Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Qualifications

BSc,MSc, PhD, DIC

Internal memberships / posts

School Research Committee

External memberships / posts

Member of SGM, member of the editorial board of journals (1) Biofouling and (2) International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation; elected member of the International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Council; elected member of the COIPM Council; elected member of the European Working Party on Biocorrosion; expert member of the EU INTAS grant proposal board, elected member of the European Working Party on Biocorrosion,
Referee: EU grants, NSF grants (USA), BBSRC, NERC, Royal Society grants;
Referee: Scientific journals, including Nature Biotechnology; external examiner of PhD thesis worldwide (UK, Spain, France, Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, USA, Japan).

Key teaching responsibilities

Level 2:  Microbiology

Level 3 Aseptic Techniques

Key research interests

Fundamental and applied aspects of bacterial biofilms in natural environments, including medical biofilms; the role of bacteria in colitis, survival of pathogens in marine environments, biofouling, biocorrosion, biodeterioration and biodegradation including marine conservation; biochemical imaging using advanced mass spectrometry techniques; study of ionization processes in mass spectrometry to understand structure of bacterial extracellular polymers (complex organic mixtures).

Postgraduate students: currently supervised 2 PhD ; Key research grants obtained in the last 5 years include NERC, EU Thematic Programme, EU Brite-Euram Programme under Network Scheme, NHS, EU High Level Scientific Conferences Programme, as well as at least 10 research awards from different Industrial sectors and Local Authorities

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications Before 2008

Hiraoka K, Fujita K, Ishida M, Hiizumi K, Nakagawa F, Wada A, Beech IB & Sunner JA, Thermochemical stabilities and structures of the gas phase cluster ions of OCS+, S2+, H+(OCS), and C2H5+ with OCS, Int. J. Mass Spectrometry, in press 2005.

Sunner J, Beech IB & Hiraoka K, On the distribution of ion/neutral molecule clusters in electrospray and laser spray – a cluster division model for the electrospray process, Journal of American Society of Mass Spectrometry, in press 2005.

Pearce CB, ZinkevichV, Beech IB, Funjika V, Ruiz A-G, Al-adawi A & Hamish D, Using the polymerase chain reaction to investigate the association between bacterial translocation and systemic inflammatory response syndrome in predicted acute severe pancreatitis, World Journal of Gastroenterology, in press 2005.

Shiea J, Min-Zong H, Hsiu-Jung H, Chi-Yang L, Cheng-Hui Y, Beech IB & Sunner JA, Electrospray-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry for direct ambient analysis of solids, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, in press 2005.