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Overview

Brian H. Robinson is affiliated with the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a focus on Medicine and Engineering. The scientist's work covers a range of specialized subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Education, Media Technology, Surgery, and Architecture.

Robinson's academic output includes studies related to Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, and Anesthesia and Pain Management. Additionally, they have contributed to Engineering Education and Pedagogy, Experimental Learning in Engineering, Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Robinson are:

  • Electron dynamics in extended systems within real-time time-dependent density-functional theory (2022, MRS Communications)
  • Virtual reality is beneficial in decreasing pain in labouring women: A preliminary study (2022, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
  • Microbial community response to simulated diluted bitumen spills in coastal seawater and implications for oil spill response (2022, FEMS Microbiology Ecology)
  • Ultrathin quasi-2D amorphous carbon dielectric prepared from solution precursor for nanoelectronics (2023, Communications Engineering)
  • Ambient energy for buildings: Beyond energy efficiency (2024, Solar Compass)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Nicholas Hawkins and James Lewis, each with four joint publications. Other frequent collaborators include André Schleife, Lorna Massov, and Robyn Maude.

Robinson's most common publication venues include the Journal of Science Teacher Education and ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings from 2020 and 2021, each hosting multiple publications. Other venues include MRS Communications and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Best Publications

  • Approaches to DNA Mutagenesis: An Overview

    Michael Mingfu Ling;Brian H. Robinson

  • Inhibition of Mitochondrial Translation as a Therapeutic Strategy for Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Marko Škrtić;Shrivani Sriskanthadevan;Bozhena Jhas;Marinella Gebbia

  • Heteroplasmic mtDNA mutation (T----G) at 8993 can cause Leigh disease when the percentage of abnormal mtDNA is high.

    Y Tatuch;J Christodoulou;A Feigenbaum;J T Clarke

  • Mitochondria, oxygen free radicals, and apoptosis

    Sandeep Raha;Brian H. Robinson

  • Nonviability of cells with oxidative defects in galactose medium: a screening test for affected patient fibroblasts.

    B.H. Robinson;R. Petrova-Benedict;J.R. Buncic;D.C. Wallace

  • Mutations in Iron-Sulfur Cluster Scaffold Genes NFU1 and BOLA3 Cause a Fatal Deficiency of Multiple Respiratory Chain and 2-Oxoacid Dehydrogenase Enzymes

    Jessie M. Cameron;Alexandre Janer;Valeriy Levandovskiy;Nevena MacKay

  • Human Complex I deficiency: Clinical spectrum and involvement of oxygen free radicals in the pathogenicity of the defect

    Brian H Robinson

  • Mutations in the X-linked pyruvate dehydrogenase (E1) alpha subunit gene (PDHA1) in patients with a pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency.

    Willy Lissens;Linda De Meirleir;Sara Seneca;Inge Liebaers

  • Variant non ketotic hyperglycinemia is caused by mutations in LIAS, BOLA3 and the novel gene GLRX5.

    Peter R. Baker;Marisa W. Friederich;Michael A. Swanson;Tamim Shaikh

  • The role of the LRPPRC (leucine-rich pentatricopeptide repeat cassette) gene in cytochrome oxidase assembly: mutation causes lowered levels of COX (cytochrome c oxidase) I and COX III mRNA

    Fenghao Xu;Charles Morin;Grant Mitchell;Cameron Ackerley

  • Variable clinical presentation in patients with defective E1 component of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex.

    Brian H. Robinson;Harriet MacMillan;Roumyana Petrova-Benedict;W. Geoffrey Sherwood

  • Long-term outcome and clinical spectrum of 73 pediatric patients with mitochondrial diseases.

    François-Guillaume Debray;Marie Lambert;Isabelle Chevalier;Yves Robitaille

  • The genetic heterogeneity of lactic acidosis: occurrence of recognizable inborn errors of metabolism in pediatric population with lactic acidosis.

    B H Robinson;J Taylor;W G Sherwood

  • The mitochondrial DNA mutation at 8993 associated with NARP slows the rate of ATP synthesis in isolated lymphoblast mitochondria.

    Y. Tatuch;B.H. Robinson

  • Lactic acidemia and mitochondrial disease.

    Brian H. Robinson

  • Maternally inherited hypertrophic cardiomyopathy due to a novel T-to-C transition at nucleotide 9997 in the mitochondrial tRNA(glycine) gene.

    F. Merante;I. Tein;L. Benson;B. H. Robinson

  • Expression of mtDNA and nDNA encoded respiratory chain proteins in chemically and genetically-derived Rho0 human fibroblasts: a comparison of subunit proteins in normal fibroblasts treated with ethidium bromide and fibroblasts from a patient with mtDNA depletion syndrome.

    Michael F Marusich;Brian H Robinson;Jan-Willem Taanman;Soo Jin Kim

  • Isolation and sequence determination of cDNA clones for porcine and human lipoamide dehydrogenase: homology to other disulfide oxidoreductases

    G Otulakowski;B H Robinson

  • The role of manganese superoxide dismutase in health and disease

    B. H. Robinson

  • Clinical presentation of mitochondrial respiratory chain defects in NADH-coenzyme Q reductase and cytochrome oxidase: Clues to pathogenesis of Leigh disease*

    Brian H. Robinson;Linda De Meirieir;Moira Glerum;Geoffrey Sherwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Tarnopolsky
Mark A. Tarnopolsky McMaster University
Cameron Ackerley
Cameron Ackerley University of Toronto
Clifford C. Leznoff
Clifford C. Leznoff York University
Lee N. Benson
Lee N. Benson University of Toronto
Eric A. Shoubridge
Eric A. Shoubridge Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Lawrence Sweetman
Lawrence Sweetman University of California, San Diego
Roderick A. Capaldi
Roderick A. Capaldi University of Oregon
Alessandro Datti
Alessandro Datti University of Perugia
John Christodoulou
John Christodoulou University of Melbourne
Thomas J. Hudson
Thomas J. Hudson Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

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