Light Microscopy for Biomedical Research
September 21 to 25, 2009 - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Main web site: http://microscopy.unc.edu/lmbr

Information for Vendors & Attendees

Location:

• 3rd floor Mary Ellen Jones Building (Maps Google)
• Lectures: Room 305 Mary Ellen Jones
  • Google map to Mary Ellen Jones (MEJ)
  • Parking Map
  • Bus - there is a bus stop right in front of the MEJ building on West Drive
    • Chapel Hill Transit - stop at West Drive
    • TriangleTransit - stops on main campus.  1 km walk to MEJ building
  • 
• Laboratories:
  • Rooms 306, 306a, 310, 312, 303 and possibly 302
  • Mary Ellen Jones Building
  • School of Medicine
  • University of North Carolina
  • Chapel Hill, NC 27599
  • Shipping address (for large items, crates):
    • C/o  Michael Chua     919-843-3268   
    • Room 306
    • Mary Ellen Jones Building
    • School of Medicine
    • University of North Carolina
    • Chapel Hill, NC 27599
    • Rooms are available in the week before Sept 21. for delivery and setup
    • Rooms will be available the week following Sept 28 for pick up.
    • 3 foot raised loading dock is at the west entrance to Mary Ellen Jones - No dock ramp there! (Enter from Manning Drive)
    • Level entry is at the east side of the building on West Drive (off Manning Drive) - elevator width is 36"
      • There is a large 47" wide elevator at the loading dock side of the building.
      • There is no real street address that anyone at UNC understands!
      • Verbal directions to the dock (3 foot):
        • If you are exiting 54 Bypass onto Columbia Drive:
          Go *NORTH* onto Columbia "to UNC" until you hit Manning Drive (one way street straight ahead); go *RIGHT* at 2nd light - this is MANNING DRIVE, construction on the left next to the Dental School, on the right is the Thurston Bowles Bldg (with a fountain); loading dock is between the Thurston Bowles and Mary Ellen Jones buildings (at the pedestrian cross walk).
        • It is not possible to turn left into the loading dock due to a median strip build there recently.

Parking:

• Dogwood Parking Deck - enter via Jackson Circle off Manning Drive $6(?) per day

Cafeterias:

• Tar Heel Cafe on the 2nd floor of Thurston Bowles (hot food, 10 minute walk)
• Friends Coffee and Cafe, Health Science Library (light snacks, 5 minute walk)
• Apple Cafe, Michael Hooker Research Building (some hot food, light snacks, 5 minute walk)
• Beach Cafe in the Brink house Bullit building
• UNC Hospitals cafeterias (15 minutes walk)
• Franklin Street - Chapel Hill's lively main street (20 minute walk one way)
• Other venues are available
  • e.g. UNC Hospitals food
  • e.g. Student Union - Top of Lenoir - Rams Head Dinning Hall http://dining.unc.edu   Map

Hotels: Contact Michael

• Carolina Inn 800-962-8519 -  (0.7 mile away, walk)
• The Franklin Hotel 919-442-9000 - (1.25 miles away - on J Bus route)
• Chapel Hill Inn Town, Short Term/Extended Stay, 609 Hillsborough St., Chapel Hill, NC  (~1.25 mile away, with bus stop short walk away)
• Sienna Inn - 919-929-4000 Pricey! (2.5 miles away  D & C Bus routes)
• Sheraton Chapel Hill 919-968-4900 - (~4 miles away  CL & D Bus routes??)
• Days Inn 919-929-3090 - (~3.5 miles away  F (circuit) & D Bus routes)
• Residence Inn 919-933-4848   (~4 miles away  CL & D?? Bus routes)
• Hampton Inn Chapel Hill 919-968-3000 (~3.5 miles away)
• Holiday Inn 919-929-2171  (~3.5 miles away  F Bus route)

Transport: Contact Michael

• Bus - Chapel Hill Transit 

Michael Chua   919-843-3268
CB 7248  -  6129 Thurston Bowles
Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility
University of North Carolina`   
Chapel Hill  NC  27599-7248

Internal Planning for 2009 (pwd required)

Internal Planning for 2008 (pwd required)

http://microscopy.unc.edu/calendar