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Kate McMurray defends her Master’s thesis
On 9 September Kate defended “NanoLC-MS for Amino Acid Quantitation in Low-Input Ovarian Cancer and Immune Cell Populations”. A manuscript is to come; for now she is back at the UVic Proteomics Centre as a research scientist.
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Sophie Culos defends her Master’s thesis
Sophie is the lab’s second Master’s student, mentored by Helena Petrosova. Her thesis is on how the structure of Leptospira lipid A changes with growth conditions, with more to come.
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Linda Nartey defends her PhD
In March Linda defended “Breaking the Culture Barrier: Shaping the Future of Diagnostics with Direct-from-Specimen Omics”, the first of Dave’s students to finish at the University of Victoria. She is now writing a further paper with clinical collaborator Michael Chen, using FLAT for direct analysis of throat swabs.
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Madison Shiyuk defends her Master’s thesis
Madison, Dave’s first Master’s student, defended “Investigating tumor metabolism with mass spectrometry imaging”, supervised by Helena Petrosova. She is off to medical school in Victoria this fall.
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The MSBM class of 2026
The class photo from this year’s MSBM summer school is ready. Thanks to all the invited faculty, and to the sponsors who keep costs down: Shimadzu, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bruker Daltonics, MSVision, Brechbühler and BigOmics Analytics.
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Better diagnosis, faster relief for urinary tract infections
PhD student Linda Nartey’s lipid-based test diagnoses urinary tract infections in an hour, against the 24 to 72 hours a culture takes, and is more accurate than the current method.
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Bacteria and colistin resistance identified in under an hour
Sorensen et al. describe FLAT in Scientific Reports: on-target extraction of membrane lipids for MALDI-TOF identification of bacteria and fungi, and detection of colistin resistance.
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Dave Goodlett named Rix BC Leadership Chair
Dave holds the Don and Eleanor Rix BC Leadership Chair in Biomedical and Environmental Proteomics at the University of Victoria.