EMU Newsletter November/December 2007 | 1 EMU Newsletter November/December 2007 www.emu.usyd.edu.au It’s Time to Celebrate! The EMU’s Golden Jubilee 2008 • EMU Shutdown Between Christmas and New Year • Journal Front Covers 2007 • Conference News • Award for PhD Student Anna Ceguerra • Microscopes on the Move Travels to the Northern Territory • Accessing the EMU and the AMMRF through National Competitive Grants It’s Time to Celebrate! We are delighted to announce the start of the unit’s Golden Jubille year, 2008. This significant milestone was heralded by Prof. Simon Ringer in his welcome speech during our recent Christmas party, which was held under the motto “Celebrating the EMU’s Golden Fifties”. The unit is looking back on five decades of growth and success and, glancing at our history, it becomes apparent what an important role the EMU has played in teaching and research on campus. Back in the 1950s, there was growing demand from researchers across the University for access to electron microscopy; this new technology was seen as an essential tool for research, particularly in the life sciences. The University of Sydney, with distinct farsightedness, decided to meet this need by providing an electron microscope as part of a centralised service that was not associated with any one department or faculty, but that would serve all equally. As a result, the Electron Micro- scope Unit was born back in 1958. What started as a small support unit in the Bank Building today incorporates the Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, as well as the headquarters of the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF), and is home to 53 staff members and PhD students and nearly 30 major instruments. To celebrate these achievements, we will be holding a series of high-profile events during the course of 2008, which are listed below: A 6-month exhibition at the University of Sydney’s Macleay Museum, entitled “Small Matters – Exploring the World of Microscopy” (July–December 2008). We invite staff, students and the public to discover the exciting world of
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EMUNewsletter November/December 2007
www.emu.usyd.edu.au
It’s Time to Celebrate! The EMU’s Golden Jubilee 2008 • EMU Shutdown Between
Christmas and New Year • Journal Front Covers 2007 • Conference News • Award for
PhD Student Anna Ceguerra • Microscopes on the Move Travels to the Northern
Territory • Accessing the EMU and the AMMRF through National Competitive Grants
It’s Time to Celebrate!
We are delighted to announce the start of the
unit’s Golden Jubille year, 2008. This significant
milestone was heralded by Prof. Simon Ringer
in his welcome speech during our recent
Christmas party, which was held under the
motto “Celebrating the EMU’s Golden Fifties”.
The unit is looking back on five decades of
growth and success and, glancing at our history,
it becomes apparent what an important role the
EMU has played in teaching and research on
campus.
Back in the 1950s, there was growing demand
from researchers across the University for access
to electron microscopy; this new technology was
seen as an essential tool for research, particularly
in the life sciences. The University of Sydney, with
distinct farsightedness, decided to meet this need
by providing an electron microscope as part of a
centralised service that was not associated with
any one department or faculty, but that would
serve all equally. As a result, the Electron Micro-
scope Unit was born back in 1958.
What started as a small support unit in the Bank
Building today incorporates the Australian Key
Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, as well
as the headquarters of the Australian Microscopy
& Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF), and
is home to 53 staff members and PhD students
and nearly 30 major instruments.
To celebrate these achievements, we will be
holding a series of high-profile events during the
course of 2008, which are listed below:
A 6-month exhibition at the University of
Sydney’s Macleay Museum, entitled “Small
Matters – Exploring the World of Microscopy”
(July–December 2008). We invite staff, students
and the public to discover the exciting world of
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microscopy. In conjunction with the exhibition,
we will also offer special lectures, family days as
well as a regular seminar series.
A 3-day international symposium involving many
leading microscopists (3–5 December 2008).
This major symposium will see the world’s
leading microscopists on hand to celebrate the
Golden Jubilee, but, more importantly, to discuss
the future directions of advanced microscopy
technologies, both in the Australian context and
as it applies globally.
An Official Gala Luncheon in the University
of Sydney’s Great Hall in association with the
symposium. This event will celebrate not only the
EMU’s achievements, but also the long associa-
tions the unit has had with our users, students,
collaborators and instrument suppliers, without
whom the last 50 years of discovery would not
have been possible.
EMU Shutdown Between Christmasand New Year
The EMU will shutdown for its traditional clean-
up from 19 December 2007 and will reopen for
business on Wednesday, 03 January 2008.
If you wish to use the facility in the shutdown
period you must be a CAT 3 user and get per-
mission to work. Please contact Ellie Kable
(9351 7566) for further inquiries.
And last but not least – our history book “50
Great Moments – Celebrating the Golden Jubi-
lee of the University of Sydney’s Electron Micro-
scope Unit”. In this book, editor Dr Kyle Ratinac
collects some of the highlights of the EMU’s rich
history, its most outstanding achievements, as
well as an insight into the unit’s social life.
In addition to these activities, a series of work-
shops and lectures are planned to take place to
celebrate the EMU’s growth to its current role
as an influential and integral part of the Univer-
We wish all our users, collaborators, students and colleagues a very
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Your EMU Team
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Journal Front Covers in 2007
The following published work of EMU researchers
has been selected to grace the front covers of
leading journals. Congratulations to all!
We are looking forward to next year to add some
new highlights to our AKCMM front cover gallery.
Also, we are keen to hear if one of our user’s
work has been featured on any front covers.
Please email the literature reference and a PDF
or scan of your cover page to A/Prof. Filip Braet.
This article was published in an Elsevier journal. The attached copyis furnished to the author for non-commercial research and
education use, including for instruction at the author’s institution,sharing with colleagues and providing to institution administration.
Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling orlicensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party
websites are prohibited.
In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of thearticle (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website orinstitutional repository. Authors requiring further information
regarding Elsevier’s archiving and manuscript policies areencouraged to visit:
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright
Ringer et al. in: Microscopy & Research Techniques
Yang et al. in: Nanotechnology Uzun et al. in: Hearing Research
NanotechnologyVol 18, No 41
412001–41900117 October 2007
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Topical review:Carbon nanotubes for biological and biomedical
Advice to Applicants for ARC and NHMRC Grants for Funding in 2009 Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility
(AMMRF)
For Pure, Applied & Industrial Research
The AMMRFEstablished in July 2007 under the Commonwealth Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), the AMMRF
is a joint venture between Australian university-based microscopy and microanalysis centres. The AMMRF (ammrf.org.au) is a national grid of
equipment, instrumentation and expertise in microscopy and microanalysis providing nanostructural characterisation capability and services to
all areas of nanotechnology and biotechnology research.Operating in nodes located in major capital cities with links to smaller units in specialist facilities, the Facility provides access to a vast array of
instrumentation. These include widely used optical, electron, x-ray and ion beam techniques and importantly, state-of-the-art flagship platforms
that form world leading capabilities. Such capabilities include pulsed-laser local electrode atom probe, high-throughput cryo-electron tomography,
high-resolution SEM and spectroscopy, high-precision ion microprobe and high-resolution TEM platforms.
Planning for your Research NeedsEach project incurs costs in terms of instrument time, preparation materials and staff input. It is necessary that a part-contribution to these
increasing costs be provided by users and, so far as is possible, that these costs are planned for and included in the budget of research
proposals.
EXAMPLE: For 2008 ARC Discovery grant ap-plications, include a line item in the Budget Table under ‘Other’ as shown on the left.This example relates to a project that requires access to electron microscopy for one sample per week, at 4 hour per sample, for 45 weeks. This yields 180 h of beam time and a total project cost of $7,200 for AMMRF flagship instruments.
The host University maintains substantial infra-structure and the value of this is transmitted to research projects at a level at least equivalent to instrument usage charged at at least $40/hour for AMMRF flagship instruments.
Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis (180 h @ $40) 7200 7200
Please note:
This principle also applies for ARC Linkage applications.
ammrf.org.au
Before final submission, contact relevant node to confirm budget details and project description.