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Catherine Kramer                                                                                              

Office:  ES&T L2-112

Office Phone:  404-385-4427

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Education

2008 - Present         Hanover College

Honors and Awards

2011 Summer REU Georgia Institute of Technology                                         

Research Interests

       I spent the summer of 2011 working in the Fernandez lab developing a protocol for identification of counterfeit anti-tuberculosis pharmaceuticals using different ambient ionization mass spectrometry techniques.  Ionization sources such as electrospray ionization (ESI), desorption electrospray ionization (DESI), and direct analysis in real time (DART) were used.  The development of a protocol by which sample TB drugs may be screened for counterfeiting will allow for the detection of the key compounds, harmful fillers, and may eventually lead to quantitative analysis of samples.  My work aimed to maximize the detection of target compounds as a building block for further research.

Publications