Ken Oakes

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Guelph

Email:  koakes@uwaterloo.ca

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Research interests

As a Lecturer, my primary focus is on undergraduate teaching in the fields of ecology, toxicology, and animal biology. My research interests include identifying and characterizing the impacts of waterborne pollutants on the physiology of exposed organisms and their environments.

Current & future courses taught

• BIOL130 – Introductory Cell Biology
• BIOL 301 – Human Anatomy
• BIOL 350 – Ecosystem Ecology
• BIOL 354 – Environmental Toxicology 1
• BIOL XXX – Wildlife Parasitology (to be developed)

Selected publications

• Togunde, O., Cudjoe, E., Oakes, K.D., Mirnaghi, F., Servos, M.R., Pawliszyn, J. 2012. Determination of selected pharmaceutical residues in wastewater using automated open bed solid phase microextraction system. J. Chromatograph. A. 1262:34-42.

• Togunde, O., Oakes, K.D., Pawliszyn, J., Servos, M.R. 2012. Optimization of solid-phase microextraction for non-lethal in vivo determination of selected pharmaceuticals in fish muscle using liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry. J. Chromatograph A. 1261:99-106.

• Zhang, X., Oakes, K.D., Ehsanul Hoque, M., Luong, D., Taheri-Nia, S., Lee, C., Smith, B.M., Metcalfe, C.D., de Solla, S.R., Servos, M.R. 2012. Depth-profiling of environmental pharmaceuticals in biological tissue by solid-phase microextraction. Anal. Chem. 84:6956-6962.

• Guo, J.Y., Xu, C.X., Hu, A.M., Oakes, K.D., Sheng, F.Y., Shi, Z.L.,  Dai, J., Z. L. Jin, Z.L. 2012. Sintering dynamics and thermal stability of novel configurations of Ag clusters. J. Phys. Chem. Solids. 73:1350-1357.

• Togunde, O., Oakes, K.D., Servos, M.R., Pawliszyn, J. 2012. Study of kinetic desorption rate constant in fish muscle and agarose gel model using solid phase microextraction coupled with liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry. Anal. Chim. Acta 742:2-9.

• Ings, J.S., Oakes, K.D., Vijayan, M.M., Servos, M.R. 2012. Temporal changes in stress and tissue-specific metabolic responses to municipal wastewater effluent exposure in rainbow trout. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C. 156:67-74.

• Togunde, O., Oakes, K.D., Servos, M.R., Pawliszyn, J. 2012. Determination of pharmaceutical residues in fish bile by solid-phase microextraction coupled with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). Environ. Sci. Technol. 46:5302-5309.

• Shan, Z., Zhou, Z., Zhang, Z., Chen, H., Zhou, Y., Wen, A., Oakes, K.D., Zhang, X., Servos, M.R. 2012. PCR-ready human DNA extraction from urine samples usingmagnetic nanoparticles. J. Chromatogr. B. 881-882: 63-678.
• Zhang, X., Oakes, K.D., Wang, S., Cui, S., Pawliszyn, J., Metcalfe, C.D., Servos, M.R. 2012. In vivo sampling of environmental organic contaminants in fish by solid-phase microextraction. Trends Anal. Chem. 32: 31-39.
• Wang, S., Oakes, K.D., Bragg, L., Pawliszyn, J., Dixon, D.G., Servos, M. 2011. Validation and use of in vivo solid phase micro-extraction (SPME) for the detection of emerging contaminants in fish. Chemosphere 85: 1472- 1480.
• Ouyang, G., Oakes, K.D., Bragg, L.M., Wang, S., Cui, S., Servos, M.R., Dixon, D.G., Pawliszyn, J. 2011. Sampling-rate calibration method for rapid and non-lethal monitoring of contaminants in fish muscle with solid-phase microextraction. Environ. Sci. Technol. 45: 7792-7798.
• Zhang, X., Oakes, K.D., Luong, D., Metcalfe, C.D., Servos, M.R. 2011. Solid-phase microextraction coupled to LC-ESI-MS/MS: Evaluation and correction for matrix-induced ionization suppression/enhancement for pharmaceutical analysis in biological and environmental samples. Anal. Chem. 83:6532-6538.
• Zhang, X., Oakes, K.D., Hoque, M.E., Luong, D., Metcalfe, C.D., Pawliszyn, J., Servos, M.R. 2011. Pre-equilibrium solid-phase microextraction of free analyte in complex samples: Correction for mass transfer variation from protein binding and matrix tortuosity. Anal. Chem. 83:3365-3370.
• Brown, C.J.M., Knight, B.W., McMaster, M.E., Munkittirck, K.R., Oakes, K.D., Tetreault, G.R., Servos, M.R. 2011. The effects of tertiary treated municipal wastewater on fish communities of a small river tributary in Southern Ontario, Canada. Environ. Poll. 159: 1923-1931.
• Hu, A., Zhou, Y.N., Zhang, X., Oakes, K.D., Servos, M.R. 2011. Hydrothermal growth of free standing TiO₂ nanowire membranes for photocatalytic degradation of pharmaceuticals. J. Haz. Mat. 189:278-285.
• Zhang, X., Oakes, K.D. , Luong, D., Metcalfe, C.D., Pawliszyn, J., Servos, M.R. 2011. Kinetically-Calibrated Solid-Phase Microextraction using Label-Free Standards and its Application for Pharmaceutical Analysis. Anal. Chem. 83:2371-2377.
• Shan, Z., Li, C., Zhang, X., Oakes, K.D., Servos, M.R., Wu, Q., Chen, H., Wang, X.X., Huang, Q.,  Zhou, Y., Yang, W. 2011. Temperature-dependent selective purification of plasmid DNA using magnetic nanoparticles in an RNase-free process. Anal Biochem. 412:117-119.
• Kavanagh, R.J., Frank, R.A., Oakes, K.D., Servos, M.R., Young, R.F., Fedorak, P.M., MacKinnon, M.D., Solomon, K.R., Dixon, D.G., Van Der Kraak, G.J. 2011. Fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) reproduction is impaired in aged oil sands process-affected waters. Aquat. Toxicol. 101:214-220.
• Zhang, X., Oakes, K.D., Luong, D.A., Wen, J. Z., Metcalfe, C.D., Pawliszyn, J., Servos, M.R. 2010. Time-resolved solid-phase microextraction: measurement of real-time concentrations in a dynamic sample system. Anal. Chem. 82:9492-9499.
• Oakes, K.D., Benskin, J.P., Martin, J.W., Ings, J.S., Heinrichs, J.Y., Dixon, D.G., Servos, M.R. 2010. Biomonitoring of perfluorochemicals and toxicity to the downstream fish community of Etobicoke Creek following deployment of Aqueous Film-Forming Foam. Aquat. Toxicol. 98:120-129.
• Oakes, K.D., Coors, A., Escher, B.I., Fenner, K., Garric, J., Gust, M., Knacker, T.,  Küster, A., Kussatz, C., Metcalfe, C.D., Monteiro, S., Moon, T.W., Parrott, J., Péry, A.R.R., Ramil, M., Roennefahrt, I., Tarazona, J.V., Sánchez-Argüello, P., Ternes, T.A., Trudeau, V.L., Boucard, T., Van Der Kraak, G.J., Servos, M.R. 2010. Environmental Risk Assessment for the Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor Fluoxetine - Case Study Using the European Risk Assessment Framework. Integr. Environ. Assess. Manag. 6:524-539.
• Zhang, X., Oakes, K.D., Cui^, S., Bragg, L., Servos, M.R., Pawliszyn, J. 2010. Tissue-specific In Vivo Bioaccumulation of Pharmaceuticals in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) using Space-resolved Solid-Phase Microextraction. Environ. Sci. Technol. 44:3417-3422.
• Metcalfe, C.D., Chu, S., Judt, C., Li, H., Oakes, K.D., Servos, M.R., Andrews, D.M. 2010. Antidepressants and their metabolites in municipal wastewater, and downstream exposure in an urban watershed. Environ. Toxicol. Chem., 29:79-89
• Shan, Z., Wu, Q., Wang, X., Zhou, Z., Oakes, K.D., Zhang, X., Huang, Q., Yang, W. 2010. Bacteria capture, lysate clearance, and plasmid DNA extraction using pH-sensitive multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles. Anal. Biochem. 398:120-122.
• Zhang, X., Cai, J., Oakes, K.D., Breton, F., Servos, M.R. Pawliszyn, J. 2009.  Development of Space-Resolved Solid-Phase Microextraction for In Situ Sampling. Anal. Chem. 81:7349-7356.
• Zhou, S.N., Oakes, K.D., Servos, M.R., Pawliszyn, J. 2009. Use of simultaneous dual-probe microdialysis for the determination of pesticide residues in a jade plant (Crassula ovata). Analyst 134:748-754.
• Zhou, S.N., Oakes, K.D., Servos, M.R., Pawliszyn, J. 2008. Application of solid-phase microextraction for in vivo laboratory and field sampling of pharmaceuticals in fish. Environ. Sci. Technol. 42:6073-6079.