Analytical Methods Blog

Congratulations to Hope Adamson who was recently awarded an Analytical Methods poster prize at the ‘Electrochem2014‘ conference which took place at Loughborough University, UK from 7th–9th September. Hope Adamson’s poster was entitled ‘Fourier Transformed AC Voltammetry New insights into bioinorganic catalysts’ and she was awarded the prize by Professor Roger Mortimer, one of the organising committee members.

The ‘Electrochem’ conference series is an established annual UK & Ireland event, where a cross-disciplinary range of electrochemistry, fundamental and applied, is on show with a particular view on broadening exchange of knowledge, providing information about the latest research developments, linking academia to industry and suppliers, and engaging with the next generation of electrochemists and electrochemical entrepreneurs.

We are pleased to announce that the four Analytical Methods Poster Prizes from the recent Gordon Research Conference on Bioanalytical Sensors: Twenty First Century Technologies for Probing Biological Systems, held at the Salve Regina University in Newport, USA, have been awarded to the following young investigators and postdocs:

Congratulations to all of the winners!

We are pleased to announce that the Metallomics Poster Prize from the recent International Congress on Analytical Proteomics held in Sao Paolo, Brazil has been awarded to Lílian Silveira Travassos do Carmo from Centro Universitário de Brasília-UniCEUB , Brazil .

I am a Biology Major from Centro Universitário de Brasília-UniCEUB (2003), Brazil and have a Masters degree in Biotechnology and Genomic Sciences from Universidade Católica de Brasília (2006), Brazil. I have been working in the areas of biotechnology and molecular biology. Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at Universidade de Brasília and Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, and the emphasis of my work is on Genetics and Proteomics of plant-virus interaction. I have experience in the following fields: gene expression, virus-host interaction, differential expression of proteins, 2-DE and mass spectrometry analyses.

Congratulations to Lílian for her winning poster!

Analytical Methods Poster Prize: ICAVS-7 Conference, Kobe, Japan

We are please to announce that the Analytical Methods Poster Prize from the recent ICAVS-7 Conference held in August 2013 in Kobe, Japan has been awarded to Satoko Tanimoto.

Satoko has just finished working at Imperial College London as the AHRC/ESPRC Science and Heritage programme post-doctoral fellow from October 2010. She previously completed a 3 year Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, British Museum, where she worked on a number of projects, using a range of analytical techniques, including the technical study of a large set of Italian Renaissance drawings that were included in the exhibition, Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings, which took place from April to July 2010. This was a collaborative project with the Gabinetto Disegno e Stampe degli Uffizi.
 
Satoko has a first degree from the Kobe Pharmaceutical University (Chemistry and Pharmacy/Pharmacology) in Japan and a MSc in Environmental Sciences and Management from the University of San Francisco. She also spent a year as an intern at the Getty Conservation Institute, before completing her PhD research at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. During her PhD, Satoko also spent several extended periods working in the Science Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum, as a tutor in the Conservation Department at the City and Guilds Art School and with the Courtauld Institute of Art on wall paintings in Ahhichatragarh Fort/Nagaur Fort, India.

Satoko is looking forward to pass on her experience and knowledge to MA students at the Conservation of Wall Paintings Department, the Courtauld Institute of Art in her next post.

Satoko’s recent AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage project at the Imperial College was to explore the application of micro ATR-FTIR spectroscopic imaging to cultural heritage samples from the collaborative partners, The National Gallery London and the British Museum, and to develop aspects of the methodology. 

Characterisation of the materials of cultural heritage collections is vital in understanding how they were made and used, their conservation history, origin and mechanisms of material decay, and how deterioration has affected appearance. Conventional FTIR microscopy is of proven value in this field, but as samples typically need to be in the form of tiny powdered scrapings, precise information about location of materials within the microstructure of an object is lost. Analysis of samples prepared as cross-sections is useful since the distribution of materials within the layer structure reflects the working practices of the artist/maker and helps to differentiate between original and later materials, as well as deterioration products. Reflectance FTIR imaging has been used for this purpose but the spatial resolution is generally not sufficient. The higher spatial resolution achieved with ATR-FTIR imaging has transformed the appeal of FTIR techniques for this type of sample, and has the potential to become routine for the simultaneous characterization of organic and inorganic materials directly on cross-sections.

Congratulations to Sakoto for her winning poster!