- Feb 2012, Our work on "Spatial Mapping of Lipids at Cellular Resolution in Embryos of Cotton" in collaboration with Kent Chapman in University of North Texas is appeared in
The Plant Cell. This work is also highlighted in
'in-brief' within the same journal.
- Nov 2011, Welcome New Members! Gargey Yagnik and Carolyn Hutchinson
- Oct 2011, Invited talk at University of St. Thomas
- Sep 2011, Welcome New Member! Rachael Leverence
- Sep 2011, Paul Cole received GAANN fellowship.
- May 2011, American Society of Mass Spectrometry conference at Denver (1 Oral, 8 Posters).
- May 2011, Erica Smith received Chevron Phillips fellowship.
- Mar 2011, Contributed talk at Pittcon 2011, Atlanta, GA.
- Mar 2011, Erica Smith received Cotton-Uphaus award.
- Feb 2011, Invited talk at Gordon Research Conference, Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism & Function, Galveston, TX.
- Nov 2010, Welcome New Member! D. Paul Cole.
- Oct 2010, Second Field trip of AP chemistry students from Mason City High School led by Adam Callanan.
- Oct 2010, Invited to talk at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
- Sep 2010, Invited to talk at Interdepartmental Plant Biology program.
- Sep 2010, Erica Smith received GAANN fellowship.
- Aug 2010, Erica’s work, FIRST petroleomic approach for bio-oil analysis, is accepted in Energy & Fuels.
- Jul 2010, DC left the group to join the faculty at Broward College in Florida.
- Jun 2010, Talk at 12th Congress of the International Association for Plant Biotechnology at St. Louis.
- May 2010, American Society of Mass Spectrometry conference at Salt Lake City (1 Oral, 6 Posters).
- Apr 2010, Our paper, “High Spatial and High Mass Resolution Imaging of Surface Metabolites of Arabidopsis thaliana by Laser
Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometry using Colloidal Silver” published in Analytical Chemistry was chosen as ‘Highlight of the Month’
on Analytical Chemistry web site. DC’s paper is also published at Rapid Commun. Mass spectrum.
- Mar 2010, Invited to talk at the 239th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, "Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Biorenewables".
- Feb 2010, Invited to talk at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of North Texas.
- Nov 2009, Welcome new members! Andy Korte and Adam Klein.
- Oct 2009, Field trip of AP chemistry students from Mason City High School led by Adam Callanan.
- Oct 2009, Invited to talk at the 36th FACSS conference.
- Oct 2009, Erica and Ji Hyun gave oral presentations at the ACS Midwest Conference.
- Jul 2009, NSF Major Research Instrument grant funded (PI: Basil Nikolau, Co-PIs: Young-Jin Lee, Ann Perera) for FT-ICRMS at W. Keck Metabolomics Facility.
- May 2009, American Society of Mass Spectrometry conference at Philadelphia (1 Oral, 3 Posters).
- Our research on 'mass spectrometry imaging of plant metabolites' appeared at the headline news of Plant Science Institute .view
- Plant Metabolite Imaging project is supported by the Department of Energy and pyrolysis bio-oil analysis is funded by ConocoPhillips.