August 2023

Allegra attends the American Chemical Society meeting to present the lab’s work in the Jonathan Sessler award symposium for awardee Marie Heffern!

Melanie Contreras - our high school intern through the SHINE@DU program - finishes her 8 weeks in the lab. Melanie did a great job and learned a lot. Best of luck starting college at MSU!

June 2023

Anastasiia Kostenko attends the American Society of Mass Spectrometry conference and presents her work on how dietary iron alters metabolome and microbiome function in a mouse model. It was an amazing time!

Allegra teaches two modules on non-targeted metabolomics analysis at the Cold Spring Harbor Metabolomics course. This is a highlight of the summer!

May 2023

James Elofson joins as the lab’s first undergraduate student! James is a great addition to the lab as a computer scientist and software developer!

The Q Exactive HF is set up and running! We were so stoked to run our first samples!!

April 2023

Allegra presents the lab’s work to the Colorado Biological Mass Spectrometry Society (CBMSS). What a fun night!!

Our perspective paper “Ironing out Neurodegeneration: New Class of Lipids Promotes Ferroptosis in Dopaminergic Neurons” is published in ACS Central Science. Congrats Anastasiia on your first paper in the lab!

The paper can be read here.

January 2023

Anastasiia Kostenko and Aigera Mendauletova (honorary student!) attend Gordon Research Conference on Metals in Biology in Ventura, CA. They love the science and the Channel Islands!

Vidit Minda came for a short visit in the laboratory!

December 2023

Anastasiia Kostenko joins as the lab’s first graduate student!

The lab begins!