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Research group at UNC-Chapel Hill under the direction of Dr. Erin S. Baker & focused on ion mobility-mass spectrometry research for biological and environmental systems.
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! 🧠🙌
10.07.2025 03:22 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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/...
02.07.2025 11:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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. ❤️
02.07.2025 11:14 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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! 🏎️💨
02.07.2025 11:06 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
@erinbakerims.bsky.social brought one of our favorite visitors in to see us today! ❤️🐶 #FridayPostASMS
13.06.2025 17:12 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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 🧪
06.06.2025 16:40 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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! 🫶
06.06.2025 15:25 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
More awesome photos! (2/2)
05.06.2025 19:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Baker Lab wrapped up #ASMS2025 today with 6 poster presentations with topics ranging from instrumentation, bile acids, lipids, and software! 😎🔥 We are so proud of James, Sadie, Sarah, Haley, Quentin, and Greg! You are all rockstars! (1/2)
05.06.2025 19:15 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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! ❤️🐬
05.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
#TeamMassSpec, are you curious about the immunopeptidome? Come check out Allison’s poster today (527) to learn more!
04.06.2025 15:03 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
04.06.2025 04:17 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
03.06.2025 15:37 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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! ❤️
02.06.2025 21:33 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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!
02.06.2025 14:54 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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! 💪🏻
02.06.2025 04:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#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! 👯♀️💖
01.06.2025 21:17 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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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!!
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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!!
08.05.2025 15:38 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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! 😎
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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! ❤️🏆👩🏼🔬
10.04.2025 18:25 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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! 🤩
08.04.2025 02:05 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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! 🤓
05.04.2025 00:05 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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! ❤️🪴
04.04.2025 18:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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! 🤓
29.03.2025 19:46 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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! ❤️🎉
24.03.2025 11:33 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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! ❤️🎉
18.03.2025 22:11 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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! ☺️
10.03.2025 14:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
01.03.2025 01:35 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
