Society Awards and Honors
2007 Awards
Alice Dohnalkova Earns Diatome Award from Microscopy Society of America
Alice Dohnalkova was presented with the Diatome Award during the national meeting of the Microscopy Society of America on August 8 in Fort Lauderdale. The award recognizes distinguished scientists who present new and enlightening work in the field of microscopy. Alice received the award for the best use of ultramicrotomy in the presentation "Creating 3D Reconstruction of Cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. by Alignment of Serial TEM Tomograms." As part of this award, she will receive a trip to Switzerland to visit the Diatome factory, where precision diamond knives are manufactured for electron microscopy applications. (announced 8/1/2007)