• Quantitative passive soil vapor sampling for VOCs- part 2: laboratory experiments 

  McAlary, Todd; Groenevelt, Hester; Seethapathy, Suresh; Sacco, Paolo; Crump, Derrick; Tuday, Michael; Schumacher, Brian; Hayes, Heidi; Johnson, Paul; Gorecki, Tadeusz (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014-01-24)

  Controlled laboratory experiments were conducted to demonstrate the use of passive samplers for soil vapor concentration monitoring. Five different passive samplers were studied (Radiello, SKC Ultra, Waterloo Membrane ...
• A Simple Model System Enabling Human CD34+ Cells to Undertake Differentiation Towards T Cells 

  Lapenna, Antonio; B-Lynch, C.; Kapeni, C.; Aspinall, Richard (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-07-23)

  Channelling the development of haematopoietic progenitor cells into T lymphocytes is dependent upon a series of extrinsic prompts whose temporal and spatial sequence is critical for a productive outcome. Simple models of ...
• A double-blind, placebo-controlled randomised trial evaluating the effect of a polyphenol-rich whole food supplement on PSA progression in men with prostate cancer—the UK NCRN Pomi-T study 

  Thomas, R.; Williams, M.; Sharma, H.; Chaudry, A.; Bellamy, Patricia (Nature Publishing Group, 2014)

  BACKGROUND: Polyphenol-rich foods such as pomegranate, green tea, broccoli and turmeric have demonstrated anti-neoplastic effects in laboratory models involving angiogenesis, apoptosis and proliferation. Although some ...
• Growth Of Salmonella Enteritidis And Salmonella Typhimurium In The Presence Of Quorum Sensing Signalling Compounds Produced By Spoilage And Pathogenic Bacteria 

  Dourou, Dimitra; Ammor, Mohammed Salim; Skandamis, Panagiotis N.; Nychas, George-John E. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 2014-06-10)

  The effect of acylated homoserine lactones (AHLs) and autoinducer-2 (AI-2) signalling compounds present in the cell-free culture supernatants (CFS), of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Yersinia enterocolitica-like GTE 112, Serratia ...
• Application of multiple response optimization design to quantum dot-encoded microsphere bioconjugates hybridization assay 

  Thiollet, Sarah; Bessant, Conrad M.; Morgan, Sarah L. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 2011-07-01)

  The optimization of DNA hybridization for genotyping assays is a complex experimental problem that depends on multiple factors such as assay formats, fluorescent probes, target sequence, experimental conditions, and data ...
• A membrane-based ELISA assay for the herbicide Isoproturon in soil samples 

  Baskeyfield, Damian E. H.; Davis, Frank; Magan, Naresh; Tothill, Ibtisam E. (Taylor & Francis, 2012-01-31)

  A membrane based enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (MELISA) for the detection of a common herbicide, isoproturon is described. A heterogeneous competitive ELISA was the format chosen for isoproturon detection. An immunoassay ...
• Biochemical and textural ripeness assessment of avocado fruit from different origins 

  Landahl, Sandra; Meyer, Marjolaine D.; Terry, Leon A. (Ishs; 1999, 2010-10-06)

  Stage of ripeness and quality of avocado is notoriously difficult to assess by conventional methods. Texture is a very important determinant of avocado fruit quality and can change radically during storage. The difficulties ...
• Textural, biochemical and micro-structural changes in mesocarp tissue of imported avocado from Peru during ripening 

  Landahl, Sandra; Terry, Leon A. (2010-12-31)

  Avocado (Persea americana Mill.) fruit is a valuable product and notorious for the difficulties encountered in determining quality. Typically the degree of ripeness of many climacteric fruits, such as avocado, is measured ...
• MRMaid: the SRM assay design tool for Arabidopsis and other species 

  Fan, Jun; Mohareb, Fady R.; Jones, Alexandra M. E.; Bessant, Conrad M. (2012-07-20)

  Selected reaction monitoring (SRM), sometimes called multiple reaction monitoring (MRM), is becoming the tool of choice for targeted quantitative proteomics in the plant science community. Key to a successful SRM experiment ...
• Phylogenetic and molecular characteristics of Eurasian H9 avian influenza viruses and their detection by two different H9-specific RealTime reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction tests 

  Slomka, M. J.; Hanna, A.; Mahmood, S.; Govil, J.; Krill, D.; Manvell, R. J.; Shell, W.; Arnold, M. E.; Banks, J.; Brown, I. H. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2013-03-23)

  Avian influenza viruses (AIVs) of the H9 haemagglutinin subtype are endemic in many Asian and Middle-East countries, causing mortality and morbidity in poultry. Consequently there is a need for accurate and sensitive ...
• An in silico study of the differential effect of oxidation on two biologically relevant G-quadruplexes: Possible implications in oncogene expression 

  Stebbeds, William Joshua David; Lunec, Joseph; Larcombe, L. D. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-08-22)

  G-quadruplex structures, formed from guanine rich sequences, have previously been shown to be involved in various physiological processes including cancer-related gene expression. Furthermore, G-quadruplexes have been found ...
• MMpred: functional miRNA – mRNA interaction analyses by miRNA expression prediction 

  Stempor, Przemyslaw A.; Cauchi, Michael; Wilson, Paul (BioMed Central, 2012-11-14)

  Background: MicroRNA (miRNA) directed gene repression is an important mechanism of posttranscriptional regulation. Comprehensive analyses of how microRNA influence biological processes requires paired miRNA-mRNA expression ...
• Experiences in Pattern Recognition for Machine Olfaction 

  Bessant, Conrad M. (American Institute of Physics, 2011)

  Pattern recognition is essential for translating complex olfactory sensor responses into simple outputs that are relevant to users. Many approaches to pattern recognition have been applied in this field, including multivariate ...
• Removal of heavy metals using different polymer matrixes as support for bacterial immobilisation 

  Pires, Carlos; Marques, Ana P. G. C.; Guerreiro, Antonio R.; Magan, Naresh; Castro, Paula M. L. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2011-07-01)

  Great attention is focused on the microbial treatment of metal contaminated environments. Three bacterial strains, 1C2, 1ZP4 and EC30, belonging to genera Cupriavidus, Sphingobacterium and Alcaligenes, respectively, showing ...
• The Microbial Habitability of Weathered Volcanic Glass Inferred from Continuous Sensing Techniques 

  Bagshaw, Elizabeth A.; Cockell, Charles S.; Magan, Naresh; Wadham, Jemma L.; Venugopalan, T.; Sun, Tong; Mowlem, Matt; Croxford, Anthony J. (Mary Ann Leibert, 2011-09-16)

  Basaltic glasses (hyaloclastite) are a widespread habitat for life in volcanic environments, yet their interior physical conditions are poorly characterized. We investigated the characteristics of exposed weathered basaltic ...
• A systems approach to model the relationship between aflatoxin gene cluster expression, environmental factors, growth and toxin production by Aspergillus flavus. 

  Abdel-Hadi, Ahmed; Schmidt-Heydt, Markus; Parra, Roberto; Geisen, Rolf; Magan, Naresh (2012-04-07)

  A microarray analysis was used to examine the effect of combinations of water activity (a(w), 0.995-0.90) and temperature (20-42°C) on the activation of aflatoxin biosynthetic genes (30 genes) in Aspergillus flavus grown ...
• Diversity and distribution of sulphate-reducing bacteria in human faeces from healthy subjects and patients with inflammatory bowel disease 

  Jia, Wenjing; Whitehead, Rebekah N.; Griffiths, Lesley; Dawson, Claire; Bai, Hao; Waring, Rosemary H.; Ramsden, David B.; Hunter, John O.; Cauchi, Michael; Bessant, Conrad M.; Fowler, Dawn P.; Walton, Christopher; Turner, Claire; Cole, Jeffrey A. (2012-06-01)

  The relative abundance of different groups of sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in faecal DNA collected before and after therapy from patients suffering from Crohn's disease (CD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or ulcerative ...
• Construction and interrogation of enzyme microarrays using scanning electrochemical microscopy - optimisation of adsorption and determination of enzymatic activity. 

  Roberts, William St John; Davis, Frank; Collyer, Stuart D.; Higson, Seamus P. J. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011-12-21)

  Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) has been used to image and study the catalytic activity of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) immobilised in a patterned fashion onto glass slides. Microarrays of HRP islands could be ...
• A comparison of artificial neural networks and partial least squares modelling for the rapid detection of the microbial spoilage of beef fillets based on Fourier transform infrared spectral fingerprints 

  Panagou, Efstathios Z.; Mohareb, Fady R.; Argyri, Anthoula A.; Bessant, Conrad M.; Nychas, George-John E. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 2011-06-30)

  A series of partial least squares (PLS) models were employed to correlate spectral data from FTIR analysis with beef fillet spoilage during aerobic storage at different temperatures (0, 5, 10, 15, and 20°C) using the dataset ...
• Modelling the relationship between environmental factors, transcriptional genes and deoxynivalenol mycotoxin production by strains of two Fusarium species 

  Schmidt-Heydt, Markus; Parra, Roberto; Geisen, Rolf; Magan, Naresh (2011-01-06)

  The effect of changes in temperature/water activity (a(w)) on growth, deoxynivalenol (DON) production and trichothecene gene cluster expression (18 genes) for strains of Fusarium culmorum and Fusarium graminearum was ...

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