nmackinn@umich.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2009 – Present

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Mentor: Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy

Ph.D – Chemistry , September 2004 – August 2009

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Advisor: Peter M. Macdonald

Thesis: "Investigation of Unilamellar Phospholipid Vesicle Interactions with PNIPAM Based Hyrdogel Beads"

Publications

• MacKinnon N, Ge W, Khan AP, Somashekar BS, Tripathi P, Siddiqui J, Wei JT, Chinnaiyan AM, Rajendiran TM, Ramamoorthy A. Variable Reference Alignment: An Improved Peak Alignment Protocol for NMR Spectral Data with Large Intersample Variation, Analytical Chemistry 84 (2012) 5372-5379.
• MacKinnon N, Khan AP, Chinnaiyan AM, Rajendiran TM, Ramamoorthy A. Androgen receptor activation results in metabolite signatures of an aggressive prostate cancer phenotype: an NMR-based metabonomics study, Metabolomics (2012) doi:10.1007/s11306-012-0398-4.
• MacKinnon N, Guerin G, Liu B, Gradinaru CC, Rubinstein JL, Macdonald PM. Triggered Instability of Liposomes Bound to Hydrophobically Modified Core-Shell PNIPAM Hydrogel Beads, Langmuir 26 (2010) 1081-1089.
• MacKinnon N, Guerrin G, Liu B, Gradinaru CC, Macdonald PM. Liposome-Hydrogel Bead Complexes Prepared via Biotin-Avidin Conjugation, Langmuir 25 (2009) 9413-9423.
• MacKinnon N, Ridgway J, Crowell KJ, Macdonald PM. Aluminum binding to phosphatidylcholine lipid bilayer membranes: aluminum exchange lifetimes from ³¹P NMR spectroscopy, Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 139 (2006) 85-95.
• MacKinnon N, Crowell KJ, Udit AK, Macdonald PM. Aluminum binding to phosphatidylcholine lipid bilayer membranes: ²⁷Al and ³¹P NMR spectroscopic studies, Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 132 (2004) 23-36.

Conferences and Presentations

Poster: “Metabolomic Profiling of Prostate Cell Lines – Towards Non-Invasive Clinical Screening for Prostate Cancer”

Authors: Neil MacKinnon, Vivekanandan Subramanian, Amjad P. Khan, Thekkelnaycke M. Rajendiran, Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy

Location: 51^st ENC, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

Date: April 18-23, 2010.

Poster: “Liposome Conjugated Microgels – Preparation and Characterization”

Authors: Neil MacKinnon, Qasim Saleem, Peter M. Macdonald

Location: MOOT XXI, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Date: October 4, 2008

Presentation: “NMR Based Lateral Diffusion Measurements in Membranes”

Authors: Neil MacKinnon, Peter M. Macdonald

Location: Physical Chemistry Seminar, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date: December 6, 2005

Presentation: “Interaction of Aluminum with Phospholipid Bilayer Membranes”

Authors: Neil MacKinnon, Peter M. Macdonald

Location: MOOT XVIII, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Date: October 15, 2005