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Conference Presentations

Z. Ouyang, L. Gao, J. D. Harper, R. G. Cooks, “Miniature Mass Spectrometry for Clinical Diagnostics and Personal Healthcare”, Oral presentation at the BMES 2007 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, September 26-29, 2007. 

L. Gao, J. Harper, R.G. Cooks and Z. Ouyang, “Mini 11 Handheld Mass Spectrometer and Its Applications in Biomedical Areas”, Proceedings of the 59th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, New Orleans, LA, March 1–6, 2008. 

J. D. Harper, N. A. Charipar, C. C. Mulligan, X. Zhang, R. G. Cooks, Z. Ouyang, “Low Temperature Plasma (LTP) Probe for Ambient Desorption Ionization”, Oral presentation at the 56^th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Denver, Colorado, June 1-5, 2008.

Z. Ouyang, L. Gao, J. D. Harper, Q. Song, W. Xu, R. G. Cooks, “How Far Can Ion Trap Miniaturization Go?”, Oral presentation at the 56^th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Denver, Colorado, June 1-5, 2008.

C.C Mulligan, S. B. Hooser, J. D. Harper, N. A. Charipar, C. Wilson, Z. Ouyang, R. G. Cooks, “Toxicological Applications of Ambient Mass Spectrometry: Direct Analysis of Biological Matrices”, Poster presentation at the 56^th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Denver, Colorado, June 1-5, 2008. 

D. M. Campbell, J. D. Harper, V. Natham, F. Xiao, R. Sundararajan, “A Compact High Voltage Nanosecond Pulse Generator”, Proceedings of the ESA Annual Meeting on Electrostatics, Session H3, Minneapolis, MN. June 17-20, 2008. 

R. G. Cooks, J. D. Harper, N. A. Charipar, H. Chen, L. S. Eberlin, Y. Xia, and Z. Ouyang, "Ambient Heterogeneous Processes in Proteomics", Oral presentation at the 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 17-21, 2008. 

N. A. Charipar, J. D. Harper, R. G. Cooks, Z. Ouyang. "Low Temperature Plasma (LTP) Probe for Large Area Ambient Desorption Ionization and Long Distance Ion Transfer", Poster presentation at Turkey Run Analytical Chemistry Conference. Marshall, IN. October 3-4th, 2008. 

Z. Ouyang, N. Charipar, J. Harper, L. Gao, N. E. Manicke, M. A. Visbal, G. Huang, R. G. Cooks. “Ambient Sampling Ionization Methods and Miniature Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer for Fast and In situ Chemical Analysis”, Oral presentation at 47^th Annual Eastern Analytical Symposium & Exposition 2008 EAS Technical Program, Somerset, NJ. November 17-20, 2008.

Research Interests

• Ambient Desorption Ionization Sources
  • Low Temperature Plasma Probe
• Design and Construction of MS Instrumentation and Electronics
  • Portable MS Systems

Education

B.S. (with Honors), Electrical Computer Engineering Technology, Purdue University, 2006

M.S., Electrical Computer Engineering Technology, Purdue University, anticipated Dec 2008

 

 

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Senior Design Project Award: Indiana Michigan Power

Publications (outside the group)