Updated: Jul 3, 2023
Join us in congratulating Grace for successfully defending her Ph D dissertation! Grace's dissertation is titled "Characterizing Chemical Signatures of Life via Mass Spectrometry". After graduation, she will be working as a post-doc in Dr. Chris Carr's lab at Georgia Tech. We are so proud of Grace, and look forward to following her future research. Congrats Grace!
This week primary author Dr. Arevalo along with co-authors from MClass lab and associates published an article in Nature Astronomy. The article is titled "Laser desorption mass spectrometry with an Orbitrap analyser for in situ astrobiology" and can be found at this link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01866-x
See a related interview about the article with Dr. Arevalo here: Small laser device can help detect signs of life on other planets (phys.org)
And a briefing written by Soumya and Grace!
This week, M-Class had two new students join the lab. Megan Perry is from Massachutesetts and will be studying the geochemistry of moon. Lucas Andrews is from Florida and will be studying spaceflight instrumentation will relevance to solar system bodies. Both will be advised by Dr. Arevalo and Dr. McDonough. We are very excited to see what our new students do!