[Postgrad] FW: PoLS Seminar - Professor Melissa Mather, 26th May

[Catherine Cheshire]

Dear All

Please see details below of an upcoming Research Seminar taking place on Thursday 26th May.

Catherine


Dear all,

Professor Melissa Mather, University of Nottingham, will give a Physics of Life Sciences Research Seminar on Thursday 26th May at 11am in AB101 (Robertson Wing, SIPBS). All welcome.

Quantum Sensing using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centres in Diamond for Biomedical Applications
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.

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.

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Professor Gail McConnell (she/her)
Department of Physics
University of Strathclyde
107 Rottenrow
Glasgow G4 0NG
United Kingdom

Tel: 00 44 141 548 3059
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