■Foreword

Fifty-year Research Activity with an Electron Microscope; Still Remains Something to Observe

Kazunobu Amako

■Feature Articles: Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope (ASEM)

In-liguid Imaging by Electron Microscopy

Chikara Sato

Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope System with an Open Sample Chamber

Hidetoshi Nishiyama, Mitsuru Koizumi, Koji Ogawa, Shinich Kitamura, Yuji Konyuba, Mitsuo Suga and Chikara Sato

Analysis of Molecular Localization and Synaptic Structure Using ASEM

Takeshi Uemura

The Role of Plasma Membrane Domains in Cell Adhesion and Migration

Toshiyuki Murai

Observation of Megakaryocyte and Dendritic Cells in Liquid Using Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope (ASEM)

Chikara Sato, Yohei Watanabe, Yuusuke Maruyama, Mari Sato, Masayuki Yamamoto, Noriko M Tsuji and Hozumi Motohashi

Direct Observation of Swelling and Delamination Behaviors on Layered Double Hydroxides in Solution by Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope (ASEM)

Yujiro Watanabe, Hidetoshi Nishiyama and Mitsuo Suga

Observation of Nano-Structure of Surfactant Micelle by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy

Tomokazu Yoshimura and Tetsuya Ogawa

■Reviews

Bioimaging of Cortiosteroid Receptor Dynamics

Mayumi Nishi

Characterization of Plasmonic Materials by CL

Naoki Yamamoto, Masahiro Honda and Hiroaki Watanabe

Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Mesostructured Materials by Electron Microscopy

Yasuhiro Sakamoto

■Lectures

Intercellular Migration among Phylogenetically Distant Host Cells by an Ameboid Embryo of a Parasitic Wasp

Azusa Takahashi-Nakaguchi, Tsuyoshi Hiraoka, Yasuhisa Endo and Kikuo Iwabuchi

3D Microstructure Observation of Materials by Means of FIB-SEM Serial Sectioning

Toru Hara

Cathodoluminescence and Fluorescent Bioimaging with Using Rare-Earth Doped Nanophorspohrs

Hirohiko Niioka, Taichi Furukawa and Mamoru Hashimoto

■Researches Today

New Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope and Observation of Live Nature

Vilém Neděla, Eva Tihlaříková and Makoto Shiojiri

Observation of Living and Moving Organisms in a FE-SEM: A Successful Surface Shield “Nano-Suit” to Protect Animals in High Vacuum

Yasuharu Takaku, Hiroshi Suzuki, Isao Ohta, Daisuke Ishii, Yoshinori Muranaka, Masatsugu Shimomura and Takahiko Hariyama

■From Microscopy: Editor’s Choice Articles

■Conference Reports

Short Report on the First East-Asia Microscopy Conference (EAMC-1)

Syo Matsumura

Report on the Fifty-seventh Symposium of the Japanese Society of Microscopy

Takayoshi Tanji

■Laboratories

Circumstances of Electron Microscopy in Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Hirotoshi Furusho

■Staff Commentary

Akio Tanaka