IRDG 225
10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:25 Welcome and Introduction
10:30 Keynote Lecture - Curt Marcott (Light Light Solutions, USA) "Simultaneous Raman and Optical Photothermal IR Spectroscopy at Submicron Spatial Resolution"
11:00 Fay Nicolson (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA) "Non-Invasive In Vivo Imaging of Cancer Using Surface Enhanced Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy"
11:20 Francesca Palombo (Exeter University, UK) "Evaluating the Micromechanical Signatures of Collagen Hydrogels as Tissue Phantoms"
11:40 Martin & Willis Prize winning lecture - Laura Moran (Exeter University, UK) "Using Astrophysics to Improve Breast Cancer Detection"
12:00 Lucia Burgio (Victoria and Albert Museum, University College London, UK) "Have You Ever Wondered What a Museum Scientist Does?"
12:30 Christmas Lunch
14:50 Keynote Lecture - Andrew Whitley (HORIBA Scientific, USA) "Cinderella and the Beanstalk – A Not So Raman Story"
15:20 Mike George (Nottingham University, UK) "Towards Greener Photochemistry"
15:40 IRDG AGM
16:00 Poster Session Wilkins South Cloisters for Scientific Discussion, drinks & nibbles
18:00 End