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Academic Degrees
B.A. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (London)
Current Teaching
GEOL 851.3 Synchrotron Hard X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
GEOL 451.3 Synchrotron X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
SYNC 801.3 Introduction to Synchrotron Health Research
Current and Recent Research Projects
Selenium in a cold freshwater environment
Molecular mechanisms of mercury toxicity
Sulfur as a metabolic marker in Stroke
Publications
George, G. N., I. J. Pickering, M. J. Pushie, K. Nienaber, M. J. Hackett, I. Ascone, B. Hedman, K. O. Hodgson, J. B. Aitken, A. Levina, C. Glover and P. A. Lay. X-ray induced photo-chemistry and X-ray absorption spectroscopy of biological samples. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 19(6), 875-886 (2012). DOI: 10.1107/S090904951203943X
Cotelesage, J. J. H., P. Grochulski, I. J. Pickering, G. N. George and M. N. Fodje. X-ray absorption spectroscopy at a protein crystallography facility ‒ the Canadian Light Source Beamline 08B1-1. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 19(6), 887-891 (2012). DOI: 10.1107/S090904951204023X
Bañuelos, G. S., S. S. Walse, S. I. Yang, I. J. Pickering, S. C. Fakra, M. A. Marcus and J. L. Freeman. Quantification, localization and speciation of selenium in seeds of canola and two mustard species compared to seed-meals produced by hydraulic press. Analytical Chemistry, 84(14), 6024–6030. DOI: 10.1021/ac300813e.
Cotelesage, J. J. H., M. J. Pushie, P. Grochulski, I. J. Pickering and G. N. George. Metalloprotein active site structure determination: synergy between X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 115, 127-137 (2012). DOI:10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2012.06.019
Tse, J. J., M. Gallego-Gallegos, E. D. Franz, K. Liber and I. J. Pickering. Selenium speciation and localization in chironomids from lakes receiving treated metal mine effluent. Chemosphere, 89(3), 274-279 (2012).
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.04.036.
Bañuelos, G. S., C. Stushnoff, S. S. Walse, T. Zuber, S. I. Yang, I. J. Pickering, and J. L. Freeman. Biofortified, selenium enriched, fruit and cladode from three Opuntia Cactus pear cultivars grown on agricultural drainage sediment for use in nutraceutical foods. Food Chemistry, 135, 9-16 (2012). DOI:10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.04.021.
Hackett, M. J., S. E. Smith, P. G. Paterson, H. Nichol, I. J. Pickering and G. N. George. X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the sulfur K-edge: a new tool to investigate the biochemical mechanisms of neurodegeneration. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 3(3), 178–185 (2012). DOI: 10.1021/cn200097s.
Pushie, M.J., L. Zhang, I. J. Pickering and G. N. George. The fictile coordination chemistry of cuprous-thiolate sites in copper chaperones. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, 817(6) 938-947 (2012).
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.10.004.
Korbas, M., T. C. MacDonald, I. J. Pickering, G. N. George and P. H. Krone. Chemical form matters: differential accumulation of mercury following inorganic and organic mercury exposures in zebrafish larvae. ACS Chemical Biology 7(2) 410-419 (2012). DOI: 10.1021/cb200287c.
Yang, S.I., J. R. Lawrence, G. D. W. Swerhone and I. J. Pickering. Biotransformation of selenium and arsenic in multi-species biofilm. Environmental Chemistry, 8(6), 543-551 (2011). DOI: 10.1071/EN11062.
