Past Lab Members

Past Laboratory Members

PhD Graduate Students

Camden Camacho, Ph.D. (2020 - 2024)

Thesis: "Innovative Mass Spectrometric Workflows for the Measurement of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Abiotic and Biotic Matrices "

Now at the Environmental Protection Agency

Kaylie Anne Costa, Ph.D. (2020 - 2024)

Thesis: "Assessing emerging environmental stressors on coral reefs: Utilizing mass spectrometric approaches to understand their impact on stony coral health"

Now at NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service

Emily Griffin, Ph.D. (2019 - 2023)

Thesis: "Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in aquatic abiotic and biotic matrices and tools to assess their subsequent impact on environmental health"

Now at the Environmental Protection Agency

Atiye Ahmadireskety, Ph.D. (2018 - 2021)

Thesis: "Development of Innovative Mass Spectrometric Approaches for the Detection and Quantification of Per-And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Solid Matrices"

Now at GlaxoSmithkline

Postdocs

Juan Aristizabal-Henao (2019 - 2021) received his Bachelor of Science (Honours, B.Sc.) from the University of Waterloo in Kinesiology, with a Human Nutrition Minor, in 2013. He received his Master of Science (M.Sc.) and PhD in Physiology and Nutrition in 2015 and 2019, respectively, also from the University of Waterloo. Juan was a postdoc in the Bowden laboratory from September 2019 to April 2021.

Juan is currently a Senior Scientist - Lipidomics & Metabolomics at BPGbio

Staff

Keyla Correia (2022 - 2023) has a B.S. in Zoology and a B.S. in Marine Science from the University of Florida. Keyla Correia is a well-rounded activist with experience ranging from 10 years of ocean conservation grassroots activism to 3 years of analytical chemistry research to 2.5 years of ocean policy work. She is passionate about environmental toxicology and ocean conservation with a focus on increasing ocean and toxicology literacy among non-scientific individuals. Keyla was in the Bowden lab from June 2022 to August 2023.

She is now a graduate student at Georgetown University pursuing an M.S. in Environmental Metrology and Policy and will graduate in May 2025. Currently, she is researching the interaction of microplastics on aquatic environments using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).

Bianca F. da Silva (2019 - 2022) majored in Chemistry (Bachelor) at the Federal University of São Carlos (2004) and received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2009. She has held postdoctoral internships in Barcelona (CSIC), Spain; UFSCar, Sao Carlos, Brazil; and has worked as a specialist in LC-MS/MS at the Institute of Chemistry, Unesp, Araraquara, Brazil. She held a Chemist II position in the Bowden Laboratory from October 2019 to February 2022.

She is now an LCMS Application Scientist at Agilent.