Principle Investigator
Dr. Christian Bleiholder
Professor
Education/Professional Experience:
M.Sc., University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2004
Ph.D., German Cancer Research Center, 2007
Postdoc, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013
Assistant Professor, Florida State University, 2013-2019
Associate Professor, Florida State University, 2019-2025
Email: cbleiholder@fsu.edu
Research Faculty
Dr. Fanny Caroline Liu
Research Faculty II
Education/Professional Experience:
M.Sc., University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2006
Ph.D., University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2011
Research Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 2011-2014
Postdoc, Florida State University, 2014-2019
Research Faculty I, Florida State University, 2019-2023
Email: fliu@fsu.edu
Research Interests:
Ion mobility/mass spectrometry, Protein structures, Glycoproteins, Antibodies, Biotherapeutics
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Thais Pedrete
Education/Professional Experience:
M.Sc., Chemistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2011-2013
Ph.D., Science, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil, 2014-2018
Postdoc., Bioscience, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil, 2018-2021
Email: tpedrete@fsu.edu
Research interests: Structural elucidation of proteins by tTIMS/MS and native top-down IMS
Graduate Student
Farhad Zahedi
Education:
M.Sc., Chemical Engineering – Biotechnology, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2018-2021
Email: fz23@fsu.edu
Research interests: tandem-TIMS/MS, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Protein Structure and Function, Protein-Protein Interactions
Undergraduate Students
Justis Booth
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Chemistry – FSU, class of 2025
Email: jb21e@fsu.edu
Research interests: Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Mass Spectrometry, & Proteomics
Andres Falaschini
Email: ajf24b@fsu.edu
Alumni
Graduate Students
Kaira Mayberry – grad student, Florida State University
Olufemi S. Araoyinbo – grad student, Florida State University
Dr. Tyler Cropley – Ph.D 2023 – (Research Scientist, NYU Grossman School of Medicine)
Dr. Jusung Lee – Ph.D. 2022 – (Post-doc in the Bleiholder Lab, FSU, 2022-2024. Post-doc in the Gross’s Lab at Washington University in St. Louis, 2025)
Dr. Mengqi Chai – Ph.D. 2021 – (Senior Scientist, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine)
Dr. Samuel Kirk – Ph.D. 2018 – (Senior Research Investigator, Incyte Pharmaceuticals)
Dr. Meggie Young – Ph.D. 2017 – (Post-doc in the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Hannah O’Day – M.Sc. 2021
Kirsten Tucker – M.Sc. 2020 – (School of Information, Florida State University)
Undergraduates
Wessley Ferguson – B.S. Honors Chemistry 2019 – (Graduate student in Wuehr Lab, Princeton University)
Valentina Rangel – B.S. Honors Chemistry 2019 – (Graduate student in Malaker Lab, Yale University)
Jacob Leonard – (Pharmacy School, University of Florida. Currently Pharmacy Resident at MountainView Hospital)
Hunter Carlock – (Medical School, Florida Atlantic University)
Post-Docs
Dr. Umesh Chiluwal – 2020-2021