We are happy to announce that 2025 OMS Spring meeting will be hold on Friday, April 18th, 2025 at the University of Oklahoma Forum building. Our spring meeting is the largest gathering of microscopy professionals from both academic and industry in Oklahoma. Please mark your calendar. We look forward to meeting all of you April!
LINK TO PROGRAM
Theme and Keynote
The meeting theme is “Advances in Oklahoma Microscopy”
We will feature programming and tours related to Oklahoma’s first dedicated cryo-TEM and first aberration-corrected TEM.
Our Keynote speaker is Dr. Peter Ercius, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Interim Facility Director at the National Center for Electron Microscopy
Sponsors
Many thanks to our Sponsors, who make this meeting possible: Gatan/EDAX, JEOL USA, Nikon Instruments, Oxford Instruments, Tescan, Thomas Scientific, and ThermoFisher!
Microscopy Society of America (MSA) Grant-In-Aid and Tour Speaker programs provide critical support. OMS is a ‘local affiliate society’ of MSA.
Meeting registration
Registration fees include continental breakfast and lunch. There are no additional fees for abstract submission.
- Student registration: FREE!
- Corporate member registration: $300.00
- Standard member registration: $15.00
- Corporate non-member registration: $500.00
- Standard non-member registration: $30.00
Please register for the meeting to allow us to plan the needed amount of food etc. Thank you!
Opportunities for students
The meeting is a great opportunity to network with other students and professionals from Oklahoma who use microscopy as part of their work. Ways students can participate, in addition to attending the meeting:
- Submit an abstract to enter the Timpano Award contest or present a poster. Students competing for the Timpano will present a 15 minute talk. The winner will receive funding to send them to the national Microscopy Society of America annual meeting. There is also a cash prize for second place. There are also cash prizes for student poster awards!
link to submit abstract - Submit an image to the Best Micrograph contest
link to instructions
Program
| Time | Description / Who | Title / notes |
| 7:15 – 8:30 AM | Room open for setup (food, vendors, and posters etc) | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 AM | Continental breakfast, registration, visit with vendor and core facility tables, poster setup | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Opening remarks | Dr. Tingting Gu (OU, SRNML, OMS); Dr. Ann West (OU, OVPRP); Mason Rhue (OU, MSA student council) |
| 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Dr. Rakhi Rajan | Understanding the DNA Cleavage Fidelity Mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas Nucleases Using Cryo-EM |
| 10:00 – 10:30 AM | Dr. Len Thomas | New and Unique to Oklahoma: Tundra Cryo-TEM for Your Protein Structure Needs |
| 10:30 – 10:45 AM | Dr. Sonika Robertson (Oxford) | Pushing boundaries in X-ray microanalysis with technological advancements |
| 10:45 – 11:00 AM | John Haritos (Ametek) | Clarity Direct Detection EBSD for low kV and beam current EBSD analysis |
| 11:00 AM – noon | Timpano Award talks with student presenters | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 AM | Donny Han | The Molecular and Physiological Mechanisms of Electric Signal Elaboration During Early Development in the South American Weakly Electric Fish, Brachyhypopomus gauderio |
| 11:15 – 11:30 AM | Sooraj Patel | Towards grain boundary engineering of Protonic Ceramic Cell Electrolytes using Orientation-Microscopy Assisted Grain Boundary Character Distribution Analysis |
| 11:30 – 11:45 AM | Itunu Apalara | Understanding the Impact of a Modern Euxinic Spring on Sediment Using Bulk Sediment and Smectite Clay-Preserved Proxies |
| 11:45 – noon | Chhandosee Ganguly | Structural insights into a high-fidelity CRISPR-Cas12a variant revealed using optimized graphene oxide cryo-EM grids |
| noon – 12:15 pm | Vikas Reddy Paduri | Bimetallic AgCo Nanoparticle Synthesis via Combinatorial Nanosecond Laser-Induced Dewetting of Thin Films |
| 12:15 – 12:45 PM | lunch | Lunch will be included in meeting registration, also the Cross Center restaurants are directly across Asp Street |
| 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM | Tours | Choose between Tundra cryo-TEM, NeoARM aberration-corrected STEM, or main SRNML core facility |
| 1:30 – 2:00 PM | Student/researcher poster session, networking and vendor tables | |
| 2:00 – 3:00 PM | Plenary Keynote: Dr. Peter Ercius (LBNL) | Imaging Atomic Structure, Strain, and Disorder By Atomic Electron Tomography |
| 3:00 – 3:30 PM | Dr. Ritech Sachan (OSU) | Unveiling Swift Heavy Ion Track Morphology in Sr-Based High-Entropy Perovskites |
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Dr. Iman Ghamarian (OU) | Machine Learning-Assisted Quantitative Microscopy to Accelerate Microstructure-Centric Design and Manufacturing |
| 4:00 – 4:15 PM | Break | |
| 4:15 – 4:30 PM | Awards and closing | |
| 4:30 – 5:00 PM | Cleanup |