Meet the team
Prof Nick Smirnoff
Professor of Plant Biochemistry and Director of the Mass Spectrometry Facility
Nick's long-term research interest is in the metabolism and functions of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in plants. Nick is developing LC-MS and GC-MS metabolite profiling methods and mass spectral databases for plants and algae, and imaging plant chemical composition and metabolism using Raman microscopy.
Dr Dyan Ankrett
Experimental Officer for Mass Spectrometry
Dyan has a PhD in the metabolism of small molecules including natural products and synthetic drug molecules. She has previously been awarded funding from Agilent Technologies (one of the major manufacturers of mass spectrometry systems) for combining Agilent’s mass spectrometers with microfluidic technologies for drug metabolism studies.
