#FeMSSpotlight celebrates and recognizes women in the field of mass spectrometry at all career stages and paths, and encourages our FeMS Twitter followers to connect with each other. If you are interested in being featured on #FeMSSpotlight, click this link!
2022
Our first #FeMSSpotlight of 2022 is on Charlotte Hutchings! @CharlH_Science is a PhD Student at Cambridge Centre for Proteomics where she applies novel approaches to expression and spatial proteomics to understand changes within HEK293 cells during the production of AAV vectors. pic.twitter.com/RZ6IAa2QVx
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) January 17, 2022
2021
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Stacy Malaker! @StacyMalaker is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at @YaleChem, where her lab focuses on development of techniques for O-glycoproteomics and mucinomics. pic.twitter.com/NEBBMGp3M3
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) June 3, 2021
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Giovanna Baron! @baron_giovanna is a postdoc at University of Milan’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, where she focuses on natural extract characterization by high-resolution mass spectrometry and evaluation of their mechanism of action. pic.twitter.com/XeS8rDiBPX
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) April 28, 2021
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Baljit Ubhi! @BaljitKUbhi is the Senior Market Development Manager of Life Science Research @sciexnews. Her job involves product marketing, demand generation, go-to-market strategy, increasing market visibility & growing brand awareness. pic.twitter.com/CbQG0b2skl
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) April 13, 2021
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Ling Hao! @HaoLab_GWU is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at George Washington University. The Hao lab focuses on developing MS-based proteomic and metabolomic strategies to study the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. pic.twitter.com/SdvqeLz6ft
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) March 30, 2021
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Silvia Radrezza! @radrezzasilvia is a PhD student at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on merging proteomics and lipidomics using LC-MS/MS with @phanlab1. Silvia graduated in pharmacy with a masters degree in biomedical science. pic.twitter.com/2DbvCFz2XZ
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) March 16, 2021
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Laura-Isobel McCall! @LabMccall is an Assistant Professor at @UOkChemBiochem where she uses 3D-resolved spatial metabolomics to understand why disease happens where it does and to find new treatments for under-served diseases. pic.twitter.com/TKgGeryPws
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) February 17, 2021
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Patricia A. Gonzales Hurtado! @PatriciaG_PhD is a Staff Scientist at the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology/NIAID/NIH where she manages an MS facility leading ID of malaria biomarkers & vaccine targets using metabolomics & proteomics. pic.twitter.com/LojhkOzFc8
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) January 26, 2021
The #FeMSSpotlight is on Rosita Zakaria! Rosita is an early career researcher @RMIT in Australia. Her research focuses on clinical micro-sampling analysis. Rosita earned her BHSc from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in Iran and her MS and PhD in Clinical/Medical sciences. pic.twitter.com/cceDZPtsPk
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) January 11, 2021
2020
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Sakshi Gautam! @Sakshigautam03 is a PhD candidate in the Mechref Research Group @TexasTech. Her research focuses on developing analytical methods for efficient identification of glycans, glycopeptides, and their isomers. pic.twitter.com/YK2VKzLQmt
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) December 7, 2020
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Lauren Pepi! @PepiDoesScience is a PhD Candidate @UGAChemistry. Her research focuses on developing MSMS techniques for the structural characterization of sulfates glycosaminoglycans. pic.twitter.com/5Ur6zDOTe5
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) November 23, 2020
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is Camille Lombard-Banek! @DrCamMSMS is an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST/IBBR in John Schiel’s lab. She is currently developing MS-based approaches to expand the toolbox to characterize CAR-T cell therapies. pic.twitter.com/AJQ9bMH5qq
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) October 28, 2020
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Zeljka Popovic! @MagnetZel is an analytical chemistry graduate research assistant at @floridastate. Her research focuses on advancing various aspects of protein analysis by mass spectrometry in order to obtain maximum sequencing information. pic.twitter.com/t1MTQi9vck
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) September 28, 2020
Today's #FeMSSpotlight is on Amanda Patrick! @IonTrappist is an Assistant Professor at @msstate. She uses mass spectrometry, infrared ion spectroscopy, and computational chemistry to learn about the structure and dissociation pathways of ions. pic.twitter.com/eAUKFml1AP
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) September 8, 2020
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Yadira Perez Paramo! @xitlalli23 earned her PhD from @WSUPharmacy last week!! 🎉 She uses mass spec to measure levels of tobacco-related urinary biomarkers to assess individual variability in nicotine metabolism among smokers. pic.twitter.com/QLIU1Ec1hi
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) August 28, 2020
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Lisa M. Jones! @LisaMJonesLab1 is an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland where she develops in-cell and in vivo protein footprinting methods coupled with MS to study the higher order structure of proteins. pic.twitter.com/SbTKXa8mx1
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) August 14, 2020
Today for #BlackinAnalytical day, the #FeMSSpotlight is on #BlackinChem Co-Founder Devin Swiner! @Devin_Eleven is a Graduate Research Assistant @OhioState where she is developing an ambient ionization source using cellulose materials & mass spec for clinical diagnostics. pic.twitter.com/xdTx0d60av
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) August 10, 2020
The #FeMSSpotlight is on Emily Britton! @ChEmilyBritton is a Food and Environmental Business Development Specialist at @WatersCorp. She organizes events to promote Waters Corporation's analytical solutions for the food, natural product and environmental testing industries. pic.twitter.com/VrDyIjOZgR
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) August 4, 2020
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on our new Communications Committee Co-Chair Hui Ye! @HuiYe93121721 is an Associate Professor at China Pharmaceutical University. She develops novel MS-based target ID techniques for functional metabolites and bioactive natural products in cell milieu. pic.twitter.com/Zrl1jRR0YK
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) July 31, 2020
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Ólöf Gerður Ísberg! @ogisb9 is a PhD student at @uni_iceland & @imperialcollege. Her research is focused on profiling metabolites in breast cancer tissue using mass spectrometry imaging and other mass spec methods. pic.twitter.com/N1ruXhreXc
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) July 28, 2020
Today the #FeMSSpotlight is on Jericha Mill! @JerichaMill is a graduate student in @LiResearch at @UWMadisonChem. Her research interests center around small molecule detection/analysis, mostly focusing on Alzheimer’s Disease biomarker discovery. pic.twitter.com/mqrPvWd0YA
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) July 25, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is the Co-Founder and CSO of Psilera Bioscience, Jackie von Salm! @jvonsalm focuses on natural products drug discovery and chemical ecology using mass spectrometry metabolomics, especially terpenes and terpenoids. pic.twitter.com/eOpBxRs7U6
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) July 15, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is Crystal Holt, Senior Market Development Manager in Clinical and Forensic Testing at @SCIEXnews. @Crystal58312032 has focused her work around mass spectrometry since discovering her love for the technique during graduate school research projects! pic.twitter.com/JxbCHHpaci
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) July 7, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is @kiran_iyer! Kiran is a Senior Scientist in Small Molecule Analytical Research and Development at @Merck. She solves complex analytical problems at the interface of chemistry, engineering and lab informatics to enable development of APIs. pic.twitter.com/IxldteDSJM
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) June 30, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is Kari Basso (f.k.a. Green-Church)! @karibbasso is the Director at the Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center at @UF. Her research focuses on MS based proteomics and lipidomics in dry eye disease. pic.twitter.com/H0wJtcrz5z
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) June 12, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is Abhigya Mookherjee! @AbhigyaMB is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Guttman lab in the Dept of Medicinal Chemistry at @UW, where she develops mass spec tools such as ion mobility & gas phase HDX with tandem MS for improved separation of isomeric glycans. pic.twitter.com/Xh3G6msWv9
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) June 6, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is @olgavitek! Olga is a Professor in the @KhouryCollege at @Northeastern in Boston, MA. Her research focuses on statistics and machine learning for quantitative mass spectrometry, proteomics, imaging mass spectrometry, and systems biology. pic.twitter.com/PkRM6q3JIN
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) May 26, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is Arpana Vaniya! @panza001 is a Postdoctoral Scholar & Academic Coordinator in the Fiehn Lab at @WCMC_UCDavis. She works in the field of MS-based untargeted metabolomics, compound identification, and development of mass spectral reference libraries. pic.twitter.com/L7jsUI3nKj
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) May 18, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is FeMS communication committee chair, @KaylieKirkwood. Kaylie is a graduate student at @NCStateChem in the @BakerLabNCSU where she studies lipid disruptions following environmental exposures using IMS-MS. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/rTHoi6zKbn
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) May 13, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is FeMS founding member and co-chair, Anne K Bendt. Anne is a Principal Investigator and Associate Director of @SlingLipidomics at @NUSingapore where she drives the efforts of clinical translation and commercialization of lipidomic technologies.
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) May 7, 2020
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Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is FeMS Scientific Advisory chair Margrét Thorsteinsd. @MThorsteinsd is a professor @uni_iceland and the R&D Director of ArcticMass Ltd. Her research focuses on metabolite profiling methods and quant of biomarkers in biofluids utilizing chemometrics. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/3j8LCdPXBO
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) May 3, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is FeMS co-chair Grace van der Gugten. Grace is an LC-MS/MS Development Specialist at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, BC, where she develops and validates clinical LC-MS/MS assays. She teaches intro clinical LC-MS/MS courses at @MSACL & @_AACC. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/W7fho3Doal
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) April 28, 2020
Today’s #FeMSSpotlight is FeMS board member Amber Herold! Amber is the Vice President of @MSACL, where she works to bring together communities that strive towards better and more affordable health care for improved patient outcomes. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/IoBI8GF2eX
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) April 24, 2020
Our first #FeMSSpotlight is FeMS board member @ErinBakerNCSU! Erin is an associate professor at @NCStateChem. Her research focuses on utilizing IMS-MS techniques for multiomic approaches to biological and environmental perturbations. (3/5) pic.twitter.com/xvehLpFgMI
— Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) (@FemalesInMS) April 20, 2020