Due to excellent separation capacity for complex mixtures of chemicals, comprehensive two-dimensional
gas chromatography (GC × GC) is being utilized with increasing frequency for …

Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have generated tremendous interest as nonvolatile
media that provide favorable environments for a wide range of chemical reactions.[1] A …

We propose a novel application of secondary electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (SESI-MS)
as a real-time clinical diagnostic tool for bacterial infection. It is known that volatile …

Bacteria produce unique volatile mixtures that could be used to identify infectious agents to
the species, and possibly the strain level. However, due to the immense variety of human …

The identification of bacteria by their volatilomes is of interest to many scientists and clinicians
as it holds the promise of diagnosing infections in situ, particularly lung infections via …

… GM103496-07, National Aeronautical and Space Administration EPSCoR Grant
NNH09ZNE002C, and by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to HD Bean. …

The study of chemical bioactivity in the rhizosphere has recently broadened to include microbial
metabolites, and their roles in niche construction and competition via growth promotion, …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a nearly ubiquitous Gram-negative organism, well known to
occupy a multitude of environmental niches and cause human infections at a variety of bodily …

The problem of β-nucleoside formation under prebiotic conditions represents one of the most
significant challenges to the RNA world hypothesis and to many of its proposed precursors. …

The potential of high-resolution analytical technologies like GC × GC/TOF MS in untargeted
metabolomics and biomarker discovery has been limited by the development of fully …