AROUND THE AREA

UT Dallas

Assistant Professors Allison Stelling, Sheena D’Arcy, Sheel Dodani and Professor Julia Chan were awarded research grants from the Robert A. Welch Foundation, and Assistant Professor Gabriele Meloni renewed his Welch Foundation Grant. Graduation student Ashley Weiland (Chan Group) has been named a 2021 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator, and Virginia “Katie” Blackwell (D’Arcy Group) was named a NSF graduate research fellow.

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Dr. Kwangho Nam has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. He Dong, already an Associate Professor, has also been awarded tenure.

From the ACS Press Room ‘MasSpec Pen’

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five fish species. Finally, the researchers applied their models to the analysis of test sets of meats and fish. For these samples, all models had a 100% accuracy identifying the protein source, which is as good as the current method of PCR and approximately 720 times faster. The researchers say they plan to expand the method to other meat products and integrate the MasSpec Pen into a portable mass spectrometer for on-site meat authentication.

The authors acknowledge funding from the Welch Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

And Another Thing…

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