IRDG 238 Christmas Meeting 2026

10:00              Registration and Coffee

10:25              Welcome and Introduction

10:30-11:00    IRDG-Coblentz Lecture - Rohith Reddy (University of Houston, USA), The winner of 2026 Craver Award, Biomedical Applications of Photothermal Mid-infrared Spectroscopic Imaging 

11:00-11:20    Jemma Kerns (Lancaster University), Developing Raman spectroscopy as a community-based clinical tool for bone health monitoring

11:20-11:40    Amy Colleran (University of Liverpool), The winner of Martin & Willis Prize, Analysing Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) with SERS by Bubbling into Colloidal Silver or Gold Nanoparticles

11:40-12:00    Paul Donaldson (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), When the light is bright. Realising new kinds of vibrational spectroscopies with intense laser pulses

12:00-12:30   Siva Umapathy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), Challenges in application of Raman Spectroscopy to biomedical diagnosis

12:30-12:45   Norman Sheppard Award Presentation to Michael Chesters

13:00             Christmas Lunch

14:50-15:20   Duncan Graham (University of Strathclyde), Revolving Doors and Christmas Encores - Not again!

15:20-15:50   TBC

15:50              IRDG AGM

16:15              Drink Reception and Poster Session

18:00              End of Formal Proceedings