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June 2019

• The Chouinard Group is awarded grant funding from the Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) to study "Rapid Isomeric Differentiation using Ozone-Induced Dissociation Methods"
• Prof. Chouinard presents "Ozone-Based Methods for Improved IM-MS Separations and Identification of Metabolites and Lipids" at the 15th Annual Conference of the Metabolomics Society in The Hague, Netherlands
• Prof. Chouinard is a co-author on a new paper "Rapid Quantitation of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3 in Human Serum Using Liquid Chromatography/drift Tube Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry," now available as a preprint on ChemRxiv.
• Prof. Chouinard presents "Improving Structure Elucidation in Metabolomics Analysis with Ion Mobility and Multiple Fragmentation Methods" at the 67th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics in Atlanta, GA

May 2019

• Prof. Chouinard presents an invited talk "Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry and Ozone-Based Approaches for Comprehensive Metabolomics and Lipidomics" at the Florida ACS Meeting (FAME) at the Innisbrook Resort, FL 

April 2019

• Prof. Chouinard presents an invited talk at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

March-April 2019

• Kristie, Robbie, and Sam present their poster "Ion mobility-mass spectrometry and ozone-induced dissociation (OzID) methods for improved lipidomics analysis" during the Analytical Poster Session at the ACS National Meeting
• Prof. Chouinard presents an invited talk "Improvements in metabolomics and proteomics separations and quantitation using Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulations (SLIM) IM-MS" during the Ion Mobility Symposium at the ACS National Meeting
• Prof. Chouinard presents an invited talk "Expanding molecular coverage of cholesterol derivaties and eicosanoids using structure-selective reactions and ion mobility-mass spectrometry" during the Advances in Mass Spectrometry Symposium at the ACS National Meeting

February 2019

• First year M.S student William Persons joins the group!
• Prof. Chouinard gives a seminar at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL
• Prof. Chouinard gives a seminar at Barry University in Miami Shores, FL

January 2019 

• Prof. Chouinard publishes a chapter titled Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry in Metabolomic, Lipidomic, and Proteomic Analyses in Wilson & Wilson's Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry textbook.
• First year Ph.D. students Roba Alzahrani and Reda Massawe join the group!
• Our new Agilent 6560 IM-QTOF instrument is installed! We are excited to start our new IM-MS experiments!
• Prof. Chouinard gives a seminar at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL
• Prof. Chouinard travels to the ACS Leadership Institute held in Atlanta, GA

November 2018

• Prof. Chouinard's paper Nanowell-mediated multidimensional separations combining nanoLC with SLIM IM-MS for rapid, high-peak-capacity proteomic analyses is published as a Paper in Forefront in Analytical and Bionanalytical Chemistry
• Prof. Chouinard is elected "Chair Elect" of the ACS Orlando Local Section. Looking forward to contributing to this great local section!
• Prof. Chouinard gives a seminar at University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL

October 2018

• Prof. Chouinard's paper Isolation of Tryptanthrin and Reassessment of Evidence for Its Isobaric Isostere Wrightiadione in Plants of the Wrightia Genus is published in the Journal of Natural Products
• Prof. Chouinard gives a seminar at the Symposium on Innovative Technologies in Biopharma Sciences presented by University of Maryland/NIST Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research in Rockville, MD

September 2018

• Undergraduate Students Kristie Baker (Chemistry Major), Robert Fraser-Caris (Chemistry Major), and Samuel Maddox (Biomedical Sciences/Pre-Med Major) join the group!

August 2018

• Prof. Chouinard joins the Chemistry faculty at Florida Tech!
• Prof. Chouinard receives an Agilent Global Academic Research Support Program grant to further his studies with IM-MS and reactive gases
• Prof. Chouinard's paper Improved Sensitivity and Separations for Phosphopeptides using Online Liquid Chromotography Coupled with Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulations Ion Mobility–Mass Spectrometry is published in Analytical Chemistry
• Prof. Chouinard's paper Rapid Ion Mobility Separations of Bile Acid Isomers Using Cyclodextrin Adducts and Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulations is published in Analytical Chemistry
• Prof. Chouinard's paper Distinguishing enantiomeric amino acids with chiral cyclodextrin adducts and structures for lossless ion manipulations is published in Electrophoresis