Workshop on Advances in Cellular Imaging Microscopy

June 29, 1999

Imaging Center Web Page:    W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging

Director of the Cellular Imaging Center

Ammasi Periasamy

UVA Poster Session in the Chemistry Lobby

No Poster Session is complete without pizza!

Floor show graciously provided by Charlottesville Fire Department

Fortunately, you can grab pizza on the way out the door.

Even more fortunately, it was a false alarm.

Afternoon Symposium

Introductory remarks by David Brautigan (Director, Center for Cellular Signaling)

Awards Present by Otto Friesen (Chairman, Dept. of Biology)

Fourth Prize Winner

Susanne

"Monoclonal antibodies to NTF2 demonstrate that NTF2 is necessary for nuclear import of the GTPase Ran"

Susanne M. Steggerda and Bryce M. Paschal

Center for Cell Signaling, Health Sciences Center

Third Prize Winner

Karen

"Characterization of etrogen regulated FRNK-ER* protein"

Karen Martin and J. Thomas Parsons

Department of Microbiology, Health Science

Second Prize Winner

Kristi

"Luminescence-based oxygen sensors: Fluorescence microscopy as a probe of sensor heterogeneity"

Kristi Kneas, Ammasi Periasamy and James Demas

Department of Chemistry, School of Arts & Sciences

First Prize Winner

Lance

"Nuclear tube closure in xenopus laevis involves medial migration directed protusion activity, intercalation & convergent evolution"

Lance Davidson and Raymond Keller

Department of Biology, School of Arts & Science

Talk by Professor Gerald H. Pollack (University of Washington)

Quantal Shortening in Muscle Revealed by High-Resolution Optical Method

VERY small quantal changes--as in 2.3 nm steps!

Kristi Kneas