Past Meetings – Page 4 – Colloid & Surface Science Group

5th Annual MIBio Conference MIBio 2015: Stability of biopharmaceuticals – From molecular interactions to successful products 21st October 2015, Cripps Court, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK.

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The MIBio conference series engages world leading experts from industry and academia in a discussion on how the latest molecular interaction based discoveries can be exploited in biopharmaceutical formulation to produce more effective, patient-friendly and safer therapeutic products. Seven key experts in the field presented during the day on this topic, and, as is traditional in the MIBio series, there were opportunities for audience participation. The conference website where next years event details will be available soon, can be found here: www.mibio-conference.com

The MIBio 2015 organising committee is:

• Jan Jezek (Arecor)

• Nicholas J. Darton (Arecor)

• Tejash Shah (GSK)

• Stephen Harding (University of Nottingham)

Rideal 2015 + AGM

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2015 Rideal Meeting: Polymers in colloid science, 23rd April 2015, SCI, London, UK

The winner of the 2015 Rideal Medal was Prof Paul Luckham of Imperial College and the theme of the 2015 meeting is Polymers in Colloid Science. The speakers were all former students of Paul or academics and industrialists he has collaborated with during his career. This one day meeting included a student poster session and a wine reception prior to Paul’s Rideal lecture which was given at the end of the conference.

The conference flyer can be found at this link.

Arrested Gels: Dynamics, Structure and Applications Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 23-25 March 2015

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The RSC/SCI Colloids Group was pleased to announce a meeting for academia, industry and students to link the latest research on colloidal gels to tomorrow’s applications in the captivating and inspiring atmosphere of Cambridge. Colloidal gels are complex materials that when suitably designed give the performance and function to a wide range of advanced modern day products. Fundamental to designing such materials is understanding the interplay between interparticle forces on the molecular level and mesoscopic and macroscopic phenomena of network formation, mechanical properties and time-evolution. Understanding how all these components behave and interact together was the focus of this colloquium.

The following line up of excellent international speakers headlined the program: Dr. L. Berthier (Montpellier), Prof. D. Bonn (Amsterdam), Prof. L. Cipelletti (Montpellier), Dr. W. Frith (Unilever), Prof. P. Schurtenberger (Lund) & Prof. H. Tanaka (Tokyo).

The flyer for this event can be downloaded from this link.

FD175 Physical Chemistry of Functionalised Biomedical Nanoparticles is fast approaching: 17-19 September, Bristol

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Themes

•Noble metal NPs: Novel synthesis of Au and Ag NPs, for example, and better understanding of surface chemistry and interactions between NPs and ligands

•Quantum dots: Novel syntheses and novel biofunctionalisation to enhance quantum yield of quantum dots, as well as being a protective layer for biomedical applications

•Magnetic NPs: Novel syntheses for enhanced magnetic properties and functionalisation for specific targets in vivo

•Carbon nanotube & graphite/graphene and other NPs: There is very limited literature on biomedical applications of this type of material. Therefore, biofunctionalisation is a very important aspect of this research topic.

The conference website can be found at this link

UK Colloids 2014 International Colloid and Surface Science Symposium

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This was the second colloid science conference in this series and will be held in London from July 6th – 9th 2014. It was jointly organized by the RSC Colloid and Interface Chemistry Group and the SCI Colloid and Surface Chemistry Group (www.colloidsgroup.org.uk), the Institute of Physics, Polymer Physics Group (http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/pol/index.html) and the UK Polymer Colloid Forum (http://www.uk-pcf.org/) and provided a perfect opportunity for UK and international researchers interested in colloid and interface science to meet, present and discuss issues related to current developments in the fields of Colloid, Interface and Biomedical Nanoparticle science.

Organising Committee:
Peter Dowding (Chair)
Jeroen van Duijneveldt (Treasurer)
Deborah Constable (Conference Secretariat)
For any additional information please e-mail: peter.dowding@infineum.com

The flyer for this event can be downloaded from this link.

Rideal Meeting: Controlling Structure, 27th March 2014, RSC, Burlington House, London

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The recipient of the Sir Eric Rideal (founder’s) Award and Lecture for 2014 was Professor Dame Athene Donald FRS of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Prof. Donald’s lecture on “Control of Structure” was given at this dedicated mini-symposium held in London. The overall theme of the meeting was controlling structure. The speakers, who were all former students, post-docs or collaborators of Prof Donald, demonstrated the wide range of experimental techniques used to examine the arrangement of colloidal and soft material systems and the effect on macroscopic properties. This one day symposium showcased some of the latest work and cutting edge advances in sort matter.

For more information please visit this link.

The flyer for the event is available in this link.

McBain award meeting: Dynamic and controlled self-assembly at interfaces 19th December 2013, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

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Elaborate supramolecular architectures can be crafted and tuned through non-covalent interactions, ranging from simple host-guest interactions to more complex types of molecular recognition. Recent advances in the field have made these systems adaptative, customisable, responsive to one or multiple stimuli and relevant to a wide range of applications, requiring also cutting-edge techniques to probe the morphologies on the nano-scale. This one-day symposium showcased some of the latest work in this rapidly growing field. The McBain Medal is an early-career award offered by the RSC/SCI Joint Colloids Group.

The 2013 McBain Lecture will be given by Dr Oren Scherman of the Dept of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge in recognition of his work on smart polymers, disperse systems and interfaces. Dr Oren’s web pages can be found at http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/oas.html.

Further information on the McBain Medal & Lecture more generally may be found at https://www.colloidsgroup.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=11.

The flyer for this event can be downloaded from this link.

For more details please visit: https://www.soci.org/General-Pages/Display-Event.aspx?EventCode=COLL401

Polymers @ Interfaces 2013 Armada House, Telephone Avenue, Bristol, UK (27-28 June 2013)

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An international conference to celebrate the career of Professor Terence Cosgrove. The adsorption & behaviour of polymers at interfaces is a field of fundamental importance to a wide range of technologies & medicine. Terry Cosgrove, who retired in Autumn 2012, has made significant contributions to the field over the last 40 years. This conference celebrated his outstanding career. A number of Terry’s close associates, past and present, agreed to speak at what was an entertaining review of the field and Terry’s impact on it.

There was a reception and conference dinner on the evening of 27 June 2013 at M-Shed, Bristol’s new flagship museum (http://mshed.org/). The reception was sponsored by XiGo Nanotools.

The conference program can be downloaded from this link.

A flyer for the event can be found at this link.

Jointly organised with: SCI Colloid & Surface Chemistry Group

Kindly sponsored by: AGC Chemicals, AkzoNobel, Drug Delivery Solutions, Infineum, Imerys, Revolymer, STFC ISIS Facility, Syngenta, Unilever, XiGo Nanotools. Joint Colloid Group.

The impact and future of Scattering Techniques in Soft Matter (18-19th March, 2013, Keble College Oxford)

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Scattering methods have evolved in both complexity and in application over the past 30 years. The aim was to show how increasingly complex chemical, magnetic and biological systems demand a multi-technique approach in order to derive a full description of their behaviour. The meeting was combined with the 2013 Sir Eric Rideal lecture given by the award recipient, Prof. Jeff Penfold.

Speakers included R. K. Thomas, T. Zemb, A. R. Rennie, I. M. Tucker, J. T. Petkov, L. Porcar, G. Fragnetto, I. Grillo, D. Barlow, A. Zarbakhsh, J. Penfold and T. Arnold.

The Sir Eric Rideal Lecturer for 2013 will be Professor Jeffery Penfold of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

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Professor Penfold has made three major scientific contributions to surfactant, colloid and interface science. The first is that he and Hayter were the first people to formulate a strategy and the necessary analytical methods for the quantitative interpretation of neutron small angle scattering data from micellar solutions (these methods are still the main ones used). Second, with colleagues at Unilever, he pioneered the development of shear methods in conjunction with small angle scattering. Thirdly, he played a major pioneering role in both the instrumental and methodological development of neutron reflectometry, now widely used for studying interfaces of all kinds. Professor Penfold is much in demand as an invited contributor to scientific conferences around the world.

Prof. Penfold gave his Rideal Lecture at the symposium concentrating on scattering techniques and their applications 18-19th March 2013 at Keble College.

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