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PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (copies accessible via Scopus or Imperial Spiral)

2021

 

2020

  • Sheikholeslami, M.N., Gómez-Canela, C., Barron, L.P., Barata, C., Vosough, M., Tauler, R., Untargeted metabolomics changes on Gammarus pulex induced by propranolol, triclosan, and nimesulide pharmaceutical drugs(Article), Chemosphere, Volume 260, December 2020, Article number 127479

  • Irlam, R.C., Hughes, C., Parkin, M.C., Beardah, M.S., O'Donnell, M., Brabazon, D., Barron, L.P.,
    Trace multi-class organic explosives analysis in complex matrices enabled using LEGO®-inspired clickable 3D-printed solid phase extraction block arrays, Journal of Chromatography A, Volume 1629, 11 October 2020, Article number 461506

  • Irlam, R.C., Parkin, M.C., Brabazon, D.P., Beardah, M.S., O'Donnell, M., Barron, L.P., Improved determination of femtogram-level organic explosives in multiple matrices using dual-sorbent solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography-high resolution accurate mass spectrometry, Talanta, Volume 203, 1 October 2019, Pages 65-76

  • Keng Tiong Ng, Helena Rapp-Wright, Melanie Egli, Alicia Hartmann, Joshua Steele, Juan Eduardo Sosa-Hernandez, Elda M Melchor-Matrinez, Matthew Jacobs, Blanaid White, Fiona Regan, Roberto Parra Saldivar, Lewis Couchman, Rolf U Halden, Leon Patrick Barron, High throughout multi-residue quantification of contaminants of emerging concern in wastewaters enabled using direct injection liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 398,122933

  • Iria González‐Mariño  Jose Antonio Baz‐Lomba  Nikiforos A. Alygizakis  Maria Jesús Andrés‐Costa  Richard Bade  Anne Bannwarth  Leon P. Barron  Frederic Been  Lisa Benaglia  Jean‐Daniel Berset  Lubertus Bijlsma  Igor Bodík  Asher Brenner  Andreas L. Brock  Daniel A. Burgard  Erika Castrignanò  Alberto Celma  Christophoros E. Christophoridis  Adrian Covaci  Olivier Delémont  Pim de Voogt  Damien A. Devault  Mário J. Dias  Erik Emke  Pierre Esseiva  Despo Fatta‐Kassinos  Ganna Fedorova  Konstantinos Fytianos  Cobus Gerber  Roman Grabic  Emma Gracia‐Lor  Stefan Grüner  Teemu Gunnar  Evroula Hapeshi  Ester Heath  Björn Helm  Félix Hernández  Aino Kankaanpaa  Sara Karolak  Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern  Ivona Krizman‐Matasic  Foon Yin Lai  Wojciech Lechowicz  Alvaro Lopes  Miren López de Alda  Ester López‐García  Arndís S. C. Löve  Nicola Mastroianni  Gillian L. McEneff  Rosa Montes  Kelly Munro  Thomas Nefau  Herbert Oberacher  Jake W. O'Brien  Reinhard Oertel  Kristin Olafsdottir  Yolanda Picó  Benedek G. Plósz  Fabio Polesel  Cristina Postigo  José Benito Quintana  Pedram Ramin  Malcolm J. Reid  Jack Rice  Rosario Rodil  Noelia Salgueiro‐González  Sara Schubert  Ivan Senta  Susana M. Simões  Maja M. Sremacki  Katarzyna Styszko  Senka Terzic  Nikolaos S. Thomaidis  Kevin V. Thomas  Ben J. Tscharke  Robin Udrisard  Alexander L. N. van Nuijs  Viviane Yargeau  Ettore Zuccato  Sara Castiglioni  Christoph Ort, Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring, Addiction, 115, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 109-120

 

2019

  • Matteo D. Gallidabino*, Rachel C.Irlam, Michael C. Salt, Michael O’Donnell, Matthew S. Beardah, Leon P. Barron*, Targeted and non-targeted forensic profiling of black powder substitutes and gunshot residue using gradient ion chromatography – high resolution mass spectrometry (IC-HRMS), Analytica Chimica Acta, In press, 2019

  • Thomas H. Miller*, Keng Tiong Ng, Samuel T. Bury, Sophie E. Bury, Nicolas R. Bury, Leon P. Barron, Biomonitoring of pesticides, pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in a freshwater invertebrate to better estimate toxic or effect pressures, Environment International, In press, 2019

  • Katja M. Shimko, Jake W. O’Brien, Leon Barron, Hasan Kayalara, Jochen F. Mueller, Ben J. Tscharke, Phil M. Choi, Hui Jiang, Geoff Eaglesham, Kevin V. Thomas, Article, A pilot wastewater-based epidemiology assessment of anabolic steroid use in Queensland, Australia, Drug Testing and Analysis, 2019, In press DOI: 10.1002/dta.2591

  • Munro, K., Martins, C.P.B., Loewenthal, M., (...), Pereira, L., Barron, L.P. Evaluation of combined sewer overflow impacts on short-term pharmaceutical and illicit drug occurrence in a heavily urbanised tidal river catchment (London, UK), 2019 Science of the Total Environment, 657, pp. 1099-1111

  • Gallidabino M., Barron L., Weyermann C., Romolo F., Quantitative profile-profile relationship (QPPR) modelling: a novel machine learning approach to predict and associate chemical characteristics of unspent ammunition from gunshot residue (GSR), Analyst, 2019,144, 1128-1139 Front cover feature

  • Miller, T.H.,  Gallidabino, M.D.,  MacRae, J.I.,  Owen, S.F.,  Bury, N.R.,  Barron, L.P., Prediction of bioconcentration factors in fish and invertebrates using machine learning, Science of the Total Environment 648,  2019, 80-89 

 

2018

  • Thomas H. Miller, Matteo D. Gallidabino, James I. MacRae, Christer Hogstrand, Nicolas R. Bury, Leon P. Barron, Jason R. Snape, and Stewart F. Owen, Machine Learning for Environmental Toxicology: A Call for Integration and Innovation, Environmental Science & Technology, Viewpoint Article Open Access DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05382

  • Thomas H Miller, Nicolas R Bury, Stewart F Owen, James I MacRae, Leon Barron, A review of the pharmaceutical exposome in aquatic fauna, Environmental Pollution, Volume 239, August 2018, Pages 129–146. 

  • Gillian McEneff, Bronagh Murphy, Tony Webb, Dan Wood, Rachel Irlam, Jim Mills, David Green, Leon P Barron, Sorbent film-coated passive samplers for explosives vapour detection Part A: Materials optimisation and integration with analytical technologies, Nature - Scientific Reports, (2018) 8:5815. 

  • Gillian McEneff, Alexandra Richardson, Tony Webb, Dan Wood, Bronagh Murphy, Rachel Irlam, Jim Mills, David Green, Leon P Barron, Sorbent film-coated passive samplers for explosives vapour detection Part B: Deployment in semi-operational environments and alternative applications, Nature - Scientific Rerports, (2018) 8:5816. 

  • Aliferi, A.,  Ballard, D.,  Gallidabino, M.D.,  Thurtle, H.,  Barron, L.,  Syndercombe Court, D., DNA methylation-based age prediction using massively parallel sequencing data and multiple machine learning models, Forensic Science International: GeneticsVolume 37, November 2018, Pages 215-226

  • Alexander van Nuijs, Foon Yin Lai, Frederic Been, Maria Jesus Andres Costa, Leon Barron, (...), Christoph Ort, Multi-year interlaboratory exercises for the analysis of illicit drugs and metabolites in wastewater: development of a quality control system, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 103, June 2018, Pages 34-43. Link to article here

  • Christian Brinch Mollerup, Marie Mardal, Petur Weihe Dalsgaard, Kristian Linnet, Leon Patrick
    Barron, Prediction of Collision Cross Section and Retention Time for Broad Scope Screening in Gradient Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography-Ion Mobility-High Resolution Accurate Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Chromatography A, 1542, 2018, 82-88

  • Gallidabino, M.D., Hamdan, L., Murphy, B., Barron, L.P. Suspect screening of halogenated carboxylic acids in drinking water using ion exchange chromatography – High resolution (Orbitrap) mass spectrometry (IC-HRMS), Talanta, 178, 2018, 57-68

2017

  • TH Miller, NR Bury, SF Owen, LP Barron*, Uptake, biotransformation and elimination of selected pharmaceuticals in a freshwater invertebrate using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, Chemosphere, 183, 2017, 389-400

  • DNA methylation-based forensic age prediction using artificial neural networks and next generation sequencing, A Vidaki, D Ballard, A Aliferi, TH Miller, LP Barron*, D Syndercombe Court* (*as Co-PI), Forensic Science International: Genetics, 28, 2017, 225-236

  • H Rapp-Wright, G McEneff, PhD; B Murphy; S Gamble; R Morgan; M Beardah; LP Barron*, Suspect screening and quantification of trace organic explosives in wastewater using solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography-high resolution accurate mass spectrometry, J. Hazard. Mater., 329, 2017, 11-21

2016

  • Félix Zapata; Mª Ángeles Fernández de la Ossa; Elizabeth Gilchrist; Leon Barron; Carmen García- Ruiz, Progressing the analysis of Improvised Explosive Devices: Comparative study for trace detection of explosive residues in handprints by Raman spectroscopy and liquid chromatography, Talanta, 161, 2016, 219-227

  • Miller, T.H., Baz-Lomba, J.A., Harman, C.c, Reid, M.J., Owen, S.F., Bury, N.R., Thomas, K.V., Barron, L.P.*, The First Attempt at Non-Linear in Silico Prediction of Sampling Rates for Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Samplers (POCIS) , Environ. Sci. Technol. 50 (15), 2016, 7973-7981 (Front cover feature & American Chemical Society’s Editor’s Choice across all ACS journals)

  • Y Ryu, D Barceló, LP Barron, L Bijlsma, S Castiglioni, P deVoogt, E Emke, F Hernández, FY Lai, A Lopes, M López de Alda, N Mastroianni, K Munro, J O’Brien, C Ort, BG Plósz, MJ Reid, V Yargeaun, KV Thomas, Comparative measurement and quantitative risk assessment of alcohol consumption through wastewater-based epidemiology: An international study in 20 cities, Sci. Tot. Environ.  565, 2016, 977-983

  • C Gómez-Canela, TH Miller, NR Bury, R Tauler and LP Barron*, Targeted metabolomics of Gammarus pulex following controlled exposures to selected pharmaceuticals in water. Sci. Tot. Environ. 562, 2016, 777-788

  • TH Miller, GL McEneff, L Stott, SF Owen, NR Bury, LP Barron* Assessing the reliability of uptake and elimination kinetics modelling approaches for estimating bioconcentration factors in the freshwater invertebrate, Gammarus pulex, Sci. Tot. Environ., 547, 2016, 396-404

  • LP Barron*, GL McEneff, Gradient liquid chromatographic retention time prediction for suspect screening applications: a critical assessment of artificial neural network performance across ten multi-residue reversed-phase analytical methods, Talanta, Volume 147, 2016, 261-270

  • KA Weston-Ford, Mark Moseley, Lisa J. Hall, Nicholas P. Marsh, Ruth M. Morgan and Leon P. Barron*, The retrieval of fingerprint friction ridge detail from elephant ivory using magnetic and non-magnetic microscale particle powdering materials, Sci Justice, 56, 2016, 1-8

2015

  • R Bade, L Bijlsma, TH Miller, LP Barron, JV Sancho, F Hernandez*, Suspect Screening of Large Numbers of Emerging Contaminants in Environmental Waters using Artificial Neural Networks for Chromatographic Retention Time Prediction and High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis, Sci. Tot. Environ., 538, 2015, Pages 934-941,

  • Sabine Schnell; Kafilat Bawa-Allah; Adebayo Otitoloju; Christer Hogstrand; Thomas M Miller; Leon P Barron; Nicolas Bury*, Environmental monitoring of urban streams using a primary Fish Gill cell Culture System (FIGCS), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Volume 120, , Pages 279-285, 2015

  • Warunya Boonjob*, Hana Sklenářová, Leon Barron, Petr Solich, Norman W Smith, Renewable sorbent material for automated solid phase extraction with direct coupling of sequential injection analysis-bead injection to liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry, Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, 407:5719 – 572, 2015

  • Kelly Munro, Thomas Miller, Claudia Martins, Anthony Edge, David Cowan and Leon Barron*, Artificial neural network modelling of pharmaceutical retention times in wastewater extracts using gradient liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry data, Journal of Chromatography A, 1396, Pages 34–44, 2015

  • Elizabeth Gilchrist, Pavel Nesterenko, Norman Smith and Leon Barron*, Organic solvent and temperature-enhanced ion chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry for the determination of low molecular weight organic and inorganic anions, Analytica Chimica Acta, 865, 83-91, 2015

  • Thomas Miller, Gillian McEneff, Rebecca Brown, Stewart Owen, Nicolas Bury, Leon Barron* Pharmaceuticals in the freshwater invertebrate, Gammarus pulex, determined using pulverised liquid extraction, solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, Science of the Total Environment, 511, 153-160, 2015

2014

  • Leon Barron, The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences – Impacts on R&D? Science & Justice, 54, 257 2014  Editorial

  • David Baker, Leon Barron, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern*, Illicit and pharmaceutical drug consumption estimated via wastewater analysis. Part A: Chemical analysis and drug use estimates, Science of the Total Environment, 487,  629-641, 2014

  • Gillian McEneff*, Leon Barron, Brian Kelleher, Brett Paull, Brian Quinn, A year-long study of the spatial occurrence and relative distribution of pharmaceutical residues in sewage effluent, receiving marine waters and marine bivalves, Science of the Total Environment, Vols 476–477, 317–326, 2014

  • Leon Barron*, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Ion chromatography-mass spectrometry: A review of recent technologies and applications in forensic and environmental explosives analysis, Invited review in Analytica Chimica Acta, 806, 27-54, 2014 – INVITED REVIEW

2013

  • Gillian McEneff*, Leon Barron, Brian Kelleher, Brett Paull, Brian Quinn, The determination of pharmaceutical residues in cooked and uncooked marine bivalves using pressurised liquid extraction, solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry , 405,  29, 9509-21, 2013

  • Thomas Miller, Alessandro Musenga, David Cowan, Leon Barron*, Prediction of chromatographic retention time in high-resolution anti-doping screening data using artificial neural networks, Analytical Chemistry, 85, 21, 10330, 2013

  • Katarzyna Szomborg, Fleur Jongekrijg, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Tony Webb, Dan Wood, Leon Barron* Residues from low-order energetic materials: The comparative performance of a range of sampling approaches prior to analysis by ion chromatography, Forensic Science International, 233, 55-62, 2013

  • Leon Barron, The Final Frontier, Science & Justice, 53 (4), 373, 2013 Editorial

  • Catherine Love, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Norman Smith, Leon Barron*, Detection of anionic energetic material residues in enhanced fingermarks on porous and non-porous surfaces using ion chromatography, Forensic Science International, 231, 150-156, 2013

  • Kris M. Hart, Seth F. Oppenheimer, Brian W. Moran, Christopher C.R. Allen, Vassilis Kouloumbos, Andre J. Simpson, Leonid A. Kulakov, Leon Barron, Brian P. Kelleher*, CO2 uptake by a soil microcosm Soil Biology & Biochemistry 57, 2013, 615-624

2012

  • Leon Barron, Using scaffolding and guided-inquiry to improve learning in a postgraduate forensic science laboratory class, Higher Education Research Network Journal (HERN-J), Vol. 3, 2012

  • Leon Barron, Recognising our emerging researchers, Science & Justice, 52 (2), 1,  2012 Editorial

  • Leon Barron, Leadership and Learning are indispensible to each other Science & Justice, 52 (1), 1,  2012 Editorial

  • Elizabeth Gilchrist, Norman Smith and Leon Barron*, Probing gunshot residue, sweat and latent human fingerprints with capillary-scale anion exchange chromatography and suppressed conductivity detection, Analyst (Front cover feature and ‘hot’ article), 2012,137, 1576

  • Elizabeth Gilchrist, Fleur Jongekrijg, Norman Smith and Leon Barron, Characterisation of gunshot residues from three ammunition types using micro-bore suppressed anion exchange chromatography, Forensic Science International, 221, 2012, 50–56

  • Nadia Porpiglia, Stephen Bleay, Lesley Fitzgerald, Leon Barron 2012 An Assessment of the Effectiveness of 5-Methylthioninhydrin within Dual Action Reagents for Latent Fingerprint Development on Paper Substrates, Science & Justice (accepted)

2011

  • Hart, K. M., Allen, C. C. R., Kouloumbos, V., Oppenheimer, S. F., Barron, L., Simpson, A. J., Kulakov, L. A., Kelleher, B. P.  An approach to the investigation of CO2 uptake by soil microorganisms, Biogeosciences Discussions, 8, 2011, 9235-9281

2010

  • Leon Barron, Ekaterina Nesterenko, Kris Hart, Emma Power, Brian Quinn, Brian Kelleher, Brett Paull Holistic visualisation of the multimodal transport and fate of twelve pharmaceuticals in biosolid enriched topsoils, Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, 397 (1), 2010, 287

  • Hassan Alwael, Damian Connolly, Leon Barron, Brett Paull Development of a rapid and sensitive method for determination of cysteine/cystine ratio in chemically defined media, Journal of Chromatography A, 1217 (24), 2010 3863-3870

  • Ali Eltmimi, Leon Barron, Aran Rafferty, John Hanrahan, Olga Fedyanina, Ekaterina Nesterenko, Pavel Nesterenko, Brett Paull Preparation, characterisation and modification of carbon based monolithic rods for chromatographic applications, Journal of Separation Science, 33 (9), 2010, 1231-1243

  • Leon Barron, Martha Purcell, Josef Havel, Kevin Thomas, John Tobin, Brett Paull, (2010) Occurrence and fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products within sewage sludge and sludge-enriched soils, EPA STRIVE Research Report (Peer-reviewed), http://www.epa.ie/downloads/pubs/research/waste/name,27736,en.html, Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland)

Pre-2009

  • Damian Connolly, Leon P. Barron, Eoin Gillespie, Brett Paull (2009) The Use of Contactless Conductivity for the On-Column Characterisation and Visualisation of Packing Homogeneity and Band Broadening in Capillary LC, Chromatographia, 70 (5-6), 915-920

  • Leon Barron*, Josef Havel, Martha Purcell, Michal Szpak, Brian Kelleher, Brett Paull (2009) Predicting sorption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products onto soil and digested sludge using artificial neural networks The Analyst (Cover feature), 134 (4), 663-370

  • Martina O'Toole, Leon Barron, Roderick Shepherd, Pavel Nesterenko, Brett Paull, Dermot Diamond* (2009) Paired Emitter-Detector Diode Detection with Dual Wavelength Monitoring for Enhanced Sensitivity to Transition Metals in Ion Chromatography with Post-Column Reaction, The Analyst, 134 (1), 124-130

  • Clair Lacey, Gillian McMahon, Jonathan Bones, Leon Barron, Anne Morrissey, John Tobin* (2008) An LC-MS method for the determination of pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater treatment plant influent and effluent samples, Talanta, 75 (4), 1089-1097

  • Leon Barron, John Tobin, Brett Paull* (2008) Multi-residue determination of pharmaceuticals in sludge and sludge enriched soils using pressurized liquid extraction, solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry, Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 10 (3), 353-361

  • Leon Barron, Martina O'Toole, Pavel Nesterenko, Dermot Diamond, Brett Paull* (2008) Separation of transition metals on a polygrafted iminodiacetic acid functionalised column with post-column reaction detection utilising a paired emitter-detector diode system, Journal of Chromatography A, 1213 (1), 31-36

  • Fu-Qiang Nie, Mirek Macka, Leon Barron, Damian Connolly, Nigel Kent, Brett Paull* (2007) Robust Monolithic Silica Based On-Chip Electro-Osmotic Micro-Pump, The Analyst, 132, 1-

  • Leon Barron, Martina O'Toole, King Ting Lau, Pavel Nesterenko, Brett Paull* (2006) Low pressure ion chromatography with a low cost paired emitter-detector diode based detector for the determination of alkaline earth metals in water samples, Analytica Chimica Acta, 577 (1), 32-37

  • Leon Barron, Brett Paull* (2006) Simultaneous determination of trace oxyhalides and haloacetic acids using suppressed ion chromatography-electrospray mass spectrometry, Talanta, 69 (3), 621-630

  • Colmán Ó Ríordáin, Leon Barron, Ekaterina Nesterenko, Pavel Nesterenko, Brett Paull* (2006) Double gradient ion chromatography using short monolithic columns, Journal of Chromatography A, 1109 (1), 111-119

  • Leon Barron, Pavel Nesterenko, Brett Paull* (2006) Rapid on-line preconcentration and suppressed micro-bore ion chromatography of part per trillion levels of perchlorate in rainwater samples, Analytica Chimica Acta, 567 (1), 127-134

  • Ekaterina P. Nesterenko, Leon P. Barron, Pavel N. Nesterenko, Brett Paull* (2006) Flow gradient liquid chromatography using a coated anion exchange microcolumn, Journal of Separation Science, 29 (2), 228-235

  • Leon Barron, Pavel N. Nesterenko, Brett Paull* (2005) The use of temperature programming to improve resolution of inorganic anions, haloacetic acids and oxyhalides in drinking water by suppressed ion chromatography, Journal of Chromatography A, 1072, 207-215

  • Leon Barron, Brett Paull* (2005) Direct detection of haloacetates in drinking water using microbore ion chromatography; improved detector sensitivity using a hydroxide gradient and a monolithic ion exchange type suppressor, Journal of Chromatography A, 1047, 205-212

  • Brett Paull, Leon Barron (2004) Using ion chromatography to monitor haloacetic acids in drinking water; a review of current technologies (Top 25 Journal J. Chromatogr. A April-Sept 2004), Journal of Chromatography A, 1046, 1-9

  • Leon Barron, Brett Paull* (2004) Determination of haloacetic acids in drinking water using suppressed micro-bore ion chromatography with solid phase extraction, Analytica Chimica Acta, 522, 153-161

  • Damian Connolly, Leon Barron, Brett Paull* (2002) Determination of urinary thiocyanate and nitrate using fast ion-interaction chromatography, Journal of Chromatography B; Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences, 767, 175-180

Book Chapters

  • Brett Paull, Leon Barron, Pavel Nesterenko (2005) The determination of phosphates in environmental samples by ion chromatography, Chromatographic Analysis of the Environment, Third Edition, CRC Press (Wiley), 263-287 pages (bookchapter)

 

Relevant Media Engagement

Katja M. Shimkoa,b, Jake W. O’Brienb, Leon Barrona, Hasan Kayalara,b, Jochen F. Muellerb, Ben J. Tscharkeb, Phil M. Choib, Hui Jiangb, Geoff Eagleshamb, Kevin V. Thomasb

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