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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font color="black">This is to announce that Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis (SCSMM) 2018 spring symposium is to be held on Friday
April 13, 2018 at the MCB/Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience in the main campus of University of Southern California. Speakers include Mary Scott (UC Berkeley), Clodagh O’Shea (Salk Institute), Rebecca Voorhees (Caltech), Chongming Wang (Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory), and Cristina Zavaleta (USC). Attached is the 2018 spring newsletter. The full program of the symposium will come soon.
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font color="black">In order to register, please sign up on-line at
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</font><font color="black"><i>no later than</i></font><font color="black"> 5 p.m. Friday, April 6.</font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font color="black">Annual regular membership $25 (student $10). On-line registration is required.
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font color="black">At the symposium we will have both student platform talk and poster presentations. Please send abstracts to Sergey Prikhodko (</font><a href="mailto:prikhodko.sergey@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk547907" previewremoved="true">prikhodko.sergey@gmail.com</a><font color="black">)</font><font color="black">
</font><font color="black"><i>by March 18, 2018.</i></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font color="black">This year we continue to hold the SCSMM Image Contest. Please send your images to Poorna Subramanian (</font><a href="mailto:poorna.physics@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk357295" previewremoved="true">poorna.physics@gmail.com</a><font color="black">)
</font><font color="black"><i>by April 6, 2018.</i></font><font color="black"> </font>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font color="black">We look forward to seeing you all at the symposium.
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font color="black">Sincerely,</font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font color="black">SCSMM board</font></span></font></div>
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