Seminars
Wednesday 15th July 2009
Programme:
- 5-5.20pm: "Denting the image of bone ” By Prof Alan Boyde
- 5.20-5.30pm: Discussion
- 5.30-5.50pm: "Applying Synchrotron Radiation to Iluminate Ultrastructural Deformation Mechanisms" By Dr Himadri Gupta
- 5.50-6pm: Discussion
- 6-7pm: Refreshments
Speakers:
Professor Alan Boyde,Professorial Research Fellow,
Institute of Dentistry
Prof Alan Boyde current research is aimed at understanding bone and cartilage development, structure and function and responses to hormonal and drug challenges, impact exercise, aging, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, traumatic osteochondrosis, fatigue fracture, iatrogenic bone wounding (including dental and skeletal implants) and tumour metastases: and skeletal changes in genetically modified mice. It uses a wide range of imaging modalities from naked eye to sub-micron resolution. Dental hard tissue structure, development, disease and iatrogenic damage are also studied.
Email: a.boyde@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Himadri Gupta, Lecturer in Biomaterials, School of Engineering and Materials Science.
Before starting at QMUL, Dr Himadri Gupta was Research Group Leader “Mineralized Tissues” at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany), working within the Biomaterials Department, from 2003 – 2008.
He obtained his PhD in "Phase Segregation and Rafting in Ni-base Superalloys: Models and Experiments" at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) in 2000, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science (Austrian Academy of Sciences) at Leoben, Austria from 2000 – 2002.
His research expertise includes structure – function relations in hierarchically ordered biological systems, and has worked on bone, tendons and cartilage as well as wood cells. His specific interests include: investigating the material origins of bone fracture using in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction combined with mechanical testing; application of spatially resolved microbeam X-ray diffraction and scattering to investigate graded biocomposites at the molecular and nanometer length scales; development of specialized micromechanical techniques to look at hierarchically structured biomaterials in their native state; multiscale modelling of bone and tendon mechanics at the fibrillar level.
Email: h.gupta@qmul.ac.uk
