Optimizing Inkjet Printing for Research in the Life Sciences
Dr Richard Knight will be speaking at this week’s group meeting ‘Optimizing Inkjet Printing for Research in the Life Sciences’. The meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday 15th June 2010 in Room B4 at 3.30 PM.
Group Meeting May 2010
There will be a group meeting on Monday 17th May 2010 at 2 PM in Room B4 to welcome the new PhD student in our group, Israa Sabree. Alastair Selby will be giving a presentation as well as Drs Riaz Akhtar and Rachel Saunders.
Group Update May 2010
Dr Rachel Saunders is now a EPSRC Life Sciences Interface Research Fellow. She obtained the award in August 2009. Congratulations Rachel!

Dr Rachel Saunders
Rui Dou graduated in December 2009. Well done Dr Dou! He is now working as a postdoc in the Derby Group on a project which involves inkjet printing of ceramics.

Dr Rui Dou
Dr Jonathan Stringer has now left the Derby Group after completing a PhD and 3 years postdoctoral work under Prof. Derby’s supervision. We wish him well for the future.

Dr Jonathan Stringer
Dr Rick Knight is now working in the Derby Group on a project looking to optimise inkjet printing for research in the life sciences. Rick’s short biography is below:
Rick graduated from the University of Leeds with a BSc (Hons) in Genetics & Medical Microbiology in 2000. He went on to complete a PhD at Leeds entitled ‘Development of Methods for Tissue Engineering of Cardiac Valves Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells’ in 2004 and continued with this research in a Post-doctoral position there. He joined the University of Manchester in 2007 on a post-doctoral project with a consortium of companies to create a textile for maxillofacial bone repair incorporating bioactive glass. He now works as a Postdoc with Professor Brian Derby investigating the optimisation of inkjet printing for research in the life sciences.

Dr Richard Knight
Digital Fabrication 2009
Prof. Brian Derby gave a Plenary Talk at NIPS/Digital Fabrication 2009 which took place in Louisville, USA (20-24th September 2009).
You can download his talk by clicking on the image below.
Agilent Users Meeting 2009
Alastair Selby and Dr Riaz Akhtar presented posters at the Agilent Users Meeting 2009: Advances in Nanomechanical measurements which took place at University of Leicester (April 28-29 2009). Below are a couple of photos from the conference. Ali’s and Riaz’s poster can be downloaded in pdf format below.

Agilent Users Meeting 2009 - Riaz Akhtar and Rhys Jones (Agilent)

Agilent Users Meeting 2009
Novel Gelation System for Inkjet Printing
Dr Rachel Saunders will give a talk entitled ‘Novel Gelation System for Inkjet Printing’ in this week’s group meeting; Room B4 at 3.30 PM on Thursday 2nd July 2009.
Impact and Interaction of Adjacent Droplets
Dr Jonathan Stringer will be talking in tomorrow’s group meeting about ‘The impact and interaction of adjacent droplets’. The meeting will be at 3 PM in Room B4.
SAM Projects Update June 2009
This week’s group meeting will be held in Room B4 tomorrow, Thursday 4th June 2009 at 3 PM. The ‘SAM Group’ will give an update on their projects.
Dr Manuela Di-Biase
Manuela Di-Biase passed her PhD viva on Friday 29th May 2009. Well done Dr Di-Biase!

2009 Bupa Great Manchester Run
Chris Cook is taking part in the 2009 Bupa Great Manchester Run to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Help support Chris and this worthy cause by sponsoring him online - http://www.runningsponsorme.org/ccook
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