IRDG 226 (Virtual Meeting)

Theme: 
Virtual Christmas Meeting
Date: 
Thursday, 17 December 2020, 2.00pm
Meeting number: 
226
Venue: 
Online
Programme: 

IRDG will not run the normal Christmas Meeting for obvious reasons. Instead we will run a virtual meeting Christmas (IRDG 226). The outline programme is below:

13:45 IRDG AGM / Optional

14:00 Welcome and Introduction

14:05- 14:55 Martin & Willis Prize Competition (7 mins + 3 mins question time each):

  • Iona Hill (University of Strathclyde) Raman Spectroscopy as a Method to Study Radiation Response in Glioma Cells
  • Elisabeth von der Esch (Technical University of Munich) An approach for highly efficient microplastic particle analysis by Raman spectroscopy including statistical evaluation
  • Cai Li Song (Imperial College, London) Micro ATR imaging of FFPE tissues with large radius germanium
  • Abdalrahem Shtawa (Sheffield Hallam University) Application of Raman Microscopy to Study of Hydrophobic Solid Dosage Formulations
  • Jennifer Haskell (University of Exeter) Investigating Deep Raman Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Breast Disease

15:00- 15:30 Colin Campbell (University of Edinburgh) Chords and Codons – Making Music about Science

15:35- 16:05 Roy Goodacre (University of Liverpool) Stay Alert – Control the Spectrometer – Save Time

16:10- 16:40 Steven Bell (Queen's University, Belfast) SERS, Brexit and the Covid-19 Response- Which One is the Most Chaotic?

16:45- 16:55 Norman Sheppard Award Presentation

17:00 Virtual Drinks/Social Event

18:00 End

The meeting will be free but you still need to register. If registered we can then send you details of how to join the meeting. Please register by e-mail with your career stage.