BioCommunications Association Annual Meeting, BIOCOMM 2015, Santa Fe, NM, June 22-26
Develop and enhance your career skills at BIOCOMM 2015, the BioCommunication Association's 85th annual meeting in Santa Fe, NM, June 22-26. Learn new skills from photographers and media professionals in the life sciences and medicine, explore creative ideas, develop insightful strategies, and most importantly, engage with a strong and supportive group of professionals.
Hillsborough, NC, April 28, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Develop and enhance your career skills at BIOCOMM 2015, the BioCommunication Association's 85th annual meeting in Santa Fe, NM, June 22-26. Learn new skills from photographers and media professionals in the life sciences and medicine, explore creative ideas, develop insightful strategies, and most importantly, engage with a strong and supportive group of professionals.
BIOCOMM 2015 is a five-day international meeting packed with sessions and workshops on topics such as field techniques and location lighting strategies, Adobe Lightroom, microscopy, graphic design, and digital infrared techniques.
In celebration of BCA's 85th Anniversary, registration for BIOCOMM 2015 is only $85 and includes the Opening Reception, BioImages Exhibit, the Maria Ikenberg Lindberg Keynote by Joe McNally, The Ann Shiras Pioneer Lecture by Scott Watson, all plenary sessions, all workshop offerings, the Honor's Reception and Banquet, and the Awards Presentation. BCA will also pay for the first night of your stay at the Drury Plaza Hotel ($169) when booking the entire conference (Monday through Friday), which will essentially lower your daily room rate to $135!
This year’s Maria Ikenberg Lindberg Keynote speaker is internationally acclaimed photographer Joe McNally, who will address his life as a photographer covering global assignments for the last 30-plus years in a session entitled, “A Life on Assignment.” Working from a personal group of images, he will also discuss and demonstrate the objectives, equipment, camera settings and lighting he uses, in a session entitled, “Field Techniques and Location Lighting Strategies.”
Scott A. Watson, R&D Scientist V for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Advanced Nuclear Technology Group, will present the Anne Shiras Pioneer Lecture, “Capturing the Light – A Particle Panoply”. Photography is half art and half science – though neither artists nor scientists are completely happy with that characterization! Indeed the word, “photography”, literally means, “light painting”. Consequently, it is important to recognize that the most beautiful photographs are literally composed of billions of particles – historically visible photons – that form digital, impressionist art works bit-by-bit. Modern photography is pushing these scientific boundaries not only in terms of the physical speed and photographic speed (sensitivity) with which these particles are generated and collected, but also with the type of particles that compose a “photograph”. In this talk we’ll survey the history of scientific photography and give examples of modern applications based upon ancient ideas. We will show examples of: neutrons used to radiograph gas, gamma rays used to image BP’s Macondo well head a mile underwater, pinhole cameras used to see electron beams, proton beams used to image high explosives, and a host of other examples sure to entertain, amuse, inspire, and confound the particle artist in each of us. LA-UR-15-20849
Winners of the BCA’s 2015 BioImages competition will be announced at an Honors Banquet Friday, June 26. BioImages is an annual visual media competition that showcases the finest still, graphics and motion media work in the life sciences and medicine.
To learn more or to register, visit http://bca.org/annual_meeting/biocomm2015/registration.html