Publication (SIMS XVIII Contribution):
Comparison of C60 and GCIB primary ion beams for the analysis of cancer cells and tumour sections
John S. Fletcher, Sadia Rabbani, Andrew M. Barber, Nicholas P. Lockyer, John C. Vickerman
Surf. Interface Anal. (2012)
Japanese Visitor
We were pleased to host Dr Satoka Aoyogi who visited our lab for almost two weeks. Satoka is a lecturer in BioPhysics at Shimane University in Japan.
Rowland Hill (Ionoptika) and Satoka Aoyagi with John Fletcher in the J105 lab.
New student for 2012
We start 2012 by welcoming a new student to the group. Jo Denbigh joins us to work on a collaborative project with Roy Goodacre, Lipidomic and metabolomic imaging of biological response mechanisms.
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New research student
We extend a warm welcome to Irma Berrueta Razo who joins us from Mexico as a research student.
SIMS XVIII Presentation
Alex’s presentation from SIMS XVIII has been added to the site. See here for more details
SIMSXVIII
We had 7 oral presentations at the SIMSXVIII conference in Riva del Garda, Italy. A very sucessful meeting.
Invited talk at BMSS
Nick gave an invited presentation at the British Mass Spectrometry Society 2011 conference in Cardiff.
Paper – Label free imaging
Publication:
Label free biochemical 2D and 3D imaging using secondary ion mass spectrometry
John S. Fletcher, John C. Vickerman and Nicholas Winograd
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (2011) [go there now…]
Paper – Bioimaging
Publication:
Bioimaging of elements and small molecules using MS.
Nicholas P. Lockyer
Bioanalysis 3 (2011) 1047-1051 [go there now…]
Keynote – Metabolomics 2011
Nick gave a keynote presentation on “Developments in biological analysis and imaging using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry” at the Metabolomics 2011 conference, Cairns, Australia.
Paper – SIMS, MALDI or DESI?
Publication:
Molecular imaging and depth profiling by mass spectrometry—SIMS, MALDI or DESI?
John C. Vickerman
Analyst (2011) [go there now…]
Paper – Giant argon clusters
Publication:
TOF-SIMS with Argon Gas Cluster Ion Beams: A Comparison with C60+
Sadia Rabbani, Andrew M. Barber, John S. Fletcher, Nicholas P. Lockyer, John C. Vickerman
Analytical Chemistry (2011) ACS ASAP [go there now…]
Most accessed article
Recognition:
John Wiley and Sons have informed us that our paper A comparison of PCA and MAF for ToF-SIMS image interpretation by Alex, John (F) and John (V), is one of the most accessed articles of 2009 in the field of Analytical Chemistry. See here for the listing and here to download the paper (free).
Paper – 3D Imaging of Cells
Publication:
Three-dimensional mass spectral imaging of HeLa-M cells – sample preparation, data interpretation and visualisation
Fletcher, John S.; Rabbani, Sadia; Henderson, Alex; Lockyer, Nicholas P.; Vickerman, John C.
Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 25 (2011) 925-932 [go there now…]
Dr Edward Jackson
Congratulations to Ed on being awarded his PhD in Fundamentals of Spectroscopic and Spectrometric Cellular Analysis!