Current Projects

Subject

Cooperation

Financial Support

2009

Chiral analysis of traditional chinese medicine by GCxGC-quadrupol-MS

Shimadzu GmbH

2008 - 2009

Comparison between GCxGC-TOF(MS)   and GCxGC-quadrupol-MS

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Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG and
Shimadzu GmbH

2008 - 2010

Development and construction of an ion transfer optimized AP-ion source for mass spectromentric analysis

Prof. Th. Benter
Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal, Germany

German Research Foundation (DFG)

2008 - 2010

Analysis of perfluorated tensides in waste water of the electro-plating industry and the development of combined processes to eliminate these tensides

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Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt

2007 - 2009

Development of a semi-quantitative MALDI-QTOF-analysis for the determination of high-molecular tensides

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Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG and
Shimadzu GmbH

2003 - 2007

Analysis of tensids in commercial cleaners by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography and time-of-flight mass spectrometry (together with Prof. Gäb)

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Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

2006 - 2007

Exposure to benzo[a]pyrene in the hepatic cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (POR) null mouse: Detoxification by hepatic cytochrome P450 is more important than metabolic activation

Prof. D. H. Phillips and Dr. V. Arlt
Section of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK

external funding*

2006 - 2008

Production of different phenotypes from the same genotype in the same
environment by developmental variation in the marbled crayfish

PD. Dr. G. Vogt
Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald, Germany

external funding*

2006 - 2008

Use of APLI-TOF(MS) for the analysis of aromatic compounds (together with Prof. Benter)

Prof. Th. Benter
Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal, Germany

Merck Darmstadt KGaA

2006 - now

Construction of an APLI-source for the MicrOTOF from Bruker Daltonik GmbH (together with Prof. Benter)

Prof. Th. Benter
Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal, Germany

Bruker Daltonic GmbH

2006 - now

Tissues specific effects of in vitro fertilization procedures on genomic cytosine methylation levels in overgrown and normal sized bovine fetuses

Prof. S. Hiendleder
Department of Agricultural and Animal Science, University of Adelaide, Australia

external funding*

2006 - 2008

Analysis of industrial products after derivatization with an ionisation label by MPLI-TOF(MS) (together with Profs. Gäb and Benter)

Prof. Th. Benter
Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal, Germany

Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

2007

Optimization of the fluorescence microscope detection-unit for the ultra-sensitive detection of fluorescence-labelled nucleotides by CE

Prof. R. Kaschuba
Fachbereich Mathematik und Technik, FH-Bielefeld, Germany

Dr. M.-O. Schierenberg
 

external funding*

2007 - 2008

A strategy to determine the contribution of epigenetics to phenotypical variation using adult cows with the same genotype

Prof. J.-P. Renard
Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, INRA, France

Prof. E. Wolf
Institute of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Gene Center, University of Munich, Germany

SABRE-Project (EU)

2007 - 2009

Influence on carcinogens to the methylation level and the oxidative stress

Prof. Z. Cai
Faculty of Science, Hongkong Baptist University, China

Prof. N. Kleinsasser
University Hospital Würzburg, Germany

PD Dr. H. Schmeiser
Devision of Molecular Toxicology, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg (DKFZ), Germany

Prof. K. Skorecki
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Prof. S. Störkel
Department of Pathology at the HELIOS-Hospitals Wuppertal, Germany

Prof. D. H. Phillips and Dr. V. Arlt
Section of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK

German Research Foundation (DFG)

Finished Projects

Subject

Cooperation

Financial Support

2001 - 2006

Analysis of alkyl polyglycosides with capillary electrophoresis and pulsed amperometric detection (together with Prof. Gäb)

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Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

2002 - 2003

Development of a New Genotoxicity Test: Analysis of Fluorescently Labeled DNA-Adducts by MEKC and Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection

PD Dr. H. Schmeiser
Devision of Molecular Toxicology, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg (DKFZ), Germany

Dr. D. Oscier
Department of Haematology, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, UK

Philip Morris External Research Program 2000, USA

2002 - 2004

A novel ultra-sensitive analytical method for determination of penicilline in milk and other carboxylic drugs in water

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German Environmental foundation (DBU)

2004

Simultaneous determination of apurinic sites, endogenous DNA adducts and 5-methylcytidine by capillary electrophoresis and laser-induced-fluorescence detection

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Institute for Science and Health, USA

2004 - 2005

Construction of a CE-array-system with a confocal fluorescence microscope detection unit to determine DNA adducts and 5-methylcytidine

LaVision BioTec GmbH,
Bielefeld, Germany

Philip Morris External Research Program 2002, USA

2005 - 2006

Influence on carcinogens to the methylation level and the oxidative stress

Prof. H.-J. Altenbach
Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Wuppertal, Germany

Prof. R. Goth-Goldstein
University of Berkely

Dr. D. Oscier
Department of Haematology, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, UK

German Research Foundation (DFG)

2006

Analysis of nitro-PAHs and PAHs in sooty particle filters from automobiles by  GCxGC-TOF-MS (together with Prof. Benter)

Prof. Th. Benter
Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal, Germany

Ford Research Center Aachen

*The external funding is based on industrial contracts with Epigenomics AG (Berlin).