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.
Paper – Water cluster beam imaging of brain tissue
Open Access
Irma Berrueta Razo, Sadia Sheraz (née Rabbani), Alex Henderson, Nicholas P. Lockyer and John C. Vickerman
Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 29 (2015) 1851–1862
Visit to Hyogo University
Nick visited the groups of Drs Moritani and Toyoda at the University of Hyogo, Himeji, Japan, who work extensively with gas cluster ion beams (GCIBs) for materials processing and analysis. He gave a presentation on our ion yield enhancements with the water GCIB source.
Visit to Osaka University
Nick visited the groups of Prof Terada and colleagues at Osaka University, who are developing high resolution ToF mass analyzers and applying them in SIMS, SNMS, MALDI and FAB. He gave a presentation on our instrumentation and methodology development and discussed laser SNMS theory – he also had the opportunity to view some moon samples returned by the Apollo 15 and 17 missions.
Presentation in Kyoto
Nick gave an invited presentation at a meeting in Kyoto, Japan, organized by Prof. Jiro Matsuo. The subject was tissue imaging with cluster ion beams
Presentation at SISS-17 Tokyo
Record attendance at the ‘SIMS and related techniques’ meeting SISS-17, Seikei University, Tokyo. Nick gave an invited talk on the subject of our recent Analytical Chemistry paper.
Welcome to Andres
Welcome to Andres Galindo who joins the group to study biotechnology applications of ToF-SIMS and DESI. Andres is co-supervised by Prof Sabine Flitsch.
SARC on Twitter
We’ve joined the Twittersphere!
Follow @SARCUoM to hear the latest developments in SIMS, and associated research, from the group and other items of interest.
PhD presentations
Well done to Afnan, Giles and Jo for their contribution to the final year PhD talks. All three did very well. Jo was awarded second prize in the MIB session!
Welcome to Samar
Samar Aldossari joins the group to work on NanoSIMS imaging of cells. She will be jointly supervised by Dr Katie Moore in the School of Materials.
Paper – SIMS—A precursor and partner to contemporary mass spectrometry
SIMS—A precursor and partner to contemporary mass spectrometry
John C. Vickerman and Nicholas Winograd
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (2014)
PhD Position – lipid imaging in neuroinflammation
We have a position available for a PhD student to study the “Development of lipid imaging and lipidomics tools to explore neuroinflammation“. This is a joint project with Prof. Peter Gardner in the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science and MIB.
Deadline for applications is 26 November 2014.
More information on FindAPhD.com
Paper – ToF-SIMS as tool for profiling lipids in cancer and other diseases
Publication:
ToF-SIMS as tool for profiling lipids in cancer and other diseases
Materials Science and Technology (2014)
Paper – Increased ion yields using water cluster beams
Publication:
Prospect of increasing secondary ion yields in ToF-SIMS using water cluster primary ion beams
S. Sheraz (née Rabbani), A. Barber, I. Berrueta Razo, J. S. Fletcher, N.P. Lockyer and J. C. Vickerman
Surf. Interface Anal. (2014)
Paper – C60 and H2O clusters for tissue analysis
Publication (open access):
Comparing C60+ and (H2O)n+ clusters for mouse brain tissue analysis
Irma Berrueta Razo, Sadia Sheraz, Alex Henderson, Nicholas P. Lockyer and John C. Vickerman
Surf. Interface Anal. (2014)