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)
Paper – Lipid profiling of frog embryos
Publication (open access):
Spatiotemporal lipid profiling during early embryo development of Xenopus laevis using dynamic Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) Imaging
Hua Tian, John S. Fletcher, Raphael Thuret, Alex Henderson, Nancy Papalopulu, John C. Vickerman and Nicholas P. Lockyer
Journal of Lipid Research (2014)
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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Paper – Suppression effects in SNMS
Publication:
Quantitative Surface Analysis of a Binary Drug Mixture—Suppression Effects in the Detection of Sputtered Ions and Post-Ionized Neutrals
Gabriel Karras, Nicholas P. Lockyer
Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry (2014)
“It’s good, but it’s not right!…” How to validate your model
Alex gave a presentation entitled “It’s good, but it’s not right!…” How to validate your model at the UK Surface Analysis Forum‘s (UKSAF) Workshop on Multivariate Analysis held at the University of Nottingham, 8 January 2014.
The purpose of the workshop was to introduce users of surface analysis technologies to multivariate analysis with a combination of theory and demonstration.
The presentation covered validation of multivariate models, how to get the most out of them and how to avoid various pitfalls in the data treatment. The slides for the talk can be found here.
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.