Lab Members
Jace W. Jones, PhD (University of Washington)
Dr. Jace W. Jones is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Mass Spectrometry Center at the University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy. Dr. Jones received his BS degree from Whitworth University and PhD from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington. Prior to his current position, he spent several years in industry and academia. His research program seeks to understand the synergistic relationship between chemistry and biology, and how this profound interaction influences human health. Specifically, his lab is focused on developing analytical platforms, based on chromatography, ion mobility, and mass spectrometry, to probe the structure/function dynamics of lipids. The knowledge gained by comprehensively characterizing lipid structure and precisely anchoring structure to biological function provides a unique opportunity to expound fundamental knowledge of disease/injury and provide insight for drug development targets.
2020 American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Research Award
2020 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) New Investigator Award
2020-2021 University of Maryland School of Pharmacy AACP Teacher of the Year Award
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Current Group Members
Yuanyuan Ji, Ph.D. (Minzu University of China and Lehman College, CUNY)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2022-Present
Project: Method development and application for lipidomics
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZY89qFwAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN&oi=ao
Mohsin Ali, Ph.D. (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2023-Present
Project: Oligonucleotide Therapeutics
Sazia Arefin Kachi, MS ( Kangwon National University, South Korea), BPharm (North South University, Bangladesh)
PhD Graduate Student, Spring 2023-Present
Project: Mass Spectrometry method development and analysis of lipids
Josie Daldegan Rezende, MS (St. John’s University), BS (Bloomfield College)
PhD Graduate Student, Spring 2023-Present
Project: Mass Spectrometry method development and analysis of lipids
Former Lab Members:
Anh Tran, Ph.D.
Ph.D. trainee, graduated Fall 2023
Project: Sphingolipid metabolism as a marker for liver toxicity
Currently, NRC Post-doc at NIST
Yulemni Morel, Ph.D.
Ph.D. trainee, graduated Fall 2023
Project: The role of ether phospholipids in traumatic brain injury
Currently, Senior Scientist in the Biologics Analytical Research and Development Division at Merck
Padmapriya Sridhar, M.S.
MS student, graduated Fall 2023
Project: Chromatographic separation and mass spectrometry analysis of oligonucleotides
Currently, Research Scientist at Seattle Genetics
Mayur Umesh Shete, M.S.
MS student, graduated Fall 2022
Project: Analysis of Therapeutic Oligonucleotides by MALDI-TOF-MS
Currently, Research Scientist at Saptalis Pharmaceuticals
Ahmed M. Abdel-Megied Ali, BS Pharm, MS Pharm, Ph.D.
Post-doc from 2021-2022
Project: Mass spectrometry-based detection assays for membrane lipids
Currently, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Notre Dame of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-abdel-megied-ali-phd-5350b89b/
Catherine Jeon
Summer high school intern (2022)
Project: Bioinformatic processing and visualization of lipidomic data
Group Photos
Group Photo August 2022
ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry 2021, Philadelphia, PA
Lab Photo 2020
Group Photo Summer 2022