Conference Prizes
Eason Sivayoham won a prize for the best paper, ‘Keratinocyte cell sheets for tissue implantation using inkjet cell printing technology‘ presented at The North of England Otolaryngology Society. The meeting was held on 24th September 2010 at Lowry Arts Centre.
Riaz Akhtar won Third Prize for Best Young Investigator Presentation for his paper ‘Nanomechanical properties of a model of Type 1 diabetic aorta‘ which was presented at Artery 10 meeting held in Verona, Italy (Sunday 17th – Tuesday 19th October 2010).
Mrs Rachel Lalley
Everyone at Derby Group would like to congratulate Rachel Saunders who got married on Saturday 11th Spetember 2010 in Cheshire. We wish her and her husband, Chris Lalley, success and happiness for the future.
Rachel will of course continue to publish as ‘Dr Rachel Saunders’!
Mrs Rachel Lalley
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.
Applications for Inkjet Printing in Biology and Medicine by Brian Derby
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.
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