British Mass Spectrometry Society Annual Meeting (York, 4-7 August 2005)
Poster: Can Beta-defensin disulfide connectivity be determined with ion mobility and molecular modelling?
Hayden Eastwood, Perdita Barran, Julia Dorin

Talk: Studying Beta defensins in the gas phase and developing an instrument to help!
Bryan McCullough

Annual Northern Universities Meeting on Chemical Physics (Leeds, June 2005)
Talk: Residue Development to Evaluate Defensin Carbohydrate binding via Molecular Mechanics
Hayden Eastwood, Perdita Barran

Team Defensin Meeting
Talk: Physical Characterisation of Beta defensins
Bryan McCullough

Talk: Molecular Modelling of HBD3: Towards an understanding of defensin antimicrobial activity
Hayden Eastwood

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227th ACS Meeting Annaheim, CA. 
Symposium Mass spectrometry of bio-molecules; from model systems to ribosomes
Invited talk: Measuring gas phase structures of LHRH - Is it relevant to biologists?

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SET for Britain - Monday, 15 March 2004
The sixth Annual Parliamentary Reception for Younger Researchers in Science, Engineering, Medicine and Technology at the House of Commons, London
Simple isn’t always Best: Protein Complexes By Mass Spectrometry

Structural investigation of naturally occurring peptides by electron capture dissociation and AMBER force field modeling
N. C. Polfer, K. F. Haselmann, P. R.R. Langridge-Smith and P. E. Barran
Molecular Physics 103 (11-12) 1481-1489 2005

Conformation of glycosaminoglycans by ion mobility mass spectrometry
Lan Jin , Perdita E. Barran, Malcolm Lyon and Dušan Uhrín
PCCP Accepted as Hot TOPIC ARTICLE 2005

Evolution of constrained GnRH ligand conformation and receptor selectivity
P.E. Barran, RW Roeske, AJ Pawson, R Sellar, MT Bowers, K Morgan, and RP Millar
J. Biological Chemistry Accepted for Publication April 2005

The complexity of selective constraints at the major primate ß-defensin locus
Colin A. M. Semple, Alison Maxwell, Philippe Gautier, Fiona M. Kilanowski, Hayden Eastwood, Perdita E. Barran, Julia R. Dorin
BMC Evolutionary Biology 5(1), 32 2005

The Formation of a Complex between Calmodulin and neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase is determined by ESI-MS
Sally Shirran, Pierre Garnaud, Simon Daff, Derek Macmillan, and Perdita Barran
J. Royal Soc. Interface In Press 2005

Gas phase study of the chemistry and coordination of Pb(II) in the presence of oxygen-, nitrogen-, sulphur-, and phosphorous-donating ligands
Ljiljana Puskar, Perdita E. Barran, Bridgette J. Duncombe, Daniel Chapman, and Anthony J. Stace
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 109(1), 273-282 2005

Is it biologically relevant to measure the structures of small peptides in the gas-phase?
Perdita E. Barran, Nick C. Polfer, Dominic J. Campopiano, David J. Clarke, Patrick R.R. Langridge-Smith, Ross J. Langley, John R.W. Govan, Alison Maxwell, Julia R. Dorin, Robert P. Millar, and Michael T. Bowers
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 240(3), 273-284 2005

Covalently bound and Non-Covalently bound ß-defensin Dimers: Establishing a Bridge Between Tertiary Structure and Antimicrobial Activity
Dominic J. Campopiano, David J. Clarke, Nick C. Polfer, Perdita Barran, Ross J. Langley, John R. W. Govan, Alison Maxwell and Julia R. Dorin
J.Biol.Chem.; 279 48671-48679 2004

Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone-induced Activation Diacylglycerol Kinase-z and It’s Association with s-SRC
Lindsay Davidson, Adam J. Pawson, Rakel Lopez de Maturana, Sarah H. Freestone, Perdita Barran, Robert P. Millar and Stuart Maudsley
J. Biol. Chem. 278 11906-11916 2004

Mutation in a short chain collagen gene CTRP5, results in extracellular deposit formation
C. Hayward, X. Shu1, A. V Cideciyan, A.Lennon, P.E. Barran, S. Zareparsi, L. Sawyer, G. Hendry, B. Dhillon, A. Milam, P. J. Luthart, A. Swaroop, N. D Hastie, S. G. Jacobson and A. F Wright
Hum. Mol. Genet. 12 2657-2667 2003

The effect of the initial water of hydration on the energetics structures and H/D exchange mechanism of a family of pentapeptides: An experimental and theoretical study
T. Wyttenbach, B. Paiz, P.E. Barran, L. Brecci D-F Liu, S. Suhai, V.H. Wysocki, M.T. Bowers
J. Am. Chem. Soc . 125(45); 13768-13775 2003

Sequential Hydration of Small Protonated Peptides
D.F. Liu T. Wyttenbach, P.E. Barran, M.T. Bowers
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125 8458-8464 2003

Solvation of peptides, oligonucleotides and small proteins: Energetics, structure and dynamics
M.T. Bowers, T. Wyttenbach T, P.E. Barran
Abstr. Pap. Am. Chem S 223: 159-Anyl Part 1 2002

Stable [Pb.(ROH) n] 2+ complexes: softening the base to suit the Lewis acid
G. Akibo-Betts, P.E. Barran, L. Puskar B. Duncombe, H. Cox, and A.J. Stace
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124 (31): 9257-9264 2002

Unexpected Stability of [Cu.Ar] 2+ , [Ag.Ar] 2+ , [Au.Ar] 2+ , and their larger clusters
N.R. Walker, R.R. Wright, P.E. Barran, H.C. Cox, and A.J. Stace
J. Chem. Phys. 114 (13): 5562-5567 2001

Comparisons in the behaviour of Copper(II), Silver(II), and Gold(II) complexes in the gas phase: Are there implications for condensed phase chemistry?
N.R. Walker, R.R. Wright, P.E. Barran, J.N. Murrell, and A.J. Stace
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123 (18): 4223-4227 2001

Cluster-to-metal electron transfer in [Mn.(pyridine) n] 2+ complexes
G. Akibo-Betts, P.E. Barran, and A.J. Stace
Chem. Phys. Letts., 329 431-436 2000

A gas phase study of the co-ordination of Mg 2+ with oxygen- and nitrogen-containing ligands
N.R. Walker, M. Dobson, R.R. Wright, P.E. Barran, J.N. Murrell, and A.J. Stace
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122 11138-11145 2000

The UV photofragmentation of multiply-charged transition metal complexes
L. Puskar, P.E. Barran, R.R. Wright, D.A. Kirkwood, and A.J. Stace
J. Chem. Phys., 112, 7751 – 7754 2000

Competitive charge transfer processes in small [Mg(H 2O) n] 2+ cluster ions
P.E. Barran, N. R. Walker, and A. J. Stace
J. Chem. Phys.,112, 6173 – 6177 2000

Gas phase multicollisional reactions of metal cluster cations with water molecules
V. Mikhailov, P.E. Barran, and A.J. Stace
J. Chem. Soc., Physical Chemistry – Chemical Physics, 1, 3461 – 3465 1999

The reactions of mixed Pb m +/methanol clusters
P.E. Barran, V. Mikhailov, and A.J. Stace
J. Phys. Chem., 103, 8792-8798 1999

Stable gold(II) complexes in the gas phase
N.R. Walker, R.R. Wright, P.E. Barran, and A.J. Stace
Organometallics, 18, 3569 – 3571 1999

Stability of Carbon Clusters C N for 46 < N < 102
P.E. Barran, S. Firth, A.J. Stace, H.W. Kroto, K. Hansen, E.E.B. Campbell
Int. J. Mass Spec. Ion Proc. 167/168 127 1997