We are excited to announce that three new PhD students joined the Kennedy lab during the 2020-2021 academic year! Bridget Murray joins us from the University of Pittsburgh, and will be working on team high-throughput experimentation. Joe Naese joins us from Rowan University, where he worked with Kennedy lab alum Prof. Jim Grinias. Joe will

We congratulate our group members for receiving offers and honorable mentions from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Joshua Jones (incoming class of 2018) was awarded this prestigious fellowship for his proposed work in using liquid chromatography for the discovery of unique nucleosides. Josh performs this work between both the Kennedy and Koutmou groups. Additionally,

The Kennedy Lab had the pleasure of hosting John Hena, a visiting scholar from Liberia, for the last six months. John was part of the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) program, where scholars across the academic spectrum have the opportunity to come to the university to expand upon their research at their home universities.

Recently, work from the Kennedy Lab was featured in Chemical & Engineering News. The paper, published in the German journal Angewandte Chemie, highlighted technology enabling mass directed droplet sorting. The C&EN article has input from Dr. Jeff Moore at Merck & co., Professor Kennedy, and Professor Brian Paegel from the University of California, Irvine. Additionally, the paper was

Over the past few months, we celebrated the defenses of a number of Kennedy lab members. In August, Dr. Daniel Steyer defended his thesis entitled “Electrospray and Nanoelectrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Systems for the High- Throughput Analysis of Microfluidic Droplets.” Since August, Dr. Steyer has started as a post doctoral researcher at Florida State University with Professor

The Kennedy Lab is proud to share that a member of its alumni, James Grinias, has been listed by the Analytical Scientist as one of the top 40 under 40. This list recognizes young researchers for outstanding achievement in the analytical sciences. We would like to congratulate Jim for his accomplishments thus far and look forward

Several Kennedy Lab members have left in the recent months to take the next step in their careers. We wish the best of luck to Drs. Beixi Wang, Shusheng Lu, and James Grinias in their future endeavors. We are also very happy to welcome Dr. Brian Shay into our group as lab manager and technical

Mahmoud el Azzouny is the latest Ph.D. from the Kennedy group. His dissertation was entitled “Development and Application of Metabolomics Techniques to Improve Understanding of Glucose and Fatty Acid Metabolism in β-cells and their Role in Insulin Secretion”. His work has been published in 2 papers in Journal of Biological Chemistry with another one coming

UM received a $9.1M grant from the NIH to house the Michigan Regional Comprehensive Metabolomics Research Center (MRC2). Professor Charles Burant is the Director and Professor Kennedy directs the Analytical Core. Visit http://mrc2.umich.edu/ to learn more.