Congratulations Dr Akhila Ajith!

Many congratulations to Akhila on the award of her PhD!  Her project ‘Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Xenobiotics in Foliar Systems‘ was co-supervised by Prof Giles Johnson and Dr Drupad Trivedi at Manchester University and Dr Phillip Milnes, Dr. Aline Xavier de Souza and Ms. Emily Prince at Syngenta Ltd. with further collaboration involving Dr Emrys Jones at Waters Corp.  Thanks also to examiners Dr David Scurr (Nottingham Univ.) and Prof. Jon Pittman.  Akhila has taken a post-doc position with Prof. Perdita Barran in Manchester.

PhD for Matija

Many congratulations to Matija for the award of his PhD on the ‘Development of Novel High Energy Cluster Ion Beam Methodology for Molecular Analysis and Imaging‘.  Thanks to the external examiner Prof Mel Bailey from The University of Surrey and internal examiner Dr Drupad Trivedi.  Matija will be joining the SIMS group led by Dr Felicia Green at the Rosalind Franklin Institute.  Well done Matija and good luck!

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.