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News archive: 

• Oct. 10: Paper of fluorescence analysis of polymers published in Macromolecules. 
• Sept. 10:  A new industrial collaboration with the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson began on the 1st of September.  The project, funded by J&J  and NIBRT is developing new methods for characterizing cell culture media. A press release is available to download from here.
  
• Summer 2010:  We have a new group of summer students joining us this year they include MSc students Denis Coffey and Caroline Golderick, and UREKA students Jonathon Donaghue and Ronan Fitzpatrick.
• Mar. 2010:  Congratulations to Dean St. Mart from NUIM, a postgrad in Dr. Jon Stephens group who has been selected to attend the 60th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting in June. We are collaborating with Dean and John on the characterization of novel fluorophores which are synthesized in NUIM.
• Summer 09:  We have a new group of summer students joining us this year they include MSc students Loretta Breslin and Neil Murphy, Cesar Maule PhD student from Oporto, Angela Chang, Nadine McCleary & Edel Houghton, and Valerie Murphy.
• 23 Oct. 08:  "TIRF's UP":  The Total Internal reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) Microscope has now been installed and is up and running.  It is located in R166 has has a triple laser excitation unit, MT20 white light excitation, EMCCD detector, and a x60 TIRF objective (oil immersion).
  
• 15 Oct. 08:  We have now relocated the laboratories in the School of Chemistry and the microscopy lab. is now operational.
  
• Aug 08:  New microscopy lab under development:  The new microscopy lab for the NBL is currently being refurbished and we hope to move in late September.  We intend to co-locate all 5 confocal and single-molecule microscopy systems in a single dedicated location in the School of Chemistry. This facility will comprise of a dedicated room for the confocal live cell imaging and in-vivo spectroscopic measurements, and a separate lab for the materials science and TIRF setups.  This new facility will be air-condition and optimised for all our microscopy needs.  Will post more details later.
  
• Aug. 08: Postdoctoral position in spectroscopy & chemometrics available now for immediate start.
  
• Aug. 08: Postgraduate studentship available in the area of pharmaceutical analysis.
  
• May 08: New Thor Labs Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope (LCSM) installed in lab. More details here.
  
• Mar. 08: New FT-IR, UV-Visible, and TCSPC instrumentation installed in laboratory.
  
• Feb. 08:  Spectroscopy notes for 3Y 2008 now uploaded, available here.
  
• Jan. 08:  The website has now been totally updated.  We are adding new pages and information about facilities, lectures, projects, etc.
  
• Dec. 07:  The NBL has just been awarded funding to acquire a Total Internal reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) Microscope from Science Foundation Ireland.  This will considerably enhance our ability to measure dynamic processes on the nanoscale.  
• Oct 07:  The NBL has been part funded under the National Biophotonics Imaging Platform (a collaborative advanced imaging consortium).  As part of our contribution we will collaborate with partners in the RCSI and other institutions by providing our expertise and instrumentation in FCS, FCCS and other advanced fluorescence methods. The NUIG element is a collaboration between Prof. Peter Dockery of the Department of Anatomy, Prof. Chris Dainty, Applied Optics, Department of Experimental Physics, and Dr. A. Ryder, School of Chemistry.
• Sept 07: Analyze-IQ software page added. See details about our machine-learning spectral analysis software.. 
• Dec. 07:  The NBL has just been awarded funding to acquire a Total Internal reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) Microscope from Science Foundation Ireland.  This will considerably enhance our ability to measure dynamic processes on the nanoscale.  
• Oct 07:  The NBL has been part funded under the National Biophotonics Imaging Platform (a collaborative advanced imaging consortium).  As part of our contribution we will collaborate with partners in the RCSI and other institutions by providing our expertise and instrumentation in FCS, FCCS and other advanced fluorescence methods. The NUIG element is a collaboration between Prof. Peter Dockery of the Department of Anatomy, Prof. Chris Dainty, Applied Optics, Department of Experimental Physics, and Dr. A. Ryder, School of Chemistry.
• Sept 07: Analyze-IQ software page added. See details about our machine-learning spectral analysis software.. 
• August 06: The 30th Annual Symposium of the Microscopical Society of Ireland took place in NUI-Galway between the 30th August and the 1st of September 2006. 
  Details can be found on: http://www.nuigalway.ie/msi/symposium.htm 
• July 05: The group is pleased to announce the commencement of a very large scale collaborative research project with Dublin City University and Bristol-Myers Squibb. The project will focus on the development of new rapid analytical tools for Biopharmaceutical analysis.  More information will be made available in September/October.  As part of this project the group is commissioning a new laboratory in the Physical Chemistry section of the Department of Chemistry in which this project will be housed. Press releases are available from the Irish Times, Galway advertiser online and in pdf format, and PharmaManufacturing.com, 
• June 05: The upright FLIM microscope has how been installed and is operational, more details of its capabilities are available here.
• May 05: The group has been awarded an SFI research frontiers grant to develop novel time-resolved fluorescence methods for analysing hydrocarbon bearing fluid inclusions (HCFI). 
• April 05: Two UREKA and one STAR awards were made to the group.  Under these schemes 2 undergraduate students and a secondary school teacher were based in our laboratory  during the summer of 2005. 
• April 05: The inverted FLIM-FCS facility has now been installed and the first measurements are being made, more details to follow.
• Nov. 04: Funding has been secured for Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM-FCS) facilities.  
• Oct 04:  Three postdoctoral researchers (Dr. Denisio Togashi, Dr. Patrick Fournet, and Dr. Marc Leger) have just joined the group.  More details are available on the postdoc page.  
• June 04:  The Fourth Stokes Summer School,  Skreen, Co. Sligo, Ireland, was held over the 18-22 June, 2004. The event was well attended and covered a wide range of fluorescence and luminescence topics.  I will add photos from the school at a later date.
• June 04: Two UREKA awards were made to the group.  Under this scheme 2 undergraduate students were based in our laboratory for 8 weeks during the summer of 2004. 
• June 04:  The group was awarded an SFI STARs  for the summer of 2004.  Under this scheme Yvonne Higgins a secondary school science teacher undertook a research project in the Nanoscale Biophotonics laboratory for 8 weeks on lifetime based pH sensing. 

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conferences & meetings attended:

The group has attended and presented at the following conferences in 2007:

• Photonics Ireland, 24-26 September 2007, Galway, Ireland.
• 10th conference of Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, 9 - 12 Sept. 2007, Salzburg, Austria.
• IMOG 2007, 9-14 Sept. 2007, Torquay, UK.
• 31st Symposium of the Microscopical Society of Ireland, 22-24 Aug. 2007, University of Limerick, Ireland.
• ECROFI-XIX, 17-20 July 2007, Bern Switzerland.
• European Conference on Biomedical Optics – ECBO 2007, Laser 2007, 17-22 June, 2007, Munich Germany.

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