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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! 🤩⚡️

Wildfire smoke induces GM3 ganglioside lipid accumulation and transcriptomic shifts in mouse lung tissue: A smoke signal story Wildfire smoke is a growing concern due to continually rising exposures and links to numerous adverse health effects. Lipids are essential regulators …

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! 🫶

More awesome photos! (2/2)

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)

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! 👯‍♀️💖

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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!!

Identifying PFAS in Alligator Plasma with LC–IMS-HRMS A combination of liquid chromatography ion mobility spectrometry, and high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC–IMS-HRMS) for non-targeted analysis (NTA) was used to detect and identify per- and polyfluor...

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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