Nina Kinney

Cloud Scientist

Nina Kinney

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Nina Kinney

Biography

2024-present: Cloud Scientist, British Antarctic Survey.

2020-2024: PhD, University of Warwick.

2019-2020: MSc (Research), University of Glasgow.

2015-2019: BSc Chemical Physics, University of Edinburgh.

Research interests

Ice nucleation / Biological ice nucleation

Collaborations

Kinney, N. L. H., Hepburn, C. A., Gibson, M. I., Ballesteros, D., and Whale, T. F.: High interspecific variability in ice nucleation activity suggests pollen ice nucleators are incidental, Biogeosciences, 21, 3201–3214, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-3201-2024, 2024.

Bissoyi, A., Gao, Y., Tomás, R. M. F., Kinney, N. L. H., Whale, T. F., Guo, Q., Gibson, M. I.: Cryopreservation and Rapid Recovery of Differentiated Intestinal Epithelial Barrier Cells at Complex Transwell Interfaces Is Enabled by Chemically Induced Ice Nucleation, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16, 18, 23027-23037, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c03931, 2024.

Murray, K. A., Gao, Y., Griffiths, C. A., Kinney, N. L. H., Guo, Q., Gibson, M. I., Whale, T. F.: Chemically Induced Extracellular Ice Nucleation Reduces Intracellular Ice Formation Enabling 2D and 3D Cellular Cryopreservation, JACS Au, 3, 5, 1314–1320, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.3c00056, 2023.

Gao, Y., Bissoyi, A., Kinney, N. L. H., Whale, T. F., Guo, Q., Gibson, M. I.: Proline-conditioning and chemically-programmed ice nucleation protects spheroids during cryopreservation, Chemical Communications, 59, 9086, https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cc02252h, 2023.

Georgiou, P. G., Kinney, N. L. H., Kontopoulou, I., Baker., A. N., Hindmarsh, S. A., Bissoyi, A., Congdon, T. R., Whale, T. F., Gibson, M. I.: Poly (vinyl alcohol) molecular bottlebrushes nucleate ice, Biomacromolecules, 23, 12, 5285–5296, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.2c01097, 2022.

Murray, K. A., Kinney, N. L. H., Griffiths, C. A.,, Hasan, M., Gibson, M. I., Whale, T. F.: Pollen derived macromolecules serve as a new class of ice-nucleating cryoprotectants, Scientific Reports, 12, 12295, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15545-4, 2022.

Barber, E. R., Kinney, N. L. H., Alexander, A. J.: Pulsed laser-induced nucleation of sodium chlorate at high energy densities, Crystal Growth & Design, 19, 12, 7106–7111, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.9b00951, 2019.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive