August 05, 2020

Gordon passes his qualifying exam today to advance to candidacy! His first author manuscript hit the web at the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, and he was a 2nd runner up in the Buchi Scholar program for his application note. Despite work from home, Gordon is killing it in 2020! 

May 21, 2020

Congratulations to Dr Condren on becoming the 2nd Sanchez Lab PhD! She virtually defended her dissertation entitled: Chemical communication visualized by mass spectrometry: specialized metabolism in bacterial biofilms. Additionally despite the pandemic, she is having a great 2020, her papers hit the web at ACS Infectious Diseases, Gut Microbes, and at the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry! She will start her postdoc with Dr. Dave Sherman at the University of Michigan in August 2020! 

May 05, 2020

Katherine is the first Sanchez lab PhD! Way to go Katherine on defending her dissertation entitled: Capturing chemical exchange with novel imaging mass spectrometry techniques. Her virtual defense was well attended and we are looking forward to seeing her next steps! Well done DR ZINK. 

March 24, 2020

Congratulations to Cynthia on obtaining her Masters in Pharmacognosy on her thesis entitled: Using mass spectrometry to quantitate and analyze bioactive small molecules . This was the first virtual defense for the lab. Well done! 

December 19, 2019

Gordon was selected to become a T32 fellow on the NIH NCCIH grant entitled: Research Training in Natural Product Complementary and Integrative Medicine. This will support Gordon's professional development and research efforts on the cheese rind microbiome and metabolome. 

December 12, 2019

Jess received her NOA today for her NIH NCCIH F31! Her proposal had a great score and will support her continued collaboration with the Dutton and Wolfe Labs to continue to use different mass spectrometry based tools to investigate the chemical communication bacteria and fungi utilize on cheese rinds. Stayed tuned to watch her progress! 

December 02, 2019

Melissa's first author research publication hits the web at the Journal of Proteome Research! This collaborative paper with the Burdette lab at UIC looks at repurposing Pap smears for ovarian cancer screening with MALDI-TOF MS in a longitudinal murine model. 

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Check out the paper here.

November 21, 2019

Alanna was invited to present her research at the The Curie Symposium: Celebrating Women in Science. The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington held a symposium in Seattle to celebrate promising early-career women scientists who are performing cutting-edge research in their fields.

November 14, 2019

After two years of effort by a large team of international collaborators lead by the Linington lab at SFU, the Natural Products Atlas has now been published in ACS Central Science. Warm congratulations to everybody involved in this important and impactful project.

You can find the article here.

November 13, 2019

Leslie and Laura attend ABRCMS. Leslie presented our collaborative work with the Dutton lab as a poster in the Microbiology section. Laura caught up with former UIC SROP student Natalia and was the Ambassador to the Chemistry division at the meeting. So many awesome students presented research and explored their opportunities, well done everyone! 

November 07, 2019

Our collaborative paper with the Mandel lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was published today at the Journal of Mass Spectrometry. We describe how we've adapted imaging mass spectrometry for a minimal sample preparation of squidlets! 

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Check out the paper here. 

November 06, 2019

Melissa successfully defends her Masters thesis entitled 'Proximity-based mass spectrometry: direct detection and characterization of biomolecules.' She had extra support from her family with their signs! 

August 20, 2019

Caleb and Hannah sign on this fall for rotations in the lab! Caleb comes from the University of North Georgia and the USDA and Hannah joins us after a BS/MS from Kansas State University. 

August 06, 2019

Laura has been globe trotting again and making new friends! Her travel included:

MSACL- April 

Cal Poly Pomona - May

Fukushima University Agriculture Science, Japan - May 

MS Society of Japan, Tsukuba - May

Seoul National University - May

Korea Basic Science Institute - May  

ASMS - June 

ISCE - June 

ASM Microbe - June

ASP - July 

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July 31, 2019

Our NIGMS Equipment supplement on 3R01GM125943-02S2  was awarded. This will help towards the purchase of a new UPLC-qTOF mass spectrometer to expand our abilities to identify known unknowns from microbial extracts! STOKED! 

July 31, 2019

Our invited review for the special issue 'New methods for isolation and structure determination of natural products' hits the web. We are very excited have covered different ionization methods for various aspects of natural products discovery, we hope the discussion of the advantages, limitations and examples will be helpful to the broader NP community! 

July 23, 2019

Laura is one of Halo Cures, Inc 40 under 40 scientists in Chicago! 

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From developing hydrogels for faster wound healing to identifying a new biomarker for neuroblastoma, these forty scientists represent the next generation of big shoulder Chicago scientists working to translate innovation into application, from bench to bedside. Like most of science, those who ultimately benefit from their efforts may still be generations away.

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July 16, 2019

Katherine received her NOA today for her NIH NCI F31! Her proposal was scored in the 12th percentile and will support her continued collaboration with the Burdette lab to continue to adapt our imaging mass spectrometry platform to other secondary metastasis models for ovarian cancer as well as identify Factor X! Stayed tuned to watch her progress! 

July 16, 2019

Hopefully you caught Alanna's awesome talk at the Younger Members Symposium at the ASP meeting. She was selected for the David Slatkin Symposium which also came with an award to present her collaborative research with bile acids and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 

June 10, 2019

Following her poster presentation at the ASMS annual meeting, Melissa will be heading off for a 12 week internship at Genentech with Dr. Sarah Robinson as her co-mentor for the summer. We are sad to see Melissa leave us for the summer but excited for the professional development and industry exposure she will be getting all summer! 

June 05, 2019

Well done Katherine for being selected to participate in the inaugural class of ASP Ambassadors. The ASP ambassadors are dynamic leaders who work with their peers to promote networking and collaboration, make connections between ASP and local universities, address the needs of young scientists by utilizing ASP resources, and instill a passion for natural products in the next generation. This initial appointment is for 3 years and will include funds to help promote the ASP at meetings targeted to URM STEM students. 

June 01, 2019

Gordon and Cynthia co-authored a review for an invited submission to FEMS Microbiology Letters. This article accompanies the talk Dr. Sanchez gave at the annual meeting on MS for industrial microbiology. 

May 03, 2019

Itzel, a L@S Ganas fellow, continues to excel. She was award an American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) undergraduate research award which will support her stipend in the 2019-2020 academic year for her capstone thesis. She was awarded an American Society for Microbiology (ASM) summer fellowship, but had to decline to accept a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO) in Paul Jensen's lab. Way to go Itzel, we are so proud of your efforts in and out of the lab! #crushing 

April 05, 2019

Our Scialog collaborative proposal with the Su Lab (Univeristy of Arizona) was selected for funding by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement!  

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Dr Sanchez is currently a Scialog Fellow for the Chemical Machinery of the Cell. This Scialog is based on the conviction that the time is right to bring together chemists and biologists to spark collaborations and develop interdisciplinary projects that will catapult us to a deeper understanding of chemical machinery and reactions in the intact cell. 

April 13, 2019

Katherine and Alanna present their research orally at MIKIW 2019 in Lawrence, Kansas. 

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Alanna was awarded a presenters award for her excellent delivery of her research, but basically they were both winners on behalf of MCP. This would have made Dr. Judy Bolton very happy to see the department represented with class, style, and rigorous science. 

April 03, 2019

We had two papers hit the web this week. Katherine's video protocol for our mammalian co-culture of cells with explants is published at the Journal of Visualized Experiments, the video can be found on our Research Page. 

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Jess and Gordon's python script 'BLANKA' hit the web with the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. This was an invited submission for an issue on Emerging Investigators. We are honored to be include among this list.  'The goal of the Emerging Investigators focus is to showcase some of the exciting fundamental and interdisciplinary research that is being performed by a group of researchers who are still establishing their independent academic careers, but have already demonstrated their potential to make important contributions to their respective areas of research, and have the potential to become future leaders within the field. '

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March 04, 2019

Welcome to the lab Cynthia! She is joining us from Bill Baker's lab at USF. Look for more updates on her progress in the near future 

February 27, 2019

Gordon Luu joins the lab! He is coming from Taro Amagata's lab at SFSU, in fact we are even related on our Chemistry Tree via Phil Crews 

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Additionally, Gordon was awarded a Travel Fellowship to the May Institute for Computation and statistics for mass spectrometry and proteomics. Well done Gordon! 

February 22, 2019

Jess will be recognized at the 47th Annual Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Awards Ceremony for her work at the Boys and Girls club and her training of our fantastic undergrads Shilpa and Itzel. Service towards the next generation of biomedical researchers is very important to our lab :) 

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Alanna was selected to participate in ASBMB's Hill Day 2019! More pictures and updates to come after her trip to Capital Hill is completed. #ScienceAdvocacy

February 22, 2019

Katherine has received both a Graduate College Student Presenters Award and a Graduate Student Council Travel Award. This helped support her travel and attendance to OurCON in November to present her work with imaging mass spectrometry and ovarian cancer. 

February 01, 2019

Jess was awarded a T32 fellowship in PSci's 'Research Training in Natural Product Complementary and Integrative Medicine'. This is funded by the Office of the Director (OD and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the NIH, the main scope of this grant is to train the next generation of scientists to have the knowledge and skills required for the discovery of new therapeutic agents from natural product sources and the establishment of safety and efficacy of widely used dietary supplements and natural product-derived drugs. Way to go Jess! 

January 19, 2019

Melissa is seriously on a roll this year! 

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• She was awarded a MSACL 2019 US Young Investigator Educational Grant and also will be giving a podium talk

• She was awarded the Al R Langerman Memorial Scholarship at COP Research Day 2019

• She got a 1st place poster award in the Clinical, Social, and Applied Sciences Category at COP Research Day 2019 

• Her work in outreach will be recognized at the 47th Annual Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Awards  Ceremony

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