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Spring 2016

Huan, Tao

Metabolomics is the study of chemical processes involving small-molecule metabolites in a given biological system. These small molecules are downstream outputs of cellular activities. An understanding of the metabolome change can help us to visualize perturbations in the genome or proteome from...

Fall 2016

Shams-Ud-Doha, Km

This thesis describes the development and application of mass spectrometry methods to study protein-ligand interactions in vitro. Liquid sample desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (liquid sample DESI-MS) was employed to quantify protein-carbohydrate interactions in aqueous buffer...

Spring 2011

De Souza, Andrea

The proteome, a hybrid term from protein and genome, is the total set of proteins expressed by a genome in a cell, tissue, or organism at a given time. Proteomics, the study of the proteome, is concerned with a variety of topics such as identity, quantity, activity, structure, protein-protein...

Fall 2013

Chen, Lu

Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in proteomic work for protein identification and characterization. A key to the success of MS for protein analysis is related to sample preparation. Current sample preparation methods do not meet all the needs of protein or proteome analysis. My thesis work...

Spring 2013

Tang,Yanan

Quantitative proteomics has been increasingly recognized as a key research topic in proteomics research, as it enumerates changes of proteins’ expression level in a bio-system. Quantitative proteomics provides an important way to discover biomarkers for disease diagnosis and prognosis, and also...

Spring 2011

Lo, Andy

This thesis describes the characterization, automation, and applications of a stable isotope labelling method for quantitative proteomics by mass spectrometry. Known as 2MEGA, the method uses guanidinylation to convert peptide lysine residues to homoarginine followed by reductive methylation of...

Fall 2017

Mung, Dorothea, YZ

Metabolomics is the study of all the small molecules in a given sample or organism. It is used to understand individual variations caused by the relationship between the individual’s genetics, exposome and metabolic activity. There is interest in using metabolomics for personalized care leading...

Spring 2014

Peng, Jun

Metabolomics is a research field focusing on global study of all the metabolites present in a biological system (i.e., the metabolome). Metabolome analysis involves identifying and quantifying as many small molecule metabolites as possible in a biological sample. Metabolomics has attracted much...

Spring 2011

Guo, Kun

As the endpoint of the “omics” cascade, metabolomics has attracted much attention in the discovery of diagnostic or prognostic disease biomarkers, and as a powerful tool to understand biological and biochemical processes and mechanisms. The objective of my research was to develop a highly...

Spring 2014

Zhou, Ruokun

Metabolomics strives to gain a comprehensive picture of the metabolites in a biological system. This emerging research field gives us an insight into the discovery of disease-related biomarkers and an understanding of metabolic flux as well as mechanisms. Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry...