[BNC-all] BNC Weekly Memo - June 7, 2010

[Jeff Goecker]

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BNC News
week of June 7, 2010
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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 at purdue.edu or Mark Voorhis mvoorhis at 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]
 
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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]
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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. 
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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 at lbl.gov

To submit a proposal online, or obtain further information, please 
visit the NCEM website:
http://ncem.lbl.gov
    

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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
 
 
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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
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