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Happy Labsgiving from the Baker Lab!! 🍽️🍗 This has become one of our favorite yearly traditions! We are so incredibly thankful to have such an amazing group of people!! ❤️

We are so proud of our undergraduate students, Sarah and Quentin, for showcasing their research during our Measurement Science Friday seminar series this afternoon!! These two are amazing! Who knew PFAS and lipids could be so cool? 😉

Wishing everyone a wonderful Halloween from Hogwarts (aka, the Baker Lab)!!

A huge round of applause is deserved for Dr. Matt Lockett who did such an amazing job organizing #MUACC25 at UNC! 👏🏻🩵 The last two days were filled with wonderful talks, posters, and discussions! Thank you Matt for all your hard work, & thank you to everyone who participated!

Amie gave such an exciting presentation about her new oxylipin library and how she employs high resolution ion mobility for isomer separations at the Merck Research Forum this afternoon!! Congratulations Amie, we are so proud of you!! ❤️👩🏼‍🔬

Last Friday, Haley gave the audience at the UNC ThermoFisher Scientific Mass Spectrometry Symposium an amazing snapshot of her method development research for lipidomics in extracellular vesicles! She took 1st place in the lightening talk competition! Congratulations Haley! 🤩⚡️

If you’re looking for some exciting reading to take into the weekend with you, please check out Haley’s first, 1st-author paper published in Science of the Total Environment this week! You won’t want to miss these wildfire smoke induced lipid changes!🔥💨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ashlee just injected her 1st, first-author paper into the field.💥😎 You’ll definitely want to check out her latest work assessing the performance of different autosampler vial/insert configurations for your LC-MS analyses! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did everyone check out the newest issue of Molecular Omics? 👀 A huge shoutout to our graduate student Haley who designed the front cover! We also highly recommend reading about lipid specific changes during pluripotent differentiation! Great job Melanie and Haley! 🧠🙌

One more round of applause goes out to Dr. Jack Ryan this morning for his work focused on increasing oligonucleotide sequence coverage using IMS-MS! 👏🏻🧬 This is a very exciting paper, and we encourage everyone to go check it out! Amazing job Jack ‼️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

While we’re at it, we’d like to highlight Dr. James Dodds for his cross platform assessment of drift tube and traveling wave ion mobility methods for small molecules! 😎 This work was included in this morning’s issue of JASMS and we are so proud to share it with you all. ❤️

We’re very excited to see all of the amazing papers published in the latest installment of JASMS this morning! 🤩 We want to give a special shoutout to our very own Dr. James Dodds for designing the front cover of this month’s issue! We’ll see everyone at the racetrack! 🏎️💨

@erinbakerims.bsky.social brought one of our favorite visitors in to see us today! ❤️🐶 #FridayPostASMS

My heart is so full! ❤️ Such an amazing week at #ASMS2025 hearing such great science, being with my current and alumni students, and meeting so many new friends!! Sending hugs out to everyone in science and pushing as hard as possible to support our future 🧪

We had the best time at #ASMS2025 ‼️ It truly was an amazing week of learning, networking, and fun! Thank you to everyone who came to support each of our students at their presentations! We can’t wait to see you all in San Diego next year! 🫶

Kara gave a phenomenal talk this morning in the nontargeted environmental section about her work analyzing the generational transfer of PFAS via breast milk in marine animals! Truly amazing research and we are so proud of her! ❤️🐬

#TeamMassSpec, are you curious about the immunopeptidome? Come check out Allison’s poster today (527) to learn more!

The best part about #ASMS is getting to see old friends and meeting new ones! Tonight we and a few of our beloved alumni had the opportunity to get together for a fantastic dinner here in Baltimore! We’re forever thankful for such an amazing group! ❤️ #ASMS2025

Anyone else seeing double E’s? 👀 Come stop by posters #258 and #289 to see Eli present novel PFAS breath sampling methods, and Emily talk about antidepressant quantification in NC surface water! These are two projects you don’t want to miss! 😎 #ASMS2025

Amie gave an amazing talk this afternoon in the lipidomics section about her work separating oxylipin isomers with high resolution ion mobility!!! 🤩 We’re so proud of you! ❤️

Hey #ASMS2025 ‼️ Want beer? 🍺 Come check out Ashlee’s poster #239 today to hear about her work optimizing methods to extract PFAS from your favorite beverages! We hope to see you there!

We are so proud of our student Quentin who presented his work tonight on assessing heavy-labeled standards to expand our ability to confidently identify and quantify lipids at the #ASMS2025 Undergraduate Poster Competition! Great job, you crushed it! 💪🏻

#ASMS2025 started off with a bang from the Baker Lab with Emily talking in the Skyline Users Meeting about her LC-IMS-MS antidepressant library, and Haley presenting at the Agilent Users Meeting about lipid perturbations caused by wildfire smoke inhalation! We are so proud! 👯‍♀️💖

RDU ➡️ BWI ✈️ The Baker Lab is on the way to #ASMS2025 🥳

We are so excited about #ASMS2025 and cannot wait to catch up with friends, both new and old!! We are also eager to see all the new #TeamMassSpec research and want to share where you can find us. See you all soon!! @asms.org

We are thrilled to announce that both of our undergraduate students, Quentin and Sarah, were awarded UNC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships! These two are awesome and we are so excited to watch them progress in their current research projects this summer! Congratulations!!

A special shoutout for Anna’s alligator study which was recently highlighted in LCGC International. 🐊 Check it out if you’d like to read more about some of our recent nontargeted PFAS analyses! 😎 www.chromatographyonline.com/view/identif...

We are very excited to share our big news this week! Kara received the NSF GRFP award, and Emily and Haley both received honorable mentions!!! We are so incredibly proud of them and all of the hard work that went into their applications! Congratulations ladies! ❤️🏆👩🏼‍🔬

We had an absolutely fantastic Saturday hanging out at the #UNCScienceExpo! ☀️🧪 The invisible ink demonstration was a huge success, and it was so wonderful to connect with all of the children and parents who came out to participate! We’re already excited for next year! 🤩

If you’re in the Triangle Area, please come and see us tomorrow at the 2025 #UNCScienceExpo 🧪👩🏼‍🔬 The Baker Lab will be showing off how fun pH changes can be with an invisible ink demonstration!!! We hope to see you there! 🤓

We had such a wonderful time celebrating Guozhi and the time she spent with us as a post-doc over the last 1.5 years! Thank you Z for all of your contributions to bile acid research! We are so proud of you and excited to support you as you transition into your next steps! ❤️🪴

Emily gave such an exciting talk at the Carolina Chemistry Student Seminar Series yesterday highlighting her research focused on assessing antidepressant pollution! 💊🐟 Fantastic job Emily! 🤓

On Friday, Sarah rounded out our prelim season and wowed her committee with her research focused on identifying lipid changes in bone marrow from mice with different APOE alleles! 🐁🧬 We are so proud of Sarah and her hard work! Congratulations to our newest PhD candidate! ❤️🎉

Another one!!! 😎 The biggest congratulations go out to our newest PhD candidate Emily! She captivated her committee this afternoon with her research focused on the detection of antidepressants in NC surface water! 💊🐟 We are so proud of you Em! ❤️🎉

Recruitment Weekend (Part 1) is in the books! ☑️🎉 We had such a great time meeting the prospective students and talking about what the Baker Lab has been up to recently! ☺️

Huge congratulations to our newest PhD candidate, Allison!! Her lipidomic analyses and PFAS modeling got her four thumbs up from her committee 👍🏻 Way to go, Allison!! #PhDcandidate

The undergrads are loose in the lab, watch out 😂

Today, we had the pleasure of celebrating Anna’s final defense as she showcased a portion of her amazing research focused on nontargeted analyses of PFAS in alligators using LC-IMS-MS! 🐊 Huge congratulations to Dr. Boatman, we are so proud of you!!! Baker Lab #7! 🥳🍾🥂

Our biggest congratulations go out to Haley for passing her qualifying exam today! She presented to her committee her work on analyzing lipid changes due to wildfire smoke inhalation in mice! We are so incredibly proud of you Haley! 🥳 #PhDCandidate

Our students had the opportunity to present at the Triangle Area Mass Spectrometry Student Research Poster Session & Competition this week! We are so proud of everyone who presented, and a special congratulations to Amie, Haley, Emily, and Ashlee who won prizes for their posters!

We are so excited to share our latest manuscript containing a multidimensional PFAS database with LC retention times, IMS collision cross sections (CCS) and MS characteristics for 175 PFAS and their 281 resulting ion types! We hope it helps others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are so excited to congratulate the following Baker Lab group members for earning awards this year! Keep up the great work!! UNC Postdoctoral Award: Guozhi UNC Graduate Research Awards: Anna & Amie UNC Graduate Teaching Award: Kara ASMS Travel Award: Allison

Congratulations to Kara for passing her qualifying exam yesterday!! She presented to her committee her work on expanding our PFAS library and her project looking at the maternal transfer of PFAS in marine animals! We are so proud of you Kara ☺️ #PhdCandidate

Check out Amie’s sea lion paper and her supplemental cover out now!! Congratulations @amiesolosky.bsky.social !! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Welcome to Bluesky, Joe!!

Haley gave an amazing talk at this morning’s Carolina Chemistry Student Seminar. She talked about her research looking at how wildfire smoke and flame conditions affect the lipids of mice in the plasma, lungs, and EVs. Great job, Haley!!!

First night of #LakeLouise2024, & what a night it was!! Mike Gross started the conference with a historical look at important tandem MS events, techniques & people. Question to @asms.org members present or not, “Where did tandem MS begin (in Mike’s opinion)?” If you were there, you better know 😂