Congratulations
to Riccardo Tognato for submitting his thesisCongratulations
to Riccardo Tognato for submitting his thesis
A warm welcome to
David
Bronte Ciriza, who is visiting the group as part of the MSC-ITN
ActiveMatter.
2021
PhD studentship
on collaborative project with Yuval Elani
(Imperial) and Guido
Bolognesi (U Loughborough) on 'Characterisation
of interfacial biological materials' as
part of the ACM-CDT. Contact
Phil for more details
Phil is giving a
seminar for the SPIE Student Chapter of IISER Kolkata, Wed 08 Dec 21
Welcome to Anna Jorgensen,
who has joined the group for a TransPharmTech CDT
MRes project, jointly supervised by Dr Dario
Carugo (UCL School of Pharmacy)
The Special Issue of Micromachines Optical Trapping and Manipulation: From Fundamentals to Applications has been reprinted as a freely available online book
Welcome to Riccardo Tognato who has joined the Optical Tweezers Group
Prof Erika Eiser (Cambridge University) is giving today's Chemical Engineering seminar on Optofluidic crystallization of colloids tethered at interfaces
The website for the MSC-ITN ActiveMatter is now online at active-matter.eu
Welcome to new PhD student Sandrine Heijnen, who has joined the MSC-ITN ActiveMatter to work on a project co-supervised with Giorgio Volpe (UCL Chemistry)
Congratulations to Nick Tidy
for successfully defending his thesis
Jinyao
Tang (Univeristy of Hong Kong) is giving the Chemistry
Department
seminar: Light Powered
Artificial
Microswimmer - How far from Nanosurgeon?;Tue 05 Mar 19
We have two funded PhD
studentships for
projects to start in September 2019. See this
announcement for project descriptions and funding eligibility
IPLS seminar by Sabine Hauert
(Bristol University) on Swarm
engineering across scales; Wed 16 Jan 19
2018
Special issue of Micromachines
on
"Optical Trapping and Manipulation: From Fundamentals to
Applications", with guest editor Dan
Burnham open for submissions
MSC-ITN ActiveMatter has
been
awarded. Watch this space for more news in 2019
PHAS0035 "press conference"
on our Scientific
Reports paper on red blood cell stretching, Tue 30 Oct 18
To celebrate Arthur Ashkin's
Nobel Prize you can download three
free chapters from our book Optical
Tweezers: Principles
& Applications. And if you would like to
buy the book a 20%
discount is available for a limited time only.
Congratulations to former
PhD student Tom Smart for winning the Biological Physics
Group Thesis Prize for 2018
Welcome to new Optical
Tweezers group members Jade Li and Yassine Benlamkadem
Nuno
Araujo (Universidade
de Lisboa) is giving the Chemistry Department seminar on Dynamics of self-organization of
colloidal particles under confinement; 2pm Tue 11 Sep 18
Phil will be at Photonex
Scotland Thu 14 Jun 18 to talk about our red blood cell
stretching experiments
Dominik Kufel has joined the
group with an EPSRC Vacation Bursary
Phil will be at the Optical
Trapping Summer School at U Gothenburg, 29 May - 01 Jun to
give lectures on Optical
trapping deformable material and Optical binding
Two PhD studentships for Nov 2017 start
available in CDT
in Advanced Characterisation of Materials incuding project Nanomechanical characterisation
of soft materials (jointly with Valeria Garbin, Imperial
College). Contact Phil for more details
Masoud Fakhrabadi (University of Padova)
is visiting the group today
This week Tom is attending OTOM
XIV at SPIE Optics & Photonics in San Diego
Congratulations to Chris F for submitting
his thesis
Tom & Chris R are
attending the Photonex London meeting Mon 11 Apr 16 with a poster
about our red blood cell stretching work recently published in
Scientific
Reports
Our paper Assessment of red blood cell
deformability
by optical tweezers in diabetic retinopathy has been
accepted
for publication in Scientific
Reports
Our textbook Optical Tweezers: Principles
& Applications will be published by Cambridge
University Press in October 2015. Available to pre-order from CUP
or Amazon
from 09 July 2015
MSci
projects for Physics
and Natural Sciences students available for 2015-16. Contact Phil Jones
for details. For examples of previous projects in the group see here
Roel Dullens
(Oxford) is giving the Physical Chemistry seminar on Dynamic mode locking in driven
colloids; Wed 28 Jan
Mark Leake (York) is
giving today's LCN/Biophysics seminar on Probing DNA interactions with
proteins at the single-molecule level inside the cell, in a test tube,
and in a computer
Joint Special Issue of Optics
Express and JOSA
B on Optical
Cooling & Trapping announced. Submit papers by 05
Jan 15.
Chris F is at the SPIE
OTOM XI conference 17-21 Aug 14, with a poster on Multi-scale manipulation of
microbubbles employing simultaneous optical and acoustical trapping.
Watch movies from his poster here
and here.
Congratulations to Chris Fury for winning a poster prize at the Leeds Microbubble
Symposium 2014
Tanya Monro
(Adelaide University) is giving a seminar on New Direction in Photonics Down
Under at City University, Mon 09 Jun
MSci
projects
for Physics
and Natural Sciences students available for 2014-15. Contact Phil Jones
for details. For examples of previous projects in the group see here
Helen Czerski will give the Physics
Department colloquium on The Scaling of Reality: A
Problem for both Bubble Physics and Science Media, Wed 14
May
Congratulations to Zhi Hao Wong who
has won the MAPS Faculty Medal for the best performance in final year
exams, and also the Physics Department William Bragg Prize for best
overall undergraduate
Simon
Hanna (Bristol University) is visiting and giving the AMOPP/BioP
seminar on Optimising
forces and torques for optical micromanipulation,
30 Jan 13
Harrie
Massey Lecture, 23 Nov 11: Coherent
control of single molecules, complexes and nanoantennas by
Prof
Niek van Hulst (ICFO-Barcelona)
Onofrio Marago and Maria Grazia Donato (IPCF-CNR, Messina)
are
visiting the group as part of our Royal Society International Joint
Project, 21-25 Nov 11
PhD
studentship to work
on optical and
acoustic trapping of microbubbles available. Contact Dr
Phil Jones for details
David
McGloin (Dundee
University) is visiting and giving the AMOPP/BioP seminar on Optical Manipulation of
Droplets: Aerosols
and Hydrosomes, 12 Jan 11
2010
Paola Borri
(Cardiff University) is visiting and giving the AMOPP/BioP seminar on Novel Multiphoton Microscopy
Techniques
for Cell Imaging, 8 Dec 10
MSci
Projects in the Optical Tweezers Group for 2010-11 are now
available.
See the course
web site for full details. Examples of previous
projects can
be found here
and here.
'Bubbles:
sensors for the micro-world' project start-up meeting Mon
17
May, Bushy
House, Teddington
Physics
of
biomolecular systems meeting, Tue 20 April at 1:30pm, LMCB
seminar Room
Project 'Bubbles:
sensors for the micro-world' wins funding from the National Physical Laboratory
Strategic
Research Programme.
Onofrio Maragò (IPCF-CNR,
Messina) is
visiting the group, 2-5 March 10
A
PhD studentship
is available to work on
optical and acoustic trapping of microbubbles. Contact Dr Phil Jones
for details.
(This position has now been filled).
Serge
Lemay (U Twente / TU Delft) will give the LCN
Seminar
on Wed 13 Jan on 'Ion
mesoscopics in
nanofluidic devices'. Seminar postponed.
2009
CoMPLEX
annual
meeting The limits of
perception: challenges for biological imaging, Fri 18 Dec
The official opening of the
new CoMPLEx
offices in the Physics
Department will be on Thu 11 June 2009
A number of PHASM201 and
PHAS3400
projects for 3rd and 4th year students are available for
2009-10.
See the course
web site for details. Examples of previous projects
in the
Optical Tweezers Group
can be found here
and here.
Onofrio Marago from the IPCF-CNR
(Messina) is
visiting the group 31 Mar - 2 Apr 09
Susan
Perkin
(UCL Chemistry) will be giving the AMOPP seminar
on
Wed 18 Mar on 'Films of water and ionic liquids, and the
molecular
basis of lubrication'
Microbubble User Group
meeting, Friday 12
December at Imperial College.
Pietro Cicuta
(Cambridge University) will be giving the Chemistry
Department seminar on 'Phase separation and mechanics in
model
membranes and simple biological cells', 10 December 2008
Femto Newton Force Sensing
paper featured
as a research highlight ('Trapped nanotubes') in Nature
Photonics
Claudia
Veigel
(NIMR, Mill Hill) is giving the LCN
seminar
on 'The mechanics of myosin motor proteins', 5 November 2008
Optical Tweezers talk at the
Physics
Department Cumberland Lodge weekend 25 October 2008
Norman Loeckel, Duc Ninh,
Nick Elias
& Shaady Hussein are all joining the group for projects from
October 2008
Prof Sumio
Iijima
(Meijo University, Japan) will give the annual Bragg
Lecture on 'The 17-year-old carbon nanotube' 8 October 2008
Jochen Guck
(Cambridge University) will be giving the LCN
seminar
on 'Biophotonics', 4 June 2008
PHAS4201 MSci Physics
projects for
2008-09 available. A list of all projects is available on the
course
web site. Examples of previous projects in the
Optical
Tweezers Group
can be found here
and here.
CoMPLEx MRes summer project
for 2008 on
using optical tweezers to quantify bacterial adhesion available: details
Onofrio Marago and Pietro
Gucciardi from IPCF-CNR
are visiting
the group January 23 - February 3, 2008
Congratulations to Sarah
Skoff who
completed her MSc project in the Optical Tweezers Group. She achieved a
pass with distinction, and was awarded the Harrie Massey prize for the
best MSc student.