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The Baker Lab is pleased to host the inaugural (unofficial) ASMS Run/Walk! We will have 1.5, 3, and 5 mile routes planned, and all paces are welcome! We hope to see you there, bright and early at 6:30 AM on Monday, June 1st outside the Manchester Grand Hyatt!

Congratulations to our very own Sarah Rehm for being selected as a 2026 ASMS Undergraduate Student Award recipient! @asmsnews She will be presenting a poster at the Undergrad Poster competition and on Tuesday in Environmental: General II, so be sure to check out her work!

🚨 Hot off the press!! Our study spearheaded by Dr. James Dodds in collaboration with Dr. Ivan Rusyn's lab and the @tamusuperfund was just published in Environmental Science: Advances! Read all about our workflow for contaminant analysis in serum here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

@Ashlee_Falls's recent work evaluating correlations between PFAS and lipidomic changes in human blood was recently covered by @tAnaSci! Read it here! theanalyticalscientist.com/issues/2026/ar…

Congratulations to our two stellar undergrads, Sarah Rehm and Quentin DuVal-Smith, who successfully defended their Honors Theses this week! We are endlessly proud of the graduate-level work they have both completed during their time in the Baker Lab 🩵🐏🤍

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Gregory Kudzin!! 🎓 Greg presented his thesis defense yesterday, giving an overview of the tremendous non-target PFAS work he has completed during his time at UNC, including his software entitled "PIMMS." We are so proud of you Greg!!

🌟 New publication alert! 🌟 Ashlee Falls's newest paper in Environmental Science: Advances highlights her work evaluating how high serum PFAS levels correlate with perturbations of the human lipidome. Link to the publication below! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Hump day? 🐫 More like PUMP day!! (We ❤️ our @EdwardsVacuum pumps!)

Congratulations to Sadie Disselkoen, who is officially a PhD Candidate!!!! 🎉 Sadie's prelim presentation focused on her work characterizing bile acids associated with fatty liver disease and expanding our existing in-house LC-IMS-MS bile acid library. Congrats Sadie!!

🐬 New paper out from our lab! We present an optimized method for extracting PFAS from small volumes of milk. Then, we apply that method to look at longitudinal trends of maternal PFAS transfer in dolphins to highlight early-life exposure pathways. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Reintroducing.... Elijah Bliss, PhD ✨Candidate✨. Eli gave a fantastic prelim presentation (over Zoom) on his work leveraging unique sampling methods and multidimensional instrumentation platforms to evaluate PFAS exposure! Congratulations!!

In case you missed it, Gregory Kudzin, a 4th year member of our group, just had a paper published in ES&T examining trends in legacy and emerging PFAS in human serum.🩸You can read it here now!⬇️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

✨ Everyone meet the newest members of the Baker Lab: Hayley O'Harrah and Jonah Parker! ✨ They're both first-year PhD students in the Analytical Chemistry program here at UNC and we're very excited to have them joining our team of molecular investigators! 🔎

2026 sneak peek— emoji style. Fresh data, new questions, and exciting results: 🚬 🍻 🫀 💻 🦴 🔥 🦠 🦭 🐟 💩 🌬️ 🐜 🎇 😴 🦁 ⏱️ Keep an eye out for all the cool IMS-MS data coming your way in the new year!

@tamusuperfund Building Readiness for Disaster Research at its biennial #DisasterResearch Training Wkshop. Led by experts from #TGLO, #TDEM, #TCEQ, #USCG, industry & @CTEHLLC, 32 trainees rec'd hands-on training & are ready to respond when it matters most. @NIH_NIEHS @tamuvetmed

‘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-lab…

@BrandieEhrmann Absolutely should have!! There is always room for Brandie at our table! ❤️

@BakerLabMS Whoa!!! I knew I should have stopped in when I saw the fire on the TV.

Happy Labsgiving from the Baker Lab!! 🍽️🍗 This has become one of our favorite yearly traditions! We are so incredibly thankful to have such an amazing group of people!! ❤️

We are so proud of our undergraduate students, Sarah and Quentin, for showcasing their research during our Measurement Science Friday seminar series this afternoon!! These two are amazing! Who knew PFAS and lipids could be so cool? 😉

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