<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.msonormal0, li.msonormal0, div.msonormal0
{mso-style-name:msonormal;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none none;}
span.EmailStyle19
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please see details below of an upcoming Research Seminar taking place on Thursday 26<sup>th</sup> May.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Catherine <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Melissa Mather, University of Nottingham, will give a Physics of Life Sciences Research Seminar on Thursday 26<sup>th</sup> May at 11am in AB101 (Robertson Wing, SIPBS).
All welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Quantum Sensing using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centres in Diamond for Biomedical Applications
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) colour centre in diamond has emerged as a high performance quantum sensor with application areas including photonics, quantum
information science and magnetometry. Quantum physicists have primarily led the development of NV based quantum sensing in the pursuit of quantum computing and magnetometry for industrial applications. Relatively speaking, there is a paucity of studies addressing
biologically important questions using NV based optical sensing. Moreover, the majority of optical sensing protocols reported to date rely on complicated experimental protocols and equipment not readily available in a life sciences laboratory or near patient
setting. This presentation will provide an overview of current work in our laboratory demonstrating accessible strategies with application in the life sciences and medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In particular, exemplar studies will be presented demonstrating sensing in highly viable populations of differentiated neural stem cells functioning as a connected neural network
using NV nanodiamonds and electrospun polymer nanofibers embedded with NV nanodiamonds, which recapitulates the nanoscale architecture and topography of the cell niche. Protocols for real time sensing of paramagnetic species in solution and free radicals in
cell culture media will be reported, which have future application in sensing of biologically endogenous paramagnetic species in live cells.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">--------------------------------------------------<br>
Professor Gail McConnell (she/her)<br>
Department of Physics<br>
University of Strathclyde<br>
107 Rottenrow<br>
Glasgow G4 0NG</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">United Kingdom<br>
<br>
Tel: 00 44 141 548 3059<br>
Email: <a href="https://nemo.strath.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=HfY6mOCPYnyUVx0Enl-cc4zqy-n31lbxDb3cOHcPKP6JIyWa6SHVCG0AYQBpAGwAdABvADoAZwAuAG0AYwBjAG8AbgBuAGUAbABsAEAAcwB0AHIAYQB0AGgALgBhAGMALgB1AGsA&URL=mailto%3ag.mcconnell%40strath.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">g.mcconnell@strath.ac.uk</span></a><br>
--------------------------------------------------</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>