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Biochemical and Exposure Science Group

“The Biochemical and Exposure Science Group at NIST Charleston provides measurement science, standards, and technology to (1) support measurements of complex biological processes through the identification and quantification of proteins, hormones and metabolites and (2) support measurements related to human and wildlife exposure to natural and man-made chemicals”

The Biochemical and Exposure Science Group is located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory  in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Hawaii Pacific University Center for Marine Debris Research  in Waimanalo, Hawaii.

Biochemical and Exposure Science Group
Charleston Staff:  Front row, left to right: Amanda Bayless (College of Charleston research technician), Ashley Boggs-Russell, Katherine Peter (NRC post-doc), Tracey Schock, Jessica Reiner, Kehau Hagiwara Usui (NRC post-doc), Kevin Huncik; Back row, left to right: Clay Davis, Ben Neely, John Kucklick, Julie Lowenstein (College of Charleston Graduate Student), Alix Robel (NRC post-doc).  Not pictured: Erin Legacki (NRC post-doc) and Meghan Grandal (Medical University of South Carolina Graduate Student)
Hawaii Staff
Hawaii Staff: Left to right: Katherine Shaw (NRC post-doc) and Jennifer Lynch

Projects and Programs

Comparative Serum Proteomics Project

Ongoing
Initially the Comparative Mammalian Proteome Aggregator Resource (CoMPARe) Program will generate proteomic data from sera from 25 different species that

Publications

Characterization of Reference Materials 8690 to 8693

Author(s)
Jessica Reiner, Benjamin Place, N. Alan Heckert, Katherine Peter, Alix Rodowa
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Reference Materials (RMs) 8690 Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Aqueous Film-Forming

Toward an Integrated Machine Learning Model of a Proteomics Experiment

Author(s)
Ben Neely, Viktoria Dorfer, Lennart Martens, Isabell Bludau, Robbin Bouwmeester, Sven Degroeve, Eric Deutsch, Siegfried Gessulat, Tobias Rehfeldt, Lukas Käll, Veit Schwämmle, Samuel Payne, Tobias Schmidt, Pawel Palczynski, Julian Uszkoreit, Juan Antonio Vizcaino, Mathias Wilhelm, Magnus Palmblad
In recent years machine learning has made extensive progress in modeling many aspects of mass spectrometry data. We brought together proteomics data generators

Summary Report: Strategic Workshop on Management of PFAS in the Environment

Author(s)
Andrea Leeson, David Adamson, Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, Hunter Anderson, Frank Barranco, Christopher Bellona, Jens Blotevogel, Mark Brusseau, Michelle Crimi, Brian Crone, Rula Deeb, Dominic Di Toro, Craig Divine, Jennifer Field, Rajat Ghosh, Philip Gschwend, Jennifer Guelfo, Paul Hatzinger, Damian Helbling, Heather Henry, Christopher Higgins, Peter Jaffe, Detlef Knappe, Paul Koster van Groos, Linda Lee, Jinxia Liu, Shaily Mahendra, Carrie McDonough, Selma Mededovic, Marc Mills, Charles Newell, Carla Ng, Dung (Zoom) Nguyen, Bonnie Packer, Cara Patton, Graham Peaslee, Kurt Pennell, Jovan Popovic, Philip Potter, Joseph Quinnan, Maya Rabinowitz, Jessica L. Reiner, Stephen Richardson, Charles Schaefer, David Sedlak, Erin Shields, Jason Speicher, Thomas Speth, Timothy Strathmann, Hans Stroo, Timothy Thompson, Paul Tratnyek, Janice Willey

News and Updates

Awards

Press Coverage