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INGRID PICKERING
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
114 Science Place
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2
Phone: (306) 966-5706
Fax: (306) 966-8593
ingrid.pickering@usask.ca
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EXPERTISE KEYWORDS (up to 6)
X-ray absorption spectroscopy
X-ray fluorescence imaging
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
1986-1990 PhD, Physical Chemistry, Imperial College, London (UK)
1983-1986 BA, Natural Sciences, Cambridge (UK)
APPOINTMENTS
2003Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Molecular Environmental
Science, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan
1992-2003 Physicist, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (Menlo Park, CA, USA)
1990-1992 Postdoctoral fellow, Exxon Research and Engineering Co. (Annandale, NJ, USA)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS FROM LAST 5 YEARS
Refereed Journal Publications (Career total: 123)
123. GN George, SP Singh, J Hoover, IJ Pickering (2009) The Chemical Forms of Mercury in Aged
and Fresh Dental Amalgam Surfaces. Chem Res Toxicol 22:1761-1764
122. R Andrahennadi, J Fu, MJ Pushie, CIE Wiramanaden, GN George, IJ Pickering (2009) Insect
excretes unusual six-coordinate pentavalent arsenic species. Environ Chem 6:298-304
121. IJ Pickering, EY Sneeden, RC Prince, E Block, HH Harris, G Hirsch, GN George (2009)
Localizing the Chemical Forms of Sulfur in vivo using X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopic
Imaging: Application to Onion (Allium cepa) Tissues. Biochemistry 48:6846-6853
119. L Zhang, J Lichtmannegger, KH Summer, S Webb, IJ Pickering, GN George (2009) Tracing
copper-thiomolybdate complexes in a prospective treatment for Wilson’s disease. Biochemistry
48:891-897
118. BFGh Popescu, MJ George, U Bergmann, AV Garachtchenko, ME Kelly, RPE McCrea, K
Lüning, RM Devon, GN George, AD Hanson, SM Harder, LD Chapman, IJ Pickering, H Nichol
(2009) Mapping metals in Parkinson's and normal brain using rapid-scanning X-ray
fluorescence. Phys Med Biol 54:651-663
113. GN George, SP Singh, RC Prince, IJ Pickering (2008) Chemical forms of mercury and selenium
in fish following digestion with simulated gastric fluid. Chem Res Toxicol 21:2106-2110
112. GN George, M Gnida, DA Bazylinski, RC Prince, IJ Pickering (2008) X-ray Absorption
Spectroscopy as a Probe of Microbial Sulfur Biochemistry: The Nature of Bacterial Sulfur
Globules Revisited. J Bacteriol 190:6376-6383
111. B Bewer, H Zhang, Y Zhu, L Zhang, GN George, IJ Pickering, D Chapman (2008) Development
of a combined K-edge subtraction and fluorescence subtraction imaging system for small
animals. Rev Sci Instrum 79:085102/1-085102/3
110. M Korbas, SR Blechinger, PH Krone, IJ Pickering, GN George (2008) Localizing
organomercury uptake and accumulation in zebrafish larvae at the tissue and cellular level. Proc
Natl Acad Sci 105:12108-12112
109. H Zhang, Y Zhu, B Bewer, L Zhang, M Korbas, IJ Pickering, GN George, M Gupta, D Chapman
(2008) Comparison of iodine K-edge subtraction and fluorescence subtraction imaging in an
animal system. Nucl Instrum Meth Phys Res A 594:283-291
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105. M Gnida, EY Sneeden, JC Whitin, RC Prince, IJ Pickering, M Korbas, GN George (2007) Sulfur
X-ray absorption spectroscopy of living mammalian cells: an enabling tool for sulfur
metabolomics - in situ observation of taurine uptake into MDCK cells. Biochemistry 46:1473514741
101. D Thavarajah, A Vandenberg, GN George, IJ Pickering (2007) The chemical form of selenium
in naturally selenium-rich lentils (Lens culinaris L.) from Saskatchewan. J Agric Food Chem
55:7337-7341
99. BFGh Popescu, IJ Pickering, GN George, H Nichol (2007) The chemical form of mitochondrial
iron in Friedreich's ataxia. J Inorg Biochem 101:957-966
94. IJ Pickering, L Gumaelius, HH Harris, RC Prince, G Hirsch, JA Banks, DE Salt, GN George.
Localizing the biochemical transformations of arsenate in a hyperaccumulating fern. Environ Sci
Technol 40:5010-5014 (2006)
93. RE Hoffmeyer, SP Singh, CJ Doonan, ARS Ross, RJ Hughes, IJ Pickering, GN George (2006)
Molecular Mimicry in Mercury Toxicology. Chem Res Toxicol 19:753-759
92. SA Manley, GN George, IJ Pickering, RS Glass, EJ Prenner, R Yamdagni, Q Wu, J Gailer
(2006) The Seleno Bis(S-glutathionyl) Arsinium Ion is Assembled in Erythrocyte Lysate. Chem
Res Toxicol 19:601-607
89. TW Lane, MA Saito, GN George, IJ Pickering, RC Prince, FMM Morel (2005) Biochemistry: A
cadmium enzyme from a marine diatom. Nature 435(7038):42
87. GN George, RC Prince, J Gailer, GA Buttigieg, MB Denton, HH Harris, IJ Pickering (2004)
Mercury Binding to the Chelation Therapy Agents DMSA and DMPS, and the Rational Design
of Custom Chelators for Mercury. Chem Res Toxicol 17:999-1006
The formats for publications and other contributions can be varied. Additional categories of
contributions should be added as appropriate and if space permits, such as articles in conference
proceedings, invited and contributed conference presentations including posters, and presentations
within the department. Use the CIHR CV guidelines for categories of contributions.
RESEARCH GRANT INFORMATION
Funds Currently Held
Granting Agency Subject
CIHR (Training
Training grant in Health Research
Grant)
Using Synchrotron Techniques (CIHRTHRUST)
NSERC
Spectroscopic Speciation of Arsenic and
(Operating)
Selenium in the Environment
Etc.
Total $
$1,790,000
Years
PI
2009-2015 Pickering
$171,000
2004-2010 Pickering
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
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