We welcome Huriyyah Alturaifi to the group as a new PhD student working on polyatomic SIMS.
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
Paper – Water cluster primary beams
Publication (open access):
Enhancing Secondary Ion Yields in Time of Flight-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Using Water Cluster Primary Beams
Sadia Sheraz née Rabbani, Andrew Barber, John S. Fletcher, Nicholas P. Lockyer, and John C. Vickerman
Analytical Chemistry 85(12) (2013) 5654–5658 doi: 10.1021/ac4013732
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SIMS and Pharmacy talk
Nick gave an invited talk on Imaging Biosystems using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry to industrialists and academics at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London, organised by the Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group and The Drug Metabolism Discussion Group. The title of the meeting was ‘New approaches in bioanalysis and analytical toxicology’.
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.
Analytical Chemistry cover art
The issue of Analytical Chemistry containing John and John’s review on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry: Characterizing Complex Samples in Two and Three Dimensions has artwork generated by John Fletcher on the cover.
Paper – Challenges of ToFSIMS for metabolomics
Publication:
Evaluating the challenges associated with time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry for metabolomics using pure and mixed metabolites
John S. Fletcher, Helen L. Kotze, Emily G. Armitage, Nicholas P. Lockyer, John C. Vickerman
Metabolomics (2012) doi: 10.1007/s11306-012-0487-4 (2012)
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Paper – Imaging of metabolites
Publication:
Imaging of metabolites using secondary ion mass spectrometry
Emily G. Armitage, Helen L. Kotze, Nicholas P. Lockyer
Metabolomics 9 (2013) 102-109
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Funding for novel ion beams
John and Nick have been awarded funding from EPSRC to develop novel ion beam systems. The funding, £261k, is over a two year period.
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Review – SIMS of complex samples
Review:
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry: Characterising complex samples in two and three dimensions.
John Stephen Fletcher and John C. Vickerman
Analytical Chemistry 85 (2013) 610-639. doi: 10.1021/ac303088m 
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Paper – Problems with transflection-mode IR
New publication…
The inherent problem of transflection-mode infrared spectroscopic microscopy and the ramifications for biomedical single point and imaging applications
Paul Bassan, Joe Lee, Ashwin Sachdeva, Juliana Pissardini, Konrad M. Dorling, John S. Fletcher, Alex Henderson and Peter Gardner
Analyst (2012)
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Dr Emily Armitage
Congratulations to Emily on gaining her PhD in Systems Biology of HIF Metabolism in Cancer!
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Médaille Chevenard
John Vickerman has been awarded the Médaille Pierre Chevenard by the Société Française de Métallurgie et de Matériaux (French Society for Metallurgy and Materials, SF2M). The award is made for his work in the development of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and is the first time the medal has been awarded to someone outside France in over 40 years.
The Pierre Chevenard medal is awarded by SF2M, in principle every two years, to a French or foreign national who has made an outstanding contribution in the areas which distinguished Pierre Chevenard; scientific instrumentation and methods of characterizing materials.
Pierre Chevenard (1888-1960)
Member of the French Academy of Sciences and the founding father of the Precision Metallurgy
Chevenard held the Chair of Metallurgy at the Ecole Supérieure des Mines, Saint-Etienne and was elected member of the Academy of Sciences, Section of Applied Sciences in 1946.
He was Commander of the Legion of Honor.
He began in Imphy Steelworks, and ended his career as Scientific Director of Commentry-Fourchambault-Decazeville.
His outstanding work earned him special awards including entering the Academy of Sciences, chairing the Society of Civil Engineers, and membership of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (1951), vice-president of the Scientific Council ONERA, vice-president of the Society of the Mineral Industry and President of the French Society of Physics.
The award ceremony will take place in Paris on 30 October, 2012.
Dr Helen Kotze
Congratulations to Helen on gaining her PhD in Systems biology of chemotherapy in hypoxia environments!