Washington University Department of Chemistry
MGross Research Group People

Graduate Students

Sandy Kerfoot
 
Research interests: HD Amide exchange of proteins, PLIMSTEX.
Adam Brustkern
 
Research Interests: Development of the compensated trap in FTMS. MALDI FTMS analysis of small proteins.
Jiawei Chen
 
Research interests: development and application of methods for bacterial cell wall analysis.
Manohari Silva
 
Research interests: development of new approaches to PLIMSTEX and application to proteins.
Dian Su
 
Research interests: Photochemical damage to DNA, structure proof of new photoproducts. Protein/ligand non-covalent complexes. Joint student with Prof. J.-S. Taylor
Hao Chen
 
Research interests: Development of different modes of FPOP. Application of FPOP to proteins. Determination of interfaces in proteins involved in bacterial photosynthesis (in collaboration with Prof. R. Blankenship).
Tingting Tu
 
Research interests: development of new sample handling methods for MALDI, evaluation of ionic liquids as MALDI matrices. Properties of quinones, especially those involved in breast cancer.
Richard Yu-Chen Huang
 
Research interests: Application of PLIMSTEX to Ca-binding proteins, method development in PLIMSTEX, properties of proteins implicated in heart disease.
Brian Gau
 
Research interests: Development of FPOP for affinity determinations. Evaluation of FPOP as a fast process. Application to aggregating proteins.

Staff of Mass Spectrometry Resource

Henry Rohrs
 
Research Interests: Proteomics, mass spectral methods for peptide and protein analysis.
Daryl Giblin
 
Research Interests: Density functional theory applied to mass spectral fragmentations and to gas-phase ion structure.
Don Rempel
 
Research interests: FTMS, trap design, accurate m/z measurements. Modeling of PLIMSTEX, FPOP, and kinetic data.
Ilan Vidavsky
 
Research interests: LC/MS. Computer algorithm devlopment for proteomics.
Joyce Neff
 
Editorial Manager, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom.

Former Graduate Students (Recent Past)

Justin Sperry
 
PhD, 2008, now at Pfizer St Louis
Ying Li
 
PhD 2007, now at Merck
Amber Russell
 
Now at US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Ms
Bich Vu
 
PhD 2007, joint with Prof. John-Stephen Taylor, now at Coviedian, St Louis
Micah Wilcox
 
PhD, 2008, now at Coviedian, St Louis
David Hambly
 
PhD 2007, now at Amgen

Former Postdoctorals

Qiang Zhang
 
Now at Mead Johnson
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