About Us
Contacts
Email address: massspec@lsu.edu
Personnel
Fabrizio Donnarumma, Ph.D.
Director
Phone: 225-578-8062
Fax: 225-578-3458
Office: 230 Chemistry & Materials Building
Lab: B24, 333 Choppin Hall & 230A, 209 Chemistry & Materials Building
Isabel Vitorino Maia, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Phone: 225-578-8062
Fax: 225-578-3458
E-mail:
ivmaia@lsu.eduOffice: 230 Chemistry & Materials Building
Lab: B24, 333 Choppin Hall & 230A, 209 Chemistry & Materials Building
Instrument assistants
Student Worker
Alexanndra Behm
Ph.D. Candidate
Taylar Bell
Ph.D. Candidate
Ms. Gabreyela Gonzalez
LSU '27 | Ogden Honors College
Biomolecular Chemical Engineering
Al-Tohamy, A., Donnarumma, F. and Grove, A., 2025. Transcriptome-proteome profiling
in Burkholderia thailandensis during the transition from exponential to stationary
phase. Journal of Proteome Research, 2025
Egbejiogu, B.C., Donnarumma, F. and Murray, K.K., 2024. Infrared Laser Ablation and
Capture of Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue. Journal of the American Society
for Mass Spectrometry, 35(12), pp.2993-3001.
Rajapaksha, N., Yao, H., Cook, A., Seibold, S., Liu, L., Battaile, K.P., Fontenot,
L., Donnarumma, F., Lovell, S. and Rivera, M., 2024. Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene PA4880
encodes a Dps-like protein with a Dps fold, bacterioferritin-type ferroxidase centers,
and endonuclease activity. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 11, p.1390745.
Rajapaksha, N., Soldano, A., Yao, H., Donnarumma, F., Kashipathy, M.M., Seibold, S.,
Battaile, K.P., Lovell, S. and Rivera, M., 2023. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Dps (PA0962)
functions in H2O2 mediated oxidative stress defense and exhibits In vitro DNA cleaving
activity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(5), p.4669.
Yao, H., Soldano, A., Fontenot, L., Donnarumma, F., Lovell, S., Chandler, J.R. and
Rivera, M., 2022. Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterioferritin is assembled from FtnA and
BfrB subunits with the relative proportions dependent on the environmental oxygen
availability. Biomolecules, 12(3), p.366.
Carter, R.T., Swetledge, S., Navarro, S., Liu, C.C., Ineck, N., Lewin, A.C., Donnarumma,
F., Bodoki, E., Stout, R.W., Astete, C. and Jung, J.P., 2024. The impact of lutein-loaded
poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles following topical application: An in
vitro and in vivo study. Plos one, 19(8), p.e0306640.
Sheikh, E., Agrawal, K., Roy, S., Burk, D., Donnarumma, F., Ko, Y.H., Guttula, P.K.,
Biswal, N.C., Shukla, H.D. and Gartia, M.R., 2023. Multimodal imaging of pancreatic
cancer microenvironment in response to an antiglycolytic drug. Advanced healthcare
materials, 12(31), p.2301815.
Solórzano, J.E., Ganiu, M.O., Donnarumma, F., Garcia-Aroca, T., Kartika, R., Richards,
J.K., Van Houten, J.P., Gremillion, M.R., Price, P.P. and Doyle, V., 2023. Antimicrobial
and phytotoxic secondary metabolites produced by Xylaria necrophora, an emerging pathogen
of soybean, play key roles in infection biology.
Mehta, N., Shaik, S., Prasad, A., Chaichi, A., Sahu, S.P., Liu, Q., Hasan, S.M.A.,
Sheikh, E., Donnarumma, F., Murray, K.K. and Fu, X., 2021. Multimodal Label‐Free Monitoring
of Adipogenic Stem Cell Differentiation Using Endogenous Optical Biomarkers. Advanced
functional materials, 31(43), p.2103955.
Chaichi, A., Hasan, S.M.A., Mehta, N., Donnarumma, F., Ebenezer, P., Murray, K.K.,
Francis, J. and Gartia, M.R., 2021. Label-free lipidome study of paraventricular thalamic
nucleus (PVT) of rat brain with post-traumatic stress injury by Raman imaging. Analyst,
146(1), pp.170-183.
Siefker, D., Chan, B.A., Zhang, M., Nho, J.W. and Zhang, D., 2022. 1, 1, 3, 3-Tetramethylguanidine-Mediated
Zwitterionic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Sarcosine-Derived N-Thiocarboxyanhydride
toward Well-Defined Polysarcosine. Macromolecules, 55(7), pp.2509-2516.
Wang, K., Donnarumma, F., Pettit, M.E., Szot, C.W., Solouki, T. and Murray, K.K.,
2020. MALDI imaging directed laser ablation tissue microsampling for data independent
acquisition proteomics. Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 55(4), p.e4475.
Holzknecht, D.R., Van Alstine, A.K., Russell, B.P., Vinyard, D.J., Donnarumma, F.
and Chambers, M.B., 2024. Revisiting the Preparation and Catalytic Performance of
a Phosphine-Modified Co (II) Hydroformylation Precatalyst. Journal of the American
Chemical Society, 146(28), pp.19183-19192.
Sahu, S.P., Adeleye, O.T., Antwi, S., Donnarumma, F., Nidamanuri, N., Bhise, R., Gadekar,
E., Sharma, S., Srivastava, R. and Wang, Y., 2025. Polystyrene-based fluorinated ionic
receptor for selective removal of perfluoroalkyl contaminants from water. Reactive
and Functional Polymers, 207, p.106138.
Mailing address
Attn: Mass Spectrometry Facility
Department of Chemistry
133 Choppin Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA-70803
To acknowledge the MSF
When you publish data obtained through the Mass Spectrometry Facility, please include
the following statement:
Mass spectrometry experiments were performed at the LSU Mass Spectrometry Facility
(MSF)
For papers including MALDI data, please include also the following line:
The Bruker rapifleX MALDI TOF/TOF instrument was supported by NSF (Grant CHE-2215823).
For data including HRMS, lipidomics, metabolomics and others, please include the following
line:
The Synapt XS ESI-Q-IM-TOF instrument was supported by NIH (1S10OD030429-01A1).
In addition, please let us know when the work is published and we will include it in our list of publications. This
will help future efforts to obtain instrumentations for the facility.
The LSU mass spectrometry facility can be also identified through SciCrunch using
RRID SCR_026514
Locations
Choppin Hall
Rooms: 333, 305 and B24
Chemistry & Materials Building (CAMB)
Rooms: 230
