With the support from the Pharmaceutical Sciences Training Program, Marie will examine the kidney toxicity of benzalkonium chlorides using organ-on-a-chip microphysiological system and mass spectrometry imaging! Welcome and Congrats, Marie! What a start!
Author Archives: Libin Xu
Our collaborative work with the Werth lab on S. aureus phospholipid release is published!
We found that the amount and types of released lipids did not correlate with S. aureus survival against daptomycin and that not all agr-deficient S. aureus strains display daptomycin tolerance due to released lipids by the bacteria, in contrast to previous work. Check out the paper below!
Congratulations to Amy on receiving the SOP Graduate Student Leadership Award!
This award recognizes outstanding scientific and/or professional leadership and service as a graduate student! Congrats, Amy! Well deserved! We really appreciate your leadership on various fronts during the pandemic!
Congratulations to Dylan on receiving SOP Outstanding Dissertation Award!
This award is given out to only one thesis per year in the entire School of Pharmacy! Congrats, Dr. Ross! What an achievement!
Congratulations, Dr. Dylan Ross, on a fantastic defense!
Dylan did a spectacular job in defending his thesis! Such an impressive body of work! Congrats, Dr. Ross!
Our review article on characterization of drugs and drug metabolites by IM-MS published in Analytica Chimica Acta!
This paper covers a lot of cool studies in drug and drug metabolites characterization, including some of ours. Check out the paper here.
Josi’s paper on toxicological studies of benzalkonium chloride on neurospheres published at CRT!
Benzalkonium chlorides are a major component of widely used disfectants, such as Lysol and Clorox, which has seen greatly increased usage during COVID-19. This work shed light on the potential neurotoxicity of these compounds. Check out the paper here.
Our collaborative work with Raleigh Lab accepted to JCB!
This work identified Hedgehog signaling negatively regulate DHCR7 and positively regulate CYP7A1, leading to increases in Smo-activating oxysterol levels! Check out this paper here.
Quynh’s radical clock paper published at J. Org. Chem.!
This improved radical clock allows the measurements of some new lipid peroxidation rate constants, particularly those containing highly conjugated systems, such as vitamin A, vitamin D3, and conjugated polyunsaturated fatty acids. With this “clock”, the full kinetic picture of lipid peroxidation can be elucidated now. Congrats to Qunyh, Ryan, Rutan, and our former members David Lee and Andrew Dinh! Check out the paper here.
Our paper on Python package for lipidomics accepted to Analytical Chemistry!
This all-in-one package, LiPydomics, contains a large experimental and predicted database of CCS and HILIC retention time, allows data processing, lipid identification with multi-dimensional data, statistical analysis, plotting, and comes with a text-based interface. The database is also available at CCSbase.net. Check out the paper here.