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Spring 2016
The analysis of thousands of metabolites and lipids for discovery of metabolite biomarkers for disease monitoring and diagnosis requires the highest sensitivity and robust methods. Metabolomics is the study of metabolites found in the body, which can be used to discover biomarkers of disease or...
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Fall 2014
The oil sands landscape in northern Alberta is interspersed with large tailings ponds that hold wastewater from bitumen mining and extraction processes. Recent monitoring results indicate that annually many thousands of birds, mostly migrating waterfowl, land on the ponds associated with this...
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Fall 2016
Lipidomics is a research field that attempts to achieve the comprehensive analysis of the entire lipidome in a biological system. The emergence and rapid expansion of lipidomic studies is driven by the great advances in chromatographic separation and mass spectrometry. For this dissertation, I...
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Lipidomics of Biological Samples for the Assessment of Physiological and Pathological Processes
DownloadFall 2020
Lipids are a large class of hydrophobic molecules involved in energy storage, signaling, modulation of gene expression and membranes. Lipidomics focuses on the comprehensive analysis of lipids and their interactions. Although the potential of lipidomics to study physiological and pathological...