IRDG 236 Christmas Meeting 2025

Date: 
Thursday, 18 December 2025, 10.00am
Meeting number: 
236
Venue: 
University College London, Main Campus, Gower Street, London WC1E 6AE
Programme: 

10:00  Registration and Coffee

10:25  Welcome and Introduction

10:30-11:00 IRDG-Coblentz Lecture - David Schiering (Shartle Technologies, LLC, USA) 
Out of Lab and Into the Field – 25 Years of Vibrational Spectroscopy Technology Development for Safety and Security

11:00-11:20 Natalie Belsey (NPL)
Lotion in motion! Illuminating skin penetration with SRS microscopy

11:20-11:40 Alison Hobro (Osaka University, Japan)
Raman Microscopy and Machine Learning Highlights Distinct Biochemical Features Distinguishing Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Necrotic Cells

11:40-12:00 Sara Mosca (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Unwrapping Hidden Chemistry: Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy of Preservation Fluids in Natural History Collections

12:00-12:20 Rebecca Shepherd (University of Bristol)
Ivory Insights: Raman spectroscopy for Ivory Identification

12:30 Christmas Lunch

14:50- 15:20 Peter de Peinder (VibSpec, The Netherlands) – 2025 Dunstan and Sheppard Awardee
In the land of the blind…

15:20-15:50 Chris Sammon (Sheffield Hallam University)

Water? Gels? Spectroscopy? Is this some kind of joke?

15:50 IRDG AGM

16:30 End of Formal Proceedings