At the Region of Former IronworksMicroscopy Conference (MC) 2007

At the university campus of Saarbrücken, the capital of Saarland, Germany’s smallest federal state, well known in the past for its iron producing industry, with the world cultural heritage “Völklinger Hütte”, the 33rd conference of the German Society of Electron Microscopy (DGE) took place between 2nd and 7th of Sep-tember.

ing their product novelties in Hardware, Software and consumables to the audi­ence.

Following the welcome and followed by the first plenary lecture one of the most prestigious Prizes for outstanding scientific developments in electron mi­croscopy, the Ernst Ruska Prize was awarded this year by Paul Walter (Ulm,

Germany) president of the DFE to Rich­ard J. Spontak (Berkeley, USA), Hiroshi Jinnai (Kyoto, Japan) and Paul A. Midg­ley (Cambridge, UK) (Fig. 1). The Jury honoured the three Scientists and MC 2007 plenary lecturers for their work on novel and quantitative uses of electron tomography in the 3D study of nano­structured materials. Further plenary talks were given by:

Andrew Bleloch, Cambridge, UK (Ap­plications of Aberration Corrected STEM: Imaging and EELS)Hans Cerva, Munich, Germany (Appli­cation of Selected Electron Microscopy Methods to Materials Analysis Prob­lems from an Industrial Environment)Marek Cyrklaff, Martinsried, Germany (Cryo­Tomography of Whole Cells)Jacques Dubochet, Lausanne, Swit­zerland (Cryo­electron Microscopy of Vitreous Sections)Gareth Griffiths, Heidelberg, Germany (State of the Art Microscopy for Cell Biology with a Focus on Mycobacteria and Phagocytosis)Othmar Marti, Ulm, Germany (Nano­mechanical Characterization from Living Cells to the Cytoskeleton)Andreas Thust, Juelich, Germany (High­Resolution Transmission Elec­tron Microscopy Entering the Sub­Angstrom Era)

In total 450 delegates were offered to at­tend 21 oral sessions consisting of 130 talks, four poster sessions with 120 con­tributions, one technical lecture includ­ing 16 exhibitors presentations and sev­eral workshops. The exhibition floor, connecting the lecture halls, areas for poster sessions, coffee bar and registra­tion, presented 30 companies introduc­

Fig. 1: Ernst Ruska Prize 2007 Awarding. Paul A. Midgley, Hiroshi Jinnai, Richard J. Spontak, and Paul Walter.

World cultural heritage “Völklinger Hütte”

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Roger Wepf, Zurich, Switzerland (Cor­relative Microscopy in Focus: Short­cuts, Prerequisites and Future Needs in Diagnostic and Analytical Biomedi­cal Structure Research)

For the social programme delegates were first invited on September 4th to the FEI Company and Carl Zeiss SMT customers evening event at the Congress Centre Saarbrücken and “Völklinger Hütte”, re­spectively. The following evening was re­served for the congress dinner at the “Alte Schmelze” (eng. Old Smeltery) in St. Ingbert a further monument to former ironworks close to the venue. But before the participants could enjoy the delica­cies of the region, a fantastic organ per­formance in St. Hildegards Church took the audience on a trip through composi­tions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles­Marie Widor, Louis Vierne, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Naji Hakim.

To all who enjoyed this successful and very informative event hosted by the DGE, the next Microscopy Conference co­organised by them is the European Mi­croscopy Congress in Aachen, Germany 2008 and the “Dreiländertagung” in

Graz, Austria 2009. Hopefully see you all there!

Contacts:Prof. Dr. Uwe HartmannInstitute of Applied PhysicsUniversity of Saarland, Saarbrücken, GermanyTel.: +49 681 302 3798Fax: +49 681 302 3790u.hartmann@mx.uni-saarland.de

Prof. Dr. Pedro Mestres-VenturaInstitut für Anatomie und ZellbiologieZentrum für ElektronenmikroskopieUniversitätsklinikum, Homburg/Saar, GermanyTel.: +49 6841 1626141Fax: +49 6841 1626293anpmes@uniklinikum-saarland.dewww.dge-homepage.dewww.uni-saarland.de/mc2007

Fig, 2: Heads of local organizing committee: Pedro Mesters-Ventura and Uwe Hartmann

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