Wenqian Li, PhD
Wenqian is currently as research scientist at Cytokinetics
email: wli@cytokinetics.com
Jae Hwan Lee
Jae is currently in the Air Force at Eglin Airforce Base
Email: jhlee1996@gmail.com
Sina Feizbakhsh Bazargani, PhD
Sina is currently a research scientist at Stanford University
Email: sinafeiz@stanford.edu
Hoda Safari Yazd, PhD
Hoda is currently a scientist at Merck in Pennsylvania
Email: hsafariyazd@gmail.com
Taylor A. Harmon, PhD
Taylor is currently a research scientist in the Larion Lab at the NCI
Email: taylor.harmon@nih.gov
Hamzah Hassnein Ahmed, PhD
Hamzah is currently an Assistant Professor at King Abdulaziz University.
Email: hhahmed@kau.edu.sa
Iqbal Mahmud, PhD
Iqbal is currently a Senior Research Scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Email: imiqbalmahmud@gmail.com
Vanessa Y. Rubio, PhD
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: casey.a.chamberlain@gmail.com
Jeremy Koelmel, PhD
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
Joy Guingab-Cagmat, PhD
Joy completed her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Florida under the research supervision of Prof. James Winefordner. After 4 years of graduate training in lasers spectroscopy, her research interest shifted to biological applications of mass spectrometry. She has 13 years of combined academic and industry LC-MS experience with an emphasis on analytical measurement and characterization of small molecules and biologics, pharmacokinetics, and proteomics. To this end, her research collaborations have produced 28 publications that include research articles, reviews, and book chapters. She worked for SECIM from 2016 to 2021, she completed over 350 metabolomics and lipidomics client projects. In addition, she developed and validated new LC-MS methods for targeted metabolomics projects.
Email: joydg@ufl.edu
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 is currently enrolled in graduate school at UF.
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.