2010 ALS User's Meeting Workshop
Infrared Spectromicroscopy:
This workshop aims to familiarize potential users of the new ALS infrared beamline with the wide variety of science that can be performed using the novel tools available at the BSISB facility. BSISB is directed by Hoi-Ying Holman, and is funded by the Biology and Environmental Research office within the Department of Energy. After several talks highlighting multiple scientific areas, Dr. Holman will lead a hands-on session that will demonstrate how to prepare living samples for SR-FTIR analysis and how to acquire high-quality data.
Organizers: Hans Bechtel, Hoi-Ying Holman, Michael Martin and Peter Nico
Agenda
Thursday, October 14, 2010
| Room Location: |
50 Auditorium |
(Part of the main ALS Users' Meeting) |
| 08:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 |
Hoi-Ying Holman |
Invited Award Talk: "Looking at the Deep-Sea Oil Plume in the Gulf of Mexico: Enrichment of Oil-Degrading Bacteria via Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy Microanalysis" |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Break |
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| Room Location: |
15-300 |
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| 10:00 - 10:10 |
Hoi-Ying Holman |
Welcome |
| 10:15 - 10:40 |
Peter Nico / Michael Martin |
Beamline 5.4 and the ALS IR program |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
John Vogel, USDA |
Brachypodium distachyon: a new model for grass cell walls |
| 11:20 - 11:50 |
Kathy Gough, U. Manitoba |
High Definition Imaging of fungi and brain tissue with IRENI – Discoveries enabled by the new technology |
| 12:00 - 13:15 |
Lunch |
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| 13:20 - 13:50 |
Eleanor Blakeley, LBNL |
Mapping and characterization of low-dose radiation effects
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| 13:55 - 14:25 |
Christer Jansson, LBNL Ecology Dept. |
Exploring Cyanobacteria for Biofuel Synthesis and Carbon Sequestration |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Francis Blankenberg, Stanford School of Medicine |
Oxidative Stress in Apoptosis and Mitochondrial Related Disease |
| 15:05 - 15:30 |
Break |
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| 15:35 - 16:05 |
Jamie Cate, UC Berkeley Chemistry |
A tale of two fungi: Improving biofuel production from plant biomass
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| 16:10 - 16:45 |
Discussion |
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| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Awards Dinner |
ALS Patio |
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Spectroscopy Solutions and Introduction to FTIR and Raman Spectroscopies
Joint with Thermo-Fisher Scientific
| 08:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
ALS Patio |
| Room Location: |
15-300 then Beamline 5.4 |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Mark McMahon, Thermo-Fisher |
Introduction to FTIR, Raman and NIR Spectroscopy |
| 09:35 - 10:05 |
Michael Martin |
How does FTIR work and FTIR Microscopy |
| 10:05 - 10:30 |
Break |
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| 10:35 - 11:05 |
Alex Rzhevskii, Thermo-Fisher |
Intro to Raman Microscopy |
| 11:10 - 11:50 |
Hans Bechtel |
Tour and orientation of the Beamlnie 5.4 BSISB facility |
| 12:00 - 13:15 |
Lunch |
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| 13:15 - 14:45 |
All |
Hands on work with FTIR and Raman Microscopes |
| 14:45 - 15:15 |
Hoi-Ying Holman
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Working with live cells: Practical sample prep and handling
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| 15:15 - 15:45 |
Break |
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| 15:45 - 16:30 |
Hoi-Ying Holman |
Microfluidics demonstration (Buiding 46)
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Thank you for a great workshop!
Here are some photos taken during the hands on session at Beamline 5.4:
