Richard jenkins
Professor
School of Allied Health Sciences
De Montfort University
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Jenkins holds a first class degree in microbiology with biochemistry and a PhD in yeast physiology. His postdoctoral research was with Professor Sir Howard Dalton at the University of Warwick, investigating microbial biotransformations of aromatic hydrocarbons. Since joining De Montfort University he has pursued various research interests involving the interaction of microbiological systems with chemicals, eg antimony and arsenic compounds, chlorinated ethylenes, chemical dyes.
Research Interest
Microbial biomethylation of metals and metalloids (antimony, arsenic, bismuth etc) Biotransformations of organoarsenic compounds Cot death (SIDS) – prevalence and survival of microbes in the cot environment Toxic metal(loids) in the food chain Toxic action of certain metabolic poisons (eg fluoroacetate, organophosphates) Development of spectroscopic techniques for characterising cells (microbial and human)
Publications
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Adelopo AO (2017) Seasonal variations in moisture content and the distribution of total organic carbon in landfill composites: case of active and closed landfills in Lagos, Nigeria. International Journal of Environmental and Waste Management.
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Sobolev VE, Jenkins RO, Goncharov N (2017) Sulfated glycosaminoglycans in bladder tissue and urine of rats after acute exposure to paraoxon and cyclophosphamide. Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology 69: 339-347.
