Spring 2011. Front Row from left to right: Ji Hyun Jun, Erica Smith, Jessica Lim, Andy Korte.
Back Row: Soojin Park, Chris Clay, Adam Korte, Aasim Azhad, Young-Jin Lee, Paul Cole.
Spring 2010. From left to right: David C. (DC) Perdian, Young-Jin Lee, Ji Hyun Jun, Adam Klein, Erica A. Smith, Andy Korte, and Nick Jaegers.
PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR
Young Jin Lee
Dr. Lee joined the faculty in August 2008 as an Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University in 1997 under Dr. Myung Soo Kim. After working on surface mass spectrometry (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) in Hyundai Electronics, he moved to Indiana to develop ion mobility mass spectrometry as a post- doctoral fellow with Dr. Clemmer in 2000. Most recently, he worked at the Genome Center, University of California at Davis as a mass spectrometry specialist. His mass spectrometry expertise varies from physical chemistry to surface mass spectrometry, instrumentation, proteomics, small molecule analysis, and some proteomics bioinformatics.
POST DOCTORAL ASSOCIATES
Soojin Park
Education Ph.D Sogang University, Korea 2009 M.S. Sungshin Women's University 2005 B.S. Sungshin Women's University 2003
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Ji Hyun Jun
Education B.S. Korea University 2006 Research Projects High mass resolution MS imaging of plant metabolites Analysis of subcellular organelles using MS imaging techniques
Erica A. Smith
Education B.A. Lakeland College 2008 Research Projects High resolution mass spectrometry techniques to characterize fast pyrolysis bio-oil and algae oil Single cell MS imaging of algae cells
Adam Klein
Education B.A. Central College (Pella, IA) 2004 Research Projects Structural analysis of proteins using chemical cross-linking
Andy Korte
Education B.S. University of Saint Thomas 2008 Research Projects MS imaging comparison of wild-type and mutant Arabidopsis metabolites
D. Paul Cole
Education B.S. *** Research Projects ***
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS
Jessica Lim (Chem. Senior)
Aasim Azhad (Chem. Junior)
Chris Clay (Chem. Freshman)
Cole Smith (Chem. Eng. Freshman)
FORMER MEMBERS
David C.Perdian
Group Member 2010 Post Doctoral Research Associate Current position: Faculty of Broward College, Florida
Zhenjiu (Jen) Liu
Group Member 2009 Post Doctoral Research Associate
Bharat Kumar Addagada
Group Member 2009 M.S. Computer Science
Nicholas jaegers
Group Member 2010 Undergrad in Chem. Eng.
GUEST RESEARCHER
Adam Callanan
Mason City High School Chemistry and AP Chemistry Teacher. 1996 ISU Chemistry graduate. 2009 Summer research intern as a guest attendee in Ames Lab ACTS (Academic Creating Teacher Scientists) education program.