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Congratulations, Dr. Van Grouw!

May 8, 2025 by eschwiebert3

Alex Van Grouw is the newest Ph.D. graduate of the Fernández Lab! She recently defended her thesis, titled “Machine Learning Enabled Stem Cell Lipidomics” and we could not be prouder!

Congratulations again, Alex, and we can’t wait to see all that you accomplish in the future!

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Grace wins Research Administration & Support Spotlight Award!

May 8, 2025 by eschwiebert3

Congratulations, Grace! She was recently named the winner of the Research Administration & Support (RA&S) Spotlight Award for her recent research and teaching contributions between both her work in the Fernández Lab in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Carr Lab in Aerospace Engineering.

This award serves to recognize her efforts to develop new instruments and methods to detect complex molecules of life on other planets. Her work has led to techniques with extremely low detection limits and incredible high sensitivity to detect trace molecules. In addition to her research, Grace has restructured the space instrumentation for life detection course with elevated experiments and student engagement.

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Facundo recognized as ACS 2025 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award Winner!

April 24, 2025 by eschwiebert3

Professor Facundo Fernandez

Every year, the American Chemical Society honors the contributions of an individual researcher from each of three major geographic regions who has recently made a major impact in the field of measurement science. Prof. Facundo Fernández was recently named the 2025 award winner for the region of North and South America, and we could not be more proud! Congratulations, Facundo!

https://axial.acs.org/analytical-chemistry/meet-the-2025-advances-in-measurement-science-lectureship-award-winners

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Congratulations, Dr. Leontyev!

April 23, 2025 by eschwiebert3

Dmitry Leontyev is the newest Ph.D. graduate of the Fernández Lab! He recently defended his thesis, titled “Tissue Metabolomics by Advanced Mass Spectrometry and Separation Techniques” and we could not be more proud! His next career move includes joining Genentech out in San Francisco, California.

Congratulations again, Dmitry, and we can’t wait to see all that you accomplish in the future!

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Dmitry goes to Waters!

April 3, 2025 by eschwiebert3

Earlier this week, senior graduate student, Dmitry Leontyev, had the opportunity to present at the Waters Imaging Innovation Summit where he presented his work on ‘Leveraging Collision Cross Sections and Machine Learning Predictions for Metabolite Identification’.

Good job, Dmitry! Keep making the lab proud!

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Check out our newest publication!

March 24, 2025 by eschwiebert3

This work lead by recent graduate of the Fernández Lab, Dr. Carter Asef, entitled “Beyond Targeted Newborn Screening: A Nontargeted Workflow to Investigate Birthweight-Metabolome Correlations”, was published in ACS affiliated journal, Analytical Chemistry. This work expands upon the traditional scope of the Recommended Uniform Screening newborn panel by leveraging the robust, non-targeted capabilities of HILIC LC-MS on dried bloodspot samples of a large patient cohort of 810 newborns. In addition to identifying correlations between newborn birth weight and metabolites typically included in the current newborn screening panel, new biomarkers and metabolic phenotypes were identified that were closely associated with parenteral nutrition administration and maternal nicotine exposure.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c06061

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Check out our newest publication!

March 10, 2025 by eschwiebert3

This work lead by current student, Alexandria Van Grouw, entitled “Toward Machine Learning Electrospray Ionization Sensitivity Prediction for Semiquantitative Lipidomics in Stem Cells”, was published in ACS affiliated journal, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. This work addresses the challenges that arise from variability in electrospray ionization response when comparing multiple batches of both targeted and non-targeted mass spectrometry datasets. As patient recruitment is a long, arduous process among stem cell studies, this is batch-to-batch phenomenon is encountered frequently. In this publication, a machine learning model was developed that predicts electrospray ionization sensitivity for lipid classes that have shown correlation with stem cell potency to help bridge the gaps present between batches and between targeted and non-targeted datasets.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.4c02040

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Congratulations to Xin on his next career move!

January 28, 2025 by eschwiebert3

It’s with heavy hearts but also much excitement that we congratulate Dr. Xin Ma on his new role as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. Xin contributed so much to the expertise and community of the lab and will be greatly missed. We know this next adventure will hold both great accomplishments and challenges, but we could not be more confident in Xin and his abilities!

We’re so happy for you, Xin, and wish you all the best!

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Congratulations to Jada on a successful masters dissertation and defense!

November 18, 2024 by eschwiebert3

Jada Gray is the newest minted masters degree from the Fernández group! Congratulations again to Jada, and we wish you the best in all your future endeavors with Dr. Mijin Kim and her group. We know you’re going to be an amazing success.

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Check out our newest publication!

November 12, 2024 by eschwiebert3

This work lead by former Fernández lab member, Dr. Samyukta Sah, and current student, Elisabeth Schwiebert, entitled “Metabolomics of Papanicolaou Tests for the Discovery of Ovarian Cancer Biomarkers”, was published in metabolites. This work is the first, to our knowledge, to evaluate residual Papanicolaou (Pap) tests as a potential biospecimen for metabolomics and lipidomics studies. In this first-stage, feasibility study, we were able to detect and annotate numerous lipid species in all of our non-cancerous samples that we plan to compare to cancerous samples in future.

https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo14110600

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