Personnel

For general inquiries, please email gem@uga.edu

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Eric Formo, Ph.D.

Managing Director
Office 1016
eformo@uga.edu

Dr. Formo is an Assistant Academic Professional and the Managing Director of Georgia Electron Microscopy. His primary responsibilities revolve around the center’s day to day management. Eric is also the primary person to contact for non-biological samples to be imaged by EM and all samples to be imaged by Micro-CT.  Additionally, he is the primary point of contact for the Thermo Fisher Teneo, Hitachi SU-9000, Hitachi SU-3900, Sigray Eclipse, high resolution imaging and diffraction on the JEOL 2100, Leica DVM6, ion mill, in situ heating work, cryo-SEM and materials prep equipment. Dr. Formo is also active in research focusing on the analysis of nanomaterials in the environment, electron energy loss spectroscopy, plasmonics, and in situ nanomaterials growth.

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Mary Ard

CVM EM Lab Manager
Office 1010
maryard@uga.edu

Mary Ard is the GEM Lab Coordinator for the Veterinary Diagnostic Services of Georgia Electron Microscopy. Her primary responsibilities are providing EM services and expertise for the veterinary community in the state of Georgia as well as throughout the nation and abroad through collaboration efforts with departments in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Ms. Ard is the point of contact when veterinary clinics or academic veterinary organizations have inquiries relating to electron microscopy and the animal kingdom.

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Bayleigh Roussel, Ph.D.

Laboratory Professional for Biological and Cryo Electron Microscopy
Office 1015
ber68455@uga.edu

Dr. Roussel is a laboratory professional at Georgia Electron Microscopy.  She primarily operates the TFS Tundra to perform single particle analysis of purified proteins and other macromolecules.  Her duties revolve around the preparation, screening, and data collection of samples under cryogenic conditions. While currently focusing on biological specimens of all kinds, her doctoral research utilized TEM to determine ultrastructural changes of plastids in various apple fruit tissues.
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Tina Salguero, Ph.D.

Academic Director
salguero@uga.edu

Dr. Salguero is the Academic Director of Georgia Electron Microscopy and a professor in the Department of Chemistry at UGA. Her research program on inorganic nanomaterials for electronics and energy applications relies heavily on traditional and state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques. She also contributes materials analysis expertise to archaeometry projects dealing with ancient pigments and ceramics. Her responsibilities as GEM’s Academic Director include grant writing and new instrument acquisition.

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Clayton Mantz

Graduate Worker
Office 1015
clayton.mantz@uga.edu

Clay Mantz is a Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Electron Microscopy. His responsibilities include regular maintenance of the microscopes and assisting users in the preparation and analysis of samples they submit to GEM. As well as advising users on microscopy-related issues. His research interests lie in the synthesis and characterization of low-dimensional materials, with a focus on quantum materials, using various methods such as electron diffraction and electron dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. And further exploring their thermal breakdown pathways using in situ electron microscopy and diffraction techniques.
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Emily Lindgreen

Graduate Worker

Office 1015
emily.lindgreen@uga.edu

Emily Lindgreen an assistant to GEM mentoring under Mary Ard, to learn all things electron microscopy. I am also working as a graduate student through the Comparative Biomedical Sciences program through the vet school. I have always loved learning about the tiny world. I remember the first time they brought out the microscope in elementary school and we looked at some pond water. It was like looking into an entirely new world.