Congratulations Matija on winning the Rowland Hill Award for best student presentation at SIMS 23 in Minneapolis! Matija’s award-winning presentation was entitled ‘“Effects of Reactive Gas Cluster Ion Beams on Yields and Matrix Effects in SIMS”
Category Archives: Awards and Recognition
Congratulations Dr Aldossari!
Congratulations to Samar on the award of her PhD. Her thesis entitled ‘Detection and localisation of drug molecules in biological samples using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS)’ was co-supervised by Dr Katie Moore and employed both ToF-SIMS and NanoSIMS.
Nick elected to the SIMS International Committee
At the SIMS 22 International Conference in Kyoto in Oct 2019, Nick was elected by delegates onto the International Committee. The next conference, SIMS 23 will be held in Minneapolis, USA in 2021.
Congratulations Professor Lockyer!
The School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester have awarded Nick Lockyer a Chair in Physical Chemistry.
Nick came to the University (then UMIST) to read Chemistry in the late 1980s and continued to study for a PhD in Laser Ionisation Mass Spectrometry of Biomolecules, awarded in 1996. His postdoctoral research involved the development of the Biotof, an imaging ToF-SIMS instrument, with a focus on laser post-ionisation, sputtered neutral mass spectrometry (SNMS).
He was awarded a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship to further develop the Biotof as a Chemical Microscope, following which he was appointed lecturer in Chemistry. Nick briefly moved to the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science (CEAS), during the merger of UoM and UMIST in 2004, before moving back to Chemistry in 2011. With his research group in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), and also the Photon Science Institute (PSI), he has explored a range of imaging mass spectral modalities in the area of biology and biomaterials, together with technique and instrument development.
As the result of successful bids to EPSRC and the Royce Institute he was awarded a major grant to replace the Ionoptika J105 3D Chemical Imager with a new instrument. This will involve consolidating the research group in the PSI providing opportunities to further explore advanced materials and photonic approaches to mass spectrometry.
Dr Afnan Alnajeebi
Congratulations to Afnan on the award of her PhD entitled ‘Comparison of cluster primary ion beams for quantitative biomolecular SIMS analysis’.
Jo’s Graduation
A typically sunny day in Manchester!
Dr Joanna Denbigh
Congratulations to Jo on successfully completing her PhD ‘Lipidomic and Metabolomic Analysis of Biological Response Mechanisms in Cancer Cells: A Multidisciplinary Approach’.
Jo starts a post-doc in the area of mass spectrometry imaging in collaboration with Adam McMahon’s group at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre.
Irma’s Graduation
Dr Irma Berrueta Razo
Congratulations to Irma who has passed her PhD entitled ‘Molecular imaging of mouse brain tissue using Cluster Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry’.
We wish her well as she leaves for Dave Castner’s group at the University of Washington.
Dr Jimmy Moore
Congratulations to Jimmy on gaining his PhD in Computational Approaches for the Interpretation of ToF-SIMS Data!
Well done!
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Awards winning poster!
At the recent SciX Conference in Milwaukee USA, Jo walked away with not one, but two awards for best poster! Both the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) judged Jo’s work on “ToF-SIMS and Raman microspectroscopy as tools for probing lipid saturation in acute myeloid leukaemia cells treated with a novel combination therapy” to be outstanding and awarded her certificates and cash.
We are very grateful to the Royal Society of Chemistry, Manchester & District Local Section for sponsoring Jo’s travel to the conference.
John Vickerman: A Celebration of a Career in SIMS
In 2013, John celebrates his 70th birthday. To mark this occasion, and a career devoted to the development of secondary ion mass spectrometry – including instrumentation, theory and applications – we invite you to a special scientific meeting on October 11 in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology.
We are delighted to have an international programme of outstanding quality, with confirmed contributions from the following speakers:
- David Castner (University of Washington)
- Arnaud Delcorte (Universite Catholique de Louvain)
- Barbara Garrison (Pennsylvania State University)
- Ian Gilmore (National Physical Laboratory)
- Ron Heeren (FOM-AMOLF, The Netherlands)
- Nick Lockyer (University of Manchester)
- Nick Winograd (Pennsylvania State University)
There will be a celebration dinner and we hope that as many attendees as possible will be able to join us for that.
Registration for the meeting is available here: http://www.massspecmanchester.org/symposia/registration/
Please mark October 11 in your diaries! If you have any questions, please contact Graham Leggett (graham.leggett@sheffield.ac.uk) or Nick Lockyer (nick.lockyer@manchester.ac.uk).
Further information can be found on the MassSpectrometry@Manchester site.
Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry
Nick has taken over as Acting Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry
Travel award for Jo
Jo has been awarded a bursary from the Royal Society of Chemistry towards her attendance at an international conference.
At the meeting she will present her results on mammalian cell characterization. This is part of her PhD project on Lipidomic and Metabolomic Imaging of Biological Response Mechanisms in Tissues and Single Cells involving Raman and IR spectroscopies in addition to LC-MS and SIMS analyses.
Dr Emily Armitage
Congratulations to Emily on gaining her PhD in Systems Biology of HIF Metabolism in Cancer!