Myself and Laura recently attended a short workshop on the transport of nanoparticles in porous media held in Padova, Italy. It was a two day short course to learn the basics of modelling fluid flow in porous media, pretty intense but overall very interesting. At the workshop we met many academics and engineers working in diverse fields from therapeutics to printing to engineering, with some colleagues who are also working in the area of in situ remediation.
Modelling nanoparticle transportApart from the work we also had time for a short stroll through the historical sites, it is worth mentioning that Padova is pretty ancient, and the University of Padova is among the oldest universities of the world. Unfortunately we had taken some clouds from our beloved Manchester, ensuring continual rain the whole time we were there!
By Nimisha
In October, Jon, Gina, Natalie and I travelled to Belgium for a MIND (Microbiology in Nuclear Waste Disposal) advanced course in geomicrobiology in radioactive waste disposal. The course was provided by SCK·CEN, a Belgian nuclear research centre based in the city of Mol. The course brought together researchers from over 10 MIND institutions to share […]
Recently several group members attended the 8th Actinide XAS conference (AnXAS 2017) held at The Queen’s College, the University of Oxford. AnXAS is a three day workshop showcasing speciation, techniques and facilities for radioactive materials at various synchrotron light sources. The Queen’s college is an impressive warren of grand buildings, gardens and passageways. Although there […]
As part of an on-going programme concerning rapid developments in Genomics and Bioinformatics, I recently visited the Wilkins Geomicrobiology Lab at Ohio State University for a bioinformatics training course. The Wilkins Lab is led by Dr Mike Wilkins, who actually has his roots in the Manchester Geomicrobiology group where Prof Jonathan Lloyd guided him through […]
In November Laura and I, loaded up with samples from a few folk in the geomicrobiology group, flew to California for beamtime at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. We were met in Berkeley by Adriana Figueroa-Garcia, a beamline scientist from Diamond, who was kind enough to give us a […]
