Several research opportunities exist in the Kaltashov lab for UMass-Amherst undergraduate students. Please contact our group if you are interested. Below are examples of research carried out by undergrads in the past or follow this link to see the full list of original research papers co-authored by the undergraduate students in our group.
Mr. Ho Yau, BS’2020 (Quantitation of levothyroxine in pharmaceutical samples using liquid chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry)
Currently Research Associate at Beam Therapeutics (Cambridge, MA)
Mr. Ian Carrick, BS’2018 (On-Column Chemical Reactions in Protein Characterization by Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, see the project presentation at https://icons.cns.umass.edu/students/class-of-2018/ian-carrick)
Currently a PhD student at Purdue University in Prof. Scott McLuckey’s group.
Mr. Zack Kirsch, BS’2018 (Understanding binding preferences of heparin oligomers in the inhibition of factor Xa by antithrombin through molecular dynamics simulations)
Currently a PhD student at UMass-Amherst (Prof. Vachet’s group).
Mr. Anton El-Khoury, BS’2017 (Assessment of histidine-tag ruthenium interaction as a novel method for labeling recombinant proteins; elucidation of the structure of ruthenium/oligo-histidine complexes using mass spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulations)
Currently a PhD student at UCLA.
Mr. Bryan HyunJoon Choi, BS’2017 (Separation and purification of metal/peptide complexes using ion exchange chromatography)
Currently an Application Scientist at Rigaku.
Mr. Mark Nazzaro, BS’2015 (Ion exchange chromatography with on-line detection by native electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for characterization of protein therapeutics)
Currently a Staff Scientist at Mersana Therapeutics.