Our team

Hi, I’m Heather Desaire. I was born in Kansas, and I have lived in several other interesting places, including California, Ohio, Iowa, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri, and England. I enjoy traveling and dining out at Lawrence's great restaurants. I am also an avid sports fan, especially when the Oakland Raiders, Oakland Athletics, and Kansas University Jayhawks are playing. Though I complain a lot about having to move my car whenever there’s a basketball game, to be honest, I like the fact that KU has an excellent basketball team.

My name is Dilusha Dalpathado and I am from Sri Lanka. I play tennis, watch movies, or listen to music during my spare time. My research interests are focused on characterizing glycopeptides and glycans by mass spectrometry. A good understanding of what the biologically important glycans look like and how they are presented to their receptors may provide opportunities for the therapeutic treatments of diseases.

My name is Janet. My research is focused on developing methods to characterize glycoproteins. This research will allow us to better understand the structure of human glycoproteins involved in reproduction and metabolism. I enjoy watching movies, reading, listening to music, traveling, and interacting with people during my leisure time.

I am Lin Yi. I come from China. My favorite activities in my spare time are singing Karaoke, watching movies, and playing badminton. My research focuses on the identification of characteristic functional groups in drug metabolites by using ESI-MS/MS. Now I have two projects: One is to detect the opening of a lactone ring when drugs are metabolized under physiological conditions; the other is to identify sulfates and sulfonates in drug metabolites.

My name is Ying Zhang. I come from China. I am interested in reading books, listening to music, watching TV, and traveling. My research is development of mass spectrometric methods to differentiate between phosphorylated compounds and sulfated compounds by using ion-pairing reagents. This is really cool research because it helps to identify two important functional groups in biological systems.