Hoda Safari Yazd
Hoda is currently a scientist at Denali Therapeutics in South San Francisco.
Email: hsafariyazd@gmail.com
Taylor A. Harmon
Taylor is currently a research scientist at Advanced Material Technology (HALO Columns).
Email: taalharm@chem.ufl.edu
Hamzah Hassnein Ahmed
Hamzah is currently a lecturer at King Abdulaziz University.
Email: hamzah.ahmed@ufl.edu
Iqbal Mahmud
Iqbal is currently a research scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Email: iqbalmahmud@ufl.edu
Vanessa Y. Rubio
Vanessa is currently a research project manager at Moffitt Cancer Center.
Email: vyrubio@gmail.com
Casey A. Chamberlain
Casey A. Chamberlain graduated with his Ph.D. under the mentorship of Dr. Timothy J. Garrett in December 2019 from the University of Florida College of Medicine Biomedical Sciences Program. His graduate work was focused on the metabolomic characterization of the intestinal bacterial oxalobiome, a subset of the microbiome known to degrade bioavailable oxalate and offset the risk of calcium oxalate kidney stone disease. Prior to his graduate education, Casey earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Florida in 2013.
Casey is currently working at Eurofins.
Email: chamberlain.c@wustl.edu
Jeremy Koelmel
Research Interests:
Exposomics covers the interaction between environmental exposures, including from contaminants, diet, and drugs, with biological consequences. My specific interests within exposomics are to develop mass spectral and informatics approaches to more comprehensively characterize both the exposome (exogenous compounds) and endogenous (biological) molecules. I am also interested in the interaction between exogenous compounds and endogenous compounds which can lead to novel compounds, for example, DNA adducts, small molecule adducts, and oxidation products. As oxidation products are a nearly universal indication of biological stress, developing tools to improve the coverage of oxidized molecules will aid in numerous applications. Through my future research, I aim to develop techniques that more comprehensively covering molecules which are indicative of our exposures and biological response, allowing researchers to determine mechanisms and markers linking health and the environment. Currently I am working on PFAS software, lipidomics software, and workflows using personal exposure monitors to screen hundreds of thousands of chemical exposures. Ideally, the research and mentoring during my career will result in changes in policy and education, and the development of new treatments, which will reduce harmful exposures and their consequences.
Please go to http://innovativeomics.com/team/jeremy-p-koelmel-phd/ for access to my publication history, CV, and biosketch.
Email: jeremykoelmel@gmail.com
Laurel Meke
Laurel received her B.S. in Biology from Bradley University, IL, under Dr. Barbara Frase and graduate student Casey Littlefield in her Ethology Laboratory while focused on the effects of high cortisone in red and gray wolves. She joined the Garrett Laboratory in 2016 and is a resident expert in creating sample preparation protocols and extractions for both untargeted and targeted LC-MS analysis.
Email: lmeke@ufl.edu
Elizabeth Dhummakupt, Ph.D.
Dr. Elizabeth Dhummakupt is currently a civilian scientist for the US Army at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD. She has over ten publications and two patents in the areas of ambient ionization and global metabolomics research.
Email: elizabeth.s.dhummakupt.civ@mail.mil
Michael Williams, Ph.D.