Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Asylum Research, in conjunction with the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), will host the first Taiwan AFM Bioworkshop to be held July 30-31, 2009 at NHRI, Zhunan Campus, in Taiwan. The AFM Bioworkshop will combine talks from leading researchers and industry experts on AFM for life science applications, as well as instructional AFM demonstrations using Asylum Research’s MFP-3D AFM. Speakers include Hsien-Chang Chang, National Cheng Kung University; Shuchen Hsieh of National Sun Yat-sen University; Ming-Long Yeh, National Cheng Kung University; Je-Wen Liou of Tzu Chi University; as well as Sophia Hohlbauch and Amir Moshar, application scientists at Asylum Research. Topics covered include principles of AFM, biological imaging, force spectroscopy, integration of AFM and optical microscopy, sample preparation, application examples and future directions in AFM. The event is free to all researchers in the field of AFM. Additional workshop information and registration can be found at www.asylumresearch.com