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Caroline M. Watson, PhD

Caroline M. Watson, PhD

Caroline Watson received her B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry from College of Charleston and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia. She did her graduate work with Dr. Ronald Orlando and Dr. Joshua Sharp investigating protein structure and protein-carbohydrate interactions using hydroxyl radical protein footprinting coupled with mass spectrometry. During her ORISE […]

Qi Guo, MS

Qi Guo, MS

Qi Guo, Master of Science, is graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and now working as a researcher in Dr. Seyfried’s lab. Qi’s project is to develop a label-free targeted parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) assay to address what RNA binding proteins co-aggregate with Tau in early asymptomatic (AsymAD) and symptomatic stages of AD. Qi is […]

Pritha Bagchi, PhD

Pritha Bagchi photo

Associate Director, Research Projects Emory Integrated Proteomics Core (EIPC) Parkinson’s Disease Biomarker Program (PDBP) Pritha Bagchi received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology. As a graduate student, she joined Dr. Christoph Fahrni’s lab, where her major contribution was characterization of a novel set of colorless, water soluble, air-stable Cu(I) affinity standards with varied binding […]

Sarah Shapley, BS

Sarah Shapley

Sarah Shapley received a B.S. in Neuroscience and Biology from Baldwin Wallace University. She defended her senior thesis on investigating the role of citrullination during central nervous system myelination. Throughout undergraduate studies, Sarah engaged in additional fellowship opportunities, including developing a pipeline to create preclinical models of Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease at the Jackson Laboratory (2018) […]

Lingyan Ping, PhD

Lingyan Ping, PhD

Lingyan Ping received her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Wuhan University in China in 2012. She joined Dr. Nicholas Seyfried’s lab as a postdoc in 2016. Lingyan’s research focuses on quantitative proteomics in Alzheimer’s Disease from human post-mortem brain tissue, including total proteome and phosphoproteome. She is also working on cerebrospinal fluid […]

Ola Wojtas, PhD

Aleksandra (Ola) Wojtas, PhD

Aleksandra (Ola) Wojtas received her B.S. and M.S degrees in Biotechnology from University of Silesia in Poland. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a research technician at Mayo Clinic where she focused on uncovering the causative and risk-based genetic variants associated with neurodegenerative disorders. She then completed her PhD in Neuroscience at Mayo […]

Luming Yin, MS

Luming Yin, MS

Luming Yin received his B.S. in Biology from Anhui University, China, and his M.S. in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry from Peking University, China. He worked in The University of Science and Technology of China for more than 10 years as an Assistant Professor and later as an Associate Professor before moving to the USA. He […]

Duc Duong, BS

Duc Duong, BS

Duc Duong graduated from Emory University in 2003 with a B.S. degree in computer science and has over 18 years of experience with cutting edge LC-MS/MS technologies. He has developed algorithms for extensive data processing and peptide/protein quantification. Duc works in collaboration on a variety of research projects with research investigators at the Center for […]

Eric B. Dammer, PhD

Eric B. Dammer, PhD

Eric B. Dammer is an Associate Bioinformatic Scientist who has worked in the Center for Neurodegenerative disease since 2008. He currently maintains and automates proteomics analysis pipelines using the R language, specializing in coexpression analysis and systems biology for -omics datasets. He has previously worked on the bench performing various biochemistry methods to identify and […]

Nicholas T. Seyfried, PhD

Professor Scientific Director, Emory Integrated Proteomics Core Nicholas T. Seyfried obtained his B.S. in biological chemistry from Boston College and his D.Phil. in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. During his postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine he employed cell-based quantitative proteomics methodologies to characterize protein aggregation and post-translational modification events that underlie […]