TESLA Aberdeen is now TESLA Graz
you can reach us under https://chemie.uni-graz.at/en/analytical-chemistry/
and by email at:
Do stay in touch and we're of course open for collaborations
What does TESLA do?
Check out: Agilent Case Study: University of Aberdeen
September 2020
Sa'adatu finished her PhD successfully. Her thesis is entitled "Exposure to metals in the environment".
On behalf of the entire TESLA team working on mercury with the industry. Eva and Joerg received the Principal’s excellence award for industrial engagement from the University of Aberdeen 2020 on there last day before heading to Austria.
PhD symposium at Aberdeen was a great success for TESLA.
Shaun won the 1st Prize for the best talk (The eagle that ate a whale… (maybe…): How looking closer at outliers may reveal new mercury uptake or detoxification pathways in Scottish golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos).), and two second prizes for Amnah (Per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances (PFASs) and extractable organofluorine (EOF) in liver of pilot whales identify large proportion of unknown organofluorines) and for Lhiam (AF4 for nanoparticles) for their posters. Congratulations to the winners; TEAM TESLA wins!
Publications:
"Concentration and origin of lead (Pb) in liver and bone of Eurasian buzzards (Buteo buteo) in the United Kingdom" now published online.
A new paper published on spatiotemporal and speciation analysis of Ag0 Nanoparticles in healing wounds; a collaboration with University of Venice and Institute of polar research in Venice (Italy). Just accepted
August 2020
Publications:
Brown, L.K., Blanz, M., Wishart, J., Dieterich, B., Schmidt, S.B., Russell, J., Martin, P., George, T.S., 2020. Is Bere barley specifically adapted to fertilisation with seaweed as a nutrient source? Nutr. Cycl. Agrroecosystems.
A collaborative study between Universities of Limerick and Aberdeen about Concentrations of Essential Trace Metals in the Brain of Animal Species—A Comparative Study was just published.
June 2020
The first Covid-19 restricted PhD viva in our institute on the 29th of June with an external examiner from Brazil Prof. Daniel Borges (UFSC). Congratulations to Abdullah who passed his Viva examination successfully with minor corrections. His thesis is about Organofluorines in the environment using HR-GF-CS-MAS and MP-AES for detection.
2020 Principal's Excellence Award
The TESLA group have received one of 2020 Principal’s Excellence Awards.
You can find the link to the winners here: There is a pdf result and a video of the virtual award ceremony.
TESLA members got the prize for industry engagement with the oil and gas industry and the winner are: Eva, Martin, Shaun and Daniel
Publications:
Lhiam Paton's paper about arsenolipid transport in breastmilk (Transport of arsenolipids to the milk of a nursing mother after consuming salmon fish) done during is Master Thesis stay at the University of Graz is published now in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology.
May 2020
Publications:
CRM rapid response approach for the certification of arsenic species and toxic trace elements in baby cereal coarse rice flour certified reference material BARI-1 published now in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. TELSA was involved in the international effort to produce a certified reference material for arsenic species, total arsenic and cadmium content in record time due to the need to serve the new legislation for inorganic arsenic in baby rice in Canada.
March 2020
Mauana passed her PhD viva successfully at UFSC in Florianopolis, Brazil with the title “Determination of iodine by high-resolution molecular absorption spectrometry – a comparison between promising molecules”. Mauana spent part of her PhD time at TESLA in Aberdeen working on fluorine determination by high-resolution molecular absorption spectrometry.Congratulations.
Publications:
Congratulations to Alexa Brand and coworkers for their publication about trace element speciation in fungal cytosols. Congratulations as well as to Linrui Wu her paper about an unusual enzyme invovled in creating fluorinated metabolites (part of her PhD thesis) is now available here.
Blanz, M, Mainland, I, Richards, M, Balasse, M, Ascough, P, Wolfhagen, J, Taggart, MA & Feldmann, (Accepted/In press). Identifying seaweed consumption by sheep using isotope analysis of their bones and teeth: Modern reference δ13C and δ15N values and their archaeological implications. Journal of Archaeological Science.
Metallomics accepted the paper entitled "Toxicity of three types of arsenolipids: species-specific effects in Caenorhabditis elegans" by Bronhorst J et al. Congratulations to all.
February 2020
TESLA’s BRAVE project (Bangladesh Risk of Acute Vascular Events) is in the university annual report under UNIVERSITY TEAM EMBARK ON MAJOR HEART DISEASE STUDY IN SOUTH ASIA
TESLA's PhD students were out in force at the 11th Scottish Symposium on Environmental Analytical Chemistry at RGU.
Nan and Wladiana won the poster price for best poster at the meeting.
“Distribution and speciation of arsenic in Brazilian shrimps”.
December 2019
Publications:
Congratulations to to Joanna Potrykus, Dagmar Urgast and their co-authors
their paper about Host-Imposed Copper Poisoning Impacts Fungal Micronutrient Acquisition during Systemic Candida albicans Infections is among the top 10 % most cited Plos one papers published in 2016
November 2019
Angstone took part in the November 2019 Graduation ceremony, also present was Wilka from the Oil and Gas Chemistry taught master course.
Angstone latest paper was accepted in STOTEN. In it he describes the effects different watering regime and zerovalent iron on cadmium uptake and arsenic methylation in Malawi rice cultivars.
October 2019
Publications:
A. Akhdhar, M. Schneider, A. Orme, L. Schultes, A. Raab, E.M. Krupp, J.P. Benskin, B. Welz, J. Feldmann
Published in Talanta
September 2019
Angstone and Daniel passed their PhD-VIVAs (September). Congratulations
Publications:
Mobilisation of arsenic, selenium and uranium from Carboniferous black shales in west Ireland
Joseph G.T. Armstrong, John Parnell, Liam A.Bullock, Adrian J.Boyce, Magali Perez, Jörg Feldmann
Published in Applied Geochemistry
(The paper highlights the potential mobilisation of toxic elements during fracking…)
Eleanor Ender, Maria Angels Subirana, Andrea Raab, Eva Krupp, Dirk Schaumlöffel, Jorg Feldmann
Published in JAAS
(MChem project of Eleonor Enders, who finished her MChem-degree in June, Congratulations to her)
Conferences to come:
Analytical Research Forum 2020 (ARF20) 16th of June 2020 in London,
abstract dead lines: 24/02/2020 (oral presentation), 13/04/2020 (poster presentation)
BNASS 2020, 29th June to 1st July, Manchester UK
Recent publication
- Matrix-dependent size modifications of iron oxide nanoparticles (Ferumoxytol) spiked into rat blood cells and plasma: Characterisation with TEM, AF4-UV-MALS-ICP-MS/MS and spICP-MS
Kenneth C. Nwoko, Andrea Raab, Lesley Cheyne, Dana Dawson, Eva Krupp, Jörg Feldmann
Published in Journal of Chromatography B - Arsenolipids are not uniformly distributed within two brown macroalgal species Saccharina latissima and Alaria esculenta
Ásta H. Pétursdóttir, Jonathan Blagden, Karl Gunnarsson, Andrea Raab, Dagmar B. Stengel, Jörg Feldmann, Helga Gunnlaugsdóttir
Published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Emma Ownsworth, David Selby, Christopher J. Ottley, Emily Unsworth, Andrea Raab, Joerg Feldmann, Adam D.Sproson, Junichiro Kuroda, Camilla Faidutti, Patrick Bücker
Published in Science of The Total Environment
(Camilla worked as a summer student at TESLA and Patrick was here as a Erasmus student)
Cu@Au self-assembled nanoparticles as SERS-active substrates for (bio)molecular sensing
Gema Cabello, Kenneth C. Nwoko, Jose F. Marco, María Sanchez-Arenillas, Ana María Mendez-Torres, Jorg Feldmann, Claudia Yanez, Tim A.D. Smith
Published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Shaun T. Lancaster, Christoph-Cornelius Brombach, Warren T. Corns, Jörg Feldmann and Eva M. Krupp
Published in JAAS
Eduardo Bolea-Fernandez, Ana Rua-Ibarz, Eva M. Krupp, Jörg Feldmann & Frank Vanhaecke
Published in Scientific Reports
Biological sulphur-containing compounds – analytical challenges
Andrea Raab, Joerg Feldmann
Published in Analytica Chimica Acta
Filipe S. Rondan, Alessandra S. Henn, Paola A. Mello, Magali Perez, Liam A. Bullock,John Parnell, Joerg Feldmann, Erico M. M. Flores and Marcia F. Mesko
Published in JAAS
Lilian Seiko Kato, Elisabete A. de Nadai Fernandes, Andrea Raab, Marcio Arruda Bacchi, Joerg Feldmann
Published in Food Chemistry
Magdalena Blanz, Philippa Ascough, Ingrid Mainland, Peter Martin, Mark A. Taggart, Burkart Dieterich, John Wishart, Kerry L. Sayle, Andrea Raab, Jörg Feldmann
Published in Journal of Archaeological Science
Anika Retzmann, Magdalena Blanz, Andreas Zitek, Johanna Irrgeher, Joerg Feldmann, Nicola M. Teschler, Thomas Prohaska
Published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Abdelkarem A. S. Elgazali, Zuzana Gajdosechova, Zaigham Abbas, Enzo Lombi, Kirk G. Scheckel, Erica Donner, Heidelore Fiedler, Jorg Feldmann, Eva M. Krupp
Published in Scientific Reports