Metabolic Imaging & Tissue engineering Group News

In February 2016, Dr. R. Dmitriev and PhD candidate J. Jenkins attended 60th Biophysical Society Meeting (Feb 27- Mar 2), held in Los Angeles, California. Dr. R. Dmitriev has presented platform talk on multi-parametric O2 imaging in 3D cell models; J. Jenkins has presented a poster on application of O2-sensitive nanoparticles to study the function of Ca/Mn-transporting ATPase SPCA2. More details on the meeting can be found here . Most of the members of the Lab also attended Europtrode 2016 meeting, held in Graz, Austria, on March 20-23: Dr. Dmitriev has delivered a talk on copolymer nanoparticle O2 probes for live cell imaging, Prof. D. Papkovsky presented a poster about applications of O2-sensitive probes for physiology, PhD candidate C. Kelly has presented a poster on new O2-sensitive materials for food-related applications, PhD candidate N. O'Donnell has presented a poster about encapsulation of O2 probe in protein nanoparticles. Europtrode is one of the largest

Dr. S. Banerjee, PhD candidate C. Kelly and Prof. D. Papkovsky in collaboration with Prof. J. Kerry have published a comprehensive review article describing the applications of optical quenched phosphorescence measurements in food packaging. The review article has been published in Trends in food science & technology journal. The full text of the publication can be found here .

Dr. S. Banerjee, Prof. D. Papkovsky in collaboration with Moscow State University, Russia have published an article in Sensors and Actuators B journal, describing the preparation of O2-sensitive sensor films based on polyolefin fibers.  This material is produced by recently developed solvent-crazing method. The full text of the article can be found here . 

Prof. D. Papkovsky and collaborators from University College London and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil have published a book chapter describing confocal in vivo imaging of flavoproteins in cerebral cortex. The publication is a chapter in the book Oxygen transport to tissue XXXVII . The text can be assessed here .