The Fourth International Congress on Electron Tomography to be held in San Diego, CA Nov 5-8, 2006.

该奖项将资助合格的本科生、研究生和博士后研究人员参加2006年11月5日至8日在加州圣地亚哥举行的国际电子断层扫描大会（ICET）。本次大会是1997年开始的一系列研讨会中的第四次，旨在将开发和应用电子显微断层扫描的从业人员聚集在一起。这些会议为密集的相互作用提供了一个论坛，促进了技术发展和用户数量的增加。在这个关键时刻，电子断层扫描是多尺度3D显微镜中发展最快的方法之一，并被用于越来越广泛的应用，远远超出了第一次会议时的设想。电子层析成像技术是一种从电子显微镜中产生三维定量图像的新研究领域。电子断层扫描技术正从少数实验室使用的专业实验技术转变为一种向细胞生物学家、结构生物学家和神经科学家提供重要新信息的技术。由于电子断层扫描已被确定为一个增长领域，预计今天正在培训的研究生和博士后研究人员将继续成为下一代的主要研究人员。

This award will provide support for qualified undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers to attend the International Congress on Electron Tomography (ICET) in San Diego, CA, from November 5-8, 2006. This congress is the fourth in a series of workshops that was initiated in 1997 to begin to bring together practitioners developing and applying electron microscopic tomography. The meetings have provided a forum for intensive interactions and have catalyzed technical developments and an increased number of users. At this juncture, electron tomography is one of the most rapidly evolving approaches in multiscale 3D microscopy and is being employed for an increasingly broad range of applications, well beyond those envisioned at the time of the first conference. Electron Tomography is a new research area that produces 3-dimensional quantitative images from electron microscopy. Electron tomography is moving from a specialized experimental technique practiced by a few laboratories to one that is delivering critical new information to cell biologists, structural biologists and neuroscientists. Because electron tomography has been identified as a growth field, it is anticipated that the graduate students and postdoctoral researchers being trained today will go on to become the next generation lead investigators.