Spectroscopy in Life Science

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

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