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Anthrax expert speaks at Adelaide conference

Monday, 9 February 2009

A United States scientist who secretly helped the FBI investigate the deadly anthrax bioterrorism attacks in 2001 will be one of the key speakers at a 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide conference on microanalysis this week.

Paul Kotula from in New Mexico helped analyse the concentrated Bacillus anthracis spores which killed five people when they were mailed in letters to several media offices and two US senators.

Dr Kotula and his team worked on the project in secret for seven years, demonstrating that the spores were not a weaponised form of bacteria which disperses more readily. This information, which was crucial in ruling out state-sponsored terrorism, was not made public until 2008.

This week he will discuss this investigation - and other forms of microanalysis - at the being held at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide from 9-13 February.

Symposium Convenor Angus Netting says it is the first time that this two-yearly meeting has been hosted in Adelaide, which has attracted around 160 delegates, including five international speakers.

The symposium will look at new and advanced analytical techniques, practical solutions and applications for scanning electron microscopes, capable of analysing specimens at many million times magnifications.

Other invited speakers include:

• from the prestigious in Washington, the world's pre-eminent museum and research complex;

• from in Canada, who will discuss future trends in microscopy;

• , an American scientist and inventor who recently invented and patented the Scanning Confocal Electron Microscope;

• from in Missouri, who will present a paper on advances in microanalysis and their lunar mapping applications.

  The event is being hosted by , one of 最新糖心Vlog's most advanced centres offering the latest in electron beam techniques and also optical, confocal, multiphoton and X-ray imaging techniques.
  

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