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MCP Annual Users Meeting
2025-09-17 08:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stieff Silver Building, 800 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, 21211
Save the date for our first annual MCP Users Meeting! Whether you are a current user or curious about what the MCP has to offer, we invite you to our sessions on September 17th where you’ll learn about the capabilities at the facility, how we can advance your research, and more.
MCP Annual Users Meeting Agenda*

Date
17-Sep-25

Location
Stieff Silver Building MCP Floor

8:30 AM – 8:55 AM
Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
WELCOME AND MORNING SESSION

9:00 – 9:10 AM
WSE Welcome
Larry Nagahara, Vice Dean for Research and Translation, WSE, JHU

9:15 – 9:30 AM
MCP Facility Overview
Mitra Taheri. MCP Director, WSE, JHU

9:35 – 9:50 AM
MCP Facility Operations
S Diallo, MCP Ex. Dir. Of Operations, WSE, JHU

9:55 AM – 10:25 AM
Break – Posters and Vendors display

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM
Electron Videography and Its Automation for Soft and Energy Materials
Qian Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

11:20 AM – 12:00 PM
Intelligent Automation in the Materials Lab: From Statistical Learning to Multi-Agent Reasoning
Maxim Ziatdinov, Pacific Northwest National Lab

12:10 – 12:20 PM
Group Photo

12:25 – 1:20 PM
Working Lunch
Revamping neutron scattering infrastructure for non-equilibrium measurements with FAIR Data at NIST
Craig Brown, NIST Center for Neutron Research

1:30 – 5:00 PM
AFTERNOON SESSION

1:30 – 1:50 PM
Examining Deformation Mechanisms in Geologic Materials and Concrete using In-Situ and Post-Mortem X-ray Imaging
Ryan Hurley, WSE, JHU

1:55 – 2:10 PM
Bioprinting is the approach to realize the new NIH and FDA mission to prioritize human-based research technologies
Yun Chen, WSE, JHU

2:15 – 2:30 PM
Enabling Dynamic Discovery: In Situ TEM Capabilities at MCP
Elaf Anber, WSE, JHU

2:35 – 2:50 PM
Using micro ct-scanning in functional and developmental anatomy
Siobhan Cooke, SOM, JHU

2:55 – 3:10 PM
Leveraging Rapid Characterization and Physics-Based Machine Learning to Uncover Structure–Property Relationships in Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys
Sreenivas Raguraman, WSE, JHU

3:15 – 3:30 PM
Break – Posters and Vendor Display

3:30 – 3:50 PM
Iron-ing out the Details: Microbial Transformations of Earth’s Most Abundant Element
Isabel Baker, KSAS, JHU

3:55 – 4:10 PM
Selective Cobalt and Nickel Separation via Bioacid-Mediated Electrowinning
Tianchen L. WSE. JHU

4:15 – 4:30 PM
Electron Microscopy of Structural Materials at Extremes
Mo-Rigen, WSE, JHU

4:35 – 4:50 PM
Patterning of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks using Electron Beam Lithography
Kayley Waltz, WSE, JHU

4:55 – 5:10 PM
Advanced electron diffraction techniques for the structural characterization organic and inorganic crystals
Dan Foley, WSE, JHU

5:15 – 5:45 PM
MCP Tour (Optional)
Ken Livi, MCP

5:45 – 7:15 PM
EVENING RECEPTION/STUDENT POSTER PRESENTATION

*Agenda is subject to change. Last updated 9/15/2025.
Learn more about our speakers here.

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