James P. C. Coverdale is a Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Biology. His previous experience in industry and academia has provided him with analytical expertise in the field of bioinorganic chemistry. His research focuses on the role of metals in medicine and the development of new experimental techniques, including specific interests in how metal dyshomeostasis can contribute to various pathological states and how metal-based therapies can provide new opportunities for the treatment of diseases. He was awarded the Chartered Chemist status in 2021, in recognition of his ongoing professional practice.
Marco A. Z. Arruda is a Full Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Campinas—Unicamp (Campinas, Brazil); head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry—Unicamp; head of the Sample preparation, spectrometry and mechanization group—GEPAM; and a member of the advisory board of the National Institute of Science and Technology—INCT for Bioanalitics. Additionally, he acted as an invited professor at Pau University, Pau, France, and also at the University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Mallorca, Spain. He is a member of the advisory board of the Brazilian Mass Spectrometry Society (BrMASS) and Brazilian Chemistry Association (ABQ), and he is the coordinator of the inorganic mass spectrometry area of the BrMASS. His current research interests include trans-disciplinary work involving speciation analysis and comparative omics of plants (i.e., soybean, sunflower, Arabidopsis Thaliana) and human body fluids (i.e., blood serum, urine, saliva) to identify possible biomarkers for transgenic species and human diseases, as well as to evaluate reactive oxygen species production, and (metallo)proteins' responses under stress in a given system.
Alan J. Stewart is a Reader in Molecular Medicine at the University of St Andrews. His research is focused on metal ion handling in the body and the roles metals play in regulating medically/physiologically relevant processes. Collectively, his work provides new insights into their cellular functions and role in disease states. He has published >90 peer-reviewed publications, many in world-class and field-leading journals. He sits on the Editorial Boards of the journals Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Endocrinology and Nutrients.
Claudia A. Blindauer was born in Southern Germany and studied for a Diplom Chemie at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau. After a Ph.D. at the University of Basel, Switzerland, with Professor Helmut Sigel and postdoctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, with Professor Peter Sadler, she moved to the University of Warwick, UK, where she is now a Full Professor of Chemistry. Using bioanalytical (metallomics and metalloproteomics), biophysical (NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry) and bioinformatic (genome mining and structural modelling) approaches, her group studies the structure and dynamics of proteins involved in metal—in particular zinc—homeostasis. She has 103 publications with 3865 citations and an h-index of 35 (Scopus, 23 October 2023).
