Environmental and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory@UdeS

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Papers

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Most recent papers (2019-present)

Lahens L., Cabana H., Huot Y., Segura P. A. (2024) Trace organic contaminants in lake waters: Occurrence and environmental risk assessment at the national scale in Canada. Environ. Poll:123764.

Sultana T., Eysseric E., Segura P. A., Helm P. A., Kleywegt S., Metcalfe C. D. (2024) Passive sampling with targeted and non-targeted analysis as an “Early Warning” of water-soluble contaminants in the Great Lakes. J Great Lakes Res:102297.

Alarie H., Côté N., Gaudreau L., Houde M., Segura P. A. (2023) Are 20-hydroxyecdysone and related genes potential biomarkers of sublethal exposure to lipid-altering contaminants? Environ Sci Poll Res

El Yagoubi Y., Lemieux B., Segura P. A., Cabana H. (2023) Characterization of laccases from Trametes hirsuta in the context of bioremediation of wastewater treatment plant effluent. Enzyme Microb Tech, 171:110308.

Abdollahi M., Segura P. A., Beaudry F. (2022) Is nontargeted data acquisition for target analysis (nDATA) in mass spectrometry a forward‐thinking analytical approach? Biomed Chromatogr:e5531.

Segura P. A., Guillaumain C., Eysseric E., Boudrias J., Moreau M., Guérette C., Clémencin R., Beaudry F. (2022) Ultrafast analysis of peptides by laser diode thermal desorption–triple quadrupole mass spectrometry. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 36(20):e9373.

Nayrac N., Bellenger J.-P., Segura P. A. (2022) Screening of polymer type and chemical weathering in macro and mesoplastics found in lake and river beaches using a combined chemometric approach. Anal Methods 14(47):4977-4989.

Eysseric E., Gagnon C., Segura P. A. (2022) Identifying congeners and transformation products of organic contaminants within complex chemical mixtures in impacted surface waters with a top-down non-targeted screening workflow. Sci. Total Environ. 822:153540.

Eysseric E., Gagnon C., Segura P.A.(2022) Uncovering new transformation products of concerning organic contaminants by photodegradation experiments and analysis of real samples from a local river. Chemosphere, 293:133408.

Guérette C., Lemoine P., Ramirez P., Segura P. A. (2021) Determination of short-chain carboxylic acids and non-targeted analysis of water samples treated by wet air oxidation using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A, 1652: 462352.

Boucher V., Beaudon M., Ramirez P., Lemoine P., Volk K., Yargeau V., Segura P. A. (2021) Comprehensive Evaluation of Non-Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation as a Pretreatment to Remove Pharmaceuticals from Hospital Effluents. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 7: 1301-1314.

Eysseric E., Beaudry F., Gagnon C., Segura P. A. (2021) Non-targeted screening of trace organic contaminants in surface waters by a multi-tool approach based on combinatorial analysis of tandem mass spectra and open access databases. Talanta, 230:122293.

Gravel A., Guérette C., Fortin D., Auger S., Picard P., Segura P. A. (2019) Further studies on the signal enhancement effect in laser diode thermal desorption‐triple quadrupole mass spectrometry using microwell surface coatings. Journal of Mass Spectrometry 54:948-956.

Huot Y., Brown C. A., Potvin G., Antoniades D., Baulch H. M., Beisner B. E., Bélanger S., Brazeau S., Cabana H., Cardille J. A., del Giorgio P. A., Gregory-Eaves I., Fortin M.-J., Lang A. S., Laurion I., Maranger R., Prairie Y., Rusak J. A., Segura P. A., Siron R., Smol J. P., Vinebrooke R. D., Walsh D. A. (2019) The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate. Science of the Total Environment 695(10 Decembre 2019):133668.

Dion-Fortier A., Gravel A., Guérette C., Chevillot F., Blais S., Auger S., Picard P., Segura P. A. (2019) Signal enhancement in laser diode thermal desorption-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry analysis using microwell surface coatings. Journal of Mass Spectrometry 54:167–177.

Segura P. A., Racine M., Gravel A., Eysseric E., Grégoire A.-M., Rawach D., Teysseire F.-X. (2019) Impact of method parameters on the performance of suspect screening for the identification of trace organic contaminants in surface waters. Canadian Journal of Chemistry 97:197–211.

2013-2018

Psutka J., Dion-Fortier A., Dieckmann T., Campbell J. L., Segura P. A., Hopkins W. S. (2018) Identifying Fenton-Reacted Trimethoprim Transformation Products Using Differential Mobility Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry 90(8): 5352–5357.

Segura P. A., Barry K., Eysseric E., Gallagher-Duval S., Venne P., Bélanger G. (2018) Method for the Routine Determination of Accurate Masses by Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry. Methods and Protocols 1(1):9.

Lecours M.-A., Eysseric E., Yargeau V., Lessard J., Brisard G. M., Segura P. A. (2018) Electrochemistry-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry to Study Oxidation Products of Trimethoprim. Environments 5(1):1-18.

da Silva Junior C. A., Segura P. A. (2017) Identification of Dyes in Pen Ink by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: A Laboratory Experiment. Journal of Laboratory Chemical Education 5(5):108-115.

Eysseric E., Barry K., Beaudry F., Houde M., Gagnon C., Segura P. A. (2017) Application of spectral accuracy to improve the identification of organic compounds in environmental analysis. Analytical Chemistry 89(18):9805–9813.

Eysseric E., Ghislain T., Duret X., Lalonde O., Segura P. A., Lavoie J.-M. (2017) Effect of steam treatments on the availability of various families of secondary metabolites extracted from green sweet sorghum. Industrial Crops and Products 104:120-128.

Eysseric, E., Bellerose, X., Lavoie, J.-M. and Segura, P.A. (2016) Post-column hydrogen-deuterium exchange technique to assist in the identification of small organic molecules by mass spectrometry. Canadian Journal of Chemistry 94, 781-787.

Poirier-Larabie S., Segura P. A., Gagnon C. (2016) Degradation of the pharmaceuticals diclofenac and sulfamethoxazole and their transformation products under controlled environmental conditions. Sci Total Environ 557:257-267.

Venne, P., Yargeau, V. and Segura, P.A. (2016) Quantification of ecdysteroids and retinoic acids in whole daphnids by liquid chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A 1438, 57-64.

Rodayan, A., Afana, S., Segura, P.A., Sultana, T., Metcalfe, C.D. and Yargeau, V. (2016) Linking Drugs of Abuse in Wastewater to Contamination of Surface and Drinking Water. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 35(4), 843-849.

Segura P. A., Saadi K., Clair A., Lecours M.-A., Yargeau V. (2015) Application of XCMS online and toxicity bioassays to the study of transformation products of levofloxacin. Water Sci Technol 72(9):1578-1587.

Segura P. A., Takada H., Correa J. A., El Saadi K., Koike T., Onwona-Agyeman S., Ofosu-Anim J., Sabi E. B., Wasonga O. V., Mghalu J. M., dos Santos Junior A. M., Newman B., Weerts S., Yargeau V. (2015) Global occurrence of anti-infectives in contaminated surface waters: Impact of income inequality between countries. Environ Int 80:89-97.

Rabii F. W., Segura P. A., Fayad P. B., Sauvé S. (2014) Determination of six chemotherapeutic agents in municipal wastewater using online solid-phase extraction coupled to liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Sci Total Environ 487:792-800.

Rodayan A., Segura P. A., Yargeau V. (2014) Ozonation of wastewater: Removal and transformation products of drugs of abuse. Sci Total Environ 487:763-770.

Segura P. A., Kaplan P., Yargeau V. (2013) Identification and structural elucidation of ozonation transformation products of estrone. Chem Central J 7(74):1-11.

2009-2012

Segura P. A., Kaplan P., Erythropel H. C., Yargeau V. (2012) Comparative rapid toxicity screening of commercial and potential green plasticizers using bioluminescent bacteria. Ind Eng Chem Res 51:11555−11560.

Segura P. A., Gagnon C., Yargeau V. (2012) On the Application of High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry to Environmental Analysis. Int J Env Poll Remed 1(1):85-92.

Lajeunesse A., Segura P. A., Gélinas M., Hudon C., Thomas K., Quilliam M. A., Gagnon C. (2012) Detection and confirmation of saxitoxin analogues in freshwater benthic Lyngbya wollei algae collected in the St. Lawrence River (Canada) by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. J Chromatogr, A 1219:93-103.

Segura P. A., MacLeod S. L., Lemoine P., Sauvé S., Gagnon C. (2011) Quantification of carbamazepine and atrazine and screening of suspect organic contaminants in surface and drinking waters. Chemosphere 84:1085-1094.

Garcia-Ac A., Segura P. A., Viglino L., Gagnon C., Sauvé S. (2011) Comparison of APPI, APCI and ESI for the LC-MS/MS analysis of bezafibrate, cyclophosphamide, enalapril, methotrexate and orlistat in municipal wastewater. J Mass Spectrom 46:383–390.

Segura P. A., Tremblay P., Picard P., Gagnon C., Sauvé S. (2010) High-Throughput Quantitation of Seven Sulfonamide Residues in Dairy Milk using Laser Diode Thermal Desorption-Negative Mode Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry. J Agric Food Chem 58:1442-1446.

2007-2009

Garcia-Ac A., Segura P. A., Viglino L., Fürtös A., Gagnon C., Prévost M., Sauvé S. (2009) On-line solid-phase extraction of large-volume injections coupled to liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the quantitation and confirmation of 14 selected trace organic contaminants in drinking and surface water. J Chromatogr, A 1216:8518-8527.

Segura P. A., Gagnon C., Sauvé S. (2009) Application of turbulent flow chromatography load columns to the on-line analysis of anti-infectives in wastewaters. Chromatographia 70:239-245.

Segura P. A., François M., Gagnon C., Sauvé S. (2009) Review of the Occurrence of Anti-infectives in Contaminated Wastewaters and Natural and Drinking Waters Environ Health Perspect 117(5):675-684.

Garcia-Ac A., Segura P. A., Gagnon C., Sauvé S. (2009) Determination of bezafibrate, methotrexate, cyclophosphamide, orlistat and enalapril in waste and surface waters using on-line solid-phase extraction liquid chromatography coupled to polarity-switching electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. J Environ Monit 11:830-838.

Segura P. A., Gagnon C., Sauvé S. (2007) A fully automated on-line preconcentration and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the analysis of anti-infectives in wastewaters. Anal Chim Acta 604(2):147-157.

Segura P. A., Garcia-Ac A., Lajeunesse A., Ghosh D., Gagnon C., Sauvé S. (2007) Determination of six anti-infectives in wastewater using tandem solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry. J Environ Monit 9:307-313.