March 2012 David Birch presents a Plenary Lecture on “Fluorescence probe photophysics and healthcare” at the 8th PIMoP Workshop in Prague. Research student Philip Yip also presented a talk on nanoparticle metrology using covalent dye labelling. David Birch Chairs the International Editorial Board of Measurement Science and Technology at the Institute of Physics in London.
March 2012 Olaf Rolinski presents an invited talk on Alzheimer’s beta amyloid aggregation at BIT’s 5th Annual Conference on Protein and Peptide (PepCon-2012) in Beijing.
January 2012 David Birch takes up his appointment as the new Editor in Chief of Measurement Science and Technology. See http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-0233/
December 2011 Mariana Amaro successfully defends her PhD viva thesis on beta amyloid.
November 2011 Yu Chen and David Birch present lectures at FluoroFest IV in Munich. See http://www.fluorofest.com/future-workshops/2011-munich/program.htm
October 2011 Yu Chen presents an invited talk “Fluorescent gold nanoparticles for imaging in cells” at Photonex 2011 in Coventry.
October 2011 David Birch visits Prague, where he is the Visiting Professor of Applied Physics at CTU, in order to Chair the European Board of Measurement Science and Technology and to present a lecture at the inaugural workshop of the new Bio-Opt-Xuv EU funded programme (see http://xuv.fbmi.cvut.cz/box/index.php/en/ ) in which the Photophysics Group is a collaborator. Later in the month David also attended as a Panelist the 2011 Masao Horiba Award Ceremony in Kyoto.
September 2011 The Nano Meets Spectroscopy conference co-organised by the Group at NPL goes off exceedingly well with the 130 delegates enjoying this novel cocktail of spectroscopies and and nanotechnologies. See http://sensor.phys.strath.ac.uk/nms/
September 2011 Photophysics Group gets the front cover of September issue of Applied Physics Letters for a FLIM image from its paper “Two-photon excited surface plasmon enhanced energy transfer between DAPI and gold nanoparticles : opportunities in intra-cellular imaging and sensing ” by Y Zhang, D J S Birch and Y Chen.
August 2011 Research student Mariana Amaro won the best oral presentation prize for her talk “A new light in amyloid oligomerisation” at the 6th UKRI PG Conference in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics.
August 2011. David Birch gives invited lectures on fluorescence nanometrology and melanin at FluoroFest III in Santa Clara, California.
August 2011. Abstract submissions close for Nano Meets Spectroscopy to be held at NPL in September and due to high demand only a few registration places are now left.
July 2011. Olaf Rolinski selected for a contributed talk on the Group’s recent work on beta-amyloid aggregation at MAF 12 in Strasbourg in September. David Birch will Chair a session and research students Yinan Zhang and Jonathan Coulter will present posters at what is the World’s leading meeting on fluorescence.
July 2011. SUPA awards David Birch £76k for an SFC SPIRIT PhD research studentship. Four new research students are expected to join the Group in September.
April 2011. Our research, recently published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. on detecting the early stages of beta-amyloid aggregation that leads to Alzheimer’s disease, attracts global press coverage including articles in the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Scotsman, Glasgow Herald, USA Today and the Times of India.
April 2011. David Birch’s invited Perspective article “Fluorescence detections and directions” published on-line in Measurement Science and Technology.
March-April 2011. David Birch visits Ireland on IoP sponsored lecture tour.
March 2011. Paper on detecting early stage aggregation of beta-amyloid is published. See Phys.Chem.Chem. Phys., 13, 6434-41, 2011.
November 2010. David Birch presents Webinar “Investigating Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy and Imaging” for Spectroscopy Magazine.See http://spectroscopyonline.findanalytichem.com/webseminars
September 2010. Yu Chen and David Birch present invited lectures at FluoroFest II in Irvine California.
