2023

• Jun: Congrats to Andrew for his successful final defense! He is heading to Michigan as a new faculty at Saginaw Valley State University!

• Jun: 7 poster presentations at ASMS, Houston, TX.

• Apr: Congrats to Daphne, Andrew, and Josiah for graduate students award! ISU teaching award, ISU Research Excellence Award, David N. and Minnie I. Wall Graduate Fellowship, respectively.

• Mar: Invited talk at ACS, Indianapolis, IN, for the Symposium honoring David Clemmer's Field& Franklin award. Congrats, David!

• Mar: Invited talk at Pittcon for NIJ Forensic Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

• Feb: Invited talk for Corteva, virtual.

• Feb: Invited talk at GRC Plant Lipids, Galveston, TX.

• Feb: Two poster presentations at AAFS, Orlando, FL.

• Jan: Congrats to Trevor for his successful final defense! He is heading to New Jersey for his new job at Evotec.

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2022

• Nov: Invited talk at Kansas State University.

• Nov: Welcome, Anna Uhlmansiek, a new member of the group!

• Sep: Oral talk at LIPIDS of Crops meeting, virtual and in person, Michigan State University, MI.

• Aug: Oral talk by Trevor at IMSS Suymmer Workshop, Baltimore, MD.

• Jun-Jul: Welcome, Fides Ybanez, a high school teacher from Maryland, and Hiffa Adam, a high school student from Herbert Hoover High School, for joining us in the summer.

• Jun: One oral talk and six posters at ASMS, Minneapolis, MN.

• Apr: Congrats to Andrew, Trevor, and Josiah for graduate students award! Wenkert Memorial Chemistry Scholarship, Sleight Graduate Student Chemistry Scholarship,and ISU teaching excellence award/David N. and Minnie I. Wall Graduate Fellowship, respectively.

• Mar: Two Pittcon and two NIJ Forensic Science R&D symposium (AAFS) poster presentations, virtual.

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2021

• Dec: New NSF-PGR project, $635,498, awarded for MS imaging of in vivo isotope labeling!

• Nov: Welcome new members, Vy Tat, Pubudu Hapuarachchige, Sujeewa Lamahewage!

• Nov: ASMS conference in Philadelphia, 8 poster presentations.

• Oct: Imaging Mass Spectrometry conference in Colorado Springs, 2 oral presentations (me and Evan).

• Oct: Invited talk for Plant Cell Atlas Spatial Metabolomics Workshop (virtual)

• Oct: Invited talk for Indiana Division of the International Association for Identification (INIAI) annual educational conference, Indianapolis.

• Apr: Invited talk for American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) Forensic Research Committee (FRC) (virtual)

• Apr: Congrats for graduate students award! Evan Larson for Alpha Chi Sigma, Andrew Paulson for Frank Moore and Thoreeen Beth Boore Fellowship, Trevor Forsman for Sleight Graduate Student Chemistry Scholarship.

• Mar: Invited talk for Pittcon, NIJ Symposium-Advancements in the Analysis of Forensic Trace Evidence (virtual)

• Feb: Invited talk, National Institute of Justice Forensic Science and Development Symposium in parallel to AAFS (virtual)

• Feb: Welcome new members, Sumin Na, as well as Daphne Patten and Josiah Rensner officially!

• Jan: Lab moved to Gilman

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2020

• Nov: Trevor gives a talk for 24 hour of international mass spectrometry imaging (virtual)

• Jun: Oral presentation in virtual ASMS conference

• May: Big contrats to Carolyn! She starts a tenure-track assistant professor of Chemistry at St. Bonaventure University, west New York in August.

• May: New USDA-NIFA grant awarded as co-PI to work with Timothy Durrett, Kansas State, to study acetylTG distribution in camelina.

• Apr: Congrats for the successful (virtual) defense, Emily! 

• Mar: Congrats for the successful (virtual) defense, Kelly! Good luck in your post-doc at NJ.

• Mar: Congrats to Evan to receive Mary K and Velmer A Fassel Scholarship!

• Mar: Invited talk to Pittcon NIJ Forensic Symposium for Emerging Technology.

• Feb: Paige's work on fingerprint aging is published at Analytical Chemistry. This work is selected for a supplementary journal cover and introduced in several news outlets, including The Economics, ACS News Weekly PressPac, Iowa Public Raido, and Local TV News (Channel 5, 8, and 13), and ISU News Service.

• ACS News Weekly PressPacs, "Residues in fingerprints hold clues to their age", Jan 22, 2020.https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2020/acs-presspac-january-22-2020/residues-in-fingerprints-hold-clues-to-their-age.html

• The Economics, Science and technology column, " Fingerprints can now be dated to within a day of when they were made", Jan 30, 2020. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/01/30/fingerprints-can-now-be-dated-to-within-a-day-of-when-they-were-made

• Iowa State University, News Service, "Chemists use mass spectrometry tools to determine age of fingerprints", Feb 18, 2020, https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2020/02/18/fingerprints

• Iowa Public Radio, talk show by Ben Kiefer, River to River, Feb 21, 2020, our story starts at 31:50, https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/declining-bald-eagle-population-isu-research-fingerprints-and-funnel-week-iowa-statehouse#stream/0

• Channel 5, 6pm Local News, Feb 21, 2020, "New forensic technology at Iowa State University could determine the age of fingerprints", https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/fingerprint-age-technology-iowa-state-university-solve-crimes/524-5077a6ce-e0b7-46cd-acf7-eb14f2898bc4

• Channel 8, 6pm Local News, Feb 21, 2020, "Iowa State University researchers find breakthrough method to fight crime", https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-state-university-researchers-find-breakthrough-method-to-fight-crime/31050430#

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2019

• Dec: Congrats to Paige Hinners for her succesful defense. She is now working for Renewable Energy Group.

• Oct: Invited talk at ASMS Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry imaging.

• Oct: New $516,836 NIJ funding to continue our work on fingerprint imaging.

• Aug: NSF CMI grant ($330,000) funded to study "Microdroplet On-tissue Chemical Reactions for Mass Spectrometry Imaging in Metabolomics Scale".

• Jul: Promoted to full professor.

• Jun: ASMS conference at Atlanta, 7 poster presentations.

• Apr: Congrats to Evan Larson for Frank J Moore and thoreen Beth Moore Scholarship, Paige Hinners for Cotton-Uphaus Award and Women in Chemistry Award, Kelly O'Neill for Ching Ching Chiu Doctorla Fellowship for Women in Chemistry.

• May: Joined editorial board of Scientific Reports.

• Apr: Invited talk at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

• Mar: Invited talk at Pittcon in NIJ-Emerging Technology symposium.

• Feb: Invited talk at Gordon Research Conference, Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism, and Function.

• Feb: Kelly gives a talk at American Academy of Forensic Science, Baltimore.

• Feb: Welcome a new visiting scholar, Dr. Jaehan Lee, from Samsung Display! Farewell to Yajie Zheng!

• Jan: Joined editorial board of PeerJ Analytical.

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2018

• Dec: Congrats to Dr. Maria Dueñas for her defense. She is going to Newcastle University in England as a post-doctoral fellow.

• Nov: Welcome new members! Andrew Paulson.

• Nov: Maria Dueñas presented a poster at Imaging Mass Spectrometry Society meeting, Charlseton, SC, which is also selected as a RapidFire oral poster event.

• Oct: ACS Midwest Regional Conference, Emily King, Paige Hinners, Evan Larson, and Trevor Forsman gave talk.

• Jul: Maria Dueñas received ACS Analytical Chemistry Scholarship.

• Jul: Congrats to Rebecca Hansen for her PhD defense! She is now at Covance, Madison, WI.

• Jun: Maria Dueñas received ASMS travel award.

• Jun: ASMS conference at San Diego, 8 poster presentation. 

• Apr: Congrats to Maria Dueñas and Rebecca Hansen for Alpha Chi Sigma Award, Kelley O’Neill for Moor Scholarship, Paige Hinners for Frank J. Moore and Thoreen Beth Moore Scholarship, and Evan Larson for Sleight Graduate Fellowship.

• Mar: Kelly O'Neill gave a talk at Annual Meeting Midwestern Section of American Society of Plant Biologists.

• Feb: Kelly O'Neill and Paige Hinners gave a talk at American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle.

• Feb: Rebecca Hansen gave a talk at Pittcon, Orlando. Maria presented a poster.

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2017

• Nov: Welcome new members! Trevor Forsman and Emily King.

• Oct: Maria and Rebecca gave a talk at SCIX.

• Prof. Lee on sabbatical leave in the fall at Kyunghee University, Korea. He gave fifteen invited talks at various institutions and universities in Korea including Korean Research Institute of Standards, Korean Basic Science Institute and Seoul National University, as well as Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry and HPLC-Jeju conference.

• Sep: Evan Larson presented a poster at TC Biomass, Chicago.

• Aug: Congrats to Dr. Carolyn Hutchinson for her PhD defense!

• Aug: Funding from Hyundai Motors for Reverse Engineering of Polyurethane.

• Jun 4-8: American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Indianapolis, IN. 7 poster presentations.

• Apr: Congratulation to Maria Dueñas for Mary K. and Velmer A. Fassel Fellowship, Rebecca Hansen for Women in Chemistry Award and Teaching Excellence Award,  Kelley O’Neill for Moor Scholarship, and Paige Hinners for David N. and Minnie I. Wall Graduate Scholarship.

• Mar: Invited talk to Pittcon Symposium, "Bioinformatics: Metabolite Idnetification and Quantification".

• Jan: Gordon Research Conference for Plant Lipids.

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2016

• Nov: Welcome new members! Paige Hinners, Evan Larson, Jennifer Bravo. Also, new and returning undergrad associates, Carly Ploumen, Jo Jo Teh, and Hailey Sartore joining in Spring 2017.

• Nov 10: ACS Ames Local Section Centennial Dinner.

• Nov 10: 8th Annual ISU field trip of Mason City High School AP Chemistry students, lead by AP chemistry teacher Adam Callanan, hosted by prof. Young-Jin Lee.

• Nov 4: Maria's paper, "High-Spatial Resolution Mass Spectrometry Imaging reveals the genetically programmed, developmental modification of the distribution of thylakoid membrane lipids among individual cells of the maize leaf”, accepted to Plant J and nominated as a feature article.

• Nov 3: Oral Presentation at TCS 2016 about our isotope tracking work to study fast pyrolysis mechanism, Chapel Hill, NC.

• Nov 14: Congrats to Adam Feenstra for successful PhD defense. Adam joined Meredith Co.

• Oct: Two new federal funding awarded! USDA-NIFA, "PAPM EAGER: Nanoparticle Microarray for High-throughput Chemical Phenotyping of Microbiome", in collaboration with Torey Looft (NADC). NIJ, "Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprint for Forensic Evidence".

• Sep 23: Invited talk at University of Louisville, KY, as Brown & Williamson Distinguished Guest Speaker.

• Aug: Congratulation to Kelly to be awarded for NIJ Forensic Science Graduate Fellowship.

• Summer: Welcome Eric Anderson, Carlisle High chemistry teacher, as a summer intern through CBiRC-RET program and Tian Lu as REU student from Beijing Normal University.

• Jun 5-9: American Society for Mass Spectrometry, San Antonio, TX. 6 poster and 1 oral presentations.

• Apr 11: Invited talk at Ohio University, OH

• Mar: Congratulation to Adam Feenstra for Research Excellence Award, Maria Dueñas for Women in Chemistry award and Rebecca Hansen for Chemistry Scholarship for Women award.

• Mar: Awarded for inaugural Trapp Innovation Award.

• Jan: Serving 2016 Chair for Ames Local Section of American Chemical Society.

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2015

• Nov 16: Invited Talk at Loras College

• Nov 10: Annual ISU field trip of Mason City High School AP Chemistry students, lead by AP chemistry teacher Adam Callanan, hosted by prof. Young-Jin Lee.

• Nov 4: Oral Presentation at TCBiomass 2015 about our real time monitoring of fast pyrolysis, Chicago, IL.

• Mid-Aug: Congrats to Gargey Yagnik and Adam Klein for successful PhD defense. Gargey joined Sanofi Pharmaceutical at Boston and Adam joined Shimatzu.

• Aug 27: Exciting paper of 'mass spectrometric imaging in metabolomics scale' by Adam Feenstra is accepted to Analyst.

• Summer: Welcome undergrad intern, Laura Carlucci, from U. Mass. Amherst through Ames Laboratory SULI program, and incoming grad intern, Kelly O'Neil, from Gustavus Adolphus.

• May 31-Jun 4: American Society for Mass Spectrometry, St. Louis, MO. 6 poster presentations.

• May: Klein and Yagnik's exciting paper on studying chemical interfaces of plant-insect/bacterial interactions is published in Analytical Chemistry.

• Apr: Congrats for the successful PhD defense of Paul Cole. He joined Baxter Pharmaceutical, Chicago, IL.

• Apr: Congrats for receiving graduate student awards. Gargey Yagnik and Paul Cole for ISU Research Excellence Award, Adam Feenstra for ISU Teaching Excellence Award and Sleight Graduate Fellowship, Adam Klein for Edward V. Sayre Chemistry Scholarship, Carolyn Hutchinson for Women in Chemistry award. 

• Apr 16: Invited talk at Advanced Imaging Mass Spectrometry Symposium, Vanderbuilt University, Nashville, TN.

• Mar: Paul's paper on new GC-MS for effective evaluation on catalytic dehydrogenation on catalytic fast pyrolysis is published.

• Feb 25: Invited talk at West Virginia University, Morgan Town, WV.

• Feb 13: Invited talk at University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.

 

2014

 

• Nov, 13: Gargey Yagnik and Adam Klein made oral presentations of our research at ACS Midwest Regional Meeting at University of Missouri.

• Oct, 23-25: Midwestern University for Analytical Chemistry Conference was held at Iowa State University, Oct 23-25.

• Oct, 16: Another ISU field trip of Mason City High School AP Chemistry students, lead by AP chemistry teacher Adam Callanan, hosted by prof. Young-Jin Lee.

• Sep, 28-Oct2: Carolyn Huntchinson made an oral presentation of our research at SCIX conference at Reno

• Aug: Dr. Lee is officially promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

• Jul: Our NSF Proposal to Energy and Sustainability got funded! Exciting research on 'Tempral Resolution in Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass' will start on Sep for the next three years.

• Jul, 11: Andy Korte final defense. Congrats, Dr. Korte. He joined Arkos Vertes group for post-doctoral work.

• Jun, 15-19: American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference at Baltimore, MD. 1 Oral and 8 Poster presentations.

• May, 6: Invited talk at Midwest Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group at Washington State University, St. Louis.

• Apr: Congratuations for receiving graduate students awards. Andy Korte for ISU Research Excellence Award, Paul Cole for Noble Hines Endowed Fellowship, Gargey Yagnik for Frank J. Moore and Thoreen Beth Moore Scholarship, Carolyn Hutchinson for ISU Teaching Excellence Award.

• Mar: Invited talk at American Chemical Society at Dallas, TX.

• Feb: Invited talk at Mass Spectrometry Imaging Workshop at Kyunghee University, Yongin-si, Korea and Yonsei University and Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology.

 

2013

 

• Nov, 25: Invited talk at University of South Dakota.

• Aug: Erica Smith passed final defense and joined Phillips66.

• Jun, 9-13: 61st American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference at Minneapolis (2 Oral, 7 Posters).

• May, 1 and 2: Invited talk at Kansas State University and University of Kansas.

• May: Congraturations to Erica Smith for Alpha Chi Sigma award, Andy Korte for Mary K. and Velmer A. Fassel Fellowship, Paul Cole for Chevron Phillips Fellowship, Gargey Yagnik for Edward V. Sayre Chemistry Fellowship, and Adam Klein for ISU Teaching Excellence award.

• Apr: Invited talk at 9th North American FTMS Conference, Key West, Fl.

• Apr: Invited talk at Purdue University.

• Feb: Invited talk at Indiana University and University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

 

2012

 

• Nov: Invited talk at the workshop, Energy@MagLab, Tallahassee, Fl.

• Oct: Andy and Paul, contributed talk at ACS Midwest Regional Meeting, Omaha, NE.

• Oct: Invited talk at ACS Midwest Regional Meeting, Omaha, NE.

• Sep: Invited talk at 19th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Kyoto, Japan.

• Aug: Our MALDI-MS imaging work is appeared in Ames Lab news and R&D magazine.

• May: 60th American Society of Mass Spectrometry Conference at Vancouver (6 Posters).

• May: Jihyun Jun passed final defense. She joined LG Chemical, Korea.

• Apr: Erica Smith received Moore Fellowship anbd Andy Korte received Brown Fellowship and Chevron Phillips Fellowship.

• Feb: 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.

 

2011

 

• Oct: Invited talk at University of St. Thomas.

• Oct: Renewal grant for DOE FWP of "mass spectrometry imaging for plant metabolite" was successful.

• Sep: Paul Cole received GAANN fellowship.

• Jun: Invited talk at ACS Central Regional Meeting.

• May: 59th American Society of Mass Spectrometry conference at Denver (1 Oral, 8 Posters).

• May: Erica Smith received Chevron Phillips fellowship.

• Mar: Erica Smith received Cotton-Uphaus award.

• Feb: Invited talk at Gordon Research Conference, Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism & Function, Galveston, TX.

 

2010

 

• Oct: Invited talk for Imaging Symposium hosted by Korean Basic Science Institute, Korea, and Seoul National University and Konkuk University.

• Sep: Erica Smith received GAANN fellowship.

• Aug: Erica’s work, FIRST petroleomic approach for bio-oil analysis, is accepted in Energy & Fuels.

• Jul: DC left the group to join the faculty at Broward College in Florida.

• Jun: Talk at 12th Congress of the International Association for Plant Biotechnology at St. Louis.

• May: 58th American Society of Mass Spectrometry conference at Salt Lake City (1 Oral, 6 Posters).

• Apr: 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 a Highlight of the Month on Analytical Chemistry web site.

• Mar: Invited to talk at the 239th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, "Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Biorenewables".

• Jan: ConocoPhillips funded our research for “BIO MASS FOR BIOMASS: Biological Mass Spectrometry for the Process Monitoring of Biomass Thermochemical Conversion”.

 

2009

 

• Oct: Field trip of AP chemistry students from Mason City High School led by Adam Callanan.

• Oct: Invited to talk at the 36th FACSS conference.

• Oct: Erica and Ji Hyun gave oral presentations at the ACS Midwest Conference.

• Sep: NSF MRI grant funded for FT-ICR at W.M. Keck Metabolomics Facility. We can further pursue our protemic analysis of bio-oil.

• May: 57th 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 .