Seminar Title: Progress in patient sampling and analysis: from fingerprints to organelles

Speaker: Professor Melanie Bailey, Professor of Analytical Science, University of Surrey

Host: Professor Mike Malim, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine

Location: Room G8, New Hunt's House and online (join via Microsoft Teams)

The Wolfson Centre of Excellence for Bioanalytical Science brings together expertise in “omics”, biomarker discovery and imaging. We are developing techniques for faster, smarter, smaller and greener biomarker analysis. We develop new and unique instrumentation using accelerators, mass spectrometers, capillaries and confocal microscopy with the ultimate aim of achieving sub-cellular multi-omics, and will show some early applications, including gaining new insight into the way cancer cells respond to radiation. This talk will also show progress towards sampling patients non-invasively through fingerprints, sebum and saliva for diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic drug monitoring.

Professor Melanie Bailey, Professor of Analytical Science at the University of Surrey

She is Director of the Wolfson Centre of Excellence for Bioanalytical Science, which brings together expertise in “omics”, biomarker discovery and imaging. This includes SEISMIC, a new BBSRC national facility for spatially resolved single and sub-cellular “omics” , new instrumentation for multimodal imaging at the UK National Ion Beam Centre and bulk metabolomics, proteomics and metallomics. She is a member of the international advisory board for The Ion Beam Analysis conference series, International Nuclear Microprobe conference series and the Bragg Institute. She will commence a term as Editor in Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s longest running journal “Analyst” in September 2024.