Spectroscopy in Life Science

17 September 2009


Workshop for Spectroscopy in Life Sciences organised by Jena Bio Chip Initiative (JBCI)

The workshop will focus on different applications of spectroscopy and laser in life science, with a special focus on the detection of surface bound biomolecules. The aim of the workshop is to bring researcher from academia and industry together to discuss recent results and present new findings in this field. Within the workshop there will be several live demonstration to show some applications of modern spectroscopy in life science.

Program overview

Thursday 01.10.2009

9:15

Welcome by Dr. Ruth Geiger and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp

9:30

JBCI / IPHT / HORIBA introduction

10:00

Dr. Roland Seitz / Dr. Andreas Derwahl, HORIBA Scientific, Germany
“Spectroscopic Techniques in the Life Sciences – an Overview”

  • µ-XRF (X-ray fluorescence with10µm lateral resolution); application examples with biological samples
  • Ellipsometry on bio-films, sub-monolayer thickness analysis
  • GDOES etc.

10:45

Coffee break

11:00

Dr. Philippe Bado, Translume Inc., US:
“Ultra-Short-Pulse Lasers and Microfluidics – Micromachining with Femtosecond Lasers”

12:00

Lunch break

13:00

Dr. Chiraz Frydman: “Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging –High Throughput Labelfree Interaction Studies”

The study of bio-interactions plays a leading role in the modern life science lab. SPRi delivers a sensitivity, accuracy, throughput and performance that is needed by high throughput approaches. The presentation will focus on a basic introduction and give some application examples.

14:00

Prof. Dr. Thierry Livache – CEA, France: “Applied Surface Plasmon Resonance”

15:00

Prof. Dr. Kishan Dholakia, St. Andrews, UK:

15:45

Demonstration and Hands-On Session SPRi-LAB / PLEX

around

16:30 

coffee break


17:30

End day 1

Friday 02.10.2009: Raman, Fluorescence

9:00       

Welcome

9:15

Dr. Bernd Bleisteiner, HORIBA Scientific, Germany: “Micro Raman Spectroscopy -    Fast-Imaging Applications and Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS)”

10:00

IPHT / JBCI: “Raman Spectroscopy in Life-Sciences”

10:45

coffee break

11:00

Micro Raman Demonstration XPloRA

12:30

Lunch break

13:30

Photo session with all participants

13:45

Dr. Graham Hungerford, IBH, UK: “FLIM (Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy) in biophysics / biochemistry”

14:45

FLIM-Demonstration DynaMic

16:00

Coffee break, open discussion and wrap up of workshop