Alex gave an invited presentation at the Joint IAEA-SPIRIT-Japan Technical Meeting on Development and Utilization of MeV-SIMS held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 21-25 May 2012.
The meeting was to determine the scope and prospects for the emerging MeV-SIMS technique and the outcome was very positive.
The presentation covered factors that influence the form of a Static SIMS spectrum and various issues that may arise in its interpretation and can be found here.
Publication:
New prospects for molecular post-ionisation using femtosecond IR lasers
Alessia Longobardo, Alisdair N. Macpherson, John C. Vickerman, Nicholas P. Lockyer
Surf. Interface Anal. doi: 10.1002/sia.4951 (2012)
We held a very successful MassSpectrometry@Manchester symposium in the MIB focussing on Data Analysis.
Alex’s presentation is available here
We bid fond farewell to John Fletcher who is taking up a fellowship position at the University of Gothenburg. John joined the group as a PhD student in 2001 and progressed to Post-Doc in 2004.
In Gothenburg he will be collaborating with Andrew Ewing’s group who have a range of SIMS instrumentation and will be working on biological cells and tissue. We expect to retain a strong collaboration with John.
Goodbye and Good Luck!
This week we welcome back Felipe Kessler from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil who will be with us for 12 months as part of his PhD training in SIMS. Felipe, some of you will recall was with us for a short visit in the Autumn. Those with longer memories will be interested to know that Felipe’s PhD supervisor is Daniel Weibel who was a Post-Doc in the group in 2000-2002.
Publication:
FTIR microscopy of biological cells and tissue: data analysis using resonant Mie scattering (RMieS) EMSC algorithm
Paul Bassan, Ashwin Sachdeva, Achim Kohler, Caryn Hughes, Alex Henderson, Jonathan Boyle, Jonathan H. Shanks, Michael Brown, Noel W. Clarke and Peter Gardner
Analyst 137 (2012) 1370-1377
Today we welcome a new member to the group – Dr Gabriel Karras. Gabriel is from Greece and will be working on laser postionisation.
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)
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.
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.
We extend a warm welcome to Irma Berrueta Razo who joins us from Mexico as a research student.
Alex’s presentation from SIMS XVIII has been added to the site. See here for more details
We had 7 oral presentations at the SIMSXVIII conference in Riva del Garda, Italy. A very sucessful meeting.
Nick gave an invited presentation at the British Mass Spectrometry Society 2011 conference in Cardiff.
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…]