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              Analytical Chemistry group at The Ohio State University focused on the development of modern and accessible mass spectrometry tools.
              
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              Joined October 2020
            
            
           Wrapping up an amazing time at OMSS 2025! 🎉 Here are some highlights from the poster sessions. Big congrats to Adam for his oral talk and to Purva for taking 2nd place in the Best Poster Awards! 👏 
          
                
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             Dr. Badu-Tawiah presenting his research on ambient ionization and advances in ionization methods at the Ohio Mass Spectrometry Symposium 2025, with Panoptic MS as the highlight of his talk. #OMSS2025 #MassSpectrometry #AmbientIonization #AnalyticalChemistry
          
          
                
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             🎉 Congratulations to Purva, Dmytro, and Alex on the new publication! Dynamic Spray MS is enabling direct analysis of complex mixtures — first universal ion source detecting both polar and non-polar compounds in a single emitter. Exciting work ahead! 🔗 
          
            
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              The analysis of small volumes of complex mixtures is important for biological, medicinal, toxicological, and forensic applications. Herein, we report the development of a single-step method using...
            
                
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             Purva presenting her awesome work at ASMS Asilomar 2025, highlighting the applications of dynamic spray MS in forensic science! 👩🏾🔬👏 Big congrats to her for receiving a travel award! #MassSpectrometry #ASMS #Asilomar #Forensics #Security
          
          
                
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             🎉 Congrats to Niraj and the team on our new paper! We present a fusion of plasma microdroplet ionization with liquid chromatography for post-column epoxidation—advancing lipidomics without requiring any specialized MS modifications. Read paper here👉 
          
            
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              The ability to characterize closely related lipids is clinically important, requiring the development of analytical tools to differentiate species responsible for metabolic disorders from those...
            
                
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             Chris presenting at the recently concluded Turkey Run Analytical Chemistry Conference 2025! He shared his work on detecting sugar isomers in MS negative ion mode and using an in-house spectral library to improve disaccharide isomer discrimination. 
          
                
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             ⚡️New paper from our group! Congrats to Riley and team 🎉 We show how voltage switching boosts discrimination of malaria samples using the nESI/APCI direct infusion MS platform—enabling faster, more reliable analysis. Read here 👉 
          
            
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              Nanoelectrospray ionization (nESI) is a powerful ion source enabling direct mass spectrometry (MS) analysis of polar compounds in small volumes. The exposure of charged microdroplets derived from...
            
                
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             Proud of our juniors for rocking the Analytical Division First-Year Oral Posters! 💡👏 Keep pushing boundaries in your research! #AnalyticalChemistry #MassSpecLab #Buckeyes #OhioState
          
          
                
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             🎓🏃♀️💨 Congratulations, Salmika! You sprinted through experiments, hurdled challenges, and crossed the finish line—Ph(inishe)D and fabulous! 🏅 Wishing you all the best as you race into your next adventure. Onward to bigger wins! 🎉🥂 #PhDone #FinishLineFeels
          
          
                
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             New paper out! 🎉 Congrats to Savithra for her work on a reusable fullerene catalyst coated on cellulose thread for heterogeneous photoreaction screening using thread spray MS—pushing the boundaries of sustainable catalysis! 👏 🔗  https://t.co/hekfLhCwo4 
            #MassSpectrometry
          
          
            
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              The immobilization of fullerene C60 on cellulose thread allows heterogeneous photoreaction screening to be achieved through a thread spray mass spectrometry platform. Fullerene C60 is identified to...
            
                
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             From mass spectrometry to massive success! 🧪🎓 Huge congrats to Ayesha on graduating! You tackled every challenge with style and smarts. Now go pop that champagne and show the world what a PhD powerhouse looks like! 🚀🍾 #DrAyesha #PhDoneAndDusted
          
          
                
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             Congratulations to our Queen of Threads (Spray MS), Dr. Salmika Wairegi, on a successful dissertation defense today! Wishing you all the best in your next chapter—your future is bright! 👏🎉🧵💥 #WomenInSTEM #MassSpec #PhDDefense
          
          
                
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             Congratulations, Dr. Ayesha Seth, on successfully defending your dissertation! A job well done—wishing you all the best in your future endeavors! 
          
                
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             Big congratulations to Enoch, Santosh, and the whole team on their new publication! 🎉 Their work explores an LC-MS approach for characterizing sucrose isomers—check it out here: 🔗  https://t.co/IrvnjY4R5I 
            #Isomers #Sucrose #MassSpectrometry #LCMS
          
          
            
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              Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry - Sucrose, which forms < 2% of the chemical content in honey samples, is known to have five structural isomers each with its own medicinal...
              
                
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             Excited to share our latest work on metabolomics using Flow-Through Pinhole PSMS! 🎉 Big congrats to Emmanuel, Riley, and the whole team on this publication! Check it out 👉🏻  https://t.co/0ZBKXYFiMb 
            #MassSpectrometry #PaperSprayMS #Metabolomics #AmbientIonization
          
          
            
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              Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected infectious disease that can be transmitted between dogs and humans. In this work, a novel flow-through pinhole paper spray mass spectrometry (MS) technique...
            
                
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             New article is out! 🎉 Congrats to Monica on her newly published review discussing long COVID, including its pathophysiological mechanisms and the role of omics in biomarker detection. Well done! #COVID #longcovid #omics #MassSpectrometry
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              Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy - Long coronavirus disease (COVID) is a multisystem condition that affects a significant proportion of individuals following severe acute respiratory syndrome...
            
                
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             Big congrats to Ayesha and everyone involved! Grateful to see Ohio State News highlight the story behind the work. 
           Devices made with cheap strips of paper have outperformed two other testing methods in detecting malaria infection in asymptomatic people in Ghana – a diagnostic advance that could accelerate efforts to eliminate the disease, @OhioState researchers say. 
          
                
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             Dr. Badu-Tawiah’s X-Ed Foundation donated dual school desks to a deprived school in Ghana—bringing hope, dignity, and a better learning environment to these children. More at  https://t.co/GzhiZ2aAQj 
            #Ghana #XEdFoundation #EducationMatters
          
          
                
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             Congratulations to @AyeshaSeth2 and the team! Their work was selected for the journal cover of Analytical Chemistry! 🎉 #AnalyticalChemistry
          
          
                
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