Inkwell Scientific

Scientific. Medical. Technical.

Denver, CO USA

303-880-7310

Have a writing project that demands high quality work and scientific knowledge and expertise? We can help!

 

Inkwell Scientific is a scientific, medical, and technical writing and editing company that can produce well-researched and well-written content to satisfy your writing and editing needs, whether you are seeking content for a scientific or consumer audience. Our experienced and highly qualified staff can help with writing and editing grants, scientific journal articles, manuscripts, résumés, articles for consumer audiences and more. We can also help with application notes, generating professional slides for presentations, creating marketing materials, or covering conferences.  Need help with your writing project? We have the expertise to help you reach your audience!

Why Inkwell Scientific LLC?

You are busy. You have information that you need to communicate clearly and quickly to your customers and the community. We will solve your technical writing problems, and make scientific, medical, and technical writing one less thing clamoring for your time. Get your results published and communicate your message clearly. Put time back on your side. We can help!

Our Mission:

Our goal is to solve clients' problems and complete their projects with excellence. We aim to provide clear and concise scientific, medical, and technical writing to help you communicate your message to your audience. We specialize in writing for scientific or medical professionals, but we also love writing for patients or consumers without scientific or medical backgrounds.  

 

Who Are We?

Brittany D.M. Hodges Ph.D.  

Dr. Hodges' research interests include mass spectrometry, chromatography, and applications of these instruments to biological systems and gas-phase ion chemistry. After completing her Ph.D at Purdue University with Scott McLuckey. she did a post-doctoral research appointment in pharmacology studying lipids via liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Hodges managed an academic core facility research lab for the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the CU Cancer Center, performing LC-MS  analysis on a wide variety of samples for several years. After twelve years at the bench, she founded Inkwell Scientific LLC. Dr. Hodges spent 5 years working as a mass spectrometry specialist and senior research scientist at Idaho National Laboratory (Department of Energy) on gas phase ion chemistry, biomass, lanthanides and actinides, developing new mass spectrometry capabilities for radioactive materials, polymer analysis, and strategic leadership and writing for both lay and scientific audiences.

Dr. Hodges has experience writing and editing journal articles, grants, responses for RFIs/RFPs, creating figures for articles and creating slides and posters for presentations at national and international meetings. She previously served from 2015-2020 on the board of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association as President, President Elect, Past President and Secretary, and she served on the American Medical Writer’s Association Chapter Advisory Council from 2018-2019. She previously served as Vice President of the Colorado Biological Mass Spectrometry Society (CBMSS) from 2012-2016.

Selected Publications

1. Collisional Decomposition of CMPO Ligand Complexed to Americium and Lanthanides. C.A. Zarzana, B.D.M. Hodges, J. Kim, C. Pilgrim. In preparation.

2.  C.A. Zarzana, T. Van Wieringen, J. Schuurman, B.D.M. Hodges, W.C.M. Berden, J. Martens, J.S. Kim. Investigation of the Collision Induced Dissociation Mechanism of Protonated TODGA with IRIS. In preparation.

3. B.D.M. Hodges, J.S. Kim, J. Martens, W.C.M. Berden, C.A. Zarzana Investigation of Uranyl Perchlorate Anion Complexes in the Gas Phase via Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation and Collision-Induced Dissociation. Rapid Comm. Mass Spectrom. 2025.  Submitted.

4. J.S. Kim, M. Li, B. D.M. Hodges, C.A. Zarzana A New Finding in the Water-Splitting Mechanism from Gas-PhaseFragmentation of Water Clusters with Holmium Nitrate Complexes. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 2025 Submitted.

5.  P.L. Barnes, B.D.M. Hodges, B.-R. Chen, B. Park, B.Y. Mak, S. Kim, C. Efaw, M.C. Evans, E.J. Dufek Non-uniform cycling of Li Metal Batteries: Impacts to life and performance. Adv. Energy Materials. In preparation.

6.  B.D.M. Hodges, J.S. Kim, J. Martens, J. Oomens, W.C.M. Berden, C.A. Zarzana, Investigation of Uranyl Perchlorate anion Complexes in the Gas Phase via Infrared Multiphoton Dissociation and Collision Induced Dissociation. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spec. 2024. In preparation.

7.   L.M. Wendt, B.D. Wahlen, G.S. Groenewold, B.D.M. Hodges, C.D. Pilgrim, M.R. Walton, J.A. Murphy, W.A. Smith, H.Zhao. Molecular and structural impacts of fungal depolymerization of corn stover to reduce pretreatment severity. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2022, 6, 5400-5413. DOI: 10.1039/D2SE010091G

8.  G. S. Groenewold, B. Hodges, A.N. Hoover, C. Li, C.A. Zarzana, K. Rigg, A.E. Ray. Signatures of Biologically Driven Hemicellulose Modification Quantified by Analytical Pyrolysis Coupled with Multidimensional Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2020, 8, (4) 1989-1997. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06524

9. Y. Zhuang, S. Durrani, B.D. Hodges, S.C. Dreskin, X. Chen.  Expression of recombinant Ara h 6 in Pichia pastoris but not in Escherichia coli preserves allergic effector function and allows assessment of specific mutations. Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 2012 56, (6), 986-95.

10. B.D.M. Hodges, C.C. Wu.  Proteomic Insights Into an Expanded Cellular Role for Cytoplasmic Lipid Droplets.  J. Lipid Res. 2010, 51, 262 - 273.

11. C.K. Barlow, B.D.M. Hodges, (co-first authors) Y. Xia, R.A. J. O’Hair, S.A. McLuckey. Gas-Phase Ion/Ion Reactions of Transition Metal Complex Cations with Multiply-Charged Oligodeoxynucleotide Anions.  J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2008, 19, 281-293.

12. T. Huang, J. Liu, X. Liang, B.D.M. Hodges, S.A. McLuckey.  Top-down Analysis of siRNA via Ion Trap Collision-Induced Dissociation.  Anal. Chem. 2008, 80, 8501-8508.

13. B.D.M. Hodges, X. Liang, S.A. McLuckey.  Generation of Di-lithiated Peptide Ions from Multiply Protonated Peptides via Ion/Ion Reactions.  Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 2007, 267, 183-189.  DOI:10.1016/j.ijms.2007.02.030.

14. H.P. Gunawardena, M. He, P.A. Chrisman, S.J. Pitteri, J.M. Hogan, B.D.M. Hodges, S.A. McLuckey.  Electron Transfer versus Proton Transfer in Gas-Phase Ion-Ion Reactions of Polyprotonated Peptides.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 12627-12639.