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Conference Presentations
  • ASMS Sanibel Conference 2009: Lipidomics and Lipid Mass Spectrometry. "Lipid Profiles of Canine Transitional Cell Carcinoma and Adjacent Benign Tissue by Desorption Electrospray Ionization Imaging Mass Spectrometry" A.L. Dill, D.R. Ifa, N.E. Manicke, A.B. Costa, R.G. Cooks.
Research Interests
  • Biochemical applications of desorption/ionization and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
  • Imaging mass spectrometry
Education
  • Purdue University, PhD student 2006-present
  • Indiana University, B.S. Biology & Chemistry, 2001.
Honors and Awards
  • Ross Fellowship, Purdue University, 2006
    • WISP Travel Grant, 2009

Publications

  1. Demian R Ifa, Nicholas E Manicke, Allison L Rusine and R Graham Cooks, "Quantitative Analysis of Small Molecules by Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) Mass Spectrometry from PTFE surfaces" , Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry , 2008 , 22, 503 -510, doi: 10.1002/rcm.3377
  2. Demian R Ifa, Nicholas E Manicke, Allison L Dill and R Graham Cooks, "Latent Fingerprint Chemical Imaging by Mass Spectrometry" , Science , 2008 , 321, 805 -805, doi: 10.1126/science.1157199 (Full Text)
  3. Allison L. Dill, Demian R. Ifa, Nicholas E. Manicke, Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, "Mass Spectrometric Imaging of Lipids Using Desorption Electrospray Ionization" , Journal of Chromatography B , 2009 , 877, 2882 -2889, doi:10.1016/j.jchromb.2008.12.058
  4. Allison L. Dill, Demian R. Ifa, Nicholas E. Manicke, Anthony B. Costa, Jose A. Ramos Vara, Deborah W. Knapp, R. Graham Cooks, "Lipid Profiles of Canine Invasive Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder and Adjacent Normal Tissue by Desorption Electrospray Ionization Imaging Mass Spectrometry" , Analytical Chemistry , 2009 , 81, 8758 -8764, doi: 10.1021/ac901028b
  5. Allison L. Dill, Livia S. Eberlin, Anthony B. Costa, Demian R. Ifa, Liang Cheng, Timothy Masterson, Michael Koch, R. Graham Cooks, "Molecular Pathology from Lipid Profiles of Human Transitional Cell Carcinoma and Adenocarcinoma of the Urinary Bladder by Desorption Electrospray Ionization Imaging Mass Spectrometry" , Analytical Chemistry , 2009 , submitted, submitted