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Erin Baker

@erinbakerims.bsky.social

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Farm girl turned scientist and interested in anything mass spec. Also, Associate Professor at UNC Chapel Hill.

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Erin Baker @erinbakerims.bsky.social · 25d

I so agree. And now we know it can affect your lung lipids (yikes!!)

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · 27d

If you’re looking for some exciting reading to take into the weekend with you, please check out Haley’s first, 1st-author paper published in Science of the Total Environment this week! You won’t want to miss these wildfire smoke induced lipid changes!🔥💨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wildfire smoke induces GM3 ganglioside lipid accumulation and transcriptomic shifts in mouse lung tissue: A smoke signal story

Wildfire smoke is a growing concern due to continually rising exposures and links to numerous adverse health effects. Lipids are essential regulators …

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Aug 8

Ashlee just injected her 1st, first-author paper into the field.💥😎 You’ll definitely want to check out her latest work assessing the performance of different autosampler vial/insert configurations for your LC-MS analyses! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alexey Nesvizhskii @nesvilab.bsky.social · Nov 17

Ok, my first post here, to test how it works. Blank page... writers block! Resorting to an old favorite photo. Hopefully there is an active proteomics community here (and who knows, maybe that curious squirrel joined as well?)

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Joe Loo @joelooucla.bsky.social · Dec 7

Last day on the frozen lake @lakelouisemsms.bsky.social . Had a wonderful time seeing all the great mass spec science in a beautiful setting. #LakeLouise2024 is a wrap. Can’t wait for next year.

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Dec 9

Check out Amie’s sea lion paper and her supplemental cover out now!! Congratulations @amiesolosky.bsky.social !! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jul 10

Did everyone check out the newest issue of Molecular Omics? 👀 A huge shoutout to our graduate student Haley who designed the front cover! We also highly recommend reading about lipid specific changes during pluripotent differentiation! Great job Melanie and Haley! 🧠🙌

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Molecular Omics @molecularomics.rsc.org · Jul 9

📢Our latest issue is now online!

🔓Check out the #OpenAccess paper behind the front cover by Kevin Francis, @erinbakerims.bsky.social & co at UNC Chapel Hill revealing cell specific changes during pluripotent differentiation to neural & mesodermal lineages by lipidomics

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jul 2

While we’re at it, we’d like to highlight Dr. James Dodds for his cross platform assessment of drift tube and traveling wave ion mobility methods for small molecules! 😎 This work was included in this morning’s issue of JASMS and we are so proud to share it with you all. ❤️

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jul 2

We’re very excited to see all of the amazing papers published in the latest installment of JASMS this morning! 🤩 We want to give a special shoutout to our very own Dr. James Dodds for designing the front cover of this month’s issue! We’ll see everyone at the racetrack! 🏎️💨

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 13

@erinbakerims.bsky.social brought one of our favorite visitors in to see us today! ❤️🐶 #FridayPostASMS

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Kermit Murray @kkmurray.bsky.social · Jun 10

(JASMS) [ASAP] Increasing Oligonucleotide Sequencing Information and Throughput with Ion Mobility Spectrometry–Mass Spectrometry: Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryDOI: 10.1021/jasms.5c00083 (RSS) #MassSpecRSS #JASMS

[ASAP] Increasing Oligonucleotide Sequencing Information and Throughput with Ion Mobility Spectrometry–Mass Spectrometry

Journal of the American Society for Mass SpectrometryDOI: 10.1021/jasms.5c00083

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 6

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Erin Baker @erinbakerims.bsky.social · Jun 6

My heart is so full! ❤️ Such an amazing week at #ASMS2025 hearing such great science, being with my current and alumni students, and meeting so many new friends!! Sending hugs out to everyone in science and pushing as hard as possible to support our future 🧪

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 6

We had the best time at #ASMS2025 ‼️ It truly was an amazing week of learning, networking, and fun! Thank you to everyone who came to support each of our students at their presentations! We can’t wait to see you all in San Diego next year! 🫶

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 5

The Baker Lab wrapped up #ASMS2025 today with 6 poster presentations with topics ranging from instrumentation, bile acids, lipids, and software! 😎🔥 We are so proud of James, Sadie, Sarah, Haley, Quentin, and Greg! You are all rockstars! (1/2)

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 5

Kara gave a phenomenal talk this morning in the nontargeted environmental section about her work analyzing the generational transfer of PFAS via breast milk in marine animals! Truly amazing research and we are so proud of her! ❤️🐬

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 4

#TeamMassSpec, are you curious about the immunopeptidome? Come check out Allison’s poster today (527) to learn more!

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 4

The best part about #ASMS is getting to see old friends and meeting new ones! Tonight we and a few of our beloved alumni had the opportunity to get together for a fantastic dinner here in Baltimore! We’re forever thankful for such an amazing group! ❤️ #ASMS2025

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 3

Anyone else seeing double E’s? 👀 Come stop by posters #258 and #289 to see Eli present novel PFAS breath sampling methods, and Emily talk about antidepressant quantification in NC surface water! These are two projects you don’t want to miss! 😎 #ASMS2025

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 2

Amie gave an amazing talk this afternoon in the lipidomics section about her work separating oxylipin isomers with high resolution ion mobility!!! 🤩 We’re so proud of you! ❤️

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 2

Hey #ASMS2025 ‼️ Want beer? 🍺 Come check out Ashlee’s poster #239 today to hear about her work optimizing methods to extract PFAS from your favorite beverages! We hope to see you there!

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · Jun 1

#ASMS2025 started off with a bang from the Baker Lab with Emily talking in the Skyline Users Meeting about her LC-IMS-MS antidepressant library, and Haley presenting at the Agilent Users Meeting about lipid perturbations caused by wildfire smoke inhalation! We are so proud! 👯‍♀️💖

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Erin Baker @erinbakerims.bsky.social · May 31

Hey #TeamMassSpec,
Come join us for the #ASMS2025 Environmental Applications Workshop, Monday afternoon from 5:45-7:00 pm in Rm 349-350. We will have an amazing opening lecture from Susan Richardson, 4 wonderful student speakers, & a quiz (with prizes). See you there! @asms.org

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · May 29

We are so excited about #ASMS2025 and cannot wait to catch up with friends, both new and old!! We are also eager to see all the new #TeamMassSpec research and want to share where you can find us. See you all soon!!
@asms.org

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Henry Thomas @hcrthomas.bsky.social · May 20

Special thanks to @erinbakerims.bsky.social, @joelooucla.bsky.social, Kevin Schug, @jyates.bsky.social, Susan Richardson, Richard Zare and Lloyd Smith for sharing your perspectives with me, without which this piece would not have been possible.

#analyticalchemistry #researchfunding #nih #science

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · May 8

We are thrilled to announce that both of our undergraduate students, Quentin and Sarah, were awarded UNC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships! These two are awesome and we are so excited to watch them progress in their current research projects this summer! Congratulations!!

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Baker Lab UNC @bakerlabms.bsky.social · May 1

A special shoutout for Anna’s alligator study which was recently highlighted in LCGC International. 🐊 Check it out if you’d like to read more about some of our recent nontargeted PFAS analyses! 😎

www.chromatographyonline.com/view/identif...

Identifying PFAS in Alligator Plasma with LC–IMS-HRMS

A combination of liquid chromatography ion mobility spectrometry, and high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC–IMS-HRMS) for non-targeted analysis (NTA) was used to detect and identify per- and polyfluor...

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Erin Baker @erinbakerims.bsky.social · Apr 16

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Erin Baker @erinbakerims.bsky.social · Apr 10

So proud of you all!