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Ingrid J. Pickering

Ingrid J. Pickering

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Chemistry
Canada
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
20778
World Ranking
4430
National Ranking
110

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Ingrid J. Pickering is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, medicine, and chemistry, integrating interdisciplinary approaches to address issues related to toxicology, metal exposure, and chemical analysis.

Their work covers multiple main fields of study including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine
  • Chemistry

Within these areas, Pickering's subfields of study include:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Oncology
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry

The research topics addressed by Pickering encompass:

  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Selenium in Biological Systems
  • X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
  • Trace Elements in Health
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Pickering has published extensively, with frequent articles appearing in several venues:

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • NeuroToxicology

Notable recent papers include:

  • Direct Observation of Methylmercury and Auranofin Binding to Selenocysteine in Thioredoxin Reductase, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Disulfide Bonds Play a Critical Role in the Structure and Function of the Receptor-binding Domain of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Antigen, 2021, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Rethinking the Minamata Tragedy: What Mercury Species Was Really Responsible?, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • High Energy Resolution Fluorescence Detected X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy: An Analytical Method for Selenium Speciation, 2021, Analytical Chemistry
  • Sulfur Kβ X-ray emission spectroscopy: comparison with sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy for speciation of organosulfur compounds, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts include:

  • Graham N. George
  • Natalia V. Dolgova
  • Dimosthenis Sokaras
  • Thomas Kröll
  • Julien J. H. Cotelesage

Recognition for their scholarly contributions includes the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • The Chemical Form of Mercury in Fish

    Hugh H. Harris;Ingrid J. Pickering;Graham N. George

  • Mechanisms of Cadmium Mobility and Accumulation in Indian Mustard

    D. E. Salt;R. C. Prince;I. J. Pickering;I. Raskin

  • Reduction and Coordination of Arsenic in Indian Mustard

    Ingrid J. Pickering;Roger C. Prince;Martin J. George;Robert D. Smith

  • Increased glutathione biosynthesis plays a role in nickel tolerance in thlaspi nickel hyperaccumulators

    J.L. Freeman;M.W. Persans;K. Nieman;C. Albrecht

  • Metal oxides as heterogeneous catalysts for oxygen evolution under photochemical conditions

    Anthony Harriman;Ingrid J. Pickering;John M. Thomas;Paul A. Christensen

  • Subcellular localization and speciation of nickel in hyperaccumulator and non-accumulator Thlaspi species

    Ute Krämer;Ingrid J. Pickering;Roger C. Prince;Ilya Raskin

  • Biochemistry: a cadmium enzyme from a marine diatom.

    Todd W. Lane;Mak A. Saito;Graham N. George;Ingrid J. Pickering

  • Zinc Ligands in the Metal Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens As Determined Using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

    David E. Salt;Roger C. Prince;Alan J. M. Baker;Ilya Raskin

  • Dinitrogen cleavage by three-coordinate molybdenum(III) complexes: Mechanistic and structural data

    Catalina E. Laplaza;Marc J. A. Johnson;Jonas C. Peters;Aaron L. Odom

  • Metal Accumulation by Aquacultured Seedlings of Indian Mustard.

    David E. Salt;Ingrid J. Pickering;Roger C. Prince;Deloressa Gleba

  • Elemental and Chemically Specific X-ray Fluorescence Imaging of Biological Systems

    M. Jake Pushie;Ingrid J. Pickering;Malgorzata Korbas;Malgorzata Korbas;Mark J. Hackett

  • Photooxidation of crude oils

    Robert M. Garrett;Ingrid J. Pickering;and Copper E. Haith;Roger C. Prince

  • A novel arsenate reductase from the arsenic hyperaccumulating fern Pteris vittata.

    Danielle R. Ellis;Luke Gumaelius;Emily Indriolo;Ingrid J. Pickering

  • Production of Se-methylselenocysteine in transgenic plants expressing selenocysteine methyltransferase

    Danielle R Ellis;Thomas G Sors;Dennis G Brunk;Carrie Albrecht

  • Localizing the Biochemical Transformations of Arsenate in a Hyperaccumulating Fern

    Ingrid J. Pickering;Luke Gumaelius;Hugh H. Harris;Roger C. Prince

  • Molybdenum sequestration in Brassica species. A role for anthocyanins

    Kerry L. Hale;Steve P. McGrath;Enzo Lombi;Stephen M. Stack

  • Analysis of sulfur and selenium assimilation in Astragalus plants with varying capacities to accumulate selenium

    Thomas G. Sors;Danielle R. Ellis;Gun Nam Na;Brett Lahner

  • Quantitative, chemically specific imaging of selenium transformation in plants.

    Ingrid J. Pickering;Roger C. Prince;David E. Salt;Graham N. George

  • Chemical Form and Distribution of Selenium and Sulfur in the Selenium Hyperaccumulator Astragalus bisulcatus

    Ingrid J. Pickering;Carrie Wright;Ben Bubner;Danielle Ellis

  • Structural basis of the antagonism between inorganic mercury and selenium in mammals.

    J Gailer;G N George;I J Pickering;S Madden

  • MICROBIAL DESULFURIZATION OF A CRUDE OIL MIDDLE-DISTILLATE FRACTION: ANALYSIS OF THE EXTENT OF SULFUR REMOVAL AND THE EFFECT OF REMOVAL ON REMAINING SULFUR

    M. J. Grossman;M. K. Lee;R. C. Prince;K. K. Garrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham N. George
Graham N. George University of Saskatchewan
Roger C. Prince
Roger C. Prince ExxonMobil (United States)
David E. Salt
David E. Salt University of Nottingham
Hugh H. Harris
Hugh H. Harris University of Adelaide
Dimosthenis Sokaras
Dimosthenis Sokaras SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Norman Terry
Norman Terry University of California, Berkeley
Karsten Liber
Karsten Liber University of Saskatchewan
Dennis R. Winge
Dennis R. Winge University of Utah
Eric Block
Eric Block University at Albany, State University of New York
Richard S. Glass
Richard S. Glass University of Arizona

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