That’s a wrap on #LakeLouise2025! A huge thanks to all our sponsors for the amazing support and all the participants for the wonderful science! We hope everyone has a safe trip home ✈️ We are already planning for a great 2026 #LakeLouiseMSMS meeting so make sure to add it to your calendars!

#TeamMassSpec We hope you are ready to follow our fun posts this week from the Lake Louise Tandem MS Workshop #LakeLouise2025! Our little yeti mascot yESI is back and already enjoying great talks and [email protected] www.lakelouisemsms.org

‘Tis our favorite season of giving back to our community! ❤️ If you’d like to contribute a donation for our annual fundraiser to support Toys for Tots and Coats for the Children, check out this feature article to learn more! 😇🧸 chem.unc.edu/news/baker-l...

Really nice work driven by postdocs Dr. Gancz in my lab and Dr. Zhang in Baker @erinbakerims.bsky.social lab at UNC, looking at novel lipids and how they might play a role in restoring colonization resistance against C. difficile in patients with rCDI post FMT. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Wishing everyone a wonderful Halloween from Hogwarts (aka, the Baker Lab)!!

Amie gave such an exciting presentation about her new oxylipin library and how she employs high resolution ion mobility for isomer separations at the Merck Research Forum this afternoon!! Congratulations Amie, we are so proud of you!! ❤️👩🏼‍🔬

Last Friday, Haley gave the audience at the UNC ThermoFisher Scientific Mass Spectrometry Symposium an amazing snapshot of her method development research for lipidomics in extracellular vesicles! She took 1st place in the lightening talk competition! Congratulations Haley! 🤩⚡️

A huge round of applause is deserved for Dr. Matt Lockett who did such an amazing job organizing #MUACC25 at UNC! 👏🏻🩵 The last two days were filled with wonderful talks, posters, and discussions! Thank you Matt for all your hard work, & thank you to everyone who participated!

If you’re looking for some exciting reading to take into the weekend with you, please check out Haley’s first, 1st-author paper published in Science of the Total Environment this week! You won’t want to miss these wildfire smoke induced lipid changes!🔥💨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ashlee just injected her 1st, first-author paper into the field.💥😎 You’ll definitely want to check out her latest work assessing the performance of different autosampler vial/insert configurations for your LC-MS analyses! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did everyone check out the newest issue of Molecular Omics? 👀 A huge shoutout to our graduate student Haley who designed the front cover! We also highly recommend reading about lipid specific changes during pluripotent differentiation! Great job Melanie and Haley! 🧠🙌

📢Our latest issue is now online! 🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper behind the front cover by Kevin Francis, @erinbakerims.bsky.social & co at UNC Chapel Hill revealing cell specific changes during pluripotent differentiation to neural & mesodermal lineages by lipidomics pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

While we’re at it, we’d like to highlight Dr. James Dodds for his cross platform assessment of drift tube and traveling wave ion mobility methods for small molecules! 😎 This work was included in this morning’s issue of JASMS and we are so proud to share it with you all. ❤️

We’re very excited to see all of the amazing papers published in the latest installment of JASMS this morning! 🤩 We want to give a special shoutout to our very own Dr. James Dodds for designing the front cover of this month’s issue! We’ll see everyone at the racetrack! 🏎️💨

@erinbakerims.bsky.social brought one of our favorite visitors in to see us today! ❤️🐶 #FridayPostASMS

(JASMS) [ASAP] Increasing Oligonucleotide Sequencing Information and Throughput with Ion Mobility Spectrometry–Mass Spectrometry: Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryDOI: 10.1021/jasms.5c00083 (RSS) #MassSpecRSS #JASMS

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

My heart is so full! ❤️ Such an amazing week at #ASMS2025 hearing such great science, being with my current and alumni students, and meeting so many new friends!! Sending hugs out to everyone in science and pushing as hard as possible to support our future 🧪

We had the best time at #ASMS2025 ‼️ It truly was an amazing week of learning, networking, and fun! Thank you to everyone who came to support each of our students at their presentations! We can’t wait to see you all in San Diego next year! 🫶

Kara gave a phenomenal talk this morning in the nontargeted environmental section about her work analyzing the generational transfer of PFAS via breast milk in marine animals! Truly amazing research and we are so proud of her! ❤️🐬

The Baker Lab wrapped up #ASMS2025 today with 6 poster presentations with topics ranging from instrumentation, bile acids, lipids, and software! 😎🔥 We are so proud of James, Sadie, Sarah, Haley, Quentin, and Greg! You are all rockstars! (1/2)

#TeamMassSpec, are you curious about the immunopeptidome? Come check out Allison’s poster today (527) to learn more!

The best part about #ASMS is getting to see old friends and meeting new ones! Tonight we and a few of our beloved alumni had the opportunity to get together for a fantastic dinner here in Baltimore! We’re forever thankful for such an amazing group! ❤️ #ASMS2025

Anyone else seeing double E’s? 👀 Come stop by posters #258 and #289 to see Eli present novel PFAS breath sampling methods, and Emily talk about antidepressant quantification in NC surface water! These are two projects you don’t want to miss! 😎 #ASMS2025

Amie gave an amazing talk this afternoon in the lipidomics section about her work separating oxylipin isomers with high resolution ion mobility!!! 🤩 We’re so proud of you! ❤️

Hey #ASMS2025 ‼️ Want beer? 🍺 Come check out Ashlee’s poster #239 today to hear about her work optimizing methods to extract PFAS from your favorite beverages! We hope to see you there!

#ASMS2025 started off with a bang from the Baker Lab with Emily talking in the Skyline Users Meeting about her LC-IMS-MS antidepressant library, and Haley presenting at the Agilent Users Meeting about lipid perturbations caused by wildfire smoke inhalation! We are so proud! 👯‍♀️💖

Hey #TeamMassSpec, Come join us for the #ASMS2025 Environmental Applications Workshop, Monday afternoon from 5:45-7:00 pm in Rm 349-350. We will have an amazing opening lecture from Susan Richardson, 4 wonderful student speakers, & a quiz (with prizes). See you there! @asms.org

We are so excited about #ASMS2025 and cannot wait to catch up with friends, both new and old!! We are also eager to see all the new #TeamMassSpec research and want to share where you can find us. See you all soon!! @asms.org

Special thanks to @erinbakerims.bsky.social, @joelooucla.bsky.social, Kevin Schug, @jyates.bsky.social, Susan Richardson, Richard Zare and Lloyd Smith for sharing your perspectives with me, without which this piece would not have been possible. #analyticalchemistry #researchfunding #nih #science

We are thrilled to announce that both of our undergraduate students, Quentin and Sarah, were awarded UNC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships! These two are awesome and we are so excited to watch them progress in their current research projects this summer! Congratulations!!

A special shoutout for Anna’s alligator study which was recently highlighted in LCGC International. 🐊 Check it out if you’d like to read more about some of our recent nontargeted PFAS analyses! 😎 www.chromatographyonline.com/view/identif...

We are very excited to share our big news this week! Kara received the NSF GRFP award, and Emily and Haley both received honorable mentions!!! We are so incredibly proud of them and all of the hard work that went into their applications! Congratulations ladies! ❤️🏆👩🏼‍🔬

We had an absolutely fantastic Saturday hanging out at the #UNCScienceExpo! ☀️🧪 The invisible ink demonstration was a huge success, and it was so wonderful to connect with all of the children and parents who came out to participate! We’re already excited for next year! 🤩

I am so excited to host a webinar on new developments in lipid imagining for the International Lipidomics Society on Wednesday, April 8th from 5-6 pm CET (or 12-1 pm Eastern Time zone). I hope you can join!! Meeting access information can be found at: lipidomicssociety.org/events/ils-2...

If you’re in the Triangle Area, please come and see us tomorrow at the 2025 #UNCScienceExpo 🧪👩🏼‍🔬 The Baker Lab will be showing off how fun pH changes can be with an invisible ink demonstration!!! We hope to see you there! 🤓

We had such a wonderful time celebrating Guozhi and the time she spent with us as a post-doc over the last 1.5 years! Thank you Z for all of your contributions to bile acid research! We are so proud of you and excited to support you as you transition into your next steps! ❤️🪴

Emily gave such an exciting talk at the Carolina Chemistry Student Seminar Series yesterday highlighting her research focused on assessing antidepressant pollution! 💊🐟 Fantastic job Emily! 🤓

On Friday, Sarah rounded out our prelim season and wowed her committee with her research focused on identifying lipid changes in bone marrow from mice with different APOE alleles! 🐁🧬 We are so proud of Sarah and her hard work! Congratulations to our newest PhD candidate! ❤️🎉

Another one!!! 😎 The biggest congratulations go out to our newest PhD candidate Emily! She captivated her committee this afternoon with her research focused on the detection of antidepressants in NC surface water! 💊🐟 We are so proud of you Em! ❤️🎉

A new field is born? the bileome @erinbakerims.bsky.social giving a master class on #massspec in #CIMM2025 analyzing hundreds of bile acids in collab @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social

Recruitment Weekend (Part 1) is in the books! ☑️🎉 We had such a great time meeting the prospective students and talking about what the Baker Lab has been up to recently! ☺️

I had the opportunity to give my perspective to The Analytical Scientist about recent events. With this article, I hope to give a voice to others who may not have the ability to speak out. #StandUpForScience theanalyticalscientist.com/business-edu...

Huge congratulations to our newest PhD candidate, Allison!! Her lipidomic analyses and PFAS modeling got her four thumbs up from her committee 👍🏻 Way to go, Allison!! #PhDcandidate

The undergrads are loose in the lab, watch out 😂

Today, we had the pleasure of celebrating Anna’s final defense as she showcased a portion of her amazing research focused on nontargeted analyses of PFAS in alligators using LC-IMS-MS! 🐊 Huge congratulations to Dr. Boatman, we are so proud of you!!! Baker Lab #7! 🥳🍾🥂

Our biggest congratulations go out to Haley for passing her qualifying exam today! She presented to her committee her work on analyzing lipid changes due to wildfire smoke inhalation in mice! We are so incredibly proud of you Haley! 🥳 #PhDCandidate

Our students had the opportunity to present at the Triangle Area Mass Spectrometry Student Research Poster Session & Competition this week! We are so proud of everyone who presented, and a special congratulations to Amie, Haley, Emily, and Ashlee who won prizes for their posters!

We are so excited to share our latest manuscript containing a multidimensional PFAS database with LC retention times, IMS collision cross sections (CCS) and MS characteristics for 175 PFAS and their 281 resulting ion types! We hope it helps others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy New Year! A reminder to encourage undergraduate students looking to present at the Spring 2025 ACS Meeting or Pittcon 2025 to apply for a Kolthoff Award. Applications and letters of support are due January 13, 2025.