INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN MICROPLASMA RESEARCH
From Nov. 24-26th, 2014 the Research Unit FOR1123 "Physics of Microplasmas" will host the first Workshop for young professionals in Microplasma Research at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Plasma medicine
20.05.2014 - 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PLASMA MEDICINE (ICPM5)
The ICPM is a full-week conference held from the 18th to the 23rd of May, 2014, in Nara, Japan. The field of "plasma medicine" is growing rapidly and this conference provides an ideal venue for the exchange of new ideas and information and support the initiation or further development of international collaborations among researchers in this multidisciplinary field. Multidisciplinary is also team of researchers coming from Ruhr-University Bochum, which contains microbiologist (Prof. Julia Bandow with invited oral presentation), electrical engineer (Dr. Jan-Wilm Lackman with contributed oral presentation) and two physicists (Simon Schneider, contributed oral presentation, travel supported by the RUB Research School; and Prof. Jan Benedikt, poster presentation). They are presenting the results of a DFG funded project package "Plasma-Microbe Interaction during Plasma-based Surface Decontamination" (Plasmadecon, PAK728 proposal-package).
DANIEL SCHRÖDER IN YORK
PhD Student Daniel Schröder went on a research stay for three months at the York Plasma Institute (YPI), University of York, UK (March 4th - May 31st, 2014). Together with the local physicists and scientists from different disciplines (biology and chemistry), he worked on the investigation of the ozone radical for biomedical treatments. Plasma scientists use electrically-driven gas discharges, so-called plasma devices, to generate chemical reactive species like ozone, that are used for several treatments e.g. wound healing of human skin.
During his stay, they achieved to characterise the dynamics of ozone in dependence of the induced electrical power, within their plasma source. By understanding these, biologists will be able to taylor the dosis of ozone reaching organic substrates like cells or skin according to the desired medical effect.
JUDITH GOLDA AT NCPST / DCU, IRELAND
PhD student Judith Golda stayed at National Centre for Plasma Science & Technology (NCPST) at DCU from 23th - 28th June 2014 to visit PhD student Sean Kelly working in Prof. Miles Turner's group. The stay was supported by European Cooperation in Science and Technolgy (COST) BIOPLASMA action MP1101.