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Peter O'Toole PhD
Peter heads the Imaging and Cytometry Labs within the Technology Facility at the University of York which includes an array of confocal microscopes, flow cytometers and electron microscopes. He gained his PhD in the Cell Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Essex and has been involved in many aspects of fluorescence imaging. Research is currently focused on both technology and method development of novel probes and imaging modalities. Peter is heavily involved with teaching, including organising and teaching on both the RMS LM Summer School and the RMS Practical Flow Cytometry course. For further information visit Pete's website.
Rebecca Higginson PhD
Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer in Metallurgy in the Dept. of Materials at Loughborough University. She attained her degree from Swansea University and her PhD from The University of Birmingham. Her current research considers the study of microstructural development in metals and composites. Her group has carried out extensive studies on the high temperature oxidation of ferrous alloys.
Rebecca co-ran an RMS one day meeting “Microstructure of High Temperature Oxidation” at Loughborough in 2007.
Theresa Ward BSc DPhil
Theresa teaches on the MSc Immunology of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is an active RMS member. She obtained her first degree in Biochemistry and Genetics from Nottingham University and her DPhil from the University of Sussex in 1996. She then worked in the laboratory of Dr Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz at the National Institute of Health in the USA. She was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2002. Her particular interest is in integrating confocal microsocopy technology and advanced cell and biological techniques to investigate the processes involved in B cell activation and proliferation.
David Stephens Phd
David's lab is interested in the organization and function of the secretory pathway in mammalian cells. They use a range of light microscopy techniques including wide-field and confocal microscopy, fluorescence photobleaching, deconvolution and 3D reconstruction. They aim to incorporate these techniques with electron microscopy, biochemistry, and molecular biology to address questions relating to the way in which transport vesicles form, how cargo is incorporated in to them, and how transport carriers move along the microtubule cytoskeleton.
Jasna Štrus
Jasna is Professor in Zoology and Cell Biology at the Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana.
Her research focus is functional morphology of invertebrates, mostly terrestrial crustaceans. Members of her lab apply and develop techniques for visualization of invertebrate tissues at light and electron microscopy levels. The main focus is correlative microscopy of extracellular matrices, especially chitinous structures in crustaceans and related calcification mechanisms during molt and developmental cycles.
Peter Pitrone techrms
Peter Pitrone is a Microscopy & Imaging Specialist at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden Germany.
He develops Selective Plane Illumination Microscopes (SPIM) for the Dr. Pavel Tomančak lab, who researches Drosophila emryrogenesis. Peter has obtained a "Technology of the Microscope" (TechRMS) qualification through the Society's outreach program while working for the Light Microscopy Facility of the MPI-CBG.
Suresh C. Pillai PhD, FRMS
Dr. Suresh C. Pillai is a Senior R&D Manager at CREST-DIT, Dublin, Ireland. He obtained his PhD in the area of Materials Science/Nanotechnology from Trinity College, The University of Dublin, Ireland and then performed a postdoctoral research at the Department of Materials Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California-91125, USA. Upon completion of this appointment he returned to Trinity College, Dublin as a Research Fellow before joining CREST as a senior scientist in April 2004. His research interests are in the areas of Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Ceramics for Functional Applications, Photocatalysis and Materials for Electronic Applications. Dr. Pillai is a Fellow of both the Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS) and Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM).
Gavin Bell
Gavin is an Associate Professor in the physics department at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on magnetic thin films on semiconductors, for application in spintronics, semiconductor quantum dots and surfaces.
He mainly uses scanning probe microscopy and has previously organised a UK SPM meeting as well as sessions at MICROSCIENCE.
Rich Boden FLS MSB
Rich is a Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Microbiology at the University of Plymouth, his research focusing on the physiology, biochemistry and ecology of organisms involved in the biogeochemical sulfur, metal and metalloid cycles, including commercial applications of microbes in biohydrometallurgy and bioremediation. After reading Chemistry and Biochemistry at King's College London, he obtained his Ph.D from the University of Warwick (Thesis: "Metabolism of dimethylsulfide in the Bacteria"). After then working on acidothermophilic Bacteria and Archaea used in commercial mining operations, he worked on the ecophysiology of Movile Cave, Romania, becoming the first UK scientist to work in this unique world, completely separated from the rest of Earth but home to a large number of living organisms, all living in a sealed cave in total darkness in an ecosystem entirely supported by methane, sulfur and metal-oxidising Bacteria filling the ecological niches usually occupied by plants and algae.
