time Denoising Algorithm for STEM Imaging Using Markov Random Field Model |
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Aowen Li — University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Systematic Absences of Optical Phonon Signals in Momentum-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy |
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Ting-Ran Liu — University of Southern California
Revealing Picoscale Incommensurate Modulations in a Multiferroic by Electron Ptychography |
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William Millsaps — University of Michigan
3D Geometric Phase Analysis for Electron Tomography (Conference Abstract) |
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Matthew Mosse — Trinity College Dublin
Event-responsive Beam-modulated STEM with Multi-frame and Sparse Scanning |
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Ruth Parsons — Duke University
The impact of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron mutations on the conformational landscape of the Spike protein |
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Yujie Quan — University of California, Santa Barbara
Probing Photocarrier Dynamics in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors with UV-Pumped Scanning Ultrafast Electron Microscopy |
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Hosna Rastegarpouyani — Florida State University
Two different forms of thick filament in the flight muscle of Drosophila melanogaster |
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Nicholas Rienstra — University of Wisconsin, Madison
Stereolithographic (SLA) 3D Printing of Microfluidic Flow Cells to Encapsulate EM Grids Used to Culture Cells for Correlative Imaging Studies |
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Jeremy Shen — University of Michigan
Evolution of Incommensurate Charge Density Waves Quantified with In Situ TEM |
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Saif Siddique — Cornell University
Interaction of charge density waves with defects in rare-earth tritellurides |
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Koudai Tabata — The University of Tokyo
Towards Quantitative Imaging of Atomic Vibrations with Multi-dimensional STEM Detectors |
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Jonathon Tran — Portland State University
Characterization of Chopped Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites Produced Using Fused Deposition Modeling |
2023 Student Scholars
Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship Awardees
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Nedal Darif — European Molecular Biology Laboratory
From Organ to Organelle: Towards a Multimodal 3D Cell Atlas of Plasmodium Mosquito stages using Correlative Light, X-ray and Volume Electron Microscopy. |
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Peter Ducos — University of Wisconsin — Madison
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Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship Awardee
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Fengli Yang — Fritz Haber Institut of MPG
Tracking the Incorporation of Fe into NiO Electrocatalysts during Reaction with Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy and Time-Resolved Elemental Mapping |
Student Scholar Awardees
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Zhaslan Baraissov — Cornell University
Measuring three-dimensional strain in Nb3Sn grains by combining ZOLZ and HOLZ diffraction |
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Samantha Berry — Pennsylvania State University
Diving into COVID-19: Visualizing SARS-CoV-2 Patient Proteins using Liquid-Electron Microscopy |
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Yutong Bi — University of California, Irvine
In-situ 4D-STEM Study on Grain Boundary Dynamics in Polycrystals |
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Alexander Campos-Quiros — Lehigh University
EELS Spectrum Imaging of Ca Segregation at Grain Boundaries in Magnesium Aluminate Spinel |
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Wenjun Cui — Wuhan University of Technology
Direct observation of cation diffusion driven surface reconstruction at van der Waals gaps |
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Liza-Anastasia diCecco — McMaster University
Liquid Transmission Electron Microscopy Imaging of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces: Exploring Hydrated Collagen Mineralization Processes |
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Samuel Gleason — University of California, Berkeley
Machine Learning Prediction of Charge State from EELS Spectra of Third Row Transition Metals |
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Alimohammad Hojjatian — Florida State University
Novel ADP state found in smooth muscle heavy meromyosin by CryoEM |
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Hsien-Lien Huang — The Ohio State University
Atomic-Level Insights into the Radiation Damage and Recovery of β-Ga2O3 for High-Performance Semiconductors |
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Yukun Liu — Northwestern University
Probing the “Order” in Complexity: Entropy-engineered Thermoelectric Materials |
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Jason Manassa — University of Michigan
Dose and Sampling Requirements for Fused Multi-Modal Electron Tomography |
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Danielle Markovich — Cornell University
Revealing the Internal Architecture of Alkaline Fuel Cell Membranes with Cryo-4D-STEM and Cryo-STEM-EELS |
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Gillian Nolan — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Imaging Charged Domain Walls in van der Waals Ferroelectric α-In2Se3 via 4D-STEM |
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Stephen Porter — University of New Mexico
Formation of Pt-Pd ‘Janus’ Biphasic Particles During High Temperature Aging of Diesel Oxidation Catalysts |
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Emily Rennich — University of Michigan
Liquid Helium TEM Sample Holder with High Stability and Long Hold Times |
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Chuqiao Shi — Rice University
Semi-automated hierarchical clustering model for 4D-STEM datasets |
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Zixiao Shi — Cornell University
Three-Dimensional Imaging of Surface Structural Transformations on Electrocatalyst Nanoparticles Using Multi-Slice Electron Ptychography |
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Ponsuge Thisera — University of Kentucky
Investigation of Metal-Metal Oxide Interfaces via Real-Time In Situ TEM Heating |
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Ivy Wang — University of Oxford
Charting Cytoskeleton-Organelle Interplay in Living Cells Through High Resolution 3D Correlative Cryo-Imaging |
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Yifan Wang — Arizona State University
Observation of Gas Adsorbates with Time-Resolved Vibrational EELS |
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Dian Yu — University of Toronto
Low-voltage SEM Imaging of Lignocellulosic Biomass using a Low-cost Methanesulfonate Ionic Liquid |
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Johnattan Vargas — Institucion Universitaria Pascual Bravo
Determining the Effect in the Adhesion Between Modified PLA Matrix and Natural Fibers Using SEM and Micro-Raman Spectroscopy |
2022 Student Scholars
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Nishkarsh Agarwal — University of Michigan
Accessing chemically ordered phase in TaS2 via High Temperature In-situ TEM |
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Nicolas Bonmassar — Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Emergent Interfacial Magnetism in Superconducting Cuprate-Manganate Superlattices |
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Michael Colletta — Cornell University
Overcoming Artifacts in Imaging Nanometer-thick Ionomer Layers in Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells |
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Oana Condurache — Jozef Stefan Institute
Monitoring Bismuth Ferrite Domain Walls Behavior Under Electric Field With Atomic Resolution By In Situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Sanduni Fernando — University of Utah
Two-Color Fixed Cell Imaging Using Engineered Point Spread Functions — XPSF Family |
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Jordi Ferrer Orri — University of Cambridge
Using Cathodoluminescence from Continuous and Pulsed-Mode SEM to Elucidate the Nanostructure of Hybrid Halide Perovskite Materials |
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John Gaida — Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Defocus Phase Contrast in Photon-Induced Near-field Electron Microscopy |
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Emma Hedley — University of Oxford
A Quantitative Understanding of the Short Range order in Disordered Rocksalt Cathode Materials |
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Jessica Heebner — Penn State University College of Medicine
Phantoms Improve Robustness of Deep Learning Automated Segmentation in Cryotomography |
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Jennifer Jiang — Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Elucidating the 3D Structure of β-(1,3)-glucan Synthase from Candida glabrata by Subtomogram Averaging *Raleigh & Clara Miller Scholarship |
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Mads Larsen — Technical University of Denmark
In-situ Electrokinetics Using Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Ka Yin Lee — McMaster University
Spectroscopy of Nanosphere-Substrate Coupling: The Role of Multipolar Surface Phonon Modes |
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Talya Levitz — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Effects of chameleon Dispense-to-Plunge Time on Grid Characteristics, Sample Distribution, and Complex Denaturation of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae Ribonucleotide Reductase Inactive Complex |
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Arthur McCray — Argonne National Laboratory
Evolution of Skyrmion Lattice Order in the van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 |
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Saran Pidaparthy — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fluctuation Cepstral STEM for Imaging Disordered Materials |
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Frances Quigley — Trinity College Dublin
Retrofitting a Photoelectron Source: Improving Resolution & Functionality *Eric Samuel Scholarship |
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Kate Reidy — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mapping Local Structure, Electronic and Excitonic Properties at the 2D/3D Interface |
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Rajat Sainju — University of Connecticut
Real-time Multi-Object Tracking of Ion-irradiation Induced Defects in in situ TEM Videos |
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Marcel Schloz — Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin
High Resolution Three-Dimensional Reconstructions in Electron Microscopy Through Multifocus Ptychography |
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Madeline Van Winkle — University of California, Berkeley
Direct Measurement of Atomic Reconstruction, Strain, and Disorder in Moiré Materials using 4D-STEM |
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Aram Yoon — UNIST/IBS Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials
Potassium-Mediated Anisotropic Etching of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Driven by Self-Running Oxide Droplets |
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Yue Yu — Cornell University
Dose-efficient tcBF-STEM with information retrieval beyond the scan sampling rate for imaging frozen-hydrated biological specimens |
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Xiyue Zhang — Cornell University
Detection limits for imaging chiral magnetic materials with 4-dimensional Lorentz scanning transmission electron microscopy |
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Menglin Zhu — The Ohio State University
Temperature Mapping with STEM Atomic Scale Debye-Waller Thermometry |
2021 Student Scholars
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Mehrdad Abbasi Gharacheh — Ohio State University
4D-STEM Determination of Atomic Structure of Amorphous Materials for Renewable Energy Applications |
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Lopa Bhatt — University of Illinois, Chicago
Plasmon electron energy-loss spectroscopy and in-situ cooling experiments of graphene liquid cells |
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Simon Carl — Florida Atlantic University
Correlative Zernike phase contrast X-ray nanotomography to determine the distribution and orientation of graphite particles in a carbon fiber reinforced epoxy resin for improved thermal conductivity |
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Laura Chaves — Purdue University
Coordinated analyses on space weathering signatures on a Fe-sulfide grain from asteroid Itokawa |
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Jialiang Chen — University of Minnesota
A Quantitative Method for In-Situ Pump-Beam Metrology in Ultrafast Electron Microscopy |
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Yueyun Chen — University of California, Los Angeles
Determining Lattice Parameters by Curve-Fitting Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction Patterns |
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Matthew Cheng — Northwestern University
Structural and chemical analysis of mixed cation antiferromagnetic layered metal chalcophosphate FeCoP2S6 |
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Thomas Danz — University of Göttingen
Ultrafast nanoimaging of the order parameter in a structural phase transition |
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Peter Denninger — Florida Atlantic University
In situ chip-based heating studies of metal-induced layer exchange and Si crystallization using STEM, LEND and SE imaging in SEM |
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Joshua Dickerson — MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
How much can inelastically scattered electrons contribute to electron cryotomography of biological specimens? |
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Helen Donelick — University of Utah
Structural determination of the Dicer-2•R2D2 complex |
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Jennifer Donohue — University of California, Berkeley
4D-STEM analysis of an amorphous-crystalline polymer blend: combined nanocrystalline and RDF mapping |
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Matthew Doran — Boston University
Inhibition of bacterial binding through dysfunction of bacterial adhesion pili |
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Leeya Engel — Stanford University
Micropatterning of electron microscopy grids for improved cellular cryo-electron tomography throughput *Apkarian Scholarship, Biological Science |
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Stephen Funni — Carnegie Mellon University
Quantifying the local structure of incommensurately modulated tetragonal tungsten bronze from STEM images |
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Chaitanya Gadre — University of California, Irvine
Phonon Reflections from Nanostructured Interfaces Imaged by Momentum- Averaged and Resolved Vibrational EELS |
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Piyush Haluai — Arizona State University
Studying Charge Transport and Light Induced Structural Alterations in Ni/NiO Core-Shell Co-Catalysts on SrTiO3 for Solar Hydrogen Evolution |
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Alimohammad Hojjatian — Florida State University
Cryo-EM structure of F-actin decorated by HMM in rigor state |
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Cameron Johnson — University of Oregon
2-Grating Inelastic Free Electron Interferometry |
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Satinder Kaur — McGill University
Local computational methods to improve the interpretability and analysis of cryo-EM maps |
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Priti Kharel — University of Illinois
Atomic-resolution and Atomic-scale Imaging of Small Organic Molecules |
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Francisco Lagunas — University of Illinois
Atomic-resolution in-situ cooling study of functionally terminated 2D transition metal carbides. |
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Haoyang Ni — University of Illinois
Compressed Sensing Inspired Line Feature Detection for In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy *Eric Samuel Scholarship |
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Micah Rapp — Columbia University
Visualizing cadherin intermembrane adhesion assemblies using cryo-electron tomography *Raleigh & Clara Miller Scholarship |
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Marcel Schloz — Humboldt University of Berlin
Adaptive Scanning in Ptychography through Deep Reinforcement Learning |
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Morgan Seidler — University of California, Berkeley
Using cryo-TEM to study the effect of side-chain chemistry on the crystal motifs in polypeptoid nanosheets |
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Meiyue Shao — Ohio State University
The effect of beam scan strategies on the microstructure and mechanical properties of additive manufacturing Ti-6Al-4V builds |
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Yu-Tsun Shao — Cornell University
Probing the dynamics of ferroelectric topological oscillators with the electron beam *Apkarian Scholarship, Physical Science |
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Andrew Soltisz — Ohio State University
Morphological Object Localization: A Novel Image Analysis Pipeline for Quantitative Spatial Localization of Biomolecule Signal from Fluorescence Microscopy Data |
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Lioudmila Sorokina — University of Illinois, Chicago
In Situ Graphene Liquid Cell Investigation of Metal Ion Modifiers of Calcium Oxalate |
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Suk Hyun Sung — University of Michigan
Recovery of long-range order in two-dimensional charge density waves at high temperatures |
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Binbin Wang — Ohio State University
In-situ observation of the in-plane field induced nucleation of skyrmion using Lorentz-TEM |
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Tingting Wu — Washington University in St. Louis
pixOL: pixel-wise point spread function engineering for measuring the 3D orientation and 3D location of dipole-like emitters |
2020 Student Scholars
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Avi Auslender — Tel Aviv University
Measuring the Mean Inner Potential of AL2O3Sapphire Using Off-Axis Electron Holography |
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Kaustav Chatterjee — Indiana University, Bloomington
Nanoscale Investigation of Layered Oxychloride Intergrowth Photocatalysts for Visible Light Driven Water Splitting |
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Debaditya Chatterjee — University of Wisconsin, Madison
Electron Correlation Microscopy Measurements of Metallic Glass Surface Dynamics |
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Yana Danilova — Lomonosov Moscow State University
Electron Tomography Revealed Compact DNA in the Nucleus-like Compartment, Formed in the Bacterial Cell During Infection by the PhiKZ Bacteriophage |
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William Huang — Stanford University
Resolving Nanoscopic and Mesoscopic Heterogeneity in Battery Solid-Electrolyte Interphases by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy |
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Joseph Kim — University of Wisconsin, Madison
A New in situ Neuronal Model for Cryo-ET |
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Daria Koshkina — Moscow State University
Gossypol can Destabilize Chromatin: Analysis by spFRET Microscopy |
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Philipp Muscher — Stanford University
Electrochemistry in an MeV UED System: The Structural Dynamics of in situ Lithium-intercalated WTe2 |
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Prudhvi Ram Peri — Arizona State University
Plasma enhanced atomic layer-etched and regrown GaN-on-GaN high power p-ndiodes |
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Jacob Pietryga — University of Michigan
3D Visualization of Nanoscale Tomography using Holographic Displays |
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Stephanie Ribet* — Northwestern University
Multimodal Characterization of the Oleophilic Hydrophobic Magnetic (OHM) Sponge: A Nanocomposite Material for Oil Spill Remediation *Raleigh and Clara Miller Award |
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Debadarshini Samantaray — Indian Institute of Science—Bangalore
Axial-Radial Heterostructures of Telluride Nanowire |
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Jinsol Seo — Sungkyunkwan University
Direct Mapping of Oxygen Vacancy and Ti-Valence Change during Surface Reconstruction of SrTiO3(001) at High Temperatures by In-situ Ptychography and EELS |
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Katherine Sytwu — Stanford University
Enabling Kinetically-unfavorable Phase Transformation Mechanisms with Plasmonics |
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Cammy Truong — University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Combining Scanning Electron Microscopy and Light Microscopy to Study How Blood Cell Directed-Architecture Influences Nanoparticle Penetration into Clots |
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Mei Wang — The University of Maryland
Establishing Flask-Relevant Reaction Conditions for Imaging Bimetallic Nanocrystal Formation with Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Michael Xu — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Revealing Nanoscale Order and Strain in Lightweight FeMnAlC Steel Alloys with Atomic-resolution STEM |
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Zhili Yu — Baylor College of Medicine
In situ Investigations of the Bacterial Type II Secretion System |
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Steven Zeltmann — University of California, Berkeley
Denoising of Sparse Three- and Four-dimensional Hyperspectral Electron Microscopy Data Using a Total Variational Method |
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Chi Zhang — Northwestern University
Identification of Structure and Chemical Occupancy of Emerging Complex Compounds via Analytical Electron Microscopy |
2019 Student Scholars
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Fatemeh Abbasi Yeganeh — Florida State University
3-D Structure of Z-disks Isolated from the Flight Muscle of Lethocerus Indicus |
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Anika Burrell — University of Washington
Cryo-EM Reveals IMP Dehydrogenase I Filaments Adopt Diverse Architectures |
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Paul Cueva — Cornell University
Sub-nm Resolution, Sub-pm Precision Structure Mapping Robust to Thickness and Tilt Variations by Cepstral Analysis of Scanning Nanodiffraction 4D-STEM |
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Ha Dang — University of Washington
Cryo-EM structure of Nipah virus fusion glycoprotein in complex with a monoclonal antibody reveals mechanism of neutralization |
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Julia Doh — Oregon Health & Science University
VIPER: a Genetically-Encoded Tag for Fluorescence and Electron Microscopy |
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Amanda Erwin — University of Michigan
Structural Analysis of Helicobacter pylori VacA Reveals Insights into Oligomerization |
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Alice Greenberg — University of Oregon
Lorentz Implementation of STEM Holography |
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Catherine Groschner — University of California, Berkeley
Machine Learning for High Throughput HRTEM Analysis |
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Shen Han — Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
High-Contrast Imaging of Nanodiamonds in Cells by Energy filtered and Correlative Light-Electron Microscopy: Towards a Quantitative Nanoparticle-Cell Analysis |
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Daniel Kelly — The University of Manchester
Liquid-Phase STEM-EDS in Graphene and Silicon Nitride Cells |
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Abinash Kumar — North Carolina State University
In Situ Ferroelectric Domain Dynamics Probed with Differential Phase Contrast Imaging |
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Ethan Lawrence — Arizona State University
Real-Time Imaging of Surface Dynamics on CeO2 Nanoparticles using Time-Resolved Aberration-Corrected TEM |
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Brandon McKeon — Arizona State University
Characterization of Misfit Dislocations at Heterovalent II-VI/III-V Interfaces |
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Arthur Moya — Linacre College, University of Oxford
A Semi-quantitative Predictive Model for SnO2 Adatom Diffusion; Its Application to Exit Wave Reconstruction |
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Akshay Murthy — Northwestern University
Electronic Biasing of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides in a TEM |
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Colum O'Leary — Materials Science, University of Oxford
Electron Ptychography Using Fast Binary 4D STEM Data |
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Will Parker — University of Oregon
Feasibility of an Electron Orbital Angular Momentum Sorter |
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Timothy Pegg — Miami University
Immunoprofiling of Cell Wall Carbohydrate Modifications during Aerenchyma Formation in Fabaceae Roots |
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Graham Rykiel — Oregon Health & Science University
Multiscale Cardiac Imaging: From Whole Heart Images to Cardiac Ultrastructure |
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Jonathan Schwartz — University of Michigan
Removing Stripes, Scratches, and Curtaining with Non-Recoverable Compressed Sensing |
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Alexandra Sheader — Materials Science, University of Oxford
Microscopy on Drugs: Characterisation and Quantification of Pt-based Pharmaceuticals using the STEM |
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Michelle Smeaton — Cornell University
Quantifying Atomic-Scale Quantum Dot Superlattice Behavior Upon; in situ; Heating |
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Louisa Mezache — The Ohio State University
Indirect CLEM Identifies Proarrhythmic Remodeling of Intercalated Disk Nanodomains in Murine Atria Following Acute VEGF Treatment |
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Janis Wirth — University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Correlative 3D Characterization of High Temperature Oxide Scales on Co-Base Superalloys Using Nano-CT and FIB/SEM Tomography |
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Yao Long Xing — Sungkyunkwan University
In situ Negative Cs HRTEM Imaging of Topotactic Phase Transformation from Perovskite SrFeO3 to Brownmillerite SrFeO2.5 |
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Reed Yalisove — University of Michigan Defining Theoretical Limits for Aberration-Corrected Electron Tomography: New Limits of Resolution, Object Size, and Dose |
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Hwanhui Yun — University of Minnesota Visualization of Misfit Dislocation Network at the BaSnO3-LaAlO3 Interface |
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Ruopeng Zhang — University of California, Berkeley
Understanding the Slip Planarity and Residual Strain Field in Ti-6Al using Nanobeam Electron Diffraction and First Principles Calculations |
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Yanyan Zhao — Stanford University
Cryo-EM Study of Chaperonin Mm-Cpn’s Conformational Heterogeneity under Different ATP Conditions |
2018 Student Scholars
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Henry Ayoola — University of Pittsburgh
Correlative Structure-Bonding and Stability Studies of Pt/γ-Al2O3 Catalysts |
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Sanaa Ben Djemaa — University of Tours (France)
Fluorescence Microscopy as a Tool for Nanomedicine-Cell Interactions Study: Input of Particle Design and of Analytical Strategy |
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Celesta Chang — Cornell University
Direct Imaging of Tilt Relaxation from the Interface in Epitaxially Strained Ca2RuO4 Thin Films using ABF-STEM. |
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Stavros Deligiannis — National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
TEM Study of Nanoprecipitate Formation in Novel HSLA Steels |
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Peng Dong — McMaster University (Canada)
Application of Liquid Cell-TEM in Hydration Reactions of Nano Portland Cement |
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Daniel Du — University of Minnesota
Directed Hypersonic Strain Waves Imaged with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy |
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Joseph Favata — University of Connecticut
Correlative Workflow in the Characterization of TiN Coatings in Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices |
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Vivek Garg — Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (India)
Coloring with Focused Ion Beam Fabricated Nanostructures |
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Qianying Guo — University of Alabama
In situ Single/Cyclic Deformation and Correlated Precession Electron Diffraction Analysis of Nano-laminate Crystalline/Glassy Metal Composites> |
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James Hart — Drexel University
Direct Correlation of MXene Surface Chemistry and Electronic Properties |
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Matthew Hauwiller — University of California, Berkeley
Using Graphene Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy to Elucidate Nanocrystal Etching Mechanisms |
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Christopher Hobbs — Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Characterizing the calcination behaviors of Ni-Fe layered double hydroxide materials via in-situ transmission electron microscopy |
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Blanka Janicek — University of Illinois
Quantitative Chemical Mapping of Soft-Hard Interfaces on Gold Nanorods |
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Supriya Koul — University of Central Florida
Microstructure and mechanical behavior of the 3D printed Inconel 718: In-situ TEM study |
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Xuying Liu — University of Wisconsin
In situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of Room-temperature Plastic Deformation and Recovery in Thin 3C-SiC |
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Yifei Liu — Ohio State University
Workflow for Correlatively Imaging Mouse Pulmonary Valve Extracellular Matrix |
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Yuanzhi Ma — Carnegie Mellon University
Direct Observation of Ta-rich Conductive Filament in TaOx Based Resistive-Switching Device in Plan-View |
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Jason Martineau — University of Utah
Precisely Localizing Wavelength Sensitive Point-Spread Functions Engineered With a Silicon Oxide Phase Plate |
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Justin Ondry — University of California, Berkeley
Dynamics and Removal Pathway of Edge Dislocations in Imperfectly Attached Nanocrystal Pairs; Towards Design Rules for Oriented Attachment |
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Jungjae Park — Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
Functionalized graphene as cryo-EM supporting film |
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Spencer Reisbick — University of Minnesota
Charge-Density Wave Localization and Co-Existence in 1T-TaS2 |
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Xue Rui — University of Illinois, Chicago
Atomic-resolution study of oxygen vacancy ordering in La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-δ thin films on SrTiO3 during in situ cooling experiments |
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Noah Schnitzer — University of Michigan
Stacking, Strain & Stiffness of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Quantified through Reciprocal Space |
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Franziska Seifert — Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Germany)
Cryogenic TEM Studies of Bloch and Néel Skyrmion Textures in Lacunar Spinels and Cubic Helimagnets |
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Elisah VandenBussche — University of Minnesota
The Effect of a Pulsed Electron Beam on Damage Threshold |
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Josh Vincent — Arizona State University
Atomic-Resolution Operando Observations of Nanostructured Pt/CeO2 Catalysts Performing CO Oxidation |
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Zoey Warecki — University of Maryland
Measuring the minority carrier diffusion length in n-GaN using bulk STEM EBIC |
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Anna Weiss — Carnegie Mellon University
Characterizing the Effect of ECAP on Particle Dispersion and Thermal Stability of Internally Oxidized Fe-Y Alloys |
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Robin White — Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Advanced Methods to Enable 4D Imaging of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells by X-ray Computed Tomography |
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Murat Nulati Yesibolati — Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Measuring Surface Charge on a Single Nanoparticle in Liquids using Off-Axis Electron Holography |
2017 Student Scholars
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Jay Aindow* — Academy of Aerospace and Engineering
Eutectic Solidification in Zn-Sn Binary Alloys: An Experiment for High Schools *MSA K-12 Student Scholarship |
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Marwa Belhaj — University of South Carolina
Alginate Microcapsule Technology and Impacts on Cell Therapy Development |
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Gabriel A. Calderon Ortiz — The Ohio State University
Determining Nanoscale Molecular Ordering in Semiconducting Polymers |
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Allessandra DiCorato — Northwestern University
A Correlative Cryo-Fluorescence and CryoSEM Approach for Visualizing Nanomaterials in Glioblastoma Tissue |
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Ismail El Baggari — Cornell University
Emergent Phase Coherence of Stripe Order in Manganites Revealed with Cryogenic Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Bryan D. Esser — The Ohio State University
Structural and Magnetic Characterization of B20 Skyrmion Thin Films and Heterostructures using Aberration-Corrected Lorentz TEM and Differential Phase Contrast STEM |
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Everett D. Grimley — North Carolina State University
Compositional Ordering and Polar Nano-Regions: Physical Effects of Sn Alloying in SrTiO3 Thin Films |
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Diane M. Haiber — Arizona State University
Monochromated EELS and Optical Spectroscopy of Layered Carbon Nitrides |
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Liang Hong — University of Illinois at Chicago
In-situ STEM-EELS Observation of Ferroelectric Switching of BaTiO3 Film on GaAs |
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Yi Jiang — Cornell University
Enhanced Resolution from Full-Field Ptychography with an Electron Microscope Pixel Array Detector |
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Takaaki Kinoshita — Soka University, Japan
The Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope (ASEM) Observes the Axonal Compartmentalization and Microtubule Formation in Neurons |
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James L. Kizziah — University of Alabama at Birmingham
Structure and Function of the Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophage 80α Baseplate |
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Prashant Kumar — University of Minnesota
Early Growth Stages of Directly Synthesized Large-Area Zeolite Nanosheets |
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Jiayao Li — Monash University, Australia
Nanoindentation on Graphene Encapsulated Single Cells |
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Alexandra J. Machen — University of Kansas Medical Center
Single Particle CryoEM of the Anthrax Toxin Initial Engagement Complex |
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Vinal Menon — University of South Carolina
Molecular Consequences of Cardiac Valve Development as a Result of Altered Hemodynamics |
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Katerina Naydenova — MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
Efficient Cryo-EM: Measuring Effects of Particle Orientation in Electron Microscopy |
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S. M. Bukola Obayomi — Arizona State University
Imaging Live Uterine Tissue Modulation using Confocal Microscopy |
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Katherine A. Spoth — Cornell University
Dose-Efficient Cryo-STEM Imaging of Whole Cells using the Electron Microscope Pixel Array Detector |
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Congli Sun — University of Wisconsin-Madison
Identification and Quantification of Boron Dopant Sites in Antiferromagnetic Cr2O3 Films by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
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Aakash M. Varambhia — University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Quantitative STEM of Catalyst Nanoparticles using ADF Imaging with Simultaneous EDS and EELS Spectroscopy |
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Kartik Venkatraman — Arizona State University
Probing Interfacial and Surface Effects with Vibrational Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
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HsinWei Wu — Arizona State University
Aberration-corrected STEM Imaging and EELS Mapping of BaTiO3/SrTiO3 Interfacial Defects |
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Jie E. Yang* — Boston University School of Medicine
Cryo-electron Tomography Analysis of Infectious Extracellular Vesicles from a Non-enveloped RNA Virus *Raleigh & Clara Miller Memorial Scholarship |
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Chenyu Zhang — University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joint Denoising and Distortion Correction for Atomic Column Detection in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Images |
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Pei Zhang — University of Wisconsin-Madison
Atomic-scale Relaxation Dynamics in the Supercooled Liquid State of a Metallic Glass Nanowire by Electron Correlation Microscopy |
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Yong Zhang — Monash University, Australia
Structure and Function of Nano-sized InSb Precipitate Embedded in an Al Alloy |
M&M Postdoctoral Scholars
2025 Postdoctoral Scholars
Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship Awardees
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In the Biological Sciences,
Ryan Hylton – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
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In the Physical Sciences,
Stephen Funni – Cornell University
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Postdoctoral Scholar Awardees
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Wyatt Curtis – EPFL
Sealed samples for high-resolution, microsecond cryo-EM |
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Matthew Gaines – University of Wisconsin, Madison
Determining The Structure and Binding Properties of DPS – A Nucleoid Associated Protein |
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Antonia Kotronia – CNRS/Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel
Towards Controlled Chemical and Electrochemical Reactivity during In Situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Guanxing Li – Cornell University
Optimizing Electron Ptychography for Radiation-Sensitive Materials including Metal-Organic Frameworks |
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Arthur McCray – Stanford University
Deep Learning Model for Obtaining Spatially Resolved Pair Distribution Functions from 4DSTEM Data |
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Juhyun Oh – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Multi-scale Low-dose Cryogenic TEM for Probing Beam-sensitive Thin-film Ionomer Variability Across Electrodes in Hydrogen Devices |
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Eduardo Ortega – Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Application of Inpainting Methods for the Improvement of STEM-Based Time-Resolved Elemental Mapping |
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Jana Pilatova – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Microscopic algae as new emerging models for studies of organic biocrystallization and vision |
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Chuqiao Shi – Rice University
Atomic-Scale Three-Dimensional Phase Inhomogeneity and Interfacial Relaxation of Ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 |
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Hongbin Yang – Cornell University
Imaging Oxygen Dopants in Sr2CuO3+δ Superconducting Film by Multislice Electron Ptychography |
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Shengbo You – Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Automated Tomographic 4D-STEM Data Acquisition Workflow Connected with Ptychographic High-Resolution 3D Reconstruction |
2024 Postdoctoral Scholars
Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship Awardee
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In the Physical Sciences,
Stephanie Ribet – National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Postdoctoral Scholar Awardees
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Paul Chao – Sandia National Laboratories
Application of Polarized Light Microscopy for 3D Materials Science |
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Jingshan Du – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Molecular-Resolution Electron Imaging of Defects and Dynamics at the Ice-Water Interface |
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Birk Fritsch – Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (IEK-11)
Controlling the solution chemistry in aqueous phases during in situ microscopy |
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Zhenjing Liu – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Oxidation Sequence of Ultrathin Hafnium Metal on Graphene |
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Allison Mis – Colorado School of Mines
Applying Precession Electron Diffraction to Cepstral Analysis to Investigate Polarity in Ferroelastically Tilted Specimens |
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Ganesh Narasimha – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Active Learning based Structure-Property Correlation in STM |
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Suk Hyun Sung – University of Michigan
Unveiling a Large Supermodulation Underlying Electronic Anisotropy in Uranium Chalcogenide |
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Yaolong Xing – Korea Institute of Energy Technology
In-situ Observation of Formation Mechanism of Infinite-layer Iron Oxide |
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Fehmi Yasin – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Discovery of a Bloch Point Quadrupole Coupling Topological Skyrmions and Antiskyrmions into Hybrid Strings via Holographic Vector Field Electron Tomography |
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Xiangyu Yin – Argonne National Laboratory
PEAR: A Knowledge-guided Autonomous Pipeline for Ptychography Enabled by Large Language Models |
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Yang Zhang – Harvard University
Artificially controlled nanoscale chemical reduction via electron beam illumination |
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Menglin Zhu – Ohio State University
Characterizing the 3D Polar Texture of Ferroelectric Relaxors using Multislice Electron Ptychography |
2023 Postdoctoral Scholars
Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship Awardees
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In the Biological Sciences,
Aleksandra Klimas – Carnegie Mellon University
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In the Physical Sciences,
Dingxin Fan – Princeton University
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Postdoctoral Scholar Awardees
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Kenan Elibol – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Aluminum nanoplasmonics integrated onto suspended monolayer graphene |
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Eric Hoglund – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Influence of Local Stoichiometry, Bonding, and Structure on Interface Vibrations |
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Kunmo Koo – Northwestern University
Analytical in situ Gas Transmission Electron Microscopy Enabled with Ultrathin Silicon Nitride Membranes |
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Yongtao Liu – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Machine Learning-Driven Autonomous Microscopy for Materials and Physics Discovery |
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Amarshi Mukherjee – The University of Alabama at Birmingham
High-resolution Cryo-EM Structure of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophage 80α Portal Protein and SaPI1 Capsid |
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Spencer Reisbick – Brookhaven National Laboratory
Broadband Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Using Electrically Driven Pulse Generation |
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Katherine Sytwu – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Developing Robust Neural Networks for High-Resolution TEM Image Analysis |
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Yuan Tian – University of California, Irvine
In situ observation of disconnection-mediated nucleation of annealing twins at triple junctions |
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Zer Vue – Vanderbilt University
Decrease in Mouse Skeletal Muscle during Aging is due to Altered Mitochondrial Networks and the MICOS complex |
2022 Postdoctoral Scholars
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Jonathan Bouvette — NIEHS
SmartScope: Framework for unsupervised cryo-EM imaging *Apkarian Scholarship, Biological Science |
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Jiadong Dan — National University of Singapore
Exploring Motifs and Their Hierarchies in Crystals via Unsupervised Learning |
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James Hart — Cornell University
Layer Stacking Determination in Topological Semimetal MoTe2 via STEM Imaging, Liquid He TEM, and Quantitative Electron Diffraction |
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Christoph Hofer — University of Antwerp
Few-tilt Electron Ptychotomography: A New Method to Determine the 3D Structure of 2D Materials with High-precision and Low-dose |
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Blanka Janicek — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dynamic atomic-scale imaging of cluster-ion anti-perovskites using low-dose cryogenic HRTEM |
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Alex Lin — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Correlating Automated High-Throughput ADF-STEM and 4D-STEM Imaging for the Characterization of Irradiation-Induced Defects *Apkarian Scholarship, Physical Science |
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Joydeep Munshi — Argonne National Laboratory
Strain Mapping from Electron Diffraction Patterns using a Fourier-space Complex Neural Network |
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Katerina Naydenova — MRC LMB
Molecular Structure Determination Extrapolated to Zero Dose with an Electron Cryomicroscope |
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Sandhya Susarla — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Atomic scale crystal field mapping of polar vortices in oxide superlattices |
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Chunyang Wang — University of California, Irvine
TEM Study of Chemo-Mechanical Degradation Pathways of LiNiO2-Derived Layered Oxide Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries |
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Yingjie Yang — University of Illinois, Chicago
Reversible Intercalation of Mg2+ in V2O5 at Elevated Temperatures Leads to Enhanced Electrochemical Performances |
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Aram Yoon — Fritz Haber Insitut der Max Planck Gesellschaft
Enabling Structure-Property Correlation in Electrochemical Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Electrocatalysts |
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Yichao Zhang — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In-situ Imaging of Thermally Activated Atomic Reconstruction of Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides |
2021 Postdoctoral Scholars
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Yueming Guo — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Automatic detection of crystallographic defects in STEM images by unsupervised learning with translational invariance |
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Ramon Manzorro — Arizona State University
Quantifying fluxional behavior in catalytic CeO2 nanoparticles: toward thermodynamic insight into the stability of surface atomic structures |
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William Nicolas — California Institute of Technology
Peaking into the plant cell wall using cryo-FIB milling and electron cryo-tomography |
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Prakash Parajuli — University of Illinois, Chicago
Atomic-scale Insights of Cation Diffusion into Multivalent Battery Cathodes |
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Thomas Pekin — Humboldt University of Berlin
Improving 4DSTEM measurements of atomic charge and electrostatic potential via energy filtration |
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Mathias Rothmann — University of Oxford
The atomic-scale microstructure of metal halide perovskite elucidated via low-dose electron microscopy |
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Xingxu Yan — University of California, Irvine
Space- and Angle-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy to Probe the Local Phonon Modes at Planar Defects |
2020 Postdoctoral Scholars
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Stoichko Antonov — Max-Planck-Intitut fur Eisenforschung GmbH
Atom Probe Tomographic Investigation of the Solute Segregation to Crystal Defects in γ-phase Co-35Ni-20Cr-10Mo Superalloy |
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Nuria Bagues Salguero — The Ohio State University
Imaging of Magnetic Textures in Polycrystalline FeGe Thin Films via in-situ Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Shaobo Cheng — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Charge Ordering in Manganite and Ferrite Systems |
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Michele Conroy — University of Limerick
Probing the Dynamics of Topologically Protected Charged Ferroelectric Domain Walls with the Electron Beam at the Atomic Scale |
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Shiqing Deng — University of Science and Technology Beijing
Atomic-Scale Investigations of Charge-Lattice Modulation in a Hole-Doped Charge-Ordered Ferrite |
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Armin Feist — University of Gottingen
Coherent Phase Control of Ultrashort Electron Pulses by Traveling Optical Waves and Whispering-gallery Modes |
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Marcus Gallagher-Jones — UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry
Determining Atomic Structures from Digitally Defined Regions of Nanocrystals |
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Benedikt Haas — Humboldt University of Berlin
Comparison of Ptychography vs. Center-of-Mass Analysis of Registered 4D-STEM Series |
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Chen Huang — University of Oxford
Probing Graphene Defect Kinetics at Millisecond Time Resolution using Direct Detection and machine learning |
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Silvan Kretschmer — Helmoltz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Electron Irradiation of Two-dimensional MoS2: Insights into the Influence of Electronic Excitations from First-Principle Calculations |
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Sten Lambeets — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
In-situ and In-operando Cobalt Oxidation studied by Atom Probe Tomography |
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Andrew Lang — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
The Atomic Structure of Epitaxial Metallic Transition Metal Nitride TaNxby STEM-ABF and HAADF |
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Yue Li* — Northwestern University
Nanoscale Chromatin Imaging and Analysis (nano-ChIA) platform bridges 4-D chromatin organization with molecular function *Apkarian Award - Biological Sciences |
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Kelly Manthei — University of Michigan
CryoEM Analysis of Lecithin: Cholesterol Acyltransferase in Complex with High-density Lipoprotein Particles |
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Alexander Markevich — University of Vienna
Uncovering the Mechanism for Electron-Beam Manipulation of Dopants in Silicon |
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Debangshu Mukherjee — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stemtools: An Open Source Python Toolkit for Analyzing Electron Microscopy Datasets |
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Paula Navarro — MGH, Harvard Medical School
The Dynamo Software Package for Cryo-Electron Tomography and Subtomogram Averaging |
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Bumsu Park — * Sungkyunkwan University
Direct Mapping of Electrostatic Potential Variation in Charge Trap Layers in Three-dimensional Memory Devices *Eric Samuels Award |
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Philipp Pelz — University of California, Berkeley
Phase Contrast Imaging in Thick, Heterogeneous Samples via S-Matrix Phase Retrieval and Depth Sectioning |
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Shuaishuai Sun — * Michigan State University
Development of RF-compressed High-throughput Femtosecond Electron Microscope *Apkarian Award - Physical Sciences |
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Jae Yang — University of Wisconsin, Madison
High-precision Cryogenic Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy using Two Independent Alignment Features and an Easy-to-use Toolkit to Study Virus-infected Mammalian Cells |
2019 Postdoctoral Scholars
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Wenpei Gao — University of California, Irvine
Measuring charge state at the single-atomic-column-base with four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy |
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Wei-Chang Yang — National Institute of Standards and Technology
Application of electron-beam-excited localized surface plasmon resonance to unveil catalytically active sites on Au nanoparticles |
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Vivian Merk
Selective Ion Accumulation in Biomineralizing Marine Acantharia |
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Hamish Brown — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Structure Retrieval of Strongly Scattering Materials in the Transmission Electron Microscope |
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Paul Smeets — Northwestern University
Atomic-Scale Characterization Reveals Core-Shell Structure of Enamel Crystallites |
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Andrew Yankovich — Chalmers University of Technology
Towards Plasmon-Exciton Hybridization at the Nanoscale using STEM EELS |
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Johannes Elferich — Oregon Health & Science University
HOTSPUR: A Real-time Interactive Preprocessing System for Cryo-EM Data |
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Michael Buch — National Institutes of Health
Localization of the Herpesvirus Portal |
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Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri — Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (physical sciences)
Scale-bridging 3D Analysis of Micro-/Macroporous Zeolite Particles Using X-ray Nano-Tomography and Electron Tomography |
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Axel Brilot — Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (biological sciences)
CryoEM Reveals Multi-step Activation of γTubulin and Assemblies to Optimize Microtubule Nucleation |
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Aubrey Penn — Eric Samuel Scholarship
Explaining the Magnetic Properties of Oxygen Deficient LSMO Thin Films by iDPC |
2018 Postdoctoral Scholars
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Benjamin Caplins* — National Institute of Standards and Technology
Developing a Programmable STEM Detector for the Scanning Electron Microscope *Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship |
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Zhen Chen — Cornell University
Real-space Demonstration of 0.4 Angstrom Resolution at 80 keV via Electron Ptychography with a High Dynamic Range Pixel Array Detector |
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Emre Firlar — University of Illinois at Chicago
Investigation of the Magnetosome Biomineralization in Magnetotactic Bacteria using GLC-TEM |
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Jordan Hachtel — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Atomic-resolution Electric Field Measurements with a Universal Detector |
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Stephen House — University of Pittsburgh
In situ Insights into the Uncorking and Oxidative Decomposition Dynamics of Gold Nanoparticle Corked Carbon Nanotube Cups for Drug Delivery |
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Yi Jiang — Cornell University
Breaking the Rayleigh Limit in Thick Samples with Multi-slice Ptychography |
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Maureen Lagos — McMaster University (Canada)
Nanoscale Temperature Measurements using Phonon Scattering |
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Kunpeng Li* — Purdue University
2.5 Ã… Resolution Cryo-EM Structure of Human Apo-ferritin Using an Optimized Workflow for Volta Phase Plate *Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (Biological Sciences) |
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Alejandra Londono-Calderon — Ames Laboratory
In-Situ Nucleation, Growth and Evolution of Au Nanoparticles during Metallization of DNA Origami Visualized with HAADF-STEM |
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Jiashi Miao — Ohio State University
Dislocation Characterization using Weak Beam Dark Field STEM Imaging |
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Mario Mietzsch* — University of Florida
Structural Characterization of Emerging Pathogenic Human Parvoviruses *Raleigh & Clara Miller Award |
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Darius Pohl — Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)
The Role of Spatial Coherence for the Creation of Atom Size Electron Vortex Beams |
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Paul Smeets — Northwestern University
Atomic Resolution STEM Imaging of Human Enamel Crystallites and Characterization of its Localized Impurities |
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Hongyu Sun* — Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Anisotropic Nanoscale Galvanic Replacement Reactions Studied by Liquid Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy *Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship – (Physical Sciences) |
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Wei Zhang — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Rate-dependent Reversal of Lithium Concentration During Intercalation into LixFePO4 Nanoparticles |
2017 Postdoctoral Scholars
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Priyamvada Acharya* — National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Conformational Changes in HIV-1 Env Trimer Induced by a Single CD4 as Revealed by Cryo-EM *Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (Biological Sciences) |
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Cédric Barroo — Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Field Emission Microscopy to Study the Catalytic Reactivity of Binary Alloys at the Nanoscale |
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Hamish G. Brown* — Monash University, Australia
Quantitative Specimen Electric Potential Maps using Segmented and Pixel Detectors in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy *Robert P. Apkarian Memorial Scholarship (Physical Sciences) |
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Wei Guo — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Recent Progress of Correlative Transmission Electron Microscopy and Atom Probe Tomography for Materials Characterization |
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Lewys Jones* — University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Mapping the Chemistry Within, and the Strain Around, Al-alloy Precipitates at Atomic Resolution by Multi-frame Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy *Eric Samuel Memorial Scholarship |
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Emi Kano — University of Tsukuba, Japan
Etching and Mending of Graphene Edges by Cu and Pt Atoms |
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Lin-Ze Li — University of California, Irvine
Interaction between Ferroelectric Polarization and Defects in BiFeO3 Thin Films |
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Dustin M. McCraw — National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Phantoms Models to Characterize Influenza Hemagglutinin-based Vaccines |
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Michelle S. Thompson — NASA Johnson Space Center
Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Carbonaceous Chondrites which Experienced Experimentally Simulated Space Weathering Effects |
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Canhui Wang — National Institute of Standards and Technology
In-situ Characterization of Catalytic Reactions Promoted by Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Energy |
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Weizong Xu — North Carolina State University
Utilizing High-temperature Atomic-resolution STEM and EELS to Determine Reconstructed Surface Structure of Complex Oxide |
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Aiming Yan — University of California, Berkeley
Identifying and Engineering the Stacking Sequence in CVD Grown Few-layer MoS2 via Aberration-corrected STEM |
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Yue Zhuo — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Label-free Imaging of Stem Cell Adhesion and Dynamic Tracking of Boundary Evolution using Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy (PCEM) |
M&M Professional Technical Staff Awards
2025 Professional Technical Staff Awards
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Genki Terashi — Purdue University
DMcloud: Macromolecular Structure Modeling with Local Structure Fitting for Medium to Low Resolution Cryo-EM Maps |
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Haoran Yu — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Investigating the degradation mechanism of proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers using analytical electron microscopy |
2024 Professional Technical Staff Awards
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Mouad Essani — University of Paris Est Creteil
A simple and accurate approach for thickness measurement of particles and thin films using SEM-EDS |
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Victoria Pappas —Northwestern University
Optimizing a Pipeline for Eukaryotic Ultrastructure |
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Lolita Rotkina — Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
High-Resolution Volume Electron Microscopy of an Entire Epidermal Plant Cell Using Plasma-Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy |
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Pengyuan Xiu — Intel Corporation
Achieving 0.002° Measurement Precision of Sample Surface Tilt by Utilizing FIB-SEM Coincidence |
2023 Professional Technical Staff Awards
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Toshihiro Aoki — University of California, Irvine
Quickly switchable angular and spatially resolved Cs-corrected STEM |
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Jian-Hua Chen — University of California, San Francisco
Soft X-ray 3D imaging: A powerful tool for visualizing virus infections with increased resolution and field of view |
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Yuta Fukushima — Fuji Electric
Band-bending Analysis of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) Interface by In Situ Biasing Electron Holography |
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Bernard Heymann — Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Accounting for the Ewald spheres in cryoEM reconstructions and their relationship to 3D Fourier transforms of focal series |
2022 Professional Technical Staff Awards
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Kashyap Maruthi — New York Structural Biology Center
Data collection speedups in Leginon |
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Jae Yang — University of Wisconsin-Madison
Montage cryo-electron tomography: a high throughput and flexible data collection scheme to explore in-situ cellular landscapes while preserving high-resolution data |
2021 Professional Technical Staff Awards
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Stephen Boona — Ohio State University
Evidence of magnetic structure contribution to electron backscatter diffraction |
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Sz-Chian Liou — University of Maryland
Investigations the Electronic Structure in Monoclinic phase Gadolinium Sesquioxides by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
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Daniel Ruscitto — GE
Customized Automation of Routine EPMA Analyses Using Vendor-Supplied APIs |
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Bryan Sibert — University of Wisconsin
Technological improvements for whole cell cryo-ET of respiratory syncytial virus infected cells |
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Joseph Simpson — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bayesian Approaches to Finding the Needles in the Microscopy Haystack |
2020 Professional Technical Staff Awards
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Emily Benson — Cleveland Clinic Laboratories
Serial Block-Face SEM of Brain Tissue using Rapid Automated Preparation |
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Carley Goodwin — The Ohio State University
X-ray MicroCT Imaging of Dentin Tubules in a Human Tooth |
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James Martinez — NASA
International Space Station (ISS) Thruster Plume Contamination and Erosion Control for Visiting Spacecraft |
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Maria Paez Segala — Janelia Research Campus
Optimization of Photoactivatable FPs for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy |
2019 Professional Technical Staff Awards
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Leslie Cummins — Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy Technique using Commercially Available Reagents to Facilitate Immunolocalization via Epi-fluorescence and TEM |
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Pauline Mochama — University of Minnesota
Multiplex Immunolabeling and Imaging of Functionally Essential Kidney Structures in X-CLARITY-Cleared Tissue |
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Sara Dickens — Sandia National Laboratories
Identification of Twin Formation in Additively Manufactured Stainless Steel by In-Situ EBSD |
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Ann Johnson — The Dow Chemical Company
Failure Analysis of Polyethylene Products using Microscopy |
2018 Professional Technical Staff Awards
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Eric Formo** — University of Georgia
Utilizing Conventional and In Situ Electron Microscopy to Gain Insights Into the Release of Silver Nanomaterials in Aquatic Ecosystems *Physical Sciences |
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Lisa Lowery** — Sandia National Laboratories
Vacuum-Assisted ex situ Lift Out for Plan View FIB Specimen Preparation *Physical Sciences |
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Zhiyuan Lu** — Janelia Research Campus
Optimal Preparation of Drosophila Brain Samples for FIB-SEM *Biological Sciences |
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Connon Thomas** — Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Light and Dark: Fluorescent and Electron Dense Labeling for Neuronal Cells Using a Novel Viral Vector *Biological Sciences |
2017 Professional Technical Staff Awards
Isabel N. Boona* — The Ohio State University
Correlative 3D Imaging and Characterization of Human Dentine
*Physical Sciences