Allison R. Reardon
Graduate Student, The McLean Group
Hanover College, IN – B.S. in Chemistry
Background:
Allison is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her B.S. in Chemistry and a minor in Classical Studies from Hanover College in Hanover, IN. During her undergraduate career, she worked with Dr. Craig Philipp on projects that included applying mechanical stress to raspberries to determine anthocyanin concentration via high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and creating an ion-exchange powder for lead removal in aqueous systems with inductively coupled plasma (ICP) analysis.
She also participated in the research experience for undergraduates at the University of Akron’s College of Polymer Science and Engineering in 2019, where she studied under Dr. Hunter King and focused on utilizing stimuli-responsive polymers to passively collect and expel water vapor.
Since joining the McLean lab in January of 2021, her research has focused on resolving hidden lipid features within total lipid extracts using a high resolution ion mobility platform incorporating structures for lossless ion manipulation (MOBIE, MOBILion Systems Inc.). She has led the McLean lab’s role as 1 of the 4 labs involved in an interlab study conducted by MOBILion and is currently focusing on researching a variety of drug isomers and synthetic polymers on the MOBIE platform.
Awards:
Mitchum Warren Fellowship, Vanderbilt University (August 2020 – June 2021)
Graduate Student Award, American Society for Mass Spectrometry (June 2024)
Publications:
Reardon, A. R.; May, J. C.; Leaptrot, K. L.; & McLean, J. A. High-Resolution Ion Mobility Based on Traveling Wave Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulation Resolves Hidden Lipid Features. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2024.
Rose, B. S., May, J. C., Reardon, A. R., & McLean, J. A. Collision Cross-Section Calibration Strategy for Lipid Measurements in SLIM-Based High-Resolution Ion Mobility. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2022, 33, 1229–1237.