Congrats to Robbie on being selected for an ASMS Asilomar Travel Award! He's looking forward to learning more about computational mass spectrometry just down the way from UCSC!

Prof. Jaime Rodríguez from us from University of A Coruña for the month to work on running and optimizing methods for natural products on the timsTOF fleX (Thor). It was fantastic having a true structure elucidation wizard with the lab for the month! 

Laura finally gets to give her ASP Suffness award lecture at the annual meeting in Washington DC! Avoided COVID this time, what a relief ;) 

Welcome Sania Colbert and Alex Tabag to the lab! Sania is joining us for the summer via the UC-HBCU program from Fisk University. Alex is joining as a postbac research for the year that was awarded a supplement on our collaborative project with the McKinnie lab! 

Congrats to Gordon for his paper hitting the web at Mol Cell Proteomics! In this highly collaborative project with the Burdette and Su labs, we developed an untargeted mass spectrometry microprotein profiling method, identified cystatin A, validated it an animal model, and demonstrated that cystatin A is present at 100 pM concentrations using a label-free microtoroid resonator and translated our workflow to patient-derived tampon samples!

Gordon, Allyson, Celine and Laura all attend ASMS, hope you caught our posters. Way to go Allyson for winning one of the raffles for free registration to attend #IMSC2024 in Melbourne next year! 

Congrats to Gordon, Jess, and Celine our big collaborative paper with the Dutton, Wolfe, and Baars lab hits the web at Analyst.  We found that fungal species are important contributors to microbiomes via their production of abundant specialized metabolites

Congrats to undergraduate research Celine Ertekin on winning a Bunnett Award for your research endeavors here at UCSC and at the NIH. Celine will be doing a postbac at the NIH after her graduates from UCSC. 

Hannah gives a podium talk at MSACL and represents UCSC at Chemical Biology in the Bay Area 2023 with a great talk on applying imaging mass spectrometry to the secondary metastasis of high grade serous ovarian cancer. 

So much to celebrate today! Congrats to Allyson for passing their second year seminar. Congrats to Sarah and Robbie on being award NSF GRFP fellowships #dreamteam

Dr Gordon Luu becomes the 4th PhD from the lab, we wish him all the best at his new position at Bruker Daltonics!