Associate Professor Matt Padula, while being an Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences, also operates the Proteomics Core Facility, the main purpose of which is to provide high level technical support and the instrumentation required for researchers to perform their research projects without having to spend long periods of time learning the complicated techniques and instruments needed to answer the scientific question they want answered. The Core is equipped with the knowledge, expertise and instrumentation to perform almost all proteomic, protein chemistry, lipidomic and metabolomic experiments that could be of use to the faculty's researchers. In addition, Core staff have built relationships with other institutions and research groups to gain access to instrumentation and expertise not available within UTS.

I have 25 years experience in protein chemistry, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry analysis and characterization of peptides and proteins by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS), electrophoresis and sample preparation by native and denaturing methodologies. In this time I have performed protein extraction, fractionation and analysis on organisms such as Mycoplasma, bacteria, yeast, mammalian tissue and cells, plant tissue, parasites including Fasciola, Toxoplasma, Eimeria, Haemonchus and Plasmodium, paralysis ticks, coral, snake venom and the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus. I have expertise in nanoelectrospray mass spectrometric analysis of peptides and proteins, the quantitation of peptides and proteins using mass spectrometry and the determination of de novo peptide sequence from tandem mass spectrometry data.

In addition, he has expertise in the fractionation of peptides and proteins by analytical and preparative liquid chromatography and analytical and preparative electrophoresis techniques such as 1D and 2D-PAGE, liquid phase isoelectric focusing and continuous elution electrophoresis.

Recently, the focus of my interests has expanded to include lipids and metabolites, specifically developing methods and techniques to extract and fractionate these molecules, subject them to mass spectrometry for identification and quantification, and perform bioinformatic analysis to determine whether changes in abundance in these molecules is significant.

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