Aston Labs

Professional Information

Conference Presentations

1. 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, 2009: “Chemical reactions in ambient ionization mass spectrometry and soft landing” RG Cooks, C Wu, A Tawiah, G Huang.
2. 57th ASMS Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2009: “Tissue Imaging Using Simultaneous Chemical Derivatization and Desorption Electrospray Ionization” C Wu, DR Ifa, NE Manicke, RG Cooks.
3. 57th ASMS Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2009: “Atmospheric Pressure Ion Soft Landing and Surface Patterning” A Tawiah, C Wu, H Chen, RG Cooks.
4. 55th ASMS Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2007: “Methylation of Organic Bases at Atmospheric Pressure via Ion/Molecule Reactions” C Wu, LS Eberlin, H Chen, RG Cooks.
5. 55th ASMS Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2007: “Online MS Investigation of Chiral Amplification of Amino Acids Sublimates” M Nefliu, RH Perry, C Wu, S Bird, DE Clemmer, RG Cooks.
6. 55th ASMS Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 2007: “Analysis of an Overlayer Model of a Dental Composite by Laser Desorption VUV Postionization Mass Spectrometry” M Zhou, C Wu, PD Edirisinghe, A Akhmetov, GL Gasper, JL Drummond, L Hanley.

Research Interests

• Tissue Imaging using Desorption Electrospray Ionization
• Hydrocarbon Analysis using Reactive Desorption Electrospray Ionization
• Ion Molecule Reaction
• Chiral Amplification Study of Serine and Other Amino Acids

Education

• 2005 M.S. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 2002 B.S. in Chemistry, Fudan University

Honors and Awards

Jon and Ruthanna Amy Student Travel Awards, Purdue University, 2009
People’s Scholarship (Second Prize), Fudan University (Shanghai, China), 2000-2002

Publications (outside the group)

1. M Zhou, C Wu, A Akhmetov, PD Edirisinghe, JL Drummond, L Hanley “7.87 eV Laser Desorption Postionization Mass Spectrometry of Adsorbed and Covalently Bound Bisphenol a Diglycidyl Methacrylate” J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2007, 18, 1097.
2. M Zhou, C Wu, PD Edirisinghe, JL Drummond, L Hanley “Organic Overlayer Model of a Dental Composite Analyzed by Laser Desorption Postionization Mass Spectrometry and Photoemission” J. Biomed. Mater. Res., Part A. 2006, 1.
3. CA Crot. C Wu, ML Schlossman, TP Trainor, PJ Eng, L Hanley “Determining the Conformation of an Adsorbed Br-Peg-Peptide by Long Period X-Ray Standing Wave Fluorescence” Langmuir 2005, 21, 7899.
4. Y Choi, A Zachary, S Tepavcevic, C Wu, L Hanley “Polyatomicity and Kinetic Energy Effects on Surface Polymerization by Ion-Assisted Deposition” Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 2005, 241, 139.