Staff

Dr. Person is the Director of the Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility and Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy. She has 30 years experience with analytical techniques starting with her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago building a molecular beam machine. Her 22 years of working in proteomics has included novel research into post-translational modifications. She has been director of the facility since 2003, with a focus on acquisition of high-end instrumentation and facilitating researchers. She is dedicated to providing high quality service work with rapid turnaround and collaboration on proteomics projects.

Ping is the research associate and lab manager of the Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility. She earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Delaware. Her research focused on developing activity-based probes of proteins to discover their cellular functions using proteomic approaches. After her Ph.D., she spent more than 5 years in the pharmaceutical industry, where she explored protein conjugates as new drug modalities. She also developed mass spectrometry protocols to characterize and monitor biological drug candidates including peptides, monoclonal antibodies, ADCs and oligonucleotides.

Sean earned his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology from the University of Miami under Dr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya. His doctoral research focused on multi-omic profiling (proteomics, lipidomics, metabolomics) by LC-MS to identify metabolic pathways that stimulate retinal ganglion cell axonal growth and optic nerve regeneration. He ultimately identified a mitochondrial lipid metabolic enzyme that negatively regulates axonal growth in vivo and in vitro and alters neuronal membrane fluidics and lipidomes.