Personnel
Director
Kevin L. Schey, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Director of Core Facilities, Mass Spectrometry Research Center
Deputy Director for Research, Imaging Mass Spectrometry Center
Kevin earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1989 and has 29 years of professional experience in mass spectrometry and analytical chemistry, including all aspects of proteomics analysis and mass spectrometry imaging. His application area of interest is the eye, particularly lens and retina biochemistry. He directs the Core Facility operations of the MSRC.
Associate Directors
W. Hayes McDonald, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Assistant Director of the Proteomics Core Laboratory
Hayes has been with the MSRC Proteomics Laboratory as a co-Associate Director since June 2008. After earning his Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt in 1998, he began his work in proteomics with John Yates at The Scripps Research Institute and continued as a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hayes has expertise in the design and implementation of shotgun and targeted proteomics experiments, particularly in relation to protein complexes, MS-informatics, and quantitative LC-MS/MS.
Kristie Lindsey Rose, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor , Department of Biochemistry
Associate Director of the Proteomics Core Laboratory
Kristie received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2005. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia, where she specialized in mass spectrometric analysis of peptides and proteins,and continued as a research scientist in the Proteomics Core at The Scripps Research Institute in the Department of Molecular Therapeutics. Kristie joined the MSRC Proteomics Core as co-Associate Director in 2010 and is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry. She has expertise in discovery-based quantitative proteomics, particularly label-based methods using isobaric tagging and metabolic labeling, characterization of post-translational modifications, and analysis of intact proteins.
Research Staff
Purvi Patel, MS
Senior Research Scientist
Purvi received her MS in Biotechnology from New York University. She has 8 years of combined experience in Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Biology. She currently serves as a Senior Research Specialist at MSRC.
Irene Andree Zagol-Ikapitte, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Irene earned her Ph. D in Analytical Chemistry in 2000 from Aix-Marseille University, France. After completing her postdoctoral work with Dr. John Oates, she stayed on as a senior staff scientist for the department of Clinical Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has been working in the Mass Spectrometry Research Center since October 2019.