Dr James McCullagh

Head of Mass Spectrometry
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Rd, Oxford, OX1 3QY

phone: 01865 275657

fax: 01865 285220

email: james.mccullagh@chem.ox.ac.uk

Development of HPLC separation and stable isotope analysis of single amino acids from hydrolysed archaeological bone collagen and hair. Subsequent focus on the analysis of the indispensible and dispensible amino acids to investigate aspects of ancient marine diets.
The combination of mass spectrometry and other analytical techniques in the investigation of nutrition. Dating of individual amino acids from ancient bone.
General nutritional and medical anthropology: Both ethnographic and biochemical aspects of nutrition and dietary related health and illness.

DPhil.: Investigating ancient diet through spatially resolved isotopic and biochemical analysis of archaeological bone.
(University College, University of Oxford)
MSc: Medical Anthropology.
(University College London)
BSc (Hons): Natural Sciences
(University of Durham)

Waters UK Ltd. (formerly Micromass UK Ltd) (2000-2003): Part of the world-wide customer assurance group specializing in Q-TOF mass spectometry and applications in drug development and proteomics.
Research Expedition (June-September 1999): Co-organiser and leader of a 3 month research expedition to the Usambara mountians in Tanzania to investigate the impact of soil errosion on soil quality and changes in agricultural practice.

2006: McCullagh, J.S.O., Juchelka, D. & Hedges, R.E.M., (2006), Analysis of amino acid 13C abundance from human and faunal bone collagen using liquid chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 20,2761-2768; Tripp, J.A., McCullagh, J.S.O. & Hedges, R.E.M., (2006), Preparative separation of underivatized amino acids for compound-specific stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating of hydrolyzed bone collagen, Journal of Separation Science, 29(1),41-48
2005: McCullagh, J.S.O., Tripp, J.A. & Hedges, R.E.M., (2005), Carbon isotope analysis of bulk keratin and single amino acids from British and North American hair, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 19(22),3227-3231