Standards and quality in metabolomics are vital.
Read our latest Open Access paper on Reference materials for MS‐based untargeted metabolomics and lipidomics published in Metabolomics.
A nice collaboration with the mQACC (metabolomics quality assurance and quality control consortium).
We are delighted to welcome Dakshat Trivedi to our group who started this month on a Unilever funded project to map the skin microbiome and metabolome.
We are happy to announce that Iva’s paper on COVID with Doug Kell’s group has been published in Metabolomics. It’s all about metabolomics which has been used to discover potential prognostic markers of both severity and outcome.
2021 was an important year for our biospec group and the CMR. Below are some highlights.
We welcomed to biospec the following researchers: Dr Adam Burke as a PostDoc, and PhD students Shwan Ahmed, Afeefa Chaudhary, Cris Saladas, Amy Colleran, Amy McMullen as well as Phil Dutton and Sahand Shams with collaborators.
We also welcomed Prof Najla Almasoud and Prof Taghrid Alomar from Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University in Saudi Arabia. Najla and Taghrid are joining us on sabbatical for 12 months and are working on SERS in drug detection and quantification and food security.
Cassio published his first paper with our group in Analytical Chemistry about ‘Imaging isotopically labeled bacteria at the single cell level using high-resolution optical infrared photothermal spectroscopy’ Our first paper using O-PTIR spectroscopy.
Mehrvash published her first paper in Applied Sciences where through bottle SORS was used for authentication of extra virgin olive oil.
Our first paper on SRS was also published in Clinical Spectroscopy which was led by Cassio and highlighted methods to achieve hyperspectral stimulated Raman spectroscopy in live cells.
Funding news included:
Congratulations to Dakshat on passing his PhD today.
Dakshat used metabolomics and vibrational spectroscopy for the analysis of human serum for the characterisation of phenotypically ageing men in different ethnic populations.
In 2020 we had to do many vivas by Zoom and here’s a great photo that captures Dakshat’s success. Many thanks to Hyun Kim (University of Nottingham) and Peter Gardner (University of Manchester) for their excellent examination of Dakshat’s thesis.
If you are interested in joining our group we currently have two PhD positions available:
These are fully-funded PhDs in the Institute of Integrative Biology (IIB) in the University of Liverpool.
The close date for both is Thursday, February 28, 2019.
You will join a dynamic research group based in the IIB where the focus is to investigate cellular metabolism. Details of the current projects and diversity of work, as well as more general papers, can be found here.
David and Howbeer with a handheld Raman spectrometer
David and Howbeer on You and Yours:
Our work on the detection of adulteration in cococnut water with Raman spectroscopy has recently featured on BBC Radio programme You and Yours.