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Perdita E. Barran is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, focusing primarily on chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work contributes extensively to various subfields such as spectroscopy, molecular biology, materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and infectious diseases.

Their research topics cover a range of scientific areas including mass spectrometry techniques and applications, analytical chemistry and chromatography, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and mechanisms and treatments related to Parkinson's disease.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Metabolomics of sebum reveals lipid dysregulation in Parkinson's disease, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry (IM-MS) for Structural Biology: Insights Gained by Measuring Mass, Charge, and Collision Cross Section, 2023, Chemical Reviews
  • Rapid prototyping of microbial production strains for the biomanufacture of potential materials monomers, 2020, Metabolic Engineering
  • Structural characterisation methods for supramolecular chemistry that go beyond crystallography, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Coupling Droplet Microfluidics with Mass Spectrometry for Ultrahigh-Throughput Analysis of Complex Mixtures up to and above 30 Hz, 2020, Analytical Chemistry

Frequent co-authors working alongside Barran include Niklas Geue, Richard E. P. Winpenny, Grigore A. Timco, Drupad K. Trivedi, and George F. S. Whitehead.

Publications by Barran have appeared repeatedly in several specialized venues. These include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Recommendations for reporting ion mobility Mass Spectrometry measurements

    Valérie Gabelica;Alexandre A. Shvartsburg;Carlos Afonso;Perdita Barran

  • How useful is ion mobility mass spectrometry for structural biology? The relationship between protein crystal structures and their collision cross sections in the gas phase

    Ewa Jurneczko;Perdita E. Barran

  • An automated Design-Build-Test-Learn pipeline for enhanced microbial production of fine chemicals

    Pablo Carbonell;Adrian J. Jervis;Christopher J. Robinson;Cunyu Yan

  • New cofactor supports α,β-unsaturated acid decarboxylation via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

    Karl A. P. Payne;Mark D. White;Karl Fisher;Basile Khara

  • Luminescent, Enantiopure, Phenylatopyridine Iridium-Based Coordination Capsules

    Oleg Chepelin;Jakub Ujma;Xiaohua Wu;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin

  • Structure-activity relationships in beta-defensin peptides.

    Karen Taylor;Perdita E. Barran;Julia R. Dorin

  • Metabolomics of sebum reveals lipid dysregulation in Parkinson's disease.

    Eleanor Sinclair;Drupad K. Trivedi;Depanjan Sarkar;Caitlin Walton-Doyle

  • Discovery of volatile biomarkers of Parkinson’s Disease from sebum

    Drupad K. Trivedi;Eleanor Sinclair;Yun Xu;Yun Xu;Depanjan Sarkar

  • Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry (IM-MS) for Structural Biology: Insights Gained by Measuring Mass, Charge, and Collision Cross Section

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  • Active-Metal Template Synthesis of a Molecular Trefoil Knot

    Perdita E. Barran;Harriet L. Cole;Stephen M. Goldup;David A. Leigh

  • Mass spectrometry based tools to investigate protein-ligand interactions for drug discovery.

    Kamila J. Pacholarz;Rachel A. Garlish;Richard J. Taylor;Perdita E. Barran

  • Advancing solutions to the carbohydrate sequencing challenge

    Christopher J. Gray;Lukasz G. Migas;Perdita E. Barran;Kevin Pagel

  • Applications of ion mobility mass spectrometry for high throughput, high resolution glycan analysis

    C.J. Gray;B. Thomas;R. Upton;L.G. Migas

  • The photochemical mechanism of a B12-dependent photoreceptor protein

    Roger J. Kutta;Samantha J. O. Hardman;Linus O. Johannissen;Bruno Bellina

  • Structure-activity relationships in defensin dimers: a novel link between beta-defensin tertiary structure and antimicrobial activity.

    Dominic J. Campopiano;David J. Clarke;Nick C. Polfer;Perdita E. Barran

  • A mass-spectrometry-based framework to define the extent of disorder in proteins.

    Rebecca Beveridge;Sam Covill;Kamila J. Pacholarz;Jason M. D. Kalapothakis

  • Analysis and separation of residues important for the chemoattractant and antimicrobial activities of beta-defensin 3.

    Karen Taylor;David J. Clarke;Bryan McCullough;Wuthareth Chin

  • Acoustic Mist Ionization Platform for Direct and Contactless Ultrahigh-Throughput Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Liquid Samples

    Ian Sinclair;Martin Bachman;Daniel Addison;Mattias Rohman

  • Dynamics of Intact Immunoglobulin G Explored by Drift‐Tube Ion‐Mobility Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Modeling

    Kamila J. Pacholarz;Massimiliano Porrini;Rachel A. Garlish;Rebecca J. Burnley

  • Making Hybrid [n]-Rotaxanes as Supramolecular Arrays of Molecular Electron Spin Qubits

    Antonio Fernandez;Jesus Ferrando-Soria;Eufemio Moreno Pineda;Floriana Tuna

  • The effect of the initial water of hydration on the energetics, structures, and H/D exchange mechanism of a family of pentapeptides: an experimental and theoretical study.

    Thomas Wyttenbach;Béla Paizs;Perdita Barran;Linda Breci

  • A Gas-Phase Study of the Coordination of Mg2+ with Oxygen- and Nitrogen-Containing Ligands

    N. Walker;M. P. Dobson;R. R. Wright;P. E. Barran

  • Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry.

    Perdita Barran;Brandon Ruotolo

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia R. Dorin
Julia R. Dorin University of Edinburgh
Nicholas J. Turner
Nicholas J. Turner University of Manchester
Royston Goodacre
Royston Goodacre University of Liverpool
Nigel S. Scrutton
Nigel S. Scrutton University of Manchester
Rainer Breitling
Rainer Breitling University of Manchester
Michael T. Bowers
Michael T. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara
Frank Sobott
Frank Sobott University of Leeds
John R. W. Govan
John R. W. Govan University of Edinburgh
Sabine L. Flitsch
Sabine L. Flitsch University of Manchester
Dušan Uhrín
Dušan Uhrín University of Edinburgh

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