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Erin Baker
@erinbakerims.bsky.social

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

Environmental science 55%
Geography 16%

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Really nice work driven by postdocs Dr. Gancz in my lab and Dr. Zhang in Baker @erinbakerims.bsky.social lab at UNC, looking at novel lipids and how they might play a role in restoring colonization resistance against C. difficile in patients with rCDI post FMT.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Successful Fecal Microbiota Transplants in Post-antibiotic Treated Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Patients Induce Acylcarnitine and Sphingolipid Lipidomic Shifts
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is an urgent public health threat in the United States, resulting on an annual basis in over half a million cases, more than 29,000 deaths, and $4.8 billion in...
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Wishing everyone a wonderful Halloween from Hogwarts (aka, the Baker Lab)!!

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A huge round of applause is deserved for Dr. Matt Lockett who did such an amazing job organizing #MUACC25 at UNC! 👏🏻🩵 The last two days were filled with wonderful talks, posters, and discussions! Thank you Matt for all your hard work, & thank you to everyone who participated!

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Amie gave such an exciting presentation about her new oxylipin library and how she employs high resolution ion mobility for isomer separations at the Merck Research Forum this afternoon!! Congratulations Amie, we are so proud of you!! ❤️👩🏼‍🔬

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Last Friday, Haley gave the audience at the UNC ThermoFisher Scientific Mass Spectrometry Symposium an amazing snapshot of her method development research for lipidomics in extracellular vesicles! She took 1st place in the lightening talk competition! Congratulations Haley! 🤩⚡️

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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📢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

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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

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

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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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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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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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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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#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! 👯‍♀️💖

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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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