McLean Research Group Announcements
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Congratulations to Amelia Taylor and co-authors on their recent publication!01.25.2022 “Targeted and Untargeted Mass Spectrometry Reveals the Impact of High-Fat Diet on Peripheral Amino Acid Regulation in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease” AL Taylor, DE Davis, SG Codreanu, FE Harrison, SD Sherrod, JA McLean; Journal of Proteome Research 20(9), 4405-4414 (2021). Amelia Taylor is an undergraduate researcher in the group and her first-author publication focuses on finding dysregulated metabolites in an Alzheimer’s mouse model. |
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Prof. McLean elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for 202112.08.2021 From the NAI press announcement: “The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.” |
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The McLean Research Group Members Presenting at the 2021 ASMS Conference in Philadelphia, PA10.31.2021 The McLean Research Group members presented their research at the 2021 American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference, which was held in-person in Philadelphia, PA: Oral Presentations: John A. McLean, “Refining the Landscape of Lipidomics with High Resolution Ion Mobility (SLIM)-Mass Spectrometry” Poster Presentations: Bailey Rose “Lipid Collision Cross Section Calibration Strategies for High Resolution SLIM-based Traveling Wave Ion Mobility Separations” |
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Congratulations to Dr. Berkley Ellis on a Successful Dissertation Defense06.09.2021 Dr. Berkley Ellis’ dissertation (defended June 2021) is titled “Accelerating Natural Product Discovery and Synthetic Biology Workflows Using Multidimensional Molecular Phenotyping”. |
Amelia Taylor and Sael Sohni Receive Undergraduate Research Awards04.28.2021 Undergraduate researcher Amelia Taylor receives the Merck Index Award and the Outstanding Chemistry Research Award, and undergraduate researcher Sael Sohni receives the Department’s Analytical Chemistry Award. Congratulations! |
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Congratulations to Dr. Don Davis and Dr. Rachel Harris on Their Successful Dissertation Defense03.23.2021 Dr. Don Davis’ dissertation (defended March 2021) is titled “Multidimensional Separations in Complex Biological Matrices Utilizing Chromatography, Ion Mobility, and Mass Spectrometry.” Dr. Rachel Harris’ dissertation (defended March 2021) is titled “Analysis of Biopolymers Using Structurally Selective Analytical Techniques in Combination with Mass Spectrometry”. |
Welcome Hawkins, David and Allison to the Research Group!01.01.2021 |
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Congratulations to Dr. James Poland and Dr. Jaqueline Picache for Successfully Defending Their Dissertation08.24.2020 Dr. James Poland dissertation (defended February 2020) is titled “Method Development towards Probing the Gut Metabolome using Reverse Phase Liquid Chromatography-Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry.” Dr. Jackie Picache’s dissertation (defended August 2020) is titled “Strategies for Improving Multiomic Metabolite Identifications Using Compound Libraries, Machine Learning, and Structural Mass Spectrometry”. |