- Research appeared at the headline news of Plant Science Institure .view
- Apr 2009, MALDI-LTQ-Orbitrap installed.
- Jun 2009, Presentation of our work at American Society of Mass Spectrometry conference at Philadelphia (1 talk, 2 presentations)
- Jun 2009, Erica received a GAANN fellow ship.
- Jun 2009, First paper accepted to J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. (Probability based shotgun cross-linking analysis)
- Jul 2009, NSF High End Instrument grant funded (PI: Basil Nikolau, Co-PI: Young-Jin Lee, Ann Perera) for FT-ICRMS at W. Keck Metabolomics Facility.
- Undergraduate research (CHEM 299, 399, 499) available, with possible extension to summer intern.
- Oct 2009, Erica and Ji Hyun made oral presentations at ACS Midwest Conference.
- Oct 2009, ConocoPhillips grant funded, “BIO MASS FOR BIOMASS: Biological Mass spectrometry for the Process Monitoring of Biomass Thermochemical Conversion”, $191,984, 1/01/10-12/31/11.
- Oct 2009, NSF Science and Technology Center proposal (CPLiS, Center for Plant Lipid Systems; multi-institutional research center headquatered at St. Louis; $28M over 5 years) 1st round passed and site visit was successfully finished.
- Oct 2009, Invited talk at 36th FACSS conference, “Mass Spectrometric Imaging in High Spatial Resolution and High Mass Resolution for the Study of Plant Functional Genomics”.
- Oct 2009, Field trip of AP chemistry students from Mason City High School led by Adam Callanan.
- Nov 2009, Welcome new members! Andy Korte and Adam Klein.
- Nov 2009, DOE site visit for MS imaging project.
