{"id":94,"date":"2019-01-22T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2020-12-26T18:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T23:08:58","slug":"undergraduate-research-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/undergraduate-research-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Research Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/papers-co-authored-by-undergraduate-researchers\/\">follow this link to see the full list of original research papers co-authored by the undergraduate students<\/a> in our group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Ho Yau, BS&#8217;2020<\/strong> (Quantitation of levothyroxine in pharmaceutical samples using liquid chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry)<\/p>\n<p>Currently Research Associate at <a href=\"https:\/\/beamtx.com\/\">Beam Therapeutics<\/a> (Cambridge, MA)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150\" src=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/files\/2019\/01\/Hou.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Ian Carrick, BS\u20192018<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.analchem.7b04328\">On-Column Chemical Reactions in Protein Characterization by Liquid Chromatography\/Mass Spectrometry<\/a>, see the project presentation at\u00a0https:\/\/icons.cns.umass.edu\/students\/class-of-2018\/ian-carrick)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chem.purdue.edu\/mcluckey\/Members\/Ian%20Carrick\/Ian.html\">Currently a PhD student at Purdue University in Prof. Scott McLuckey\u2019s group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-986\" src=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/files\/2020\/12\/Ian-Carrick-at-Purdue-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/files\/2020\/12\/Ian-Carrick-at-Purdue-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/files\/2020\/12\/Ian-Carrick-at-Purdue-1024x890.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/files\/2020\/12\/Ian-Carrick-at-Purdue-768x668.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/files\/2020\/12\/Ian-Carrick-at-Purdue-1536x1335.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/files\/2020\/12\/Ian-Carrick-at-Purdue-2048x1780.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/files\/2020\/12\/Ian-Carrick-at-Purdue-250x217.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Zack Kirsch, BS\u20192018<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=kaltashov+kirsch\">Understanding binding preferences of heparin oligomers in the inhibition of factor Xa by antithrombin through molecular dynamics simulations<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Currently a PhD student at UMass-Amherst (Prof. Vachet\u2019s group).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Anton El-Khoury, BS\u20192017<\/strong> (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)<\/p>\n<p>Currently a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anton-el-khoury-720752a7\/\">PhD student<\/a> at UCLA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Bryan HyunJoon Choi, BS\u20192017<\/strong> (Separation and purification of metal\/peptide complexes using ion exchange chromatography)<\/p>\n<p>Currently an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bryan-c-707860173\/\">Application Scientist<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rigaku.com\/\">Rigaku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Mark Nazzaro, BS\u20192015<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26360183\">Ion exchange chromatography with on-line detection by native electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for characterization of protein therapeutics<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Currently a Staff Scientist at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mersana.com\/\">Mersana Therapeutics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/undergraduate-research-opportunities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Undergraduate Research Opportunities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/kaltashovlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}