Student of the year
Paul wins the 2011 Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) student of the year distinguished achievement award.
Society for Applied Spectroscopy meeting in Manchester
Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) inaugural European meeting hosted by Peter Gardner in Manchester was held in the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre in May 2011.
Paper – Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK Sonia O’Connor, Esam Ali, Salim Al-Sabah, Danish Anwar, Ed Bergström, Keri A. Brown, Jo Buckberry, Stephen Buckley, Matthew Collins, John Denton, Konrad M. Dorling, Adam Dowle, Phil Duffey, Howell G.M. Edwards, Elsa Correia Faria, Peter Gardner, Andy Gled Journal of Archaeological Science 38 (2011) 1641-1654 Abstract Archaeological work in advance of construction at a site on the edge of York, UK, yielded human remains of prehistoric to Romano-British date….
SPEC 2010
Manchester was the host city for the international Spec2010 conference.
Chemical biology highlight
Gardner lab features in Highlights in Chemical Biology – “Infrared spectroscopy aids cancer diagnosis”, click here to read.
Most accessed article
Resonant Mie Scattering (RMieS) Correction of Infrared Spectra from Highly Scattering Biological Samples Analyst. 135(2) (2010) 268-277) was in the top 10 most accessed articles in the Analyst for February 2010.
Cover of Analyst
Resonant Mie Scattering (RMieS) Correction of Infrared Spectra from Highly Scattering Biological Samples Analyst. 135(2) (2010) 268-277) featured on the front cover of the Analyst in February 2010.
Hot article
Resonant Mie scattering in Infrared spectroscopy of biological materials – understanding the ‘dispersion artefact’ Analyst. 134(8) (2009) 1586-1593) featured as ‘Hot Article’ in the Analyst.
Review – Raman tweezers and their application to the study of singly trapped eukaryotic cells
Raman tweezers and their application to the study of singly trapped eukaryotic cells Richard D. Snook, Timothy J. Harvey, Elsa Correia Faria and Peter Gardner Integrative Biology 1 (2009) 43-52 Abstract In this review the recent emergence of Raman tweezers as an analytical technique for single eukaryotic cell analysis is described. The Raman tweezer technique combines Raman spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool with optical tweezers by which means single cells can be trapped and manipulated in a laser beam using…
Noisy cells?
Discrimination of prostate cancer cells by reflection mode FTIR photo-acoustic spectroscopy Analyst 132 (2007) 292–295) attracted wide media attention giving rise to a number of articles in the popular press. For example: “Do Cell Make Noise?” By Corey Binns, Popular Science 28 Jan 2008, “Mikes Pick Up the Sound of Cancer” by Richard Grey, Sunday Telegraph 3 Feb 2008