Ivy Nguyen received her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, with two minors in Mathematics and Applied Scientific Computing from the California Lutheran University in 2013. During her undergraduate research, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) and Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) were the two prominent methods that Nguyen applied to study different metabolic pathways of numerous xenobiotics. She graduated in 5 years with 13 publications as shown below. Now she is working as a Data Scientist at Google.

Publications:

  1. Alvarado, J., Hanrahan, G., Nguyen, H. T., & Gomez, F. A. (2012). Implementation of a genetically tuned neural platform in optimizing fluorescence from receptor–ligand binding interactions on microchips. Electrophoresis, 33(17), 2711-2717.
  2. Nguyen, H. T., Shaffer, C. J., Ledvina, A. R., Coon, J. J., & Tureček, F. (2015). Serine effects on collision-induced dissociation and photodissociation of peptide cation radicals of the z+●-type. International journal of mass spectrometry, 378, 20-30.
  3. Nguyen, H. T., Shaffer, C. J., & Tureček, F. (2015). Probing peptide cation–radicals by near-uv photodissociation in the gas phase. structure elucidation of histidine radical chromophores formed by electron transfer reduction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119(10), 3948-3961.
  4. Shaffer, C. J., Marek, A., Nguyen, H. T., & Tureček, F. (2015). Combining near-UV photodissociation with electron transfer. Reduction of the diazirine ring in a photomethionine-labeled peptide ion. Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 26(8), 1367-1381.
  5. Nguyen, H. T., Shaffer, C. J., Pepin, R., & Tureček, F. (2015). UV action spectroscopy of gas-phase peptide radicals. The journal of physical chemistry letters, 6(23), 4722-4727.
  6. Nguyen, H. T., & Tureček, F. (2017). Near-UV photodissociation of tryptic peptide cation radicals. Scope and effects of amino acid residues and radical sites. Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 28(7), 1333-1344.
  7. Nguyen, H. T., Andrikopoulos, P. C., Bím, D., Rulíšek, L., Dang, A., & Tureček, F. (2017). Radical reactions affecting polar groups in threonine peptide ions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121(27), 6557-6569.
  8. Korn, J. A., Urban, J., Dang, A., Nguyen, H. T., & Tureček, F. (2017). UV–Vis Action Spectroscopy Reveals a Conformational Collapse in Hydrogen-Rich Dinucleotide Cation Radicals. The journal of physical chemistry letters, 8(17), 4100-4107.
  9. Marek, A., Nguyen, H. T., Brož, B., & Tureček, F. (2018). Stereospecific control of peptide gas‐phase ion chemistry with cis and trans cyclo ornithine residues. Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 53(2), 124-137.
  10. Dang, A., Nguyen, H. T., Ruiz, H., Piacentino, E., Ryzhov, V., & Tureček, F. (2018). Experimental evidence for noncanonical thymine cation radicals in the gas phase. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 122(1), 86-97.
  11. Imaoka, N., Houferak, C., Murphy, M. P., Nguyen, H. T., Dang, A., & Tureček, F. (2018). Spontaneous Isomerization of Peptide Cation Radicals Following Electron Transfer Dissociation Revealed by UV-Vis Photodissociation Action Spectroscopy. Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 29(9), 1768-1780.
  12. Nguyen, H. T., Andrikopoulos, P. C., Rulíšek, L., Shaffer, C. J., & Tureček, F. (2018). Photodissociative Cross-Linking of Non-covalent Peptide-Peptide Ion Complexes in the Gas Phase. Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 29(8), 1706-1720.
  13. Nguyen, H. T., Huang, S. R., Liu, Y., Liu, Y., Korn, J. A., & Tureček, F. (2019). Probing arginine-phosphopeptide interactions in non-covalent peptide-peptide ion complexes using gas-phase cross-linking and Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics calculations. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 435, 259-271.